STANDOUT Inc. is a company based in Okayama, Japan, operating two business lines. VATES is embeddable B2B AI infrastructure that developers integrate via API or add to any website as a self-serve widget; it keeps knowledge as human-readable structured text rather than a vector database, so every answer traces back to its source. VATES's console, documentation, and website are localized into 23 languages, and the AI assistant itself replies in whatever language it's asked, with no fixed list. Separately, STANDOUT also provides energy consulting for businesses in Japan, covering electricity contract optimization, self-consumption solar, demand monitoring, and subsidy applications.