Free professional utilities for cross-border business — plus an AI-powered intelligence platform when you need the full picture. Built by Dieter Sommerhalder — 30+ years in Swiss-Japan banking and 13 years as Honorary Consul-General of Switzerland.
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Most visitors get exactly what they came for from the free tools. When you're running deals, campaigns, or board-level decisions across the corridor, the Pro platform earns its keep many times over.
Currency conversion with Japan tax treatment, fiscal calendar lookup, AI-powered cross-cultural outreach, qualified invoice support — and more being added regularly. No signup, no credit card, indefinite use.
An AI-powered EU-Japan workspace combining market alerts with cultural scoring, a CRM pipeline, weekly intelligence reports, and unlimited outreach generation in 5 languages. For corridor operators who need a single source of truth.
Three decades of working both ends of it tells us where the real friction sits — and it's almost never where the consultants point.
A grammatically perfect Japanese email from a European sender still fails if the order of self-introduction, ask, and sign-off doesn't follow local norms. The tools here are calibrated for that, not just translated.
Western intelligence platforms don't know Japan's fiscal calendar, Golden Week, the qualified invoice system, or that February-March in Japan is when budgets actually get approved. Ours is built around it.
Most "Japan market entry" platforms cost ¥30,000+/month and deliver static reports. Ours runs daily — alerts you to the deal that closes next quarter, not the one that closed last year.
No signup, no API key. Built to do one thing well, with the cultural and regulatory context European generic tools don't provide.
Live ECB rates plus Japan consumption tax (10% / 8%) breakdown for qualified invoice compliance.
Open tool → OperationsFiscal year, quarter, business days remaining and full holiday list for any date — Happy Monday holidays correctly resolved.
Open tool → AI · 3 free / dayCulturally-calibrated business outreach for JP, CH, DE, FR, IT, UK, US — with notes explaining each cultural choice.
Open tool →"After three decades of moving between Zurich and Osaka, the same thing keeps surprising me: how much value gets lost — on both sides — to friction that should not exist anymore."
DoRealAdvice is part of DoSwiss Japan Co., Ltd. — a consulting practice built on a career spanning the full spectrum of Swiss-Japan business: 30+ years of international banking with Credit Suisse and UBS, eight years as CEO (1997–2004) of a Swiss trading company's Osaka-headquartered Japan subsidiary, and thirteen years as Honorary Consul-General of Switzerland for Western Japan (2008–2021). Today also Vice President of the Swiss Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Japan (SCCIJ), outside director at TSE-listed Kohoku Kogyo, and incoming Chairperson of the Osaka Rotary Club International Service Committee for 2026–27. Finance, operations, and diplomacy — all from the Kansai region where the real work happens.
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