goalist.co.jp

What It Is

Goalist Co.,Ltd.（株式会社ゴーリスト） is a Japanese company founded in 2011 and headquartered in Tokyo. Its official website positions the company as a professional team combining Business × Technology × Creativity, with businesses spanning HR big data, new business development / IT solutions, engineer skill assessment, CVC, and non-software businesses. From a SaaS / enterprise software perspective, the most relevant parts are the HR big data business operated by its group company フロッグ, and the SamurAI engineer assessment tool.

Core Capabilities

The HR big data business highlights its proprietary technology for collecting and digitizing job-posting information every week from recruitment websites across Japan. It has accumulated more than 1 billion data records and provides services based on job-posting data for the HR industry and hiring managers. Historical products include HRog, HRogリスト, HRogチャート, HRogクレンジング, and others, covering use cases such as recruitment market analysis, sales leads, and data cleansing. SamurAI is aimed at engineer hiring assessments. It uses AI to quantify candidates’ problem-solving processes and allows candidates to complete tests close to real business scenarios using their preferred programming language and an AI assistant.

Pricing and Deployment

The main website does not disclose any plans, pricing, free trials, payment methods, or contract models, nor does it clarify whether its main products are currently delivered as pure cloud services, private deployments, or hybrid deployments. Although its company history mentions a “求人マーケット分析クラウドサービス,” this alone is not enough to infer the delivery model for all products. Key procurement information such as third-party integrations, APIs, developer documentation, and team permissions is also not publicly available.

Pros and Cons

Its strengths lie in its long-standing accumulation of HR data and a product history that suggests deep experience in Japan’s HRTech market. It also combines data, development, design, and new business incubation capabilities, making it suitable for customers that need customized data and business support. The downside is that the group website is more of a corporate introduction and lacks product-level detail, especially around the areas SaaS buyers care about most: pricing, permissions, integrations, security architecture, and service SLAs. On security, the only visible information is that it obtained PrivacyMark in 2016; further compliance details are not disclosed.

Best Fit and Access from China

It is better suited to HR service companies and hiring managers focused on Japanese recruitment market data, as well as enterprise teams that need engineer skill assessments. If you are simply looking for a standardized SaaS tool that can be activated self-service, you will need to further review the sub-brand websites or contact sales. The official website does not specify access from mainland China, Chinese-language support, or cross-border payment options, so these should be considered unknown. In China, comparable options by scenario may include Moka, Beisen, and recruitment data analytics tools; for engineer assessment, alternatives include HackerRank, Codility, and 牛客.