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CareConnect Inc. — The story of launching a new platform
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From zero, turning nursing-care data scattered nationwide into ausable data platform.

CareScope is a data platform that automatically collects and organizes information on 200,000+ nursing-care facilities across all 47 prefectures, searchable and analyzable by anyone. It supports sales, planning, and management decisions with the latest field data.

To meet the need to “collect every facility nationwide without omission, always keep it current, and search across regions,” webuilt it in-house from zero in six months — this is the story of launching a new platform.

Recorded data
200k+ records
Coverage
All 47 prefectures
Collection effort
90% reduction
Updated
Scheduled auto-patrol
app.carescope.example.jp/facilities
Nursing-care facility search
207,841 nationwide
Region ▾ Service type ▾ Search
Home-Visit Care
Day Care
Community support
01
CLIENT
About the client

CareConnect Inc., supporting decision-making in the nursing-care sector.

A data provider supplying nationwide nursing-care facility data to care operators, local governments, and related service companies. It handles information essential to on-the-ground decisions — facility prospecting, area analysis, competitive research, and more.

Until now, public information nationwide was scattered across multiple sites and could only be gathered by hand. There was a need for a usable data platform delivering freshness, coverage, and searchability all at once.

200k+
Facilities on record
All 47
Prefecture coverage
4 categories
Facilities / Support / Living / Housing
The flow to data delivery
STEP 1
Auto-collection

Crawlers automatically patrol public-information sites

STEP 2
Normalization

Structures everything down to staffing, fees, and service type

STEP 3
Map integration

Converts addresses to lat/long and plots them on a map

STEP 4
Search & export

Search across regions and export to Excel

02
CHALLENGE
Design challenges to solve

Four design challenges standing in the way of a usable data platform.

The challenge was not technical difficulty but one tied directly to business value: data coverage, freshness, and searchability.

Collect hundreds of thousands of records nationwide without omission

By hand, A 200k-record scale is practically impossible to cover in full. Collection itself is the biggest wall.

Want information always kept up to date

With policy changes, new openings, and closures Information quickly goes stale. Collecting once is never enough.

Want to cross-search by region and type

Information is scattered across multiple sites. No way to filter facilities by criteria.

Want instant export for analysis

Manual Excel tallying takes enormous effort. Time runs out before analysis even begins.

03
ARCHITECTURE
The architecture we built together

Built in-house from zero, covering four domains end to end.

From automated collection of public information through normalization, map integration, and search/export — together with CareConnect Inc., we built it in-house from zero. We replaced manual-by-default workflows with a platform where data flows automatically and continuously.

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EXECUTION
6
months
24
person-months
Area ①
Data collection
Challenge
Can’t gather the whole country by hand
Solution
Automated patrol by crawler
Collects public information via browser automation
Area ②
Normalization
Challenge
Inconsistent notation, mismatched fields
Solution
Structured into a unified master
Codifies staffing, fees, and type
Area ③
Map integration
Challenge
Addresses alone don’t reveal location
Solution
Auto-assigns latitude and longitude
Visualize area distribution on a map
Area ④
Search & export
Challenge
Can’t search by criteria; tally by hand
Solution
Cross-search + Excel export
Instant filtering by region and type
BackendLaravel · PHP
CrawlerSelenium WebDriver · geckodriver
DataMySQL · PhpSpreadsheet · Google Maps Geocoding
04
IMPACT
The value the platform creates

Into a decision-making foundation where data keeps flowing automatically.

A nationwide data asset

Automatically captures a nationwide scale once unreachable by hand.

A mechanism that stays current

Scheduled re-crawls keep information fresh.

Searchability for instant lookup

Cross-search by region and type — ready for immediate field use.

Export that feeds analysis directly

One-click Excel export to start analysis instantly.

STAKEHOLDER
Sales & planning
Typically
Finding facilities takes time
At CareConnect,
Instant listing by criteria
Faster prospecting
STAKEHOLDER
Data team
Typically
Buried in manual entry and transcription
At CareConnect,
Collection and organizing automated
Zero manual entry achieved
STAKEHOLDER
Management
Typically
Hard to grasp the whole market
At CareConnect,
Instant area analysis
Instant investment decisions
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