Data is CITY

It is not a concept. CITY has been running inside Teleport since August 2026. The CITY screens on this site are not mock-ups but screens from the live CITY (for publication, company information has been replaced with fictitious data). As shown in the film, you can check its status in real time, and you can move through the screen while talking with an AI agent to investigate problems.

There are already many visualization tools for system administrators and engineers. CITY aims for something else: enabling everyone in the organization, including executives, to understand their company's digital environment. CITY is always kept up to date, and a dedicated AI agent continuously checks and explains what is happening now and what it means.

CITY for Enterprise and CITY for Business have very different goals. In large organizations, multiple vendors and staff work in silos, and the challenge is that no one can grasp the company's digital environment as a whole. CITY for Enterprise aims to let executives take the lead, understand the whole through CITY, and direct the response. Meanwhile, many companies have no dedicated security staff. We are planning CITY for Business so that such companies can use it as well.

No. We draw a clear line here. Incident response after a breach is the domain of specialized security firms and is not something Teleport provides. As the film shows, attacks progress in seconds, and dealing with them after an intrusion is extremely difficult. In fact, human defenders cannot keep up, and data breaches continue.

That is why preparation in advance matters. What Teleport calls "AI-powered defense" means preparation before an attack. AI agents understand the company's digital environment and tell executives and decision-makers, ahead of time, where problems could arise and how to prepare. To begin with, many companies do not know what they have where, or where the risks lie. CITY makes that visible.

Data is CITY's AI agents learn from the breaches and attacks reported every day. Questions such as "Could yesterday's reported breach happen to us?" and "What would happen to us if we were hit by that attack?" are tested by the agent on CITY and reported to executives and staff.

On screens viewed by multiple people, confidential information is masked. Where the gathered information is stored, who can view it, and what permissions the AI agent is given are decided before use begins, in line with the company's rules and review criteria. We also consider a state in which information is scattered and no one has the full picture to be a risk in itself.

CITY's basic principle is: "Keep the company's map inside the company." CITY handles the information most important to a company: how its digital environment is structured and what information it runs on. We do not intend to place or store this anywhere it would be exposed to risk.

For this reason, CITY for Enterprise runs, as a rule, in the company's own environment (on-premises servers or an environment the company manages). However, we believe the AI agent should use the latest and most capable AI models (frontier models). Only that part connects to the internet. What we pass to the AI model is the structural information needed for decisions. We do not pass confidential information itself, such as passwords or keys, because the AI does not need the contents of confidential information to make decisions.

CITY for Business will be offered as a cloud service, for ease of use and adoption.

What takes the most time is the initial information gathering, "discovery" (uncovering the IT assets). It varies by organization, but with full commitment, we expect a small organization to reach a full picture in one to two weeks, and even a large organization within three months.

Not every organization has three months to spare. With cyberattacks now an everyday occurrence, fast decisions and action are required. There is no room to spend time on coordination between departments and repeated discussions. That is why we work only with organizations that will tackle this issue with full commitment under the decision of top management.

CITY for Enterprise will start with our first five or so partners. For CITY for Business, we are accepting inquiries. Articles, manga and classroom slides for families and schools are published free of charge on Data is CITY Media (in Japanese).

For individuals, we first provide learning materials on Data is CITY Media on what each person should watch out for to prepare for cyberattacks, and on digital literacy in the AI-native era. Whether to launch a service for individuals is currently under consideration.

For CITY for Enterprise, even at the smallest scale, we expect an initial setup fee of 10 million yen and an annual fee of 10 million yen, or about 20 million yen in the first year, as a starting point. This is a guideline for the smallest case; we provide individual quotes based on the size of the organization and the scope. For CITY for Business, we are considering a monthly fee that is easy to afford.