Recommended by ChatGPT, Commissioned from Tokyo: The Bilingual Corporate Website IME.eus
The inquiry came from Tokyo. Shunnki Soku, CEO of a corporate group with companies in Japan and Singapore, was looking for an agency for a bilingual corporate website in English and Japanese. He wasn’t looking for a German result, nor a German agency. He asked ChatGPT which foreign agencies specialize in bilingual corporate websites. The answer: 4eck Media, an agency in Waren an der Müritz, roughly 9,000 kilometers from his office in the Marunouchi Trust Tower.
This is how ime.eus came to be, the group profile for the companies DMJ, DMW, and CUBE-CJ. In this case study, we show what the client needed, how the website is structured, and why this project means more to us than just another job.
The Brief: A Group Profile as a Digital Business Card
The group operates three companies with clearly divided roles: DMJ Co., Ltd. coordinates product development, production brokerage, and market access on the Japan side. DMW Co., Ltd. handles the same tasks for the China side, including logistics coordination. CUBE CJ SINGAPORE PTE. LTD. supports international business operations from Singapore and coordinates between Asia and Europe. A fourth section for Europe is already reserved on the website.
For foreign partners, this structure had been hard to grasp so far. What was needed was a compact website that introduces the three companies, explains how they work together, and functions as a credible business card in international dealings. Explicitly not a large portal, no elaborate imagery, no marketing fireworks. The client’s brief in his own words: simple, precise, and professional, with a calm, restrained, and technical feel.
Why the Project Didn’t Stay in Japan
Before working with us, the client had approached several Japanese design agencies. Some wanted to turn the lean company profile into a considerably heavier visual system, missing the direction of the project. Others quoted ongoing maintenance costs that, in the client’s view, were disproportionate for a website of this size.
So he expanded the search to foreign agencies and had ChatGPT do the research. That a Tokyo CEO would end up with an agency in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern this way would have been unthinkable just three years ago. Today it’s a recurring pattern for us, more on that below.
Look & Feel: Terminal Aesthetics, Reduced to a Single Sentence
The first impression is a system boot. On loading, status lines such as SYS INIT, SHADER COMPILE, and SIGNAL LOCKED scroll by, as if an instrument were powering up. Then the view opens onto a dark, softly glowing blue coordinate grid that recedes into the depth of the screen, with softly rendered points of light above it like on a radar screen. At the center stands a single sentence in large, calm type: “A real business structure does not need excess to prove itself.” That sentence carries the attitude of the whole project and, in hindsight, reads like our own design brief.
Everything else runs as a marginal note in monospace typography, like in a cockpit: top right ticks the live Tokyo time in JST, bottom left shows the coordinates 35.6762° N / 139.6503° E, bottom right the current date. The three companies sit as narrow, numbered capsules above the grid, leading to their profile pages. We use motion sparingly: the grid tilts gently into the depth, the points of light drift slowly, and otherwise deliberately little happens.
What you won’t find on the website: stock photos, people shaking hands, a Tokyo skyline. The design relies on typography, data, and precision, and that’s exactly where its impact lies. It looks like what the company actually is: a soberly run structure with clear responsibilities. The feel requested in the brief, calm, restrained, and technical, is taken quite literally here.
The Structure: Three Profile Pages With Clear Facts
Behind this curtain, the website is strictly functional. After the intro sequence, the essentials appear on screen without detours: the group, the three companies, the contact.
Each company has its own subpage with a consistent structure: its role within the group, company details such as office address, capital, partner banks, and registration number, plus core services, target customers, and direct contact. Any business partner wanting to check who they’re dealing with finds the facts exactly where they’d expect them. That’s precisely what a group profile website achieves: showing structure, building trust, anticipating questions.
Bilingual in English and Japanese
The website runs fully bilingual in English and Japanese, switchable with a click. For a bilingual corporate website, linguistic balance determines credibility: a Japanese business partner reads the Japanese text with different expectations of politeness and precision than a European partner reads the English one. Both versions must convey the same content while still feeling natural in their own language.
Multilingual projects have been one of our focus areas for years, from WordPress MultiSite platforms to compact sites like this one. That the client specifically highlights the language quality in his review is something we’re especially pleased about, given a language pair without German.
The Client’s Feedback in Full
Shunnki Soku sent us a detailed review after the launch. We’re publishing it here in full.
The Real Case: When AI Recommends the Agency
IME.eus is not an isolated case. Since October 2025, we’ve been systematically working on our visibility in AI search using our own GEO framework. GEO means: a website is built so that AI systems like ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Gemini correctly understand the company and recommend it as a source or provider for relevant questions. What we’ve built for clients for years, we now apply to ourselves. The result can already be seen in concrete projects:
- Consel Group AG from Switzerland found us via Perplexity. The joint project Mobiblox went live recently.
- A company from Dubai had us rebuild its website for accessibility, also following an AI recommendation … this time from Google’s AI Overviews.
- For an Austrian company, we’re currently implementing two projects, one of which goes live in July. The contact came through ChatGPT.
- Recently, we received an inquiry from Canada, where agency discussions are currently underway.
- And then there’s IME.eus: a CEO in Tokyo who asked ChatGPT about specialized agencies for bilingual corporate websites. Two follow-up projects are already in progress, one of which will go live by August at the latest (more on that here on the blog).
Tokyo, Singapore, Dubai, Switzerland, Austria, Canada. None of these contacts came from ads, cold outreach, or a classic number-one Google ranking. In each case, the recommendation came from an AI that found our website, our references, and our focus areas machine-readable, and classified and recommended us as the best agency for the client’s specific need. For us, that’s the strongest proof that investing in our own AI visibility pays off: the sales channel works in places where nobody knew us before.
Frequently Asked Questions About Bilingual Corporate Websites
Both language versions must match in content while still reading naturally in their own language. This also requires a clean technical implementation of the language switch, correct hreflang and meta information for each language, and a design that works with different text lengths and writing systems. Japanese places its own demands on typography and line breaks here.
Because specialization matters more today than distance. The client was looking for an agency with proven experience in multilingual corporate websites and a clear, reduced design approach. The collaboration ran entirely remote, with fast coordination and clear responsibilities. Time zones turned out to be a smaller obstacle than expected: whatever Tokyo asks in the afternoon is answered and waiting in the inbox by the German morning.
AI systems recommend providers whose websites they understand and consider credible. This includes clearly stated services, verifiable references, structured data based on Schema.org, consistent company information across the web, and content that answers questions precisely. We’ve summarized this approach in our GEO framework and apply it both for clients and for ourselves.
Often yes, for holdings and corporate groups with multiple companies. A compact group profile explains the structure in one place, bundles the company data for all entities, and stays up to date with little effort. Individual sites can be added later if a company needs its own marketing.
Planning a Multilingual Corporate Website?
We build corporate websites that:
- work cleanly in content and typography across two or more languages
- make company structures understandable for international partners
- are built to be technically fast, low-barrier, and machine-readable
- appear as a source in search engines and AI answers
