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Company snapshot — freee

4478.T in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
freee is a Japanese company that builds cloud-based accounting, invoicing, tax-filing and payroll software aimed at small and medium-sized businesses. Its software replaces manual bookkeeping by connecting to bank accounts and automating tax and payroll paperwork. It is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
Where it sits in the stack
freee has no seat in Rubin or Halo, our AI-hardware indices; it sits in the diary's Application Leaders sleeve within the Agentic Winners 40 grouping, which tracks software vendors layering automation and AI features onto established business tools rather than building the underlying models.
Who it is priced against
Closelook's peer group places freee among application leaders — Adobe, Intuit, Monday.com, Veeva Systems, HubSpot, Atlassian, PTC and Dassault Systemes — vendors adding agentic capabilities to existing products. The closest comparison the market draws in Japan is Money Forward.
Why Closelook tracks it
freee carries a Closelook score, but only one module has been built so far, so the score is still being formed. It holds no seat in Rubin or Halo. The diary's Morning 10 edition quoted it once, grouped with other Japanese AI software names sold off together during a risk-off Asian session.
What the diary watches
The diary watches whether freee keeps trading as part of a Japanese AI-software basket alongside Money Forward, moving on shared sentiment rather than on its own results.

freee (4478.T) trades on the TSE exchange in Japan.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for 4478.T, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Agentic Winners 40 · Application Leaders · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Agentic Winners 40 · Application Leaders

Compared against 4478.T on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Versus its index Agentic Winners 40 — the name, its sleeve and the index over day, week and month

Versus its index

The name against its Closelook index and its own sleeve — equal-weight, nightly closes.

Agentic Winners 40 · as of 2026-09-17

DayWeekMonth3 months
4478.T+3.6%+1.6%+12.6%+97.5%
Application Leaders+0.8%+4.0%+2.1%—
Agentic Winners 40+0.4%+2.1%+0.5%—

Against the index: 0.5 pts behind on the week, 12.1 pts ahead on the month; against its Application Leaders sleeve 10.5 pts ahead on the month.

Returns from the index workers’ nightly closes; equal-weight sleeves. A relative reading from the research diary, not advice.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 55/100 · S&P 500 fund at 58, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-17
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 94th percentile of the window, +2.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-17
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.00 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-17

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-18

Quick answers

What is freee (4478.T)?

freee trades as 4478.T on the TSE exchange (Japan) in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-18.

Is 4478.T in a Closelook index?

Not currently — freee is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-18.

Where does 4478.T trade against its moving averages?

-0.9% at the close: Holding 15.7% off its 52-week high. As of 2026-09-18 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How is 4478.T doing against its Closelook index?

Over the past month freee is +12.6% against +0.5% for the Agentic Winners 40 — 12.1 points ahead of its index, as of 2026-09-17. Its Application Leaders sleeve is +2.1% over the same month. The “Versus its index” table on this page carries the day, the week and the month for the name, its sleeve and the index.

What does freee do?

freee is a Japanese company that builds cloud-based accounting, invoicing, tax-filing and payroll software aimed at small and medium-sized businesses. Its software replaces manual bookkeeping by connecting to bank accounts and automating tax and payroll paperwork. It is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Closelook's peer group places freee among application leaders — Adobe, Intuit, Monday.com, Veeva Systems, HubSpot, Atlassian, PTC and Dassault Systemes — vendors adding agentic capabilities to existing products. The closest comparison the market draws in Japan is Money Forward.

Where does freee sit in the AI build-out?

freee has no seat in Rubin or Halo, our AI-hardware indices; it sits in the diary's Application Leaders sleeve within the Agentic Winners 40 grouping, which tracks software vendors layering automation and AI features onto established business tools rather than building the underlying models. freee carries a Closelook score, but only one module has been built so far, so the score is still being formed. It holds no seat in Rubin or Halo. The diary's Morning 10 edition quoted it once, grouped with other Japanese AI software names sold off together during a risk-off Asian session.

Where has Closelook written about freee?

freee appears in 1 Closelook piece, most recently Morning 10: Kospi jumps 4% on OpenAI’s new model: SK hynix +7%, Kioxia +9%, SoftBank +10% — while gold and bitcoin slide on the rate-hike odds (2026-09-07). What Closelook said most recently: Hong Kong is down 0.9%, and our Asian AI software names are getting sold, freee −8%, Money Forward −7%, Z.ai −4.6%. (Morning 10, 2026-09-07). The "Mentioned on Closelook" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for 4478.T, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Mentioned on Closelook 1 piece · newest: Morning 10, “Kospi jumps 4% on OpenAI’s new model: SK hynix +7%, Kioxia +9%, SoftBank +10% — while gold and bitcoin slide on the rate-hike odds” (2026-09-07)

Mentioned on Closelook

Where 4478.T appears in the diary — 1 piece, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

Dailies

Related in the Closelook universe