The Marketing Information and Forecasting Department (sometimes called Marketing Information and Forecasting Division), or MIFD for short, is Shiawase's corporate intelligence agency. Its director is Ichiro Kiyomoto. It is well known for its prowess at Matrix intelligence, utilizing several powerful dedicated Matrix hosts and proto-AI semi-autonomous knowbots. It is probably the largest and most sophisticated corporate intelligence agency in the world, and rivals even the intelligence agencies of the most powerful industrialized nations.