On September 2, Tencent WorkBuddy officially launched its open platform (open.WorkBuddy.cn), making its underlying Agent capabilities available to smart hardware, industry applications, and developers. As one of the first batch of ecosystem partners, WEIMOB INC announced the official launch of the Weimob Buddy application, co-developed with Tencent WorkBuddy.

Designed as an AI-powered intelligent operations workbench for retail merchants, the Weimob Buddy application consolidates information and tasks previously scattered across operational data, product orders, inventory fulfillment, customer membership, marketing content, and in-store sales guidance into a single natural language interaction portal. This enables business operators to initiate queries, analyses, diagnostics, planning, and content generation tasks with just one sentence, delivering clearly structured executable solutions.

Weimob's Vice President of Technology, Xiao Feng, stated that Weimob is embedding AI across its entire business infrastructure, and the launch of the Weimob Buddy application marks the latest milestone in the company's AI First strategy, expanding from internal restructuring to external ecosystem collaboration.

Weimob x Tencent WorkBuddy: Complementary strengths create a new retail AI operations paradigm

Tencent WorkBuddy went live in March 2026, released its enterprise version in June, and initiated the "Buddy AI Ecosystem Co-Creation Program." Unlike common large language model chat assistants, WorkBuddy is positioned as an "all-scenario workplace AI agent desktop workbench" capable of autonomously breaking down complex tasks, reading and writing local files, invoking various application software, automatically executing multi-step workflows, and ultimately delivering complete documents or reports.

As one of Tencent's core ecosystem service providers, WEIMOB INC has leveraged its deep collaboration with Tencent WorkBuddy to fuse its years of retail industry expertise—accumulated business understanding and scenario know-how—with WorkBuddy's execution capabilities, creating a "ready-to-use intelligent operations team" for retail merchants.

The core logic behind the joint launch of the Weimob Buddy application by WEIMOB INC and Tencent WorkBuddy lies in complementary strengths and mutually beneficial co-creation. Weimob brings deep accumulation in retail operations scenarios, industry data, and business logic, and already possesses a complete AI capability suite. Weimob Xingyuan has completed its underlying restructure from Workflow to "Agent + Skill," enabling it to transform data into insights and problems into strategies. Meanwhile, Tencent holds significant advantages in general-purpose AI execution engines, foundational large models, and computing infrastructure.

By deeply integrating the industry understanding, business scenarios, data models, and standardized Skills accumulated from serving thousands of retail brands with Tencent WorkBuddy's general execution capabilities, WEIMOB INC enables its industry capabilities to deliver greater value on a more powerful execution engine. At the same time, this integration equips Tencent WorkBuddy—a general execution AI—with the professional expertise needed to serve retail merchants effectively. Tencent gains deep penetration into a vertical industry, Weimob receives powerful support for its general execution capabilities, and merchants obtain an intelligent operations product with a complete experience and closed-loop delivery—creating a win-win-win scenario for all three parties.

The product architecture of the Weimob Buddy application clearly reflects this integration outcome. The product uses four modules—operations diagnosis, mall operations, customer operations, and in-store sales guidance—as its business backbone, employs five types of intelligent specialists—operations data analysis, product and order operations, customer and membership operations, marketing and content, and Weimob knowledge assistant—as its task hub, and connects Weimob's authorized real business data and operational capabilities through 16 standardized skills, forming a complete chain of "understanding needs—calling data—analyzing and judging—generating plans—delivering results."

Product deployment and commercial validation: 48 practical case studies demonstrate accelerating AI commercialization

Currently, the Weimob Buddy application has further accumulated 16 core operations scenarios and 48 practical case studies that can be directly experienced across its four modules, covering operations reviews, target forecasting, channel attribution, product and inventory diagnostics, order after-sales, promotional activities, membership segmentation, repurchase and churn analysis, private domain outreach, multi-store comparison, and sales guidance coaching. The system can transform data into insights, problems into strategies, and strategies into clearly structured HTML reports and executable plans, helping merchants lower data usage barriers and shorten decision-making chains.

From the merchant experience perspective, the changes brought by the Weimob Buddy application will be significant. Previously, a retail brand's headquarters operations staff conducting a comprehensive business review would need to log into the ERP system to export sales data, access the CRM system to check membership activity, visit advertising platforms to pull campaign reports, and analyze product sell-through rates in the mall backend—then consolidate all data, create charts, and write analysis conclusions, a process that often took days. With the Weimob Buddy application, an operator simply says, "Help me review last month's operations, analyze channel performance, and provide improvement suggestions," and the system automatically invokes data and capabilities from Weimob's business modules, delivering a complete report with clear structure, data charts, and strategic recommendations within minutes.

From an industry perspective, the launch of the Weimob Buddy application also validates a key insight: Tencent's general AI capabilities serve as the "highway," while industry know-how from companies like Weimob represents the "branded vehicles." As one of Tencent's core ecosystem service providers, WEIMOB INC has spent years深耕 retail digitalization, serving over one million merchants cumulatively, and has accumulated deep experience in vertical industries including apparel, fast-moving consumer goods, supermarkets, department stores, and local life services. The partnership has continued to deepen—from jointly launching the "Private Domain Security Escort Program" to Weimob being among the first batch of internal testing teams to access WeChat's AI ecosystem. Tencent provides the underlying technology and computing infrastructure, while Weimob converts general AI capabilities into actionable commercial value through scenario-based solutions and industry service capabilities.

On August 18, 2026, WEIMOB INC released its interim results for 2026. Notably, the AI application business emerged as the core growth engine, with AI application revenue reaching RMB 133 million, already surpassing the full-year figure for 2025—a breakthrough achievement. In its research report, Guoyuan Securities assigned a 10x PS valuation to Weimob's AI business, noting that the market has not yet fully absorbed the progress of Weimob's AI business deployment and its reshaping effect on the company's fundamentals. As new product commercialization advances and AI revenue scales up, the report expects gradual market correction.

With AI deployment combining with continued ecosystem dividend release, "Weimob's AI application revenue of RMB 133 million in half a year, surpassing last year's full-year figure" may be just the beginning.