Weimob (02013) joins Tencent's WorkBuddy open ecosystem and collaborates to launch the Weimob Buddy application.

On September 2, Tencent (00700) WorkBuddy announced the official launch of its open platform (open.WorkBuddy.cn), which provides underlying Agent capabilities for smart hardware, industry applications, and developers. Weimob (02013), as one of the first ecological partners, announced the official launch of the Weimob Buddy application developed in collaboration with Tencent WorkBuddy. The Weimob Buddy application, designed for retail merchants, is an AI-powered business management platform that consolidates dispersed information and tasks related to operational data, product orders, inventory fulfillment, customer membership, marketing content, and in-store guidance into a single natural language interaction interface. This allows operators to initiate queries, analyses, diagnostics, planning, and content generation tasks with a simple command, delivering clear and executable solutions. Xiao Feng, Vice President of Technology at Weimob, stated that Weimob is fully integrating AI into its business foundation. The launch of the Weimob Buddy application marks the latest extension of the AI First strategy from "internal restructuring" to "external ecological collaboration." Weimob Tencent WorkBuddy: Complementary Advantages and Co-creation of a New Retail AI Business Model Tencent WorkBuddy was launched in March 2026, with the enterprise version released in June and the initiation of the "Buddy AI Ecological Co-creation Plan." Unlike common large language model chat assistants, WorkBuddy is positioned as a "full-scenario workplace AI intelligent desktop platform" capable of autonomously breaking down complex tasks, reading and writing local files, invoking various applications, automating multi-step workflows, and ultimately delivering structured documents or reports. As a core service provider within Tencent's ecosystem, Weimob deepens its collaboration with Tencent WorkBuddy by integrating its extensive commercial understanding and scenario know-how accumulated over many years in the retail sector with WorkBuddy's execution capabilities, thereby creating an "always available intelligent business team" for retail merchants. The core logic behind the joint launch of the Weimob Buddy application by Weimob and Tencent WorkBuddy lies in complementary advantages and co-creating win-win situations. Weimob has deep-rooted expertise in retail management scenarios, industry data, and business logic, and already possesses complete AI capabilities. Weimobs XiangYuan has completed a foundational reconstruction from Workflow to "Agent+Skill," enabling the transformation of data into insights and questions into strategies. Tencent, on the other hand, has significant advantages in universal AI execution engines, foundational large models, and computational infrastructure. Weimob will deeply integrate its industry understanding, business scenarios, data models, and standardized skills accumulated from serving thousands of retail brands over the years with Tencent WorkBuddy's universal execution capabilities. This allows Weimob's industry capabilities to unleash greater value on a more powerful execution engine while also giving Tencent WorkBuddy true professional capabilities to serve retail merchants. Tencent gains deep penetration into vertical industries, while Weimob receives strong backing from universal execution capabilities, resulting in a smart business product for merchants that features a complete user experience and closed-loop delivery, achieving a three-way win. The product architecture of Weimob Buddy clearly reflects this integration achievement. The product is structured around four core modules: operational diagnostics, mall operations, customer operations, and in-store guidance, serving as the business backbone. It connects Weimob's authorized real business data and operational capabilities through 16 standardized skills, forming a complete chain of "understanding needsinvoking dataanalyzing and judginggenerating solutionsdelivering outcomes" via task-centric intelligent experts in operational data analysis, product and order operations, customer and membership operations, marketing and content, and the Weimob knowledge assistant. Implementation and Commercial Validation: 48 Practical Cases Accumulated, Accelerating AI Commercialization Currently, the Weimob Buddy application has further crystallized 16 core business scenarios and 48 directly experiential practical cases centered around the four modules, covering tasks such as operational review, target forecasting, channel attribution, product and inventory diagnostics, order after-sales, promotional activities, membership tiering, repurchase and churn analysis, private domain outreach, multi-store comparison, and salesperson guidance. The system can transform data into insights, convert problems into strategies, and produce structured HTML reports and executable plans, helping merchants lower the barriers to data usage and shorten decision-making timelines. From the merchant's experience perspective, the change brought by the Weimob Buddy application will be significant. In the past, if the headquarters operations personnel of a retail brand wanted to conduct a comprehensive operational review, they needed to log into the ERP system to export sales data, log into the CRM system to view membership activity, log into the advertising platform to retrieve campaign reports, log into the mall backend to analyze product sales rates, and then compile, visualize, and write analysis conclusions from all the dataoften taking several days. With the Weimob Buddy application, the operator only needs to say, "Help me review last months business situation, analyze channel performance and suggest improvements," and the system will automatically call upon the data and capabilities of Weimob's various business modules to deliver a complete report within minutes, complete with data charts and strategic recommendations. From an industry perspective, the launch of the Weimob Buddy application also validates a judgment: Tencent's universal AI capabilities are akin to a "highway," while the industry know-how of companies like Weimob serves as a "brand-specific vehicle." As one of the core service providers in Tencent's ecosystem, Weimob has long been focused on the intelligent retail sector, having served millions of merchants, and accumulated profound experience in vertical sectors such as apparel, fast-moving consumer goods, supermarkets, purchases, and local services. The collaboration between the two parties continues to deepen, from the co-launching of the "Private Domain Security Escort Plan" to Weimob being among the first testing teams to access the WeChat AI ecosystem. Tencent provides the foundational technology and computational base, while Weimob leverages scenario-based solutions and industry service capabilities to translate universal AI capabilities into realizable commercial value. On August 18, 2026, Weimob released its performance report for the first half of 2026. Notably, the AI application business has become the core growth engine, with AI application revenue reaching RMB 133 million, exceeding the entire revenue of 2025, marking a breakthrough progress. In a research report, Guoyuan also assigned a 10x PS valuation to Weimob's AI business, indicating that the market has not yet fully recognized the advancements in Weimob's AI implementations and its transformative effects on the company's fundamentals. As new products continue to be commercialized and AI revenues grow, it is expected that a gradual correction will occur. As the AI landscape evolves alongside the ongoing release of ecological dividends, "Weimob's AI application revenue of 133 million in half a year surpassing last year's total" may just be the beginning.