Weimeng (02013) joined the Tencent WorkBuddy Open Ecosystem and Jointly Launched the Weimeng Buddy App

The Zhitong Finance App learned that on September 2, Tencent (00700) WorkBuddy announced the official launch of an open platform (open.workbuddy.cn) to open up lower-level agent capabilities for intelligent hardware, industry applications and developers. Weimeng (02013), as one of the first ecological partners, announced the official launch of the Weimeng Buddy app, which was jointly built with Tencent WorkBuddy.

As an AI intelligent management workbench launched for retailers, the Weimeng Buddy application unifies information and tasks originally scattered in business data, product orders, inventory fulfillment, customer membership, marketing content, and store shopping guides into a natural language interactive portal, so that operators can initiate inquiry, analysis, diagnosis, planning and content generation tasks with a single sentence, and deliver clearly structured executable solutions.

Xiao Feng, vice president of technology at Weimeng, said that Weimeng is fully embedding AI into its business chassis. The launch of the Weimeng Buddy app is the latest footnote in the expansion of the AI First strategy from “internal restructuring” to “external ecological collaboration.”

Weimeng x Tencent WorkBuddy: complementary strengths to create a new paradigm for retail AI management

Tencent WorkBuddy was launched in March 2026, the enterprise version was released in June, and the “Buddy AI Ecosystem Co-Creation Program” was launched. Unlike common big language model chat assistants, WorkBuddy is positioned as a “full-scene workplace AI smart desktop workbench”, which can independently disassemble complex tasks, read and write local files, call various application software, automate multi-step workflows, and finally deliver fully structured documents or reports.

As one of the core service providers in the Tencent ecosystem, Weimeng has deeply integrated its business understanding and scenario understanding accumulated over many years in the retail industry with WorkBuddy's execution capabilities through deep cooperation with Tencent WorkBuddy to create a “ready-to-use intelligent management team” for retailers.

Weimeng and Tencent WorkBuddy jointly launched the Weimeng Buddy app. The core logic is to complement each other's strengths and create a win-win situation. Weimeng itself has deep accumulation in retail business scenarios, industry data, and business logic, and has complete AI capabilities. Weimeng Xingyuan has completed the underlying restructuring from Workflow to “Agent+Skill”, which can transform data into insight and turn problems into strategies. Tencent, on the other hand, has significant advantages in terms of general-purpose AI execution engines, underlying large models, and computing power infrastructure.

Weimeng deeply integrates industry understanding, business scenarios, data models, and standardization skills accumulated over many years with Tencent WorkBuddy's general execution capabilities, so that Weimeng's industry capabilities can unleash greater value on a more powerful execution engine, while also making Tencent WorkBuddy, a general execution AI, truly have the professional ability to serve retailers. Tencent has gained deep penetration into the vertical industry, Weimeng has received strong support from GM's execution capabilities, and merchants have obtained an intelligent management product with a complete experience and closed loop delivery, thus achieving a win-win situation for all parties.

The product architecture of the Weimeng Buddy application clearly reflects the results of this integration. The product uses four major modules of business diagnosis, mall operation, and store shopping guide as the business framework, with 5 types of intelligent experts in business data analysis, product and order operation, customer and member operations, marketing and content, and Weimeng knowledge assistants. Through 16 standardized skills, the product connects real business data and operational capabilities authorized by Weimeng through 16 standardized skills, forming a complete link of “understanding requirements — calling data — analyzing and judging — generating solutions — delivering results”.

Product implementation and commercial verification: 48 practical cases settled, AI commercialization accelerated implementation

At present, the Weimeng Buddy application has further settled 16 core business scenarios and 48 practical cases that can be directly experienced around four major modules, covering tasks such as business review, target prediction, channel attribution, product and inventory diagnosis, order after-sales, promotion activities, membership stratification, repurchase and loss analysis, private domain access, multi-store comparison, and shopping guide counseling. The system can transform data into insights, problems into strategies, and strategies into clearly structured HTML reports and executable solutions to help merchants lower the threshold of data use and shorten decision-making links.

Judging from the merchant experience, the changes brought about by the Weimeng Buddy app will be significant. In the past, if a retail brand's headquarters operator wanted to do a comprehensive business review, they had to log in to the ERP system separately to export sales data, log in to the CRM system to check member activity, log in to the advertising platform to pull delivery reports, log in to the back office of the mall to analyze product sales rates, and then summarize all the data, draw up a map, and write analysis conclusions. The whole process often took several days. However, in the Weimeng Buddy app, the operator only needs to say “help me review the last month's business situation, analyze the performance of each channel, and make suggestions for improvement”. The system automatically calls the data and capabilities of each Weimeng business module and delivers a complete report with a clear structure and data charts and strategy suggestions within a few minutes.

From an industry perspective, the launch of the Weimeng Buddy app has also verified a judgment: Tencent's general AI capabilities are a “highway,” and the industry know-how of companies such as Weimeng is a “branded car.” As one of the core service providers in Tencent's ecosystem, Weimeng has been deeply involved in retail digital intelligence for many years, serving millions of merchants, and has accumulated deep experience in vertical industries such as apparel, FMCG, supermarkets, shopping, and local lifestyle. Cooperation between the two sides continues to deepen. From the joint release of the “Private Domain Security Escort Plan” to Weimeng's access to the WeChat AI ecosystem as the first batch of closed beta teams, etc., Tencent provided the underlying technology and computing power base, while Weimeng relied on scenario-based solutions and industry service capabilities to transform general AI capabilities into implementable commercial value.

On August 18, 2026, Weimeng announced its interim results up to 2026. Among them, it is worth noting that the AI application business has become the core growth engine, with AI application revenue reaching RMB 133 million, surpassing the full year of 2025 and making breakthrough progress. Guoyuan Securities also gave a 10-fold PS valuation of Weimeng's AI business in the research report, and believes that the market has yet to fully accept Weimeng's AI business implementation progress and reshaping the company's fundamentals. As commercialization of new products progresses and AI revenue increases, it is expected to be gradually revised.

When the AI layout is compounded by the continuous release of ecological dividends, “Weimeng's AI application revenue of 133 million in half a year surpassed last year” may just be the beginning.