Are office workers still mired in repetitive labor? Baoding Guoshang Technology leverages RPA+AI digital employees, with a single unit capable of replacing 3 to 5 regular workers.

Baoding Guoshang Technology Uses AI Digital Employees to Free Enterprises from Repetitive Labor

# A 10-year ToB Veteran Returns to Hometown to Start a Business, Baoding Guoshang Technology Uses RPA+AI Digital Employees to Liberate Enterprises from Repetitive Labor

After graduating from the School of Software Engineering of Dalian University of Technology and accumulating 10 years of experience in ToB enterprise software services at SAP and China CITIC Bank, Liu Xiaodong chose to return to his hometown Baoding, Hebei to start his business, targeting the blue ocean track of custom AI digital employees based on RPA+AI.

Original Aspiration for Entrepreneurship: From 10 Years of ToB Experience to Settling Down in Hometown

In the early stage of starting a business, Liu Xiaodong found that traditional large-scale ToB enterprise services are not friendly to start-up teams, and it is difficult to build trust with small and medium-sized customers and obtain orders. After getting in touch with RPA tools such as Yingdao and Shizai, he recalled that when he first entered the industry, he had used automation tools similar to Key Wizard to solve repetitive work tasks. He realized that customized digital employees combining RPA and AI are exactly adapted to the efficiency upgrading needs of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises — at present, a large number of white-collar workers in the office fields of e-commerce, finance and logistics are still occupied by low-end repetitive work. Just as machinery replaced assembly line workers in the industrial era, repetitive labor in office scenarios will inevitably be replaced by digital tools. This judgment became the starting point for the birth of Baoding Guoshang Technology.

In June 2025, taking advantage of the boom of AI large model explosion, the project was officially launched. Liu Xiaodong led two core members to form the team: he took charge of sales, demand communication and architecture design, one member was responsible for development, delivery and daily operation and maintenance, and the other focused on tackling complex technical problems. The team quickly expanded the market by cutting into customized small projects. Up to now, it has served dozens of settled customers in total, and has delivered projects running stably in the three major fields of e-commerce, finance and logistics.

Facing Challenges Head-on: Third-Party Dependence and Local Market Cognition Dilemma

During the promotion of the project, the team also encountered thorny problems: the automated process depends on third-party platforms, and the frequent updates of the platforms require the team to synchronize iteration, adjustment and adaptation. The more core challenge comes from local promotion: the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei local market has low awareness of AI digital employees, and few people know about the concept of automation, making it difficult to acquire customers. At present, the customers of Guoshang Technology are mainly concentrated in regions with developed e-commerce industries such as Guangdong, Zhejiang and Shanghai. The team hopes to make up for the shortcomings of the local market and narrow the gap in the automation level of enterprises between the north and the south.

Differentiated Strategy: Customized RPA+AI, One Digital Employee Can Replace 3 to 5 People

Different from the standardized RPA or AI tools on the market, pure RPA can handle limited tasks, while pure AI tools are not completely controllable and cannot be directly used in enterprise application fields with full confidence. Baoding Guoshang Technology focuses on the customized RPA+AI integrated solution: RPA undertakes repetitive processes with clear rules, and AI solves non-standard links that require simple judgment. The combination of the two broadens the capability boundary of automation technology, ensures that the implemented tasks are 100% controlled, and covers multiple high-frequency office scenarios such as product listing, profit verification and financial document processing.

Different from general-purpose tools that require customers to learn and configure by themselves, Guoshang Technology connects with demands throughout the whole process to complete customized delivery, and one digital employee can undertake the repetitive labor links of 3 to 5 people. Customers only need to bear the basic power consumption and a small amount of token cost, so the input-output ratio has very obvious advantages.

Market Prospect: Digital Demands of Micro, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Are Released, and the Business Model Has Been Proven Feasible

According to industry forecasts, in the next five years, the domestic RPA+AI digital employee market will maintain rapid growth, the digital upgrading demands of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises will continue to be released, and there is broad space for replacing a large number of repetitive office links. Guoshang Technology cuts in from customized delivery, and has verified the feasibility of its business model. After the general functions are produced in a productized form in the future, it is expected to cover more small and medium-sized customers.

At present, the project adopts a flexible business model. According to the complexity of the project and customer demands, customers can choose one-time purchase plus subsequent maintenance, or choose monthly payment. The project has achieved delivery profitability so far, and there is no public financing information.

Customer Testimonials: Labor Costs Drop by More Than 70%, and Efficiency Improves by More Than 4 Times

Among the cooperating customers, a cross-border e-commerce customer in Guangzhou feedbacked that after deploying 3 AI digital employees of Guoshang Technology, the daily product listing and profit verification work that originally required more than 10 people to handle is now all automatically completed by the system, and the team only needs to keep 1 person for abnormal monitoring. The labor cost has dropped by more than 70%, and the overall efficiency has increased by more than 4 times.

The person in charge of another local logistics enterprise in Baoding said that originally the financial department needed 3 people to spend a week every month to check the data of procurement, finance and waybills. Now the digital employee can handle the whole process automatically with higher accuracy than manual work, and the financial team has turned to more core cost control work.

Founder's Statement: From Leading Enterprises to Starting a Business in a Small Town, Sense of Value Drives Progress

For the experience of returning to his hometown to start a business in recent years, Liu Xiaodong, the founder, admitted that starting a business in his hometown small town after working in leading enterprises brings different mentality and challenges from before. But seeing that the customized digital employees he developed really help enterprises solve pain points and reduce costs, he feels that this path is very valuable.

In the next step, Baoding Guoshang Technology plans to expand customer acquisition in the local market through multiple measures: open up local popularity through regional forums, platform traffic delivery, exhibition ground promotion, and referral from repeat customers. At the same time, it will polish the existing mature functions into generalized products to reduce delivery costs, cover more local small and medium-sized enterprises in need, and promote the automation efficiency upgrading of enterprises in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. The company is also actively seeking financing.