36Kr Research Institute | 2026 Beijing OPC Entrepreneurs Research Report

A profound transformation of entrepreneurial organizational forms is accelerating amid the AI wave. At present, artificial intelligence technology is reshaping the underlying logic of entrepreneurship at an unprecedented speed. As large models and intelligent agents are applied across thousands of industries, individual productivity is being redefined by technology. A new entrepreneurial organizational form driven by the core concept of "one person + AI" — OPC (One Person Company) — has grown from early marginal exploration to a new force that cannot be ignored in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. With one creative idea, one terminal device, and a set of AI tools, an individual can independently complete the full-link business closed loop from product design to market launch. "Building a team with only one person" is no longer a concept, but a business practice being implemented by a group of pioneers.

As a new form of entrepreneurial organization in the AI era, OPC refers to a company that is dominated and controlled by one core natural person, generally has no more than 10 employees, takes AI technology research, development, application or services as its main business, and relies on the core natural person to achieve independent operation and large-scale delivery with the help of "intelligent agents". Its core features lie in the lightweight organizational form, deep empowerment of AI capabilities and high human efficiency output. This study adopts a mixed research design of "desk research + primary research", relying on 470 questionnaire data of OPC entrepreneurs in Beijing, combined with in-depth interviews with 7 OPC community operation entities and 21 entrepreneurs, cross-verified with multi-source data and multi-level interviews, taking into account the macro industrial trend, meso ecological carriers and micro entrepreneurial entities, systematically sorts out the general development situation of OPC, analyzes the group portrait, core demands and operating status of Beijing OPC entrepreneurs, and judges the development and evolution direction of OPC across the country.

The triple resonance of technology, policy and professional concepts has spawned a new wave of OPC entrepreneurship

The rapid maturity of large models, intelligent agents and AI development tools is accelerating the reconstruction of traditional entrepreneurial logic. In the past, standardized and procedural work that required multi-post collaboration to complete can now be independently completed by a single entrepreneur with the help of AI, which for the first time enables individuals to have production capacity close to that of small organizations, greatly lowering the threshold for entrepreneurship. On the institutional side, the relevant legal system for one-person companies is being improved at an accelerated pace, and intensive national and local policies have been introduced to continuously consolidate the institutional foundation and resource support for OPC development. At the same time, professional talents are gradually connecting with the market, customers and production tools as individuals, and the social recognition of "one-person entrepreneurship" is constantly increasing, providing sufficient talent reserve and a loose development environment for OPC. Under the multiple resonance of technology, system and social concepts, OPC entrepreneurship is rising rapidly, opening a new round of innovation and entrepreneurship boom.

Factor coordination, open scenarios, policy support and carrier evolution: Beijing has cultivated fertile ground for OPC entrepreneurship

Since 2026, national OPC policies and entrepreneurial carriers have entered a period of intensive implementation, with the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and other regions taking the lead in forming agglomeration effects. With a sound policy system, top talent reserve, abundant computing power supply and open and diverse scenario resources, Beijing is building a growth ground with complete factors and efficient coordination for OPC entrepreneurs. At the same time, various OPC communities continue to iterate their service capabilities, shifting from basic factor supply to deep empowerment of technology polishing, order introduction and industrial integration, accelerating the formation of a regional OPC entrepreneurial ecosystem with multi-subject coordination and multi-factor linkage.

High education level × rich experience × younger generation: post-90s and Gen Z are the main force of OPC entrepreneurship in Beijing

The coexistence of younger age, high education level and rich experience outlines the distinct background of OPC entrepreneurs in Beijing. Post-90s and Gen Z account for 65% in total. They grew up in the era of rapid popularization of Internet and AI technology, are naturally familiar with digital tools, and have higher acceptance of independent and flexible new career modes, making them the most active practitioners of OPC entrepreneurship. At the same time, 95% of them have a bachelor's degree or above, and 58.1% have more than 8 years of work experience. The combination of high education and rich professional experience endows them with solid professional accumulation and keen industry cognition, which constitutes the core portrait of high-quality entrepreneurs.

Deep integration of industrial chain becomes the main line, ecological co-evolution accelerates: super individuals and OPC communities evolve collaboratively

With the iteration of AI technology, the release of policy dividends and the continuous upgrading of OPC community empowerment system, super individuals and OPC communities will usher in an accelerated period of collaborative evolution. On the one hand, super-individual entrepreneurship will evolve from a phased business form to a normalized entrepreneurial form, deeply embedded in the local industrial system; networked collaboration becomes an important driving force to promote its realization of commercial closed loop, and finally diverges to multiple development paths such as lightweight organization, large-scale enterprise, industrial merger and acquisition. On the other hand, OPC communities will bid farewell to the homogeneous competition of basic resources, turn to the competition of high-level capabilities such as scenario docking, order operation and resource integration, and upgrade from space operation carriers to industrial collaboration nodes linking super individuals and enterprise demands.

The key research questions of this report are as follows:

• What are the definition and core features of OPC? What are the core drivers for the rapid rise of the OPC model?
• What core entities and key elements constitute the OPC ecological chain? What is the operation logic and value division of each part?
• What is the overall development ecology of OPC in Beijing? What differentiated advantages have been formed in policy supply, computing power support, talent reserve, scenario opening, community carriers and other aspects?
• What characteristics does the group portrait of OPC entrepreneurs in Beijing present? What are their entrepreneurial modes and operating status? What are the development pain points and core demands faced by entrepreneurs at present?
• What evolution direction and development trend will the domestic OPC entrepreneurial business form present in the future?
• What new trends and changes will OPC communities usher in in track positioning, service system and operation mode in the future?

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