On October 23, the 2026 TGC Tech Growth Conference, themed "AI is Profitable," was held in Guangzhou.
Facing the multi-trillion-dollar blue-ocean market of AI for Work, Tec-Do, a globally leading AI marketing technology company, officially launched the industry's first Pro Agent — Navos Pro — at the conference. Navos Pro builds its product core on three key attributes — Professional, Proactive, and Profitable — making result-driven AI for Work a reality and continuously driving AI to become the core engine of enterprise global growth and productivity transformation.
[Dr. Kevin Knight's Opening Keynote]
The conference opened with a keynote led by internationally renowned AI authority Dr. Kevin Knight, with speakers from global AI technology companies including OpenAI, Google, Alibaba, ByteDance, and Tencent, converging on one core consensus: a new industrial cycle of "technology creating growth" has begun, and AI's business value must be validated by real business metrics.
In his opening keynote "From Language to Action: The Next Leap in AI," Dr. Kevin Knight offered his judgment from both academic and industry perspectives: AI for Work will become one of the most important directions of AI applications.
[Keynote by Li Shuhao, Founder and CEO of Tec-Do]
Next, in his keynote, Li Shuhao, founder and CEO of Tec-Do, first anchored AI business opportunities in the three expense areas where enterprises invest long-term and continuously: marketing and sales, coding and product development, and management, correspondingly proposing AI for Growth, AI for Innovation, and AI for Administration, which together are expected to form a multi-trillion-dollar broad market for AI for Work. Within this three-expense framework of AI for Work, AI products like Claude Code focus on AI for Innovation, AI products like WorkBuddy focus on collaborative office work; while Tec-Do's Navos Pro will be a top player in AI for Growth.
Li Shuhao further clarified: "Only result-oriented AI for Work." As a next-generation Agent, Navos Pro possesses three capability systems — Professional, Proactive, and Profitable — advancing agent implementation across scenarios such as cross-border e-commerce, foreign trade, marketing, and business analytics:
1. Professional | Professionally understanding business: by simply inputting a brand's official website, it parses key information and builds a private brand knowledge base; it accumulates business memory and outputs content aligned with the brand's commercial needs, solving the pain point of generic AI not understanding brand business.
2. Proactive | Proactively discovering opportunities: breaking free from the passive command mode, it monitors multi-dimensional data 7×24 hours a day, proactively mining growth opportunities and generating strategies; AI outputs suggestions, while humans hold decision-making power.
3. Profitable | Achieving business growth: with profitability as the core yardstick, strategies, creatives, and ad placements are anchored to metrics such as GMV and ROI, discarding ineffective AI output and ensuring measurable, profitable results.
[Pro Agent Navos Officially Launched]
Behind the three Pro systems of Professional, Proactive, and Profitable lies a three-tier capability supply:
The Professional capability system integrates industry Know-How and proprietary data, forming four major capabilities: database, Agent, workflow, and interaction. It provides insights into trends, competitors, product selection, creatives, and ad placement through public-domain data, domain Benchmarks, and vertical scenarios; it continuously optimizes with 70+ MCP, 100+ Skills, and user feedback; it standardizes and automates processes such as product selection, creative creation, and ad diagnostics through Skills, Templates, and digital employees; and it safeguards interactions through intent recognition, result feedback, and traceable processes.
The Proactive capability system covers 1 billion+ perception data points and 200 million+ perception instances daily, supporting tens of millions+ ad diagnoses, millions+ action recommendations, and 100,000+ adopted recommendations. It proactively monitors accounts, products, and creatives, outputs recommendations on budgets, bids, selling points, and creative iterations, and coordinates with Agents or human execution.
The Profitable capability system advances through "batch creation and scaled testing — scaled production, filtering out the false to keep the true — strategy iteration and amplifying returns," forming a closed loop of result feedback, strategy optimization, and continuous evolution through the Learning Loop. On the technical foundation, Navos RSI uses Agentic RL to drive self-iteration of the Agent Harness, covering trajectory sampling, reward design, policy updates, version write-back, and validation.
The three-tier architecture is composed of the Agent Harness, 32B/27B/5B specialized models, a marketing knowledge base, a Benchmark metrics library, methodology assets, multi-source heterogeneous data, and a professional sample library, supporting replication across multiple countries, channels, industries, and scenarios. Relying on the three Pro systems above, Navos has fully covered the overseas marketing chain, while offering a dual-version matrix of Navos Lite and Navos Pro.
[Pro Agent Navos Technical Architecture]
Li Shuhao stated that the essence of Agent evolution is the transfer of the right to initiate work: in the Chatbot stage, AI passively responds; in the Copilot stage, AI assists execution; and in the Pro-Agent stage, AI begins to proactively discover business opportunities and deliver real growth — Navos Pro will be the representative of this stage.
He further reviewed the broader industrial iteration logic above the Agent evolution storyline: in 2012, the mobile internet era opened a trillion-dollar market dominated by To C traffic; in 2018, the SaaS era opened a trillion-dollar market centered on To B; and since the AI era began in 2024, the core logic is shifting from "capability supply" to "value validation."
Tec-Do has already taken the lead in completing this "value validation" through its marketing practice serving hundreds of thousands of overseas brands, and has begun its ecosystem layout: in July 2026, it became one of ChatGPT Ads' first global technology partners, helping brands boost ROI by 2.5x; in August, it partnered with Tencent's WorkBuddy to apply model capabilities to overseas marketing placement scenarios.
Li Shuhao pointed out that AI for Growth is only the first step in Tec-Do's validation of AI reshaping enterprise productivity; in the future, Tec-Do will continue migrating its AI capabilities to AI for Innovation and AI for Administration, thereby driving a systematic reshaping of enterprise AI productivity.
Lorry Destainville, Head of Business Partnerships at OpenAI, shared a forward-looking view of ChatGPT's commercialization: ChatGPT reaches 1.2 billion users weekly, and OpenAI is simultaneously exploring Sponsored Agents and Visual Ads. He expressed special thanks to Tec-Do for joining hands with OpenAI to provide brands with actionable, measurable AI growth tools.
[Conference Host, Zhang Yuxue, VP of Brand PR at Tec-Do]
[On-site Roundtables]
Afterwards, hosted by Zhang Yuxue, VP of Brand PR at Tec-Do, three roundtable forums took the stage. Zhou Jie of General Atlantic, Nextie founder Li Di, Shenyangxu founder Ye Jun, and Xu Dong of Alibaba Qwen discussed "How Emerging AI Technologies Will Reshape the Business Future"; Liu Buchi of Google, Zhao Liping of CICC, Weng Chengbo of Maiya Media, and Josh Ye of Hero Esports discussed "The Grand Trend of Going Global in the AI Era"; Terry Wang of BytePlus, Deng Zhaojun of Alibaba Qwen, and Yang Tong of Tencent WorkBuddy discussed "Ecosystem Practices in AI Application Commercialization."
[Nie Ailing, Founding Partner of Tec-Do, Introduces Tec-Do's Investment Landscape]
At the end of the conference, Nie Ailing, founding partner of Tec-Do and head of ecosystem incubation and strategic investment, announced the launch of the Pro-Agent Global Challenge, soliciting cutting-edge AI projects from AI entrepreneurs worldwide. The competition focuses on tracks such as Agent architecture evolution, AI marketing, AI content gateways, and computing infrastructure, and will open up capital, industry resources, and global growth channels to empower the projects.
With this, TGC 2026 has completed the full picture of technology creating growth. "AI is Profitable" is accelerating toward realization, and the trillion-dollar blue ocean of AI for Work has only just set sail.
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