Key Takeaways
- Yimutian launched Wolaicai Sales Assistant, positioning it as China's first AI agent embedded directly in agricultural product trading, covering sourcing, pricing, procurement guidance, and transaction execution.
- A one-week pilot with roughly 100 agricultural business customers per day generated more than RMB 1,000 in commercial revenue daily, according to the company's internal data.
- The product expands Yimutian's AI suite beyond standalone tools into the core transaction layer of agricultural circulation, linking the online platform with offline Wolaicai service stations and merchant fulfillment.
- CFO Shijie Chen projected that Wolaicai, combined with the broader rollout of existing AI products, will contribute more than US$10 million in full-year revenue growth.
- Yimutian cited industry estimates suggesting China's agricultural circulation loss rate has persisted at roughly 20–30%, a structural inefficiency the company aims to address through AI-driven matching and transaction support.
Yimutian Inc. (NASDAQ: YMT), a leading agricultural digital service company in China, has officially launched the Wolaicai Sales Assistant, an AI-powered agent the company describes as China's first artificial intelligence tool built specifically for agricultural product trading. The platform is designed to help agricultural merchants and buyers source products, obtain pricing guidance, and complete transactions through automated workflows.
What Yimutian's Wolaicai Sales Assistant Does
The platform offers four core capabilities. Its AI-powered matching engine analyzes buyer requirements — including product category, specification, quantity, and location — and surfaces ranked supply sources from Yimutian's platform database in real time, factoring in distance, price, and fulfillment capability. An AI quotation tool draws on historical transaction data and live market information to generate pricing suggestions for suppliers and reference price ranges for buyers, aiming to improve price transparency at the outset of a negotiation.
A procurement guidance module automatically compiles category-specific information on production regions, seasonal availability, quality standards, and logistics considerations. Finally, an AI-enabled transaction feature allows buyers to place orders and pay deposits directly through the platform based on AI recommendations, with fulfillment handled by platform merchants.
As a practical illustration, a watermelon buyer in Beijing can describe their requirements through dialogue — covering variety, specifications, price, and delivery location — and the system will identify in-season production areas across provinces such as Yunnan, Shandong, Hainan, and Henan, and recommend matched supply sources. The buyer can then transact directly, bypassing the traditional cycle of phone calls, messages, and manual quote requests.
Yimutian's Broader AI Strategy
Wolaicai Sales Assistant is the latest addition to a portfolio that includes Jubaopen AI for short-video marketing, AI-powered merchant acquisition tools, and Xiaotian, an agricultural AI conversation robot deployed across platforms including Boluotong, Gaozhili, and Mr. Lan. The company frames Wolaicai as a strategic step from isolated AI tools into the transaction core of agricultural product circulation — linking digital matching with physical fulfillment infrastructure through its Wolaicai service station network.
“AI technology has been disruptive for both industries and enterprises. Based on Yimutian's experience in deploying agricultural AI technologies, agricultural users' acceptance of AI tools has far exceeded our expectations. Drawing on our prior experience with AI marketing products, we believe the launch of Wolaicai Sales Assistant, together with the broader rollout of our existing AI products, will contribute more than US$10 million in full-year revenue growth for the Company,” said Shijie Chen, Chief Financial Officer of Yimutian.
Addressing Structural Inefficiency in China's Agricultural Supply Chain
China's agricultural circulation system has long been characterized by multi-layer intermediation, with products passing through brokers, wholesalers, and retail channels before reaching consumers — each layer adding cost and reducing speed. Industry estimates cited by Yimutian place the country's agricultural circulation loss rate at approximately 20–30% over an extended period. The company positions Wolaicai as a tool to compress unnecessary transaction layers and improve end-to-end coordination between production and consumption.
Yimutian said it plans to continue deepening the integration of AI across the full agricultural industry chain, with the long-term goal of making agricultural production more data-driven, circulation more efficient, and food supply more reliable.
