# Laiye

> Laiye is a Beijing-founded enterprise automation company building a Work Execution Platform that combines Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Intelligent Document Processing (IDP), conversational AI and, increasingly, large-language-model-powered AI agents. Started in 2015 by a group of Ivy League and ex-Baidu engineers, Laiye pitches 'digital workers' that handle repetitive back-office tasks so people can focus on higher-value work. It is the only Chinese vendor named in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for RPA for five consecutive years, serves hundreds of Fortune Global 500 and China Top 500 companies, and has raised roughly US$211 million across seven rounds.

- **Founded:** 2015
- **Headquarters:** Beijing, China
- **Founders:** Guanchun (Arvid) Wang (Co-founder, Chairman & CEO), Yichuan Hu (Co-founder), Ji Gu (Co-founder)
- **Team size:** ~480 employees
- **Products:** Work Execution Platform (WEP), Agentic Process Automation (APA / UiBot), Agentic Document Processing (ADP / IDP), Agentic Customer Experience (ACX / Wulai / Mindsay), Enterprise AI Agent Matrix
- **Notable:** Only Chinese company named in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for RPA for five consecutive years, Recognized as a Major Contender in RPA, IDP and Conversational AI by Everest Group's PEAK Matrix reports, Named a 2024 Hurun Global Gazelle Enterprise

## Products & services

- **Work Execution Platform (WEP)** — The core platform that unifies RPA, IDP, conversational AI and LLM-powered agents to automate end-to-end business processes.
- **Agentic Process Automation (APA / UiBot)** — AI-powered robotic process automation, evolved from the UiBot RPA product, for building and running software robots across enterprise workflows.
- **Agentic Document Processing (ADP / IDP)** — Intelligent document processing that uses OCR, NLP and LLMs to extract, classify and understand unstructured documents such as invoices and contracts.
- **Agentic Customer Experience (ACX / Wulai / Mindsay)** — Conversational AI chatbot and voicebot platform for customer engagement, strengthened by the 2022 acquisition of Mindsay.
- **Enterprise AI Agent Matrix** — A set of purpose-built AI agents - including Lead Generation, Candidate Screening and Market Analysis - launched at Laiye Lead 2025.

## Achievements

- Only Chinese company named in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for RPA for five consecutive years
- Recognized as a Major Contender in RPA, IDP and Conversational AI by Everest Group's PEAK Matrix reports
- Named a 2024 Hurun Global Gazelle Enterprise
- Included in Forbes China's Top 30 Globalization Leaders and the 2024 China AIGC 100
- Serves 300+ Fortune Global 500 and China Top 500 companies
- Raised roughly US$211M across seven funding rounds

## Latest updates

- **2025-08** — Laiye unveiled its Enterprise AI Agent Matrix at Laiye Lead 2025, introducing five AI agents for lead generation, candidate screening, market analysis and more, built on the Work Execution Platform with MCP integration.
- **2025-01** — Recognized in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for RPA for the fifth consecutive year.
- **2024-01** — Named a Hurun Global Gazelle Enterprise and included in Forbes China's Top 30 Globalization Leaders and the 2024 China AIGC 100.
- **2022-04** — Acquired European conversational AI company Mindsay to lead the shift toward intelligent automation, following a US$50M investment in EMEA.

## Links

- Website: https://laiye.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/laiye
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/LaiyeTechnology
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/LaiyeIBD

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