What Frontis does

Frontis (衔远科技, also branded Frontis AI) is a Beijing-headquartered, privately held enterprise AI software vendor founded in 2021 by Professor Zhou Bowen (周伯文). The company sells a single unified platform — Frontis Horizon (衔远大观) — built on a three-layer architecture of ME (a per-employee digital twin with long-term memory and cross-end sync across Feishu and WeCom), WE (an industry-specialized expert agent network covering strategy, R&D, supply chain, sales, operations, finance, and legal), and MA (a meta-agent evolution engine that converts task outcomes into reusable training signals). The platform ships with 73 expert agents, 206 professional skills, and 19 business scenarios, and is offered in Personal, Enterprise Cloud, and Private Deployment editions. Vertical sub-products extend the platform into specific use cases: Leadeep AI (衔远领衔者) for executives, combining a smart recorder card hardware with a digital twin and AI expert board; Xiaozhu (小筑) for construction enterprises; Wanqian (万千) for commodity supply chain; and Growth AI for marketing and sales. The core technical thesis is the L4 Capability Transformation Layer, which sits between commodity base models (GPT/Claude/Gemini/DeepSeek) and enterprise systems, using 通专融合 (general-specialty fusion), vertical reinforcement learning, Meta-Agent self-evolution, and a Digital Wind Tunnel (数字风洞) simulation environment to convert general LLMs into reusable, evaluable enterprise expert capabilities. The company employs 101-250 people and operates from Beijing, Shanghai, and Xiamen.

Frontis generates revenue through a B2B software and channel-mediated model. Direct revenue goes through three Frontis Horizon editions (Personal, Enterprise Cloud, Private Deployment), supplemented by scenario packs such as the Operations AI Expert Team. The Leadeep AI smart recorder card is sold as consumer-grade hardware via a JD.com storefront alongside a mobile app download channel. The most distinctive commercial mechanism is the National City Ecosystem Partner Program, which grants exclusive one-city-one-seat authorization to regional partners, with a 6-step onboarding funnel and cited partner outcomes in Hangzhou (12 customers, 5M+ RMB in 3 months), Chengdu (2x revenue in 6 months), and Shenzhen (30+ finance-AI customers). The company has raised approximately $18.35M in disclosed funding across a 2021 round and a 2023 round led by Qiming Venture Partners with Matrix Partners China participation; no revenue, ARR, cap table, or named enterprise logo is publicly disclosed.

The company positions itself explicitly in the L4 "capability transformation" layer of the AI stack — above commodity base models and below end-user applications — and targets China enterprise customers undergoing AI transformation, citing a 1.2 trillion RMB China enterprise AI market in 2026. Its commercial expansion is structurally tied to the city-partner channel, with the platform's self-iterating expert agents and accumulating vertical knowledge base intended to compound as more enterprise workflows run through the system.

Name

Frontis

Legal name

衔远科技

Website

https://frontis.cn

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Frontis (衔远科技) is a Beijing-based enterprise AI software vendor founded in 2021, selling the Frontis Horizon platform — a ME/WE/MA three-layer AI-native organization system with 73 expert agents — plus vertical sub-products (Leadeep AI, Xiaozhu, Wanqian, Growth AI) to China enterprise customers via direct sales and a national city-partner channel.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Enterprise AI Platform

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Custom Computer Programming Services (541511)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

End-to-End Enterprise AI Platforms (MLOps & Model Lifecycle Management) (HDAEANAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

AI Integration & Orchestration Platforms (Connectors, Workflow, iPaaS for AI) (HDAEANAI)

Keywords

• Enterprise AI platform
• AI expert agents
• Digital twin workforce
• AI capability transformation
• Industry vertical AI

Headquarters

HQ city

Haidian

HQ country

China

HQ region

Asia

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Operations

Core offering

Frontis builds and sells the Frontis Horizon (衔远大观) enterprise AI-native platform, organized as a three-layer architecture of ME digital twin, WE expert network, and MA evolution engine, with 73 expert agents, 206 professional skills, and 19 business scenarios. On top of this platform, the company offers vertical sub-products including the Leadeep AI (衔远领衔者) leader-focused hardware-plus-software product, and industry-specific expert teams for construction (Xiaozhu), commodity supply chain (Wanqian), marketing growth (Growth AI), and operations/decision support, available in Personal, Enterprise Cloud, and Private Deployment editions.

Product overview

Frontis (衔远科技 / Frontis AI) sells a single unified enterprise AI-native platform — Frontis Horizon (衔远大观) — organized as a three-layer architecture of ME (digital twin), WE (expert network), and MA (evolution engine), plus a set of vertical sub-products and scenario packs on top of it. The Leadeep AI (衔远领衔者) sub-product adds a leader-focused hardware (smart recorder card) and software experience with an A2A business-opportunity network. Industry-specific expert teams (Xiaozhu for construction, Wanqian for commodity supply chain, Growth AI for marketing growth) and scenario packs (Strategy & Operations, Operations) sit on the same platform, while the L4 Capability Transformation Layer provides the underlying general-specialty fusion, vertical reinforcement learning, and Meta-Agent self-evolution technology that turns base LLMs into reusable enterprise expert capabilities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Frontis Horizon (衔远大观): Enterprise AI-native organization platform built on the ME / WE / MA three-layer architecture (digital twin, expert network, evolution engine).
• Leadeep AI (衔远领衔者)
• Xiaozhu (小筑)
• Wanqian (万千)
• Growth AI

Products and services

• Frontis Horizon (衔远大观) Enterprise AI-native platform that provides each employee with a ME digital twin, connects every team to a WE expert network, and uses an MA evolution engine to convert task results into reusable organizational capabilities. Targeted at Chinese enterprises undergoing AI transformation across strategy, R&D, supply chain, sales, operations, finance, and legal functions.
• Leadeep AI (衔远领衔者) Hardware-plus-software product for senior executives and entrepreneurs that captures business meetings via a smart recorder card, builds a leader digital twin with industry experience and decision preferences, and runs an AI expert board (finance, legal, strategy, intelligence) and an A2A business opportunity radar.
• Xiaozhu (小筑) — Construction R&D and Production Expert Team Industry-specific expert team for construction enterprises covering project scheduling, on-site documentation, construction scheme generation and review, drawing recognition, and project decision support. Positions itself as a high-quality dataset flywheel for construction R&D and production.
• Wanqian (万千) — Commodity Supply Chain Operations Expert Team Expert team for commodity trading and supply chain operations covering iron-ore hedging, soybean procurement, CNF/FOB landed-cost calculation, futures-spot integration, port-logistics forecasting, and daily commodity market briefings. Includes multi-source data integration (commodity prices, port congestion, freight rates, CBOT).
• Growth AI — Marketing Growth Expert Team Marketing and sales growth expert team offering an AI sales champion that replicates top sales-rep behavior, AI private-domain operations for 1:1 personalized retention and lifetime value optimization, and AI gold-medal customer service for 7x24 multi-channel support.
• Operations AI Expert Team (运营 AI 专家团) Operations and decision expert team covering talent decision (interview evaluation), business insight (CEO cockpit with multi-source data and metric anomaly alerts), and meeting collaboration (auto minutes, decision tracking, retrospective).

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

AI capability15 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• 4Paradigm (第四范式): Listed Chinese enterprise-AI decision-making platform offering AutoML and AI agents for finance, retail, and operations. Closely comparable to Frontis in customer profile (large Chinese enterprises), vertical-expert concept, and focus on turning AI into operational business outcomes.
• AInnovation (创新奇智): Hong Kong-listed enterprise AI company focused on industry-specific AI solutions for manufacturing, retail, and finance. Directly comparable as a Chinese enterprise-AI vendor selling packaged AI products/services to similar Chinese B2B customers with vertical depth.
• Zhipu AI (智谱AI): One of China's leading foundation-model companies offering GLM-series LLMs plus an enterprise-application and agent platform. Directly comparable to Frontis as a Beijing-based, VC-backed Chinese enterprise AI platform competing for the same L4/L5 enterprise-agent budget.

Broad incumbents

• SenseTime (商汤科技): Hong Kong-listed Chinese AI platform spanning vision, speech, and enterprise AI products. A much larger incumbent competing for similar Chinese enterprise AI customers, with overlapping agent, vision, and decision-support capabilities.
• CloudWalk Technology (云从科技): Shanghai-listed Chinese AI company focused on perception and decision-making AI for finance, government, and transportation. A broader incumbent with overlapping enterprise-AI agent and decision-support offerings versus Frontis.
• iFlytek (科大讯飞): Long-established Chinese AI incumbent with deep speech, NLP, and enterprise AI offerings across education, healthcare, and government. A broader incumbent than Frontis but competes for the same Chinese enterprise AI budgets and offers overlapping agent/voice/expert capabilities.

Emerging players

• ModelBest (面壁智能): Tsinghua-affiliated Chinese LLM startup building efficient foundation models (MiniCPM) and enterprise applications. Comparable as a research-driven Chinese AI company bridging base-model research and enterprise deployment in a similar niche to Frontis.
• 01.AI (零一万物): Chinese AI company founded by Kai-Fu Lee, building foundation models and enterprise AI productivity tools. Comparable as a high-profile, well-funded Chinese AI startup competing in the same LLM + enterprise-product category.
• Baichuan Intelligence (百川智能): Beijing-based Chinese LLM startup building foundation models and enterprise applications. Comparable to Frontis as a similarly-staged Chinese AI company with VC backing, base-model exposure, and a push into enterprise/industry applications.
• Moonshot AI (月之暗面): Beijing-based AI company behind the Kimi LLM and productivity products. Comparable as a well-funded Chinese AI startup building both base-model capability and consumer/enterprise applications, though with stronger consumer-product traction than enterprise platform depth.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors2 records

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M&A

Investments

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