What Wayz.ai does

Wayz.ai (维智科技) is a Shanghai-based spatio-temporal AI company founded in 2017 by Dr. Tao Chuang, a former Microsoft Virtual Earth Director. The company builds and operates the Phy-gital Spatio-Temporal Intelligence Platform, which the company describes as the industry's first trillion-level multimodal spatio-temporal knowledge graph system, integrating three proprietary engines: data spatio-temporalization, spatio-temporal graph construction, and graph intelligence. Its technology stack combines knowledge graphs, deep learning, and location intelligence to deliver an IDOO (Insight-Decision-Operation-Optimization) four-level service system. Deployment is via cloud-native architecture with low-code configuration, federated learning for data security, and on-premise options through the Huawei Kunpeng-based W-BOX all-in-one machine compliant with Chinese Xinchuang standards.

The company monetizes through B2B/B2G enterprise platform sales targeting four primary solution areas: Intelligent City, Intelligent Marketing, Intelligent Business, and Intelligent Finance, delivered via product modules including WAYZONE (scene marketing), WAYZBANK (banking), WAYZCLOUD (commercial intelligence), WAYZING (IoT positioning), WAYZTONE (data services), and PGVerse (metaverse). Revenue streams include subscription/recurring platform fees, professional services for deployment and integration, and data assetization (87M+ RMB spatio-temporal data assets listed on Shanghai Data Exchange). Customer base spans 50+ provincial/municipal government agencies across 30+ Chinese cities and hundreds of enterprise clients including Agricultural Bank of China, Meiyijia, Longfor, Publicis Group, P&G, and Volkswagen. The company raised approximately $80M in its 2018 Series A from BluePinnacle Ventures and LightSpeed China and maintains strategic alliances with Huawei Kunpeng, AWS, Wind Information, the Quick App Alliance, and Tongji University.

Go-to-market is direct enterprise sales with event-driven thought leadership at conferences such as WAIC and WIM. The company is privately held, employs 101-250 people, and is headquartered in Shanghai Pudong New Area, with no disclosed revenue figures and no public listing.

Name

Wayz.ai

Legal name

维智科技

Website

https://wayz.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Wayz.ai is a Shanghai-based spatio-temporal AI platform serving government agencies and large enterprises in smart city, banking, retail, and IoT positioning through its proprietary Phy-gital knowledge graph and IDOO decision intelligence framework.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Spatio-Temporal AI / Location Intelligence Platform

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (5415), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

Enterprise AI Data & Knowledge Platforms (Vector Databases, Knowledge Graphs) (HDAEANAH)

akta.pro secondary industry

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

Keywords

• Spatio-temporal AI platform
• Location intelligence services
• Smart city solutions
• Knowledge graph technology
• Retail site selection

Headquarters

HQ city

Wuhan

HQ country

China

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Enterprise Platform Solutions: Provides comprehensive AI decision-making platforms (WAYZONE, WAYZBANK, WAYZCLOUD, WAYZING) as enterprise-level solutions. Revenue from platform deployment, customization, and ongoing service fees for government and enterprise clients requiring digital transformation in smart city, banking, retail, and commercial sectors.
2. Data Asset Services: Data assetization services including consulting, governance, compliance, rights confirmation, evaluation, and listing. Participated in Shanghai Data Exchange with spatio-temporal data assets valued at over 87 million RMB, and obtained 30 million RMB credit line from China Construction Bank.
3. Spatio-Temporal Data Services: Provides spatio-temporal data assets and intelligence services including location data, foot traffic analysis, consumer profiles, business environment data for site selection, marketing optimization, and business decision support.
4. Implementation and Technical Services: Professional services for platform deployment, system integration, and technical support including one-machine deployment solutions ensuring data privacy for enterprise clients.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Wayz.ai develops and operates the Phy-gital Spatio-Temporal AI Platform, a full-stack AI technology system that combines multi-modal data spatio-temporalization with a 100 billion+ node knowledge graph and graph-intelligence decision engines. It packages this core platform into enterprise SaaS modules — WAYZONE (scene marketing), WAYZBANK (banking decisioning), WAYZCLOUD (commercial BI), WAYZING (IoT positioning), WAYZTONE (data services), and PGVerse (metaverse) — and sells them along with data asset services to government smart-city programs, banks, retail chains, real estate developers, and consumer brands.

Product overview

Wayz.ai is a leading Spatiotemporal AI industrial empowerment platform that has developed a full-stack 'Spatiotemporal AI' technology system. The core platform is Phy-gital™ (飞吉特) Spatiotemporal Intelligence Platform, which provides the foundational spatiotemporal knowledge graph and AI decision capabilities. The platform is complemented by industry-specific product modules including WAYZONE (scene marketing), WAYZBANK (banking finance), WAYZCLOUD (business intelligence), WAYZING (IoT positioning), WAYZTONE (点点通 data services), and PGVerse (metaverse). These products serve four major solution areas: Intelligent City, Intelligent Marketing, Intelligent Business, and Intelligent Finance, supported by a Data Assetization service line. The architecture enables 'Insight-Decision-Operation-Optimization' (IDOO) four-level intelligent services across urban and commercial digital transformation use cases.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• WAYZONE: Scene marketing intelligent decision service platform - leading offline scene marketing intelligent decision platform for marketing efficiency growth and digital business model innovation
• WAYZBANK
• WAYZING
• Phy-gital (飞吉特)
• 时空AI研究院
• 智治通
• 疫情通
• 点点通
• PGVerse

Products and services

• Phy-gital (飞吉特) Spatiotemporal Intelligence Platform Core enterprise spatio-temporal intelligence platform featuring data spatio-temporalization, spatio-temporal graph, and graph intelligence engines; processes 100 billion+ explicit/implicit graph relationships and 5 billion+ spatio-temporal entities for IDOO (Insight-Decision-Operation-Optimization) services. Sold to government and enterprise clients for smart city, banking, retail, and commercial deployments.
• WAYZONE Scene Marketing Intelligent Decision Service Offline scene marketing intelligent decision platform providing data+AI-driven business strategy analysis, end-to-end resource management from sales to brand, and quantitative marketing effectiveness evaluation for retail chains and consumer brands.
• WAYZBANK Banking Financial Intelligent Decision Service Banking spatio-temporal intelligent decision platform providing ecological operation digitization, management digitization, and customer service digitization through ultra-large-scale spatio-temporal graph assets. Used by banks such as Agricultural Bank of China for branch site selection and marketing.
• WAYZCLOUD Business Intelligence Operation Decision Service Business intelligence decision platform measuring KPI achievement and supporting data-driven business decisions. Provides BI+AI composite solution for commercial enterprises across retail, brand, automotive, supermarket, and hospitality sectors.
• WAYZING Ubiquitous IoT Positioning Service Platform IoT sensing platform supporting cross-platform and cross-system technical services covering key scenarios nationwide including supermarkets, transportation, security, and emergency response. Includes W-BOX all-in-one machine jointly developed with Huawei Kunpeng under Xinchuang standards.
• WAYZTONE (点点通) Data Service Platform Location-based big data AI platform providing region profiling services, community format analysis, brand benchmarking data, and digital professional solutions for data researchers, entrepreneurs, and offline business operators.
• PGVerse Metaverse Urban Spatial Intelligent Computing Platform Metaverse urban spatial intelligent computing platform creating virtually-physically integrated (Phy-gital) world through spatio-temporal AI technology, enabling digital twin capabilities for urban environments.
• ZhiZhiTong (智治通) Future Community Intelligent Management Platform Future community refined intelligent management platform using 'data' as a key governance resource, building unified spatio-temporal databases to solve grid government services and community governance data collection and sharing.
• YiQingTong (疫情通) Pandemic Prevention and Control Intelligent Platform Wartime-peacetime integrated pandemic prevention platform using digital intelligence traceability, precise decision-making, dynamic monitoring, and coordinated optimization to assist pandemic work for government health departments and key venue management.
• Data Assetization Services Data asset evaluation and consulting services helping enterprises transform data resources into actual data assets, including data asset evaluation, governance, compliance, rights confirmation, and listing through exchanges such as Shanghai Data Exchange.

Quantifiable outcome

• Store site selection accuracy rate exceeds 90%
• +8 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

AI capability8 records

Feature10 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Huawei Kunpeng (华为鲲鹏)coreTechnology or Integration · 1 January 2021Joint R&D partnership for LOTN W-BOX all-in-one machine compliant with Xinchuang (信创) standards ensuring data security. W-BOX uses Huawei Kunpeng processor and meets domestic technology standards.
• Shanghai AI Industry Association - Spatio-Temporal AI Professional Committee (上海市人工智能行业协会时空AI专业委员会)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2021WAYZ serves as Secretary General unit of the Spatio-Temporal AI Professional Committee. Jointly established with multiple tech enterprises, universities, and research institutions to promote spatio-temporal AI technology research, application transformation, and industry standards.
• Tongji University (同济大学)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2021Academic partnership led by Dr. Wang Haofen, Tongji University Special Term Researcher, as Spatio-Temporal AI Research Institute Director. Joint research in spatio-temporal AI technology and talent cultivation.
• Wind Information (万得信息)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 February 2020Strategic partnership for joint epidemic prevention and control efforts. Combined WAYZ location big data and AI technology with Wind's financial data and platform advantages to launch LBS+AI urban epidemic analysis platform. Services provided through Wind financial terminal 'Epidemic Dynamics' channel covering 8 major cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Tianjin, Chongqing, Nanjing, and Hangzhou.
• Chinese Preventive Medicine Association (中国预防医学会)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020Cooperation for epidemic prevention and control. Launched WDCIP disease control AI analysis platform providing daily services to national health departments and local governments using location big data for disease prevention decision support.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences (中科院)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020Collaboration with academic experts for epidemic prevention and control technology development. Provided spatio-temporal big data and AI location intelligence for disease prevention decision support.
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)coreTechnology or Integration · 1 January 2019AWS partner network (APN) member providing cloud-based solutions. Won AWS 2019 APN Growth Star award recognizing achievements in helping customers drive innovation on AWS. AWS发挥生态圈优势和品牌影响力，帮助构建优秀的解决方案。
• Quick App Alliance (快应用联盟)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2019Official partner of Quick App Alliance (VIVO, Huawei, OPPO, Xiaomi and other major Android phone manufacturers). WAYZ provides precise positioning and near-field sensing capabilities covering 80 million+ national POI library and 2000+ commercial scenarios. Expanding location service capabilities to 10 billion+ Quick App ecosystem.

Scale indicators23 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• HERE Technologies: Global location intelligence and mapping platform serving enterprise, automotive, and government customers with spatial data, analytics, and developer tools. Directly comparable to Wayz.ai as a B2B/B2G spatio-temporal data and decision platform with similar knowledge-graph and asset offerings, though at much larger global scale.
• Mapbox: Developer-focused mapping and location platform providing APIs, SDKs, and spatial data infrastructure. Comparable to Wayz.ai on the spatio-temporal data and developer-integration axis (Wayz also ships SDK/NLP interfaces for Android, iOS, Web), with a similar focus on cross-platform location enablement for enterprise and consumer apps.
• Foursquare: Location intelligence company offering POI data, foot-traffic analytics, and consumer movement insights for retail, real-estate, and advertising customers. Closely comparable to Wayz.ai's WAYZONE/WAYZCLOUD modules — both monetize POI and visitor-flow data to drive site selection, marketing, and merchandising decisions.
• Placer.ai: Foot-traffic and location analytics platform built on panel-derived mobility data, serving retail, real estate, and CPG customers for site selection and competitive intelligence. Direct competitor to Wayz.ai's customer-flow analytics use cases (e.g., Meiyijia's store-network optimization) with a similar data-driven retail/marketing value proposition.
• CARTO: Spatial data and analytics platform providing cloud-native location intelligence tooling for enterprises across retail, logistics, and CPG. Comparable to Wayz.ai on the enterprise spatio-temporal analytics and decision-support layer, with overlapping go-to-market into data-driven commercial teams.
• SafeGraph: Provider of POI, geometry, and foot-traffic datasets sold to enterprise data teams and analytics platforms. Directly comparable to the POI and consumer-profile data assets that underpin Wayz.ai's marketing and retail decision modules.

Broad incumbents

• SenseTime: Large Chinese AI platform with significant smart-city, urban-operations, and government deployments. Overlaps with Wayz.ai in selling computer-vision and AI-driven city intelligence to Chinese municipal clients, but at substantially larger scale and broader AI scope.
• Alibaba (AMAP / Gaode Maps): China's leading consumer mapping and location-services platform under Alibaba, with deep POI, navigation, and ride-hailing data. Competes with Wayz.ai in the Chinese spatio-temporal data market with vastly larger consumer data footprint and bundled cloud sales motion.
• Baidu Maps: Baidu's mapping, navigation, and location intelligence arm with extensive Chinese POI and traffic data and Baidu Cloud integration. Comparable to Wayz.ai as a Chinese mapping/spatial data provider, with broader B2C reach and a much larger parent balance sheet.
• Palantir Technologies: Data analytics and decision-intelligence platform serving government and large enterprise clients with knowledge-graph-style data fusion. Comparable to Wayz.ai on the enterprise/government GTM and the 'data + AI decision platform' positioning, though Palantir's scope is far broader and not geo-specialized.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/wayz2018

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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