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Now

Where I am, what I'm doing, where I'm headed.

Where I am
Beijing Yizhuang OPC · Founder of Vantasma
Long-term focus
Feishu Bitable · AI agents · personal knowledge systems · business automation
Building now
Open knowledge base · AI daily reports · course content · a three-platform AI system
How I work
Start from real business, get it running first, then distill the method

I'm Li Xiangrui, an engineer who walked out of a car factory's welding workshop.

For years I spent every day with robotic arms and PLC ladder logic, obsessing over shaving 0.1 seconds off each motion and holding positioning to 1 millimeter. When the pull between the old world and the new hit a breaking point, I left the assembly line and dove headfirst into AI.

What I do now is explore how to put AI inside real business workflows, using Feishu Bitable as the entry point, turning "sounds impressive" into "usable today." I've also built myself a self-evolving AI system across three platforms, refining it as I use it.

Journey

From a car factory floor to an AI venture in Beijing Yizhuang. Not a standard path, but a real one.

2026.05
Joined WaytoAGI · OPC, registered a Beijing company
Joined the Beijing Yizhuang OPC industrial community through WaytoAGI in its second cohort, and registered Beijing Vantasma Technology Co., Ltd. From a team of one, into a network of industrial collaboration.
2026.04
Moved from Changzhi to Beijing Yizhuang
Moved from a fourth-tier city into an industrial collaboration environment, one step closer to the action. Using AI to pull big-city opportunities into a small city finally had a real foothold.
2025.12
Built an open Bitable community
Started building the Vantasma open Bitable knowledge base — writing out Bitable systematically, from zero to one, hand-holding tutorials to advanced moves, kept up to date, with real business cases and templates. Zero promotion, yet nearly 65k visitors and over 250k visits so far, grown entirely by the content itself.
2025.09
Registered my first company
Changzhi Vantasma Technology Co., Ltd. was founded. A one-person company, officially open.
2025.05
Started the WeChat blog · Li Xiangrui
Began posting daily. At first I wrote about all kinds of AI, then slowly narrowed down to Feishu Bitable as the entry point. Over 200 posts in a year, and the community grew bit by bit.
2024.12
Volcano Engine FORCE conference
The first time I saw agents take shape in person, and I was certain on the spot: agents would explode in 2025. I went home and threw myself in, started building agents.
2024.10
Quit my job, left Shanghai for Shanxi
Not an impulse. The clash between the old world and the new had built up to a breaking point, and I decided to bet everything on AI. Back home in Shanxi, I teamed up with a junior from college — two laptops a thousand kilometers apart. People came and went; I kept carrying it forward.
2024.07
A side gig begins · AIGC video orders
Working by day, taking AIGC video orders by night. I supplied AI-generated videos to a few local media outlets and earned real money from AI for the first time. That side gig convinced me: AI isn't just novel — it can put food on the table.
2024.06
Graduated, went to Shanghai for automation
Graduated in June, made permanent at a Shanghai automation company in July, doing industrial automation. Working and chasing AI at the same time.
2024.03
The Two Sessions first named "AI Plus"
The government work report at the national Two Sessions wrote in the "AI Plus" initiative for the first time, and I watched it closely. That year my thesis was exactly on "AI + PLC," about wiring AI into industrial control. The direction the country pointed to matched what I had in my hands.
2023
Internship at a car factory welding shop · PLC
That same year I interned in a car factory's welding workshop, writing ladder logic and tuning robotic arms, chasing precision in the smell of metal dust and ozone. An engineer's seriousness was carved into me during that internship.
Early 2023
ERNIE Bot beta · among the first users
When ERNIE Bot opened its beta in China, I was among the first users. In that moment I was sure: a new era was about to begin.
2022.12
First ran into ChatGPT
I came across ChatGPT while scrolling Douyin, the first time I learned such a thing existed. Back then I hadn't even figured out how to use it or get online to reach it, but the seed was planted.
2003.03.02
Born in Zhangzi County, Changzhi, Shanxi
Shangdang, anciently called "the land that sided with heaven," the highest ground around. Su Dongpo wrote, "Shangdang has always been the spine of all under heaven." The myth of Jingwei filling the sea and the homeland of the Yan Emperor both belong to this land.Explore Changzhi ↗

Capability system

A personal working system that keeps growing around landing AI: from business scenarios, data structures and agent workflows to knowledge distillation and content productization.

Core systems I'm building
Feishu business systems

Using Feishu Bitable as the business foundation, fusing data tables, views, dashboards, workflows and AI — running process, data, permissions and analysis in one collaborative space, so a table isn't just a table but a system that runs the business.

  • Multi-dimensional data modeling · 20+ field types and cross-table links
  • Multiple views and forms (grid / kanban / calendar / Gantt / form)
  • Dashboards · multi-chart stats and analysis
  • Workflows and automation · branching and looping
  • AI field shortcuts / AI companions, data flowing automatically
AI agent workflows

Orchestrating agents around real tasks: breaking down work, dispatching tools, managing context and state — wiring Claude Code, MCP, Skills / Hooks, scripts and a desktop agent into one chain, so AI goes from answering questions to taking part in execution and verifying itself.

  • Task orchestration and tool calling
  • Context engineering · three-layer memory · state management
  • Reusable workflows packaged as MCP / Skill / Hook
  • Claude Code for execution · OpenClaw for desktop reach
  • Multiple agents in parallel, cross-checking results
Knowledge and memory systems

Using Obsidian, semantic retrieval (RAG) and a three-layer memory architecture to turn content, experience, projects and conversations into long-term assets that can be searched and called on.

  • Obsidian knowledge base
  • Semantic retrieval / RAG
  • Three-layer memory architecture
  • Content asset accumulation
  • Cross-session context management
The foundation under it all
Engineering delivery

Coming from industrial automation and PLC, I'm used to looking at problems through stability, fault tolerance, closed-loop processes and long-term maintainability.

  • Industrial automation experience
  • A sense for system stability
  • Fault tolerance and fallback design
  • Serious about precision and quality
  • From demo to long-running
AI-native development · Vibe Coding

Driving large models to generate code with natural language — but not trusting the output blindly, keeping architectural judgment, code review and engineering fallbacks.

  • Requirement breakdown and architecture design
  • Astro / web front-end
  • Python / Shell scripts and CLIs
  • Git / GitHub version control
  • Cloudflare Pages / Docker deployment
Content productization

Turning real practice, hard lessons and methodology into articles, courses, knowledge bases, SOPs and AI daily reports, so experience can be reused.

  • Original blog posts
  • Open knowledge base
  • Course content
  • SOP templates
  • AI daily reports

Method

After doing AI implementation this long, a few judgments have settled in. They shape how I work.

Feishu is an agent's production environment
Permissions, relationships, knowledge, messages and process live in one space — not just a set of tools
01
The smallest unit of landing AI is a role, not a task
What you hand to AI should be a repeatable, verifiable, collaborative responsibility
02
What truly sells is the method that makes the business work
Tools, courses, knowledge bases and services are only carriers
03
Tech isn't the moat; fitting into the organization is
Models change, platforms change — what lasts is the business design and execution system
04
Content's endgame is becoming a source
Good content isn't just for people to read; it should be searchable, understandable, citable
05
Community is a case factory and a gateway to collaboration
A steady stream of real problems, real feedback, real partnerships
06

I don't want to be a teacher selling courses; I want to be an engineer offering systematic solutions.

Scaffolding > model — good system architecture matters more than which model you use. Sincerity is the killer move, values over traffic: I can choose not to write, but I'll never phone it in. This is one engineer's understanding of "making a product."

Public projects

The Vantasma Bitable community is the largest grassroots Feishu Bitable ecosystem. Content, community, products and systems — all grown around making AI actually land.

65k+
Knowledge base visitors
250k+
Total visits
311
Knowledge base docs

Ways to work together

ToB: help companies land AI. ToC: hand the method to individuals. Two lines, one core — make AI usable.

Enterprise AI implementation consulting
From scenario diagnosis to solution design, delivered hands-on alongside you
ToB
Feishu Bitable build-outs
Data modeling + automation + AI fields + dashboards
ToB
Team training / in-house workshops
Hand the capability to the team, not just the deliverable
ToB
Community · co-learning camps
AI + Bitable that individuals can actually learn
ToC
University / vocational training
Bringing Bitable + AI training courses into schools
In talks

Field Events

I treat offline conferences as real business fields: technology, products, delivery, and people worth following up with.

2026.07.17-07.20 · Shanghai

WAIC 2026 AI Field Guide

I turned 1,019 exhibitors and 1,369 products into a usable on-site guide, organized by venue, floor, route, product maturity, and business value.

WAIC 2026AI implementationfield routebusiness lens
1019exhibitors
1369products
4venues
Open guide
Format
AI conference / in-person networking
Goal
Read trends, find cases, identify collaboration leads
Good topics
Lark Base, AI Agent, workflow automation, OPC builders

Xiangrui and the Community Friends

A daily stream of dense discussions around Feishu, AI agents, automation, products and individual practice. Search or pick a member on the left, follow the dates in the middle, and read the day's note on the right.

COMMUNITY CALENDAR

群友索引

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成员276
发言199
消息27,042

交流日历

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Beliefs

The beliefs that hold all of this up. The switches that are on are the things I take seriously every day.

Long-termism
No quick money; do what compounds
First principles
Go back to the problem itself, don't copy answers
Against ripping people off
No get-rich myths, no idiot tax — only deliver things that actually run
Let the record speak
No sob stories, no piling on labels — prove it with facts
Data safety first
Think through the boundaries before touching anything

Using AI to pull first-tier-city opportunities into a fourth-tier city.

There's new and old in me. The "wild" side: I won't toe the line, daring to use AI from a small city to reach for big-city business. The "plodding" side: keying in data by hand to find patterns, taking hard-seat trains to Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou to show my face, holding a community together with sincerity.

I come from Shangdang, a place that produces both myths and ancient architecture. Over 3,500 ancient buildings have stood here for a thousand years — slow, plain, solid, but they truly last. The product I want to build is like that too.

Contact

Talk collaboration, talk Feishu, talk AI, or just chat — all welcome.

Email
Collaboration / inquiries — the most reliable way in
li@xiangruiai.com
Contact me
Li Xiangrui · Vantasma · Beijing Yizhuang A post-2000 kid who spends all day figuring out how to make AI actually work