DaTaobao Tech

Oct 20, 2026 · R&D Management

Tmall's Digital Employee: How AI-Native Collaboration Turns R&D Dark Matter into Reusable Assets

Tmall's digital employee embeds an AI agent into DingTalk groups to share a single requirement context across product, dev, and test roles, cutting collaboration friction — information loss, wait times, search costs — and codifying tacit knowledge into a reusable context layer that enables three evolutionary stages from process sync to AI-led async collaboration.