Recently, Alibaba International quietly launched an Agent overseas that can be called the e-commerce version of OpenClaw—Accio Work, it has the general capability of the lobster's 24/7 automated work, and is especially good at business operations and the e-commerce field.
I said one sentence to it: I want to open a Shopify store selling pet toys.
Accio Work immediately began market research, product selection, finding supply sources... In less than half an hour, a cute pet educational toy online store was born.
The entire process required no hands-on work from us at all; we only needed to click confirm at key points or offer opinions.
01. Automated online store operations
Accio Work is the first enterprise-level Agent that Alibaba International has launched overseas. We opened the Accio Work official website, downloaded it, and it was ready to use out of the box.
We first designated a working folder and entered the request:
I want to open a Shopify store selling pet toys.
Accio Work has built-in various top-tier flagship large models, such as Gemini 3.1 Pro、Qwen3 Max、GPT5.4、Claude Opus 4.6 , etc.
After receiving the instruction, Accio Work will immediately start store planning, first looking for market opportunities and helping position the store; screening high-quality suppliers; estimating startup costs; and analyzing blue ocean opportunities.
During the work process, we basically do not need to intervene.
Backed by the Alibaba ecosystem, it understands business better
The biggest worry when using AI normally is hallucination. AI can spout nonsense with a straight face, and it is hard for non-experts to tell.
But Accio Work is backed by Alibaba.com's 26 years of accumulated experience and data in the foreign trade field, as well as Alibaba's entire global e-commerce ecosystem built over more than 20 years.
As a result, whether it is finding supply sources or calculating profits, basically anything business-related, Accio Work's hallucinations are greatly reduced, and its decisions are more accurate.
Professional, safe, and reliable
When Accio Work needs to perform some operations on local files, it asks every time. It will only begin execution after receiving permission.
The most fun part is that Accio Work selected products and listed them itself, frantically opening browsers in the background, logging into Alibaba.com to search for products, send inquiries, and contact suppliers. In the end, it opened so many web pages that it even made my computer lag...
It even sent me a message asking for help, asking me to help it close a few browser pages to lighten the load, hahaha.
An easy-to-use Agent team
In a traditional e-commerce company, opening a store requires operations staff, graphic designers, copywriters, and supply chain specialists. In Accio Work, we can directly "create" these "colleagues" to work together.
We can define the agent's detailed profile, specific model, equipped Skills, and so on, so that the agent handles work according to our requirements.
It also has a huge number of e-commerce-specific Skills built in (such as product selection, intelligent product publishing, tariff checking, etc.). This is ten thousand times less troublesome than a general large model, which requires you to train the prompt little by little.
There is also one feature I must strongly recommend: these agents can directly form an AI Agent team and cooperate together.
For example, our online store needs store operations, graphic design, copy editing, customer service, and so on... After all these agents are created, I can have them form a group to work together, and I can also designate a Team leader to lead this group of Agents in getting the work done.
Self-evolution
More importantly, Accio Work also has a "self-evolution" skill, which can continuously iterate its business level according to the business process, becoming more and more professional as it goes.
02. Alibaba.com merchants have already received Accio orders
Since Accio Work currently mainly serves overseas small and medium-sized businesses and individual entrepreneurs, at the beginning, quite a few people also came to ask Sister K, what does this AI have to do with us domestic merchants? Until the early hours of this morning, I saw that quite a few domestic merchants had already started posting their orders.
This young merchant is also a "super individual" on Alibaba.com. Recently, he has received more than a dozen inquiries from Accio, including quite a few high-intent customers. Since last year, he has realized that "next, AI-recommended traffic will definitely be a new dividend." Since last year, he has already been optimizing his product selling points and service selling points on the Alibaba.com platform, trying his best to let AI understand his products.
In fact, Accio is Alibaba's first native application deployed overseas. As of now, its number of enterprise users has exceeded 10 million. With the launch of Accio Work, its user scale will also rise rapidly.
Other data shows: for buyers brought in by AI on Accio, the time from the first chat to reaching an intent agreement is a full 5 times faster than ordinary orders. Deals that used to take a week to negotiate can now be settled in 1 day! The business dividend of the AI era is being amplified exponentially.
If you think carefully, the biggest beneficiaries of this wave of Agentic business dividend are actually domestic foreign trade merchants. Accio Work channels the huge and real procurement needs of overseas e-commerce entrepreneurs entirely to merchants on Alibaba.com.
Orders from Accio posted by Alibaba.com merchants
This new traffic is not only large, but also very precise.
Recently, the foreign trade circle has been anxious about how to gain traffic in the AI era.
Accio Work has given the best answer. As long as merchants carefully manage their existing store assets and connect to the channel of Alibaba.com, inquiry response speed will be faster, and business opportunities will naturally explode.
Original link:Alibaba launches e-commerce version of Lobster overseas, AI begins to send orders to domestic merchants