SINGAPORE, June 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Zaihui (Shanghai) Network Technology Co., Ltd. is helping drive digital transformation across China's restaurant industry through its end-to-end digital operations platform. To date, the company has supported more than 43,000 mid-market restaurant operators across 28 provincial-level regions and more than 110 cities nationwide.
Through digital solutions spanning online operations, community building and influencer matching, Zaihui helps mid-market restaurant businesses gain greater access to customer traffic and compete more effectively with major chain brands. At the same time, the company has connected more than 70,000 content creators with flexible income opportunities, becoming a key contributor to the industry's continued growth.
China's restaurant market is characterized by a pronounced structural divide. Compared with leading chain brands that benefit from dedicated operating teams and stronger bargaining power with digital platforms, as well as smaller family-run eateries that tend to prioritize stability over expansion, many mid-market restaurants are at a clear disadvantage when it comes to attracting online traffic and absorbing rental costs. While these businesses are eager to grow, many are constrained by limited digital operating capabilities. According to China Insights Consultancy (CIC), this segment accounts for 32.8% of restaurant locations in China while generating 46% of industry revenue, representing an annual market value of RMB 2.6 trillion. Yet despite their economic significance, these small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) remain among the most underserved segments in the industry's digital transformation landscape.
Zaihui's mission is to help these merchants overcome barriers to digital transformation. The company believes that for today's brick-and-mortar operators, the true "landlords" are no longer property owners, but the online platforms that control access to customers. Enabling more equitable access to online audiences lies at the core of Zaihui's vision. To that end, the company delivers a full-stack service model. On platforms such as Meituan and Dianping, the company manages online storefronts to improve ratings and campaign conversion performance. Through membership management and SCRM tools, merchants can build proprietary customer communities and strengthen retention. On social media platforms, Zaihui connects businesses with creators and influencers to expand visibility and attract new customers. Together, these capabilities give independent restaurant operators tools that allow them to compete more effectively with larger chain brands.
Shanghai-based Jiangsu and Zhejiang cuisine brand Qing Cai Xuan illustrates the approach. When the company opened its first location at Unipark MAX in Shanghai's Putuo District in 2023, Zaihui supported the brand launch through online positioning, visual branding, and targeted customer acquisition campaigns. The strategy enabled the restaurant to maintain the No. 1 ranking among Jiangsu and Zhejiang cuisine restaurants in Putuo District throughout the year while building its customer rating from an unrated launch to 4.8 stars. The brand later replicated the model with a second location in Changning District, where it also secured the top ranking in its category, establishing a strong presence across two key Shanghai districts.
Traditional cuisine brands have also benefited from the model. Qian Shan Po, a Guizhou restaurant on Fumin Road in Shanghai's Jing'an District, had struggled to grow revenue before working with Zaihui. The company repositioned the restaurant by pairing authentic Guizhou cuisine with a curated selection of signature drinks, transforming it into a social dining destination that combines regional cuisine with a relaxed, convivial atmosphere. Supported by creator partnerships and platform promotions, the restaurant rose to No. 1 in the city's Guizhou cuisine rankings and achieved a 166% increase in revenue. The case demonstrates how established restaurants can drive growth through a combination of product differentiation, enhanced customer experience and targeted marketing strategies.
Guided by its mission to make running a restaurant easier, Zaihui enables operators to focus on food quality and customer experience while reducing the complexity of digital marketing and customer acquisition. The ultimate goal is to help ambitious small and mid-sized restaurant owners grow from a single location into a lasting brand.
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Zaihui Empowers Small and Mid-Sized Restaurant Operators with End-to-End Digital Operations Solutions
Commercial milestone demonstrates how brands can capture demand as AI becomes a new discovery and commerce layer
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Agentic Commerce, where AI agents increasingly discover, evaluate, recommend and transact on behalf of consumers, is moving from concept toward commercial reality.
DeepLumen, the company building infrastructure for Agentic Commerce, today announced a major milestone for its flagship product, Agentic Page: more than 1,000 merchants are now live, AI-driven orders are being attributed back to participating brands, and a performance-based CPS monetization model is entering commercial rollout.
Together, these milestones represent an important commercial proof point for a new category of infrastructure built for an AI-mediated web.
The progress also validates DeepLumen's M2AI (Marketing to AI) framework — the thesis that as AI becomes an increasingly important discovery layer, brands must learn not only how to communicate with consumers, but also how to make their products accurately understood by machines.
Agentic Page is DeepLumen's first product built around that idea to reach commercial scale.
From Human-Readable to Machine-Readable
For decades, e-commerce has been optimized primarily for human perception — visual presentation, storytelling, navigation and emotional engagement.
AI agents consume the web differently.
Rather than relying primarily on how a page looks, agents increasingly depend on structured, verifiable, machine-readable information to understand products, compare alternatives and make recommendations.
Yet much of today's commercial web was never designed for this new interface. Product information is often fragmented across pages and formats, important attributes can be difficult to interpret consistently, and dynamic websites are not always optimized for reliable machine understanding.
The result is a new infrastructure gap: a product may be visible on the web without being reliably understood by the AI systems increasingly influencing discovery and purchase decisions.
Agentic Page is designed to close that gap.
It automatically transforms product information into structured, AI-readable pages that help AI platforms and agents more accurately discover, understand, index and recommend products.
From AI Visibility to Transactions
DeepLumen has now taken Agentic Page beyond technical deployment and into measurable commercial activity.
1,000+ merchants live
Agentic Page has now been deployed across more than 1,000 merchants, creating a growing network of machine-readable commerce inventory.
Measurable AI visibility
Participating merchants have recorded significant increases in AI crawler activity, with measured cases showing AI crawler traffic growth of up to 659%.
AI-driven commerce
DeepLumen is now attributing orders generated through AI discovery back to participating merchants, with the fastest merchants receiving their first attributable AI-driven order within two days of deployment.
Performance-based monetization
DeepLumen has introduced a CPS model in which merchants pay when attributable sales are generated, aligning DeepLumen's economics directly with merchant outcomes.
The model creates a simple commercial proposition: DeepLumen succeeds when its merchants sell more through AI.
"Agentic Commerce isn't about adding another marketing channel. It's about building infrastructure for a new kind of commerce. One where AI increasingly represents the consumer.
Agentic Page is the first layer: making brands understandable to machines at scale. Crossing 1,000 merchants, seeing AI-attributed transactions happen in the real world, and beginning to monetize those outcomes means we're moving beyond the thesis. The market is starting to happen."
— Joy Wu, Co-founder & COO, DeepLumen
The M2AI Roadmap: From E-Commerce to the Machine-Readable Web
DeepLumen is beginning with e-commerce because it offers something unusually valuable: a direct path from machine visibility to measurable economic outcomes.
When an AI system discovers a product, recommends it, and that interaction contributes to a transaction, the impact can be measured.
That makes commerce a natural proving ground for M2AI.
Agentic Page is currently live on Shopify, with WooCommerce support launching next.
But e-commerce is the proving ground, not the destination.
As AI becomes a primary interface for discovering information, products, services and businesses, organizations will increasingly need to ensure that their digital presence is not only human-readable, but machine-readable.
DeepLumen sees this as a broader infrastructure transition: from a web built primarily for humans to a web increasingly accessed and acted upon by both humans and AI agents.
Building Infrastructure for the Agentic Economy
Agentic Page represents the discovery layer of a larger infrastructure stack DeepLumen is building for Agentic Commerce.
Making a machine-readable product is the beginning. The next challenge is enabling agents to interact with commercial systems — accessing real-time information, taking actions, completing transactions and learning from outcomes.
DeepLumen's broader infrastructure, including Agentic Page, Agentic Sales and the Open Commerce Protocol (OCP), is being developed toward that future.
The long-term goal is to translate the commercial web into an environment that AI agents can discover, understand, interact with and transact in.
The first 1,000 merchants are an early signal that this transition is no longer theoretical.
It has begun.
Get Started
Agentic Page is available now on the Shopify App Store.
Merchants can start free and participate in DeepLumen's performance-based model as AI-driven commerce grows.
https://apps.shopify.com/deeplumen-ai-seo-optimizer?utm_source=mcdfv33e
About DeepLumen
DeepLumen is building infrastructure for the agentic economy — translating the commercial web into an environment AI agents can discover, understand, interact with and transact in.
As the pioneer of the M2AI (Marketing to AI) framework, DeepLumen develops infrastructure and protocols that help brands participate in an increasingly AI-mediated economy.
Its technology stack includes Agentic Page, Agentic Sales and the Open Commerce Protocol (OCP), with Agentic Page now serving more than 1,000 merchants.
Website: www.deeplumen.com
Media & Partnership Inquiries: contact@deeplumen.com
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DeepLumen Takes Agentic Page from Vision to Revenue, Reaching 1,000+ Merchants
