Data & AI • z8z
Data & AI
for modern retail.
Build customer intelligence,
automate workflows, and apply AI to drive efficiency and revenue.
About
Solid Expertise from established brands and fast-growing startups.
z8z brings proven data, analytics, and AI expertise to ambitious retail businesses—with senior-level expertise, practical delivery, and none of the enterprise overhead.
Founded in 2025 by a former retail and luxury data leader, z8z brings 15+ years of hands-on experience across retail, e-commerce, customer intelligence, startups, Alibaba, and global luxury groups.
Experience
Hi, I’m Aaron Ouyang, the founder of z8z.
Built across luxury, technology, and growth
For more than fifteen years, I have worked across luxury retail, customer intelligence, and technology.
I started my career at Louis Vuitton, where I built a strong foundation in luxury retail and CRM. I then moved into the startup world, helping build Mei.com, a luxury e-commerce platform later acquired by Alibaba Group.
After the acquisition, I joined Alibaba and saw firsthand how technology and data can drive growth at scale. I later brought that experience to global luxury groups including Kering and LVMH, leading data, analytics, and AI initiatives across retail, CRM, e-commerce, and marketing.
Today, through z8z, I bring these experiences together to help growing brands benefit from the caliber of thinking, expertise, and standards shaped by leading global organizations—delivered in a more practical and agile way.
Selected Experience
Services
Who we work with
z8z partners with ambitious retail and consumer brands across Greater China and Southeast Asia.
Fashion & Luxury
Deepen relationships. Strengthen loyalty.
Beauty & Cosmetics
Strengthen CRM and customer engagement.
Consumer & Lifestyle
Scale through e-commerce and social commerce.
Founder-led companies
Enterprise-grade capabilities, without the complexity.
Use Cases
Customer & CRM
“Understand my customers better.”
- CRM Reporting & Executive Dashboards
- Customer Segmentation & Target Lists
- CDP Strategy & Implementation
- Customer Journey & Loyalty Analytics
- …and more.
Growth & Marketing
“Measure and improve marketing ROI.”
- Campaign Measurement & Reporting
- WeCom Campaign Tracking & Analytics
- Marketing Performance Dashboards
- Attribution & ROI Analysis
- … and more.
Practical AI
“Turn AI into real business outcomes.”
- AI Readiness Assessment
- AI Strategy and Use Case Design
- Workflow Automation
- Agent Orchestration
- …and more.
Why z8z
Enterprise thinking. Startup speed. Practical execution.
Retail businesses today face an uncomfortable choice.
Large consulting firms bring frameworks, but often lack speed and hands-on execution.
Software vendors provide powerful tools, but not always the business context needed to create value.
Building an internal data and AI team takes time, talent, and significant investment.
z8z was created to offer a different model: enterprise-grade thinking combined with startup agility and practical implementation.
Why clients choose z8z
Founder-led partnership
“z8z is grounded in founder’s firsthand operating experience — not theory. The cooperation starts from the leadership level to understand the context.”
Retail-native expertise
“Aaron gets the realities of customer acquisition, CRM, e-commerce, social commerce, and omnichannel retail while he is solid in the technical side of data and AI fields.”
Enterprise standards, Entrepreneur agility
“Ex-Alibaba, Ex-Kering, Ex-LVMH signals discipline and capabilities of global organizations, yet without layers of consultants and unnecessary complexity.”
Practical AI, not hype
“Surprisingly, Aaron suggested us not to implement AI in our first meeting. He helped us solve data foundation issues first before proposing customized AI solution.”
z8z may be a good fit if:
- You are a retail or consumer brand.
- You don’t have experts internally.
- You don’t have big budget.
- You want result, not slides.
- You prefer working directly with the doer rather than through an account person.
From startup growth to Alibaba scale, from luxury retail to practical AI, z8z helps ambitious brands build the capabilities needed for the next decade.
Contact
Let’s build the next chapter together
Whether you are improving customer engagement, measuring marketing ROI, or exploring practical AI, I’d love to hear your story.
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