IdeaFlow⁠: How a 50-Person AI Company Works Like 500 | EP01

Everyone talks about being AI-native. Qiajin Shen actually built it.In the debut episode of Unplanned, Tongtong and Clara sit down with Qiajin Shen, founder of ideaFlow — the company behind 造梦次元, one of China’s fastest-growing AI content communities with 10M+ users.We talk about how a 50-person startup made AI part of the org, not just the workflow; why AI-generated comments were killed after three days; and what “aliveness” means when your product is built around AI characters.We talk about:→ How ideaFlow routes the entire idea-to-code pipeline through AI agents — and what that actually does to headcount→ Why "context infrastructure" is the unsexy prerequisite to every AI-native org (and how a missed recording permission delayed an entire article by a night)→ How AI picked the same logo as their best designer, with better reasoning→ Why AI auto-comments got killed three days after launch — and what "aliveness" means for social products→ Why your avatar shouldn't be your agent (ideaFlow's Digimon theory of digital identity)→ All needs are old needs: why the deepest roots last the longest, and how Tongtong recognized ideaFlow's users because she used to be one→ AI as amplifier: imagination, judgment, curiosity — the three things worth protectingPlus: the elderly man in Northeast China who asks Doubao to remember where he put his blue box. The user eating an orange whose AI noticed. Three investors and a founder comparing AI-organized download folders.Guest: Qiajin Shen — Founder, ideaFlowHosts: Tongtong & Clara — Investors at FutureX Capital // NYX ventures