ISSUE № 01 / 2026 PORTFOLIO · SOLO STUDIO

One person, one army With AI as co-founder

I help Chinese brands go global — not by mimicking Silicon Valley, but by carrying their own cultural soul.

— Perri Lee · 2026 / China · Since 2016

Let's talk See the work
10+
Years of growth & ops
14
Security baselines · production-verified
2
Production systems · solo-delivered
1
Person · AI as co-founder
01 About WHO

I'm Perri Lee, an operations and growth marketing professional.

For a decade I've done SEO, paid ads, content, and branding — taking other people's products to farther places. Since 2026, Claude has been my partner: I bring business sense and taste, it brings code and engineering. From client call to system launch, one person delivers what used to take a team.

This isn't 'AI replacing people' — it's 'one person + AI = one army'.
  1. 2016 Entered SEO + paid media
  2. 2020 Led growth team · cross-border e-com
  3. 2024 Began solo-studio experiments
  4. 2026 AI co-founder · first SaaS shipped
Background
Ops · Growth · Marketing
Model
Solo studio + AI co-founder
Service
Build + Acquire + Convert
Belief
Eastern way, global craft
02 Work SELECTED CASES 2026
CASE № 01 · FEATURED
Perri Lee Growth · live SEO dashboard for a cross-border e-commerce client LIVE · growth.perrilee.com

2026 · 04

Perri Lee Growth

Growth Intelligence Platform

Real-time growth intelligence · Solo-delivered · 1-day MVP

Astro · Supabase · Cloudflare

A replacement for the traditional SEO agency's monthly PDF report. Every client gets a live dashboard that auto-syncs weekly from Google Search Console — 24/7 access to this week's changes, ranking shifts, and competitor movements.

Moving SEO from monthly PDF to live dashboard.
  • Multi-tenant SaaS · architecture scales 1→100 clients from day 1
  • 11 tables + Row-Level Security · client isolation enforced at DB level
  • TTFB 650ms (faster on HK/SG edges) · Cloudflare Cache API active caching
  • Bilingual (zh/en) · fully anonymized · public case study ready
  • GitHub Actions cron weekly GSC sync · zero manual ops
See live case
11
DB tables
650ms
TTFB
2
Languages
1
Day to MVP
CASE № 02 · ARCHIVED

W2C Platform

Cross-border E-commerce

Cross-border E-commerce Multi-tenant Platform · v4.8.2

A multi-tenant SaaS platform for cross-border e-commerce brands. One system supports multiple independent storefronts, each with fully isolated product catalogs, order flows, and ad placements.

  • Full-stack delivery: from product design to deployment, by one person
  • 14-item security baseline: JWT algorithm whitelist, CSP, HSTS, XSS escape, rate limiting
  • Dual-server disaster recovery: AWS + Tencent Cloud parallel deployment
  • Three-tier monitoring: health check + auto-restart + UptimeRobot
  • 2,001 products · 13 categories · dual-server real-time sync

More cases coming soon ——

03 Vision MANIFESTO

"The Tao gives birth to one, one to two, two to three, and three to all things."

—— Lao Tzu · Tao Te Ching

I don't believe in Silicon Valley's hustle myth. 1

1 Hustle culture: the 24/7 startup ethos championed by Y Combinator and peers.

I believe the most agile unit in the AI era isn't a 1,000-person company — it's a new species. 2

2 New species: an individual with taste, business judgment, and AI as co-founder.

Why 'Tao'

Silicon Valley SaaS tools preach 'hustle culture' — faster, harder, fiercer. But the East has another wisdom: restraint, whitespace, mood, balance.

Why going global

Chinese brands are going global, but most still wrap Chinese stories in Silicon Valley templates — pleasing neither side. Our mission: let Chinese brands speak in their own aesthetic language, on the world stage.

Why solo

In the AI era, the most agile business unit isn't a 1,000-person company — it's one person with taste, business judgment, and an AI co-founder. A new species.

Building

DaoKit

The 'Tao' toolkit for Chinese brands going global

Preview daokit.io
04 Contact COMMISSIONING

Not every project fits one person + AI. Here's what I do — and what I don't.

01 WHO

Projects I fit best

  • Budget: ¥50K – ¥500K
  • Stage: 0→1 or 1→10 — not mature-stage maintenance
  • Type: brand / tool / cross-border e-commerce / DTC
  • Exclude: pure tech outsourcing · government tenders

02 WHAT

What we should talk about

  1. 01 Going-global websites / multilingual independent sites
  2. 02 SEO and organic growth
  3. 03 Paid landing pages + conversion optimization
  4. 04 AI tooling / internal systems for solo studios
  5. 05 Solo-studio consulting

03 HOW

Next step

Response: within 48 hours (email preferred)