Buddy One Unifies Tencent's Office Suite, Pooling AI Credits and Data Across Five Apps

Tencent Buddy One is here: One-click integration of the office suite with WorkBuddy (with tutorial)

Hey everyone, I'm Cang He.

Folks, Tencent has been cooking up something big.

They've officially launched the cross-app AI coordination system Buddy One, which connects WorkBuddy, Tencent Meeting, Tencent Docs, ima, and Tencent Drive with a single click.

The integration is here: workbuddy.cn/buddyone

To be honest, I use these apps every day, but they've been working independently.

After a meeting, I go to Tencent Meeting for minutes, write plans in Tencent Docs, search for info in ima, and store files on Drive. AI credits are also purchased separately for each app, and they run out quickly.

Buddy One aims to fix this. Its slogan is 'Let each play to its strengths, work as one' — in English, 'Buddy One, Work as One.'

In short, each app continues doing what it's best at, while data and credits are unified — one sentence can command all four ends.

I tried it in WorkBuddy: after linking accounts and granting necessary authorizations, I just tell it what to do.

Finding materials, organizing content, storing results — tasks that used to require switching between apps can now be done in one continuous flow.

This got me excited, so I quickly put together six use cases to share. The tutorials will also be uploaded to the WorkBuddy Blue Book.

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Account Linking Is Free

Open the Buddy One website, log in with the corresponding account, and click 'Link Now'.

Linking a Buddy One ID is free. After linking accounts and granting necessary authorizations, you can use WorkBuddy to search materials and execute tasks across apps, and manage credits and membership benefits in one place.

Once you bind or upgrade a Buddy One ID, you'll immediately receive 100 credits, with a notification in the message center. You can also claim a blind box in the growth plan; I've put the entry at the end of the post.

You can see which accounts are linked in 'Personal Center → Account Settings'.

After joining, WorkBuddy credits are automatically upgraded to Buddy One credits, usable across WorkBuddy, Tencent Docs, ima, and Tencent Drive (Tencent Meeting doesn't consume credits for now).

Credits from plans, promotions, or purchased separately all go into the same pool.

Previously, if one app's quota ran out, you had to top up that specific app. Now a single pool is shared across all four, so a task won't get stuck halfway due to quota limits.

ima, Tencent Docs, and others consume Buddy One credits by default; you can also manually choose which credit type to use.

Meeting Minutes Organization and Archiving

A few days ago, our product WeSight received usage suggestions and feedback from many folks at the exhibition.

After returning, we held a meeting to discuss these feedback points and figure out future optimizations.

After the meeting, the minutes needed to be organized, and the key points also needed to be stored in the knowledge base.

These tasks that I'd normally have to move around manually, I handed over to WorkBuddy this time.

Prompt: Retrieve the minutes of my most recent meeting, structure them into a well-organized meeting document in Tencent Docs, including topics, conclusions, and a to-do list (with owners and deadlines). Extract the key conclusions into a 300-word summary and save it in the ima knowledge base, and archive the original materials to Drive's 'Meeting Archive' folder. Send me the document links when done.

It found the minutes in Tencent Meeting, organized topics, conclusions, and to-dos, and created a Tencent Doc.

Opening ima, the distilled meeting key points were also saved in the knowledge base.

Archived files are also visible in Drive.

This is convenient. Full minutes sit in the doc for collaboration, key points stay in the knowledge base for future reference, and raw materials are archived—no more manual copying across apps.

Meeting To-Do Lookup

Last week we held a CodexGuide product optimization meeting.

Today I was wondering: what were the action items from that meeting?

Suddenly I couldn't remember, so I just asked WorkBuddy.

Prompt: Give me CodexGuide's to-do list

A few to-dos came out directly, no need to scan the entire meeting—pretty handy.

Aggregate Meeting Minutes to Generate Weekly Report

Does everyone have this problem? Multiple projects moving in parallel, after a busy week, you have to recall what you did during the review.

So I had WorkBuddy organize all of last week's meeting minutes.

Prompt: Summarize all my meeting minutes from last week and write a weekly report document. For each project, include this week's progress, key decisions, and next week's to-dos, along with links to each meeting's document.

Progress, decisions, and to-dos for each project were organized, with links to the meeting docs for details if needed.

After adding work that wasn't mentioned in the meetings, you get a fairly complete weekly report draft.

Cross-App Search for GEO Materials

When writing articles or proposals, I often need to dig up previously stored materials.

For instance, I've been organizing GEO-related materials recently—some are in Tencent Docs, some in ima, and some in Drive. I remember writing them, but I can't recall the exact file names or locations.

This time I had WorkBuddy search across all apps.

Prompt: Search all materials related to 'Brand GEO Diagnosis' across Tencent Docs, ima knowledge base, Tencent Drive, and meeting minutes. List them out with title, location, and a one-sentence description.

It compiled the found materials into a list, with titles, locations, and descriptions.

A quick glance tells you which one is useful, and you can open the original via the source.

As long as you remember the rough content, you can search across all apps at once, saving you from flipping through each one.

Writing Articles Using Knowledge Base Materials

Now that materials can be retrieved, I wanted to try writing a draft using articles from the knowledge base.

I had WorkBuddy check what knowledge bases exist in ima.

Opened ima to compare—well, well, it matched perfectly.

So I asked it to cross-search the two knowledge bases and write a draft of an OpenClaw practical tutorial.

Prompt: Cross-search materials from ima's 'Cang He Articles' and 'OpenClaw from Beginner to Mastery' knowledge bases, and write a draft of an OpenClaw practical tutorial. It should include specific operation steps, pitfalls to avoid, and a conversational tone. Save it to Tencent Docs, and give me three alternative titles.

The draft went straight into Tencent Docs. I opened it and it actually had a bit of my usual writing style, with sources marked, making verification easy.

Previously saved articles became material for this new draft. When I shared the Obsidian knowledge base earlier, some folks asked about simpler alternatives for those who don't like Obsidian. I think WorkBuddy paired with ima is worth a try. Store materials in ima, then have WorkBuddy pull them out and organize them into a draft—no need to set up a local workflow. Along the same lines, inspiration in ima can be combined with Drive materials for poster copy or creative proposals.

Project Material Backup and Organization

Beyond articles, I also tried organizing local project files. For a WeSight promo video, I'd accumulated nearly 1GB of material, sitting on my computer taking up space, so I wanted to back it up to Drive. These files are recognizable now, but months later, opening them again, I'd have to think hard about which is the final version and which is reference material. So during this backup, I asked it to write a material description document on the fly.

Prompt: Fully back up this local project folder to Tencent Drive's 'Project Backup' folder, and generate a material description document (listing what each file is and when it was used), saved as a Tencent Doc.

This way, raw files sit in Drive, and the material description stays in Tencent Docs. Next time you open these files, check the description first to know what each material is for.

After backup, you still need to verify files were fully transferred and directories are correct. Only with files stored and descriptions saved is this organization complete.

Buddy One VIP also includes 1TB of shared storage, usable across WorkBuddy's data library, Tencent Docs, ima, and Tencent Drive, for storing materials, writing drafts, and backing up assets.

What's shared is storage capacity; file access still follows each app's permissions.

Seeing this, you might be wondering: how much does it cost to use this whole setup? If you just want to try it, there's no need to rush into buying a membership. Bind the free Buddy One ID, and you can use your own data to experience cross-app search, plus claim 100 credits upfront.

I also did the math: WorkBuddy flagship is 700 yuan, Tencent Meeting Professional is 88 yuan, Tencent Docs Super Member Plus is 38 yuan—bought separately on a monthly subscription, that's 826 yuan.

Buddy One VIP's continuous monthly plan is 700 yuan/month, with a strikethrough price of 1399 yuan, currently at a limited-time 50% off—that's 126 yuan less than buying separately.

Wow, that means paying the price of a flagship plan gets you meeting and docs membership as well. Each month also grants 50,000 universal credits (20,000 base + 30,000 bonus), plus the 1TB shared space mentioned earlier. Four memberships on one bill, one renewal date—no more tracking multiple payment dates.

Existing WorkBuddy flagship users can upgrade to Buddy One VIP for free—more benefits, same price.

After purchasing VIP, my WorkBuddy is now on the Buddy One VIP plan, with tons of credits—time to go all out.

This trial impressed me most with the ability to carry forward work already done. After a meeting, the content can be turned into a plan; when writing a new draft, previously saved articles can be retrieved as material. No more manually hopping between apps to search and copy—my work gets interrupted less often.

This is probably what Buddy One means by 'Let each play to its strengths, work as one.'

For me, being a material mover fewer times beats having another chat window.

There's a growing trend where major companies are unifying subscription management across their products, sharing credits, and letting users subscribe once and enjoy multiple products. I think this is more convenient—account systems, credit systems, and AI quotas all connected, tearing down the wall between products.

Overseas, this has been happening for a while. Google bundles Gemini and cloud storage into memberships; Microsoft stuffs Copilot into Microsoft 365; X subscriptions include Grok Bot and Cursor credits.

At the end of the day, the second half of AI is a battle over ecosystems.

No matter how strong a single app's AI is, it can only see its own little patch of data.

The ceiling of an agent depends on how much context it can access.

Meeting minutes, documents, knowledge bases, and files scattered across four apps are, to an AI, four data silos.

Tencent happens to hold the entire product matrix: office collaboration, knowledge management, cloud storage, and AI Agent.

Once accounts, credits, and data are linked at three levels, agents finally have a place to shine.

From a user's perspective, this solves subscription fatigue—no more paying separately for each app and tracking separate renewal dates.

From Tencent's perspective, it's turning individual point products into a networked, collaborative system.

According to official plans, this phase starts with data interoperability; memory interoperability comes in phase two. When memory is connected too, AI will finally truly understand you.

If you want to try it, bind a free ID first, claim your credits and blind box, then decide whether to go VIP.

Where do you spend the most time in your workflow? Let's chat in the comments. If this is useful, hit 'like'—see you next time.