# Tec-Do attributes high profit margins to service-fee revenue model and AI-driven operations > Tec-Do posted an 82.2% gross margin and about 43.0% net margin for the nine months ended September 30, 2025, because it books service fees, not media spend, as revenue. More than 89% of its revenue comes from AI-driven solutions with 89-91% margins. - Type: AI news - Page: https://completeaitraining.com/news/tec-do-attributes-high-profit-margins-to-service-fee/ - Published: 2026-09-01 - Updated: 2026-09-01 - Author: Jeroen Erne - Jobs: Marketing - Reading time: 2 min ### Tec-Do reports 82.2% gross margin as AI-driven service model diverges from traditional agency billing Tec-Do, a Guangdong-based AI company for business growth, reported a consolidated gross margin of 82.2% and a net profit margin of approximately 43.0% for the nine months ended September 30, 2025. The figures, which the company attributes to its service-fee revenue recognition and AI-driven operational model, contrast sharply with the thinner margins typical of conventional advertising agencies. The company said its margin profile stems from a structural difference in how it recognizes revenue. Unlike traditional agencies that record total media spend as revenue, Tec-Do books primarily transaction-related service fees. Media costs are paid first, leaving the service fee as the reported revenue denominator - which mechanically produces a higher gross margin percentage. #### Where the margins come from More than 89% of Tec-Do's revenue flows through its core technology-enabled solutions, which carry gross margins of roughly 89% to 91%. The remaining business - customized influencer marketing solutions - involves higher execution costs and lower margins, though it represents a smaller share of overall operations. The company's Navos AI agent automates creative generation, market intelligence, and campaign optimization. Tec-Do said this standardization allows delivery capacity to scale globally without a proportional increase in manual operating costs. The company also cited preferential enterprise income tax rates for qualifying high-technology enterprises, plus non-operating income such as government grants and bank interest, as contributors to its net profit margin. #### Built on proprietary models Tec-Do's platform runs on Tec-Chi multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) and the Navos Marketing Multi-Agent Platform. The company positions these tools as end-to-end marketing infrastructure covering market intelligence, content generation, campaign delivery, and performance optimization across global media channels. In 2025, Tec-Do served over 100,000 advertisers spanning e-commerce, gaming, entertainment, and local commerce. The company was founded in 2017. #### Why this matters for marketing professionals Tec-Do's margin structure exposes a growing divide in the marketing services industry. Agencies that bill on media spend carry heavy pass-through costs and single-digit net margins. Firms that charge service fees on AI-standardized workflows operate with fundamentally different economics. For marketing managers evaluating vendor partners or building internal AI capabilities, the takeaway is concrete: understand whether a provider's pricing reflects media pass-through or technology service fees, because that distinction drives both cost structure and the provider's incentive model. The [AI Learning Path for Marketing Managers](https://completeaitraining.com/learningpath/ai-for-marketing-managers/) offers a structured way to build the skills needed to evaluate these models. For ongoing coverage of shifts like this, see [AI for Marketing](https://completeaitraining.com/tag/marketing/). --- This is the Markdown form of https://completeaitraining.com/news/tec-do-attributes-high-profit-margins-to-service-fee/. The whole site is mapped at https://completeaitraining.com/llms.txt.