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Wei Li(李威)
Maintainer & Creator of LAYRA

"Code Without Limits, Build Without Boundaries"

👋 Welcome to LAYRA!

To all new explorers joining us: Welcome aboard! You're about to experience a fundamentally new approach to AI automation. Whether you're building document processors, agent workflows, or experimenting with visual AI, we've designed LAYRA to be:

  • Instant to start - Single-command Docker deployment
  • Open to all - Apache 2.0 licensed and community-driven
  • Ready to extend - Python-powered workflows from day one

Why I Built a Visual-First AI Revolution

As an independent researcher in the AI field, I kept hitting the same frustrating walls while working with document AI systems:

  1. Layout amnesia - Traditional RAG systems would shred beautiful documents into unstructured text, destroying tables, diagrams, and visual hierarchy
  2. Workflow paralysis - Existing "AI agents" couldn't handle complex nested logic, human-in-the-loop, or real Python execution
  3. OCR blindness - Critical visual context got lost in translation between pixels and tokens

The breaking point came when I watched a RAG system completely misinterpret a financial report because it couldn't:

  • Preserve tabular relationships
  • Recognize handwritten annotations
  • Understand the semantic flow between diagrams and text

That's when I realized: AI needs to see like humans to think like humans. So I built LAYRA - the world's first visual-native AI automation engine.


"LAYRA doesn't just retrieve information - it sees, understands, and acts."

Founder, LAYRA Project

Ready to Revolutionize Your AI Workflow?

Join our journey to redefine AI agent workflows - let's build without boundaries together!
Enjoy the adventure! ✨