Enterprise Thought Leadership · 2026-04-09 · 42 min
From concept to deployment in weeks, that's the promise Swati Trehan, COO of Ema, brings to enterprise automation. In this episode, Tim Bond explores how Ema manufactures AI employees that automate end-to-end workflows across HR, finance, supply chain, and beyond. Swati explains why the future of enterprise AI isn't about generic agents that claim to do everything. Instead, it's about specialists: skill-based AI workers that teams can govern in one place. The conversation covers Ema's competitive advantage, pre-built agents trained to excel at specific tasks paired with Ema Fusion, a proprietary mixture-of-experts model that optimises for accuracy, cost, and latency simultaneously. What emerges is not a story about job losses but about white space: the capacity freed by automation that savvy leaders are reinvesting in innovation, strategy, and employee experience. Guest bio Swati Trehan is COO of Ema, an enterprise AI platform that builds AI employees for large-scale automation. She brings 20+ years of product and operations leadership from Google and Shopify, where she led strategy and built large-scale systems.
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