Up to 90% of routine enterprise work can be automated
Surajit Chatterjee · Coinbase's ex-CPO bet on AI agents before ChatGPT—now he's closing 7-figure Fortune 500 deals. | ... · PMF Show · May 11, 2026 · at 13:28
Surajit Chatterjee discusses the market thesis behind Ema, an AI agent company aimed at automating repetitive corporate workflows.
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“A lot of updating things across the board, updating things for your managers, creating reports. That's probably, 80, 90% of the work today, which I think can be automated”
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