Emergence AI announced the launch of CRAFT,
the world's first natural language, self-serve platform designed to modernize
one of enterprise IT's most costly and persistent challenges: the outdated,
labor intensive data pipeline - an area representing over $200 billion in
global spend. CRAFT empowers enterprise users - from analysts to executives,
regardless of technical background - to turn business goals into intelligent,
self-verifying, multi-agent systems - fast. The result: faster understanding of
key metrics, greater productivity, and a radical shift in how enterprises
execute data-driven work.
What once took weeks or months of effort by
teams of engineers - manually coding ETLs, migrating schemas, cleaning
datasets, stitching together tools, and building ML models to bridge gaps
across the data pipeline in order to extract actionable insights - can now
happen in minutes. CRAFT empowers business users to describe their goals in
plain English - and deploy a swarm of specialized agents to automatically
build, test, and run the necessary workflows. CRAFT's autonomous agents operate
across the entire data pipeline, reducing the need for deep technical skills
and filling critical gaps caused by the global shortage of data scientists and
engineers. A recent report from
the United States Data Science Institute highlighted that the demand for
data scientists in 2026 will be over by 50% more than the supply in the US.
While CRAFT goes far beyond basic RPA-style
automations, it doesn't dismiss them - in fact, it makes them radically easier.
If you're automating across multiple enterprise systems to build RPA-style
workflows, CRAFT's Agents Creating Agents (ACA) system enables you to do so
effortlessly, without writing a single line of code. And for teams ready to go
further, CRAFT also serves as a launchpad for more intelligent, adaptive,
agentic systems - capable of reasoning, self-improvement, and domain-specific
execution. In doing so, CRAFT bridges the gap between task automation and truly
autonomous enterprise workflows.
Working with design partners across sectors like
semiconductors, oil and gas, healthcare, telecom, and financial services, CRAFT
is already enabling teams to dramatically reduce manual work, accelerate
analytics, and deliver outcomes at the speed of business.
"CRAFT is a launchpad for enterprises to build
truly agentic systems," said Satya Nitta, Co-Founder and CEO of Emergence AI.
"Using just plain English, you get dynamic, self-verifying agent workflows - no
code, no drag-and-drop templates, just outcomes. But that's only the
beginning. CRAFT also introduces advanced planning and reasoning,
self-improvement, and long-term memory modules - pushing the boundaries of what
intelligent systems can do. It's a transformative shift that accelerates time
to value and moves enterprises from reactive analytics to continuous, AI-led
execution."
"CRAFT brings the intelligence and flexibility
needed to compress weeks of work into minutes," added Nitta. "Enterprises can
now handle machine-scale data faster, more efficiently, and at significantly
lower cost - achieving productivity gains that once required entire teams.
Furthermore, this approach transforms billable hours into reusable software -
bending the enterprise cost curve and freeing integrators to pursue
higher-margin transformation work."
"CRAFT also marks a new category in enterprise
automation: Agent Crafting," Nitta said. "This isn't just about building agents
- it's full lifecycle management. Purpose-built agent swarms can now code,
test, orchestrate, and self-govern - replacing brittle scripts with intelligent
systems that adapt in real time."
Emergence is partnering with NI/Emerson to bring
CRAFT driven data analysis on hundreds of gigabytes of data to improve chip
yield for semiconductor companies.
Eran Rousseau, VP & Fellow of Business
Development and Strategic Partnerships of NI/Emerson, said, "Previously, by the
time manual analysis was complete, the next production batch was underway,
limiting timely action. With CRAFT, we gain real-time insights aligned with
complex test workflows, enabling smart automation to improve yields and detect
issues quickly. Integrated with NI's O+ solution, CRAFT AI generates insights
that translate into immediate actions, allowing customers to focus on solving
critical challenges rather than on lengthy reports. This represents the future
of semiconductor operations."
Intuitive Interface for Powerful Multi-Agent
Workflows
At the heart of CRAFT is a user interface that
blends intuitive design with technical depth - setting it apart from static
dashboards and rigid templates offered by many AI enterprise platforms. Users
can create projects, define workflows, and generate fully functional agents
using natural language - no coding or canned drag and drop
blocks required. CRAFT's AI agents interpret natural language prompts,
analyze existing codebases, and generate high-quality, context-aware agents
tailored to specific requirements.
Powering CRAFT's unique approach is Agents
Creating Agents (ACA), a novel system Emergence demonstrated earlier this year,
where agents dynamically build and improve other agents in real time, enabling
complex multi-agent workflows with minimal human input. By enabling the
creation of agent-based tools and connectors, the platform compresses design
time - accelerating deployment, streamlining cross-system data flows, and
enabling faster automation and insights across fragmented enterprise systems-all
with less overhead.
Inside CRAFT:
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Create - Quickly build
with native or custom agents using natural language - no coding required.
Integrate with your tools, data, and LLMs to deploy agents directly from
conversation.
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Remember - CRAFT retains
memory across sessions and workflows, enabling agents to learn, adapt, and stay
context-aware over time.
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Assemble - Design
workflows manually or let agents plan and execute dynamically. Leverage the
Agent Registry - a central directory of all available agents (CRAFT-native,
enterprise-created, and third-party) - to reuse and scale automation across
projects. Includes starter kits, multi-agent support, and live/offline
execution views.
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Fine-Tune - Customize
agent behavior, edit code, or let agents self-improve via feedback and
self-play - blending no-code simplicity with developer control.
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Trust - Deploy flexibly
across on-prem, VPC, or cloud-native environments with full control over
privacy, scaling, and infrastructure. Enterprise-grade governance with SOC 2,
GDPR, audit logging, role-based access, and runtime safeguards. Full transparency,
privacy, and human-in-the-loop oversight built in.
"Enterprise constraints - regulatory,
structural, procedural - are no longer blockers for adopting AI; they're
scaffolds for building more intelligent agents," added Nitta. "With CRAFT,
these constraints become the backbone of agents that learn faster, verify
better, and adapt smarter."
Target Industries and Use Cases
CRAFT is purpose-built to supercharge
operational efficiency - especially where data is often spread across multiple
repositories, both legacy and modern, and where the sheer volume, velocity, and
variability of data make it extremely difficult to analyze in real time to
support rapid operational decision-making. This includes financial
services, e-commerce, semiconductors, oil and gas, supply chain and logistics,
SaaS and technology providers, and data and research firms. In particular,
CRAFT is built for enterprises that require:
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Complex workflows
involving multiple coordinated agents
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Rapid adaptation to
evolving business conditions
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Cross-system
orchestration and real-time data flows
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Integration of siloed
tools and processes across teams and platforms
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Scaling of workflows
across functions without engineering bottlenecks
Emergence also sees a bold future for
CRAFT in professional IT services and staff augmentation. As these firms face
growing pressure to compete with AI-native companies, CRAFT's ambition is to
evolve into a force multiplier - driving dramatic productivity gains and
fundamentally shifting the services delivery paradigm. While that
transformation is still unfolding, CRAFT lays the groundwork for a new model of
scalable, agent-powered service execution-enabling firms to reinvent their
offerings, accelerate delivery timelines, and stay competitive in an AI-driven
market.
Early Impact
CRAFT is already delivering transformative
results for design partners by conducting tasks such as writing and verify
ETLs, migrating schemas with zero downtime, querying operational stores like
MongoDB, and spinning up ML pipelines and summarizing the output.
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Semiconductor
fabrication: Identified millions of dollars in savings per week through
intelligent data-driven insights
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Global
telecommunications leader: Achieved a 70% reduction in data discovery and
governance effort, accelerating compliance and innovation
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150-million-member
online forum: Reduced 60 million unsafe images per month through AI agent
deployment, enhancing safety and user experience
"Every design partner engagement sharpens the
platform," added Nitta. "With each use case, we add a reusable blade to the
toolkit - solidifying CRAFT as a purpose-built foundation for domain-specific
agentic systems and repeatable solutions, creating a sustainable moat against
generic automation platforms."
Emergence AI also announced today an industry
defining partnership with Andela, one of the world's largest private
marketplaces for technical talent, to train software engineers in the next
generation of multi-agent system technologies for implementation across
enterprises.
Carrol Chang, CEO of Andela, said, "Agentic AI
is transforming how software is designed, tested, and scaled, and it calls for
a new kind of developer. Our partnership with Emergence will empower Andela
engineers to build the skills needed to thrive in the next chapter: steering
intelligent agents, designing resilient systems, and working creatively
alongside AI. Critically, this includes mastering data-centric workflow, from
integrating dynamic data sources to ensuring data integrity and governance, which
are foundational to modern enterprise applications. It's about preparing talent
to lead the future, not just adapt to it."
Availability and Pricing
CRAFT is currently available in private preview
as part of a phased rollout. The platform will offer three tiers:
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Free - ideal for
individual experimentation
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Pro - cost-based tier
with expanded capabilities
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Enterprise - custom
pricing with dedicated infrastructure, governance, and integrations
Pricing for Pro and Enterprise tiers will follow
real adoption, as Emergence prioritizes access and learning.
"This is enterprise AI, reimagined," added
Nitta. "With CRAFT, enterprise leaders can finally interact with AI the way
they interact with their teams - setting goals, refining outcomes, and scaling
impact. We're starting by automating one of the most painful and expensive
challenges in IT: the enterprise data pipeline. And we envision a future where
functional specialists - not just software developers - become the architects
of intelligent systems. CRAFT lowers the barrier to entry while raising the ceiling
of what's possible - turning business intent directly into executable agent
workflows."