Emma came at it from projects and change, with software and engineering underneath. Add to that a stubborn talent for getting things to actually happen, and years spent in sales and in business development, which is a combination that turns out to be rarer than it should be. She co-founded Emberloom and is our CEO.
Stefan came at it from the place where technology and business meet. Consultant and CEO, inside software companies and in line roles, CTO, CDO and COO, including interim CTO and CIO mandates at some of the leading e-commerce players in the Nordics, watching how much of the real work happens in the gaps between systems. He co-founded Emberloom alongside Emma and is chair of the board. Today his work is the implementation itself: he sits with the customer, works out what is actually broken, and develops the concept that becomes the operational layer. He does not write the code, but makes sure it gets written and ends up in the right place.
None of us set out to start a company. We have spent the past years at the front edge of AI in e-commerce, working with progressive customers who wanted to move early. Together with those pioneers we built the capabilities Emberloom now runs on, and learned what separates a solution that lasts from an impressive demo: real data, real process work, and someone who owns it once it is live.
Then a pattern started repeating. Find the workflow where people are acting as the integration engine between systems. Build the operational layer that should have been there. Put agents inside it rather than beside it. Keep the code with the customer. Ship in weeks, not quarters. It worked at one company, then at the next, and then at one where we honestly expected it not to.
That was the moment it stopped being three people helping each other out. A formula you can repeat is not a side project. It needs a company around it, with a name on the door and someone answerable when it breaks.
Adán Hultgren sits on our board. Fifteen years building large systems and robust solutions for e-commerce, and an early mover in using agents to run large teams and large software projects. He is not in the building day to day, but he is a sounding board we lean on when a decision is hard. Welcome, Adán.