Every company has a beginning. Some begin with abundant resources and an established market. Others begin with little more than conviction, curiosity, and an ambitious vision of solving problems differently.
Ten years ago, we were one of those companies.
A Vision Ahead of Its Time
Founded in Singapore in 2016, Glee Trees started with a simple yet powerful belief: repetitive work should never consume human potential. Our ambition was not simply to build another software platform. But instead, to solve a simple question:
What if people never had to waste their time on repetitive work again?
Artificial Intelligence looked very different back then, long before it became a global headline like nowadays. Long before generative AI entered boardroom conversations and before “AI Agents” became the industry’s newest buzzword. Then, our team envisioned a future where software could work alongside people, intelligently handling tedious business processes so employees could focus on work that truly mattered. The founders believed that employees should spend their time solving problems, making decisions, serving customers, and creating value—not copying information from one system into another, processing invoices manually, or handling stacks of paperwork that software could process in seconds.
What started as a small office with a handful of passionate individuals has since evolved into Gleematic, an AI-powered automation platform serving organizations across industries and countries. Most importantly, we design Gleematic to bridge people, processes, and technology: improving productivity by not replacing people, but empowering them.
As the company celebrates its tenth anniversary on 1 July 2026, the journey reflects not only a decade of business growth but also the remarkable transformation of enterprise automation itself.
Today, as we celebrate our 10th anniversary, we would like to reflect not only a decade of business growth or a decade of milestones. But, on ongoing journey of transforming work, empowering people, building a future where human can leverage its most potential as technology helps them do the routine: journey of creating impact and making differences.
Every Milestone Built the Next Chapter
Over the past ten years, our journey has been marked not by a single breakthrough, but by a series of milestones that collectively shaped its evolution from a local startup into an emerging enterprise AI company. We began with a clear ambition to simplify work through intelligent automation. Within our first few years, that vision quickly gained momentum through early customer adoption, strategic partnerships, and industry recognition.
Achievements and Accolades
Winning the inaugural Smart Port Challenge organized by the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) and other series of pitching competition, securing angel investment, and receiving seed funding from 500 Startups provided not only the resources to grow but also strong validation that the company’s technology was solving meaningful business challenges.
Global Presence
As the business matured, so did its regional and international presence. We expanded beyond Singapore by establishing subsidiaries in Shanghai, China, and Jakarta, Indonesia, strengthening its ability to serve enterprises across Asia while remaining rooted in Singapore’s innovation ecosystem.
Recognition
Alongside this expansion came growing industry recognition, including certification as an AI and Data Analytics Provider by the Singapore FinTech Association, representation of Singapore at international entrepreneurship competitions, and the registration of the Gleematic trademark in Singapore. In 2025, another defining milestone arrived when the we were selected for the Meta Llama Incubator Program, recognizing our work in developing practical generative AI solutions for enterprise productivity.
The momentum has continued into 2026, reflecting how the company has evolved alongside the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence. Looking back, these achievements tell the story of a company that has continually embraced change, invested in innovation, and expanded its capabilities to help businesses automate not just individual tasks, but entire business processes.
2026: The Rise of AI Agents, Introducing Gleematic as “AI Agents for Finance”
If the first decade was about proving automation works, 2026 marks the beginning of something much bigger.
Launching of AI Agents for Finance
On our 10th year, we officially re-introduced Gleematic as “AI Agents for Finance”, designed to automate routine to complex finance operations in various industry sectors. More than another automation solution, these AI Agents represent a shift from software that merely follows instructions to AI capable of understanding business context, making decisions, and executing complete workflows.
The launch reflects a broader transformation taking place across the enterprise technology landscape. As organizations move beyond traditional Robotic Process Automation (RPA), they are increasingly seeking AI that can reason, communicate, and collaborate with existing business systems. Gleematic’s AI Agents for Finance were designed with precisely this vision in mind—bringing together large language models, intelligent document processing, workflow orchestration, and enterprise integrations into a unified solution that delivers measurable operational impact.
First Gleematic Showcase in United States of America
The year also marked another significant milestone in our international journey. In May 2026, we brought Gleematic to make a “debut” in the United States by exhibiting at IOFM Spring 2026 in Orlando, Florida—one of North America’s leading events for finance, accounts payable, and accounts receivable professionals. For the first time, the company introduced its AI Agents for Finance to an international audience of finance executives, digital transformation leaders, and enterprise decision-makers, showcasing how Agentic AI can streamline financial operations while improving speed, accuracy, and compliance.
Automating Finance Workflows Through WhatsApp and Email: Our AI Agent Showcase at IOFM Spring 2026
2026 Innovation Breakthroughs: Building AI That Works Where People Work
While artificial intelligence has become one of the most talked-about technologies of the decade, many organizations continue to face a common challenge: moving beyond experimentation to achieving tangible business value. Over the past year, Gleematic has focused on solving exactly that problem by developing AI capabilities that fit naturally into existing business operations rather than requiring organizations to redesign how they work.
Throughout 2026, we continued introducing innovations designed to make AI more accessible inside everyday business operations:
LLM-powered document processing
One of the company’s most significant breakthroughs is its next-generation LLM-powered document processing, which transforms documents from static files into intelligent triggers for business processes.
Instead of simply extracting information from invoices, purchase orders, contracts, application forms, or other business documents, Gleematic enables AI to understand context, validate information, make decisions based on predefined business rules, and automatically complete downstream tasks. This results in is true end-to-end workflow automation, where documents no longer stop at data extraction but become the starting point for an entire business process executed with minimal human intervention.
See how we combined LLM-powered document processing with end-to-end workflow automation
AI Agents at Your Fingertips: Automation Triggered via WhatsApp and Email
Perhaps one of our most practical innovations this year is also one of the simplest.
People already spend much of their working day using email and messaging applications. Instead of requiring employees to learn another enterprise application, we decided to bring AI directly into those familiar environments. Rather than requiring users to log into another application, or setting an automation script, they can just simply interact with Gleeematic through WhatsApp or Email.
For example: an employee sends a purchase order document to Gleematic through WhatsApp and asks Gleematic to automate purchase order processing. Our smart AI Agents can read and understand the request, download documents or attachments, extract key information, go to ERP system, create purchase order, trigger approval workflows, consolidate data in a spreadsheet for reporting to human staff, and more. It all happens in the backend, and that employee only needs to wait for our AI Agents to send them notification that the process is completed.
See how Gleematic automates workflow triggered through WhatsApp and Email requests
For organizations, this dramatically lowers the barrier to AI adoption because employees can simply continue using familiar communication channels while AI handles the operational complexity behind the scenes. By bringing AI directly into the communication platforms people already use every day, organizations can significantly reduce adoption barriers while making automation feel effortless and intuitive.
Introducing “Data Chat”: Turning Enterprise Data into Conversations
Businesses often struggle with another challenge: data exists everywhere, but answers are difficult to find. Reports must be created, dashboards must be built, queries must be written, data frequently sits across disconnected systems.
Recognizing that valuable business insights often remain locked inside enterprise databases, we also introduced Data Chat, allowing users to interact with organizational data through natural language conversations. Instead of relying on technical queries or manually building reports, business users can simply ask questions in plain language and receive meaningful insights within seconds.
This conversational approach makes data more accessible across departments, empowering faster decision-making while enabling employees without technical expertise to unlock the full value of enterprise information.
See how Gleematic “Data Chat” works
Expanding Across Enterprise Systems
Automation only becomes valuable when it connects the systems businesses rely on every day. Recognizing this, we have continued expanding Gleematic’s ecosystem of enterprise integrations, so that it becomes a solution when people find automation software inability to work with existing legacy systems as inhibition.
Another important advancement has been the continued expansion of ERP integrations, enabling organizations to deploy AI without replacing their existing technology investments. By connecting seamlessly with platforms such as Yonyou, Xero, QuickBooks, Sage, Opal, and other enterprise systems, Gleematic allows businesses to automate processes across finance, procurement, operations, and customer service while preserving the systems they already trust. This interoperability ensures that AI becomes an extension of existing business workflows rather than another disconnected application.
Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) for End-to-End Exam Processing Automation
Beyond enterprise environments, we have also demonstrated how intelligent automation can transform the education sector through Gleematic’s Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) solution for end-to-end examination processing.
From automatically capturing handwritten answer sheets and grading objective questions to generating results and supporting administrative workflows, the solution significantly reduces the time and effort required to manage large-scale examinations. By eliminating repetitive manual processing, educational institutions can improve accuracy, accelerate result publication, and allow educators to focus more on teaching and student development rather than administrative tasks.
This is another example of how intelligent automation can reduce administrative workloads while improving operational efficiency beyond traditional corporate environments.
See how OMR for Exam Processing Automation works
Taken together, these innovations reflect a broader philosophy that has guided Gleematic since its founding: technology should not simply automate individual tasks—it should simplify entire business processes. By combining large language models, intelligent document understanding, conversational AI, enterprise integrations, and workflow orchestration, we strive to improve Gleematic for organizations to move beyond isolated AI use cases toward a future where intelligent systems work seamlessly alongside people, delivering measurable improvements in productivity, efficiency, and business agility.
The Next Decade: Toward Omni-Channel Agentic AI
As we celebrate our first decade, the company believes that the future of enterprise AI extends far beyond automating individual tasks. The next frontier is creating AI that can work seamlessly across every touchpoint of an organization—understanding requests, communicating naturally, and completing work regardless of where the interaction begins.
This vision is driving the development of Omni-Channel Agentic AI, a new generation of intelligent AI Agents designed to operate across multiple communication channels and enterprise applications as one connected digital workforce. Whether a request starts from WhatsApp, email, Microsoft Teams, a web portal, or an ERP system, the AI Agent will understand the intent, retrieve the necessary information, collaborate with business systems, and execute complete workflows without requiring users to switch between platforms or manually coordinate multiple applications.
For organizations, this represents a fundamental shift in the way work gets done. Instead of manually transferring information, coordinating across different systems, or managing repetitive administrative tasks, employees can rely on AI Agents to orchestrate these processes in the background. By reducing operational complexity and automating end-to-end workflows through a single conversation or request, businesses can improve productivity while allowing their people to focus on higher-value activities such as strategic planning, customer engagement, and innovation.
As enterprise AI continues to evolve, businesses are increasingly seeking intelligent systems that work naturally alongside people rather than standalone tools that solve isolated problems. Our vision is to create an interconnected AI ecosystem where people, data, documents, and business applications work together seamlessly. By making AI available wherever work happens, the company aims to remove the friction from digital transformation and build an intelligent digital workforce that helps organizations operate faster, make smarter decisions, and unlock new levels of efficiency.
Excited for What’s Ahead, Continue to Empowering What Matters Most
As we mark our tenth anniversary, the milestone is not simply a celebration of years passed, but a reflection of the people who have made the journey possible. Every innovation introduced, every market entered, and every milestone achieved has been built on the trust of customers, the collaboration of partners, and the dedication of employees who have shared the company’s belief that technology should make work better for everyone. We’d like to thank them:
You’ve been at the heart of our journey, and we’re honored to celebrate this milestone with you.
That belief remains as relevant today as it was in 2016. While technology continues to evolve at an unprecedented pace, our purpose has remained remarkably consistent: to empower people by removing repetitive work so they can spend more time on the things that truly matter—solving problems, serving customers, creating ideas, and driving meaningful impact. Every advancement, from intelligent automation to AI Agents and the next generation of Agentic AI, is guided not by technology for its own sake, but by the value it creates for the people who use it.
The next decade promises opportunities that are even more exciting than the first. As businesses redefine how work is done in the age of AI, we will continue to innovate with purpose—listening closely to customers, understanding the evolving needs of organizations, and building technology that solves real-world challenges. Because innovation is not measured by how advanced the technology becomes, but by how much it improves the lives and work of the people it serves. And with that commitment, we look forward to shaping the future of work—together with its customers, partners, and team—for many years to come.
Written by: Kezia Nadira
