How AI Agents Are Saving Millions in Industrial Operations | Somya Kapoor

Somya Kapoor, on the Get Paid Podcast joins Manny Medina to explain how digital workers and AI agents are transforming enterprise workflows. Especially through AI automation in industrial sectors like manufacturing, energy, and aerospace. Somya shares her journey from founding TheLoops to leading the agentic AI initiative at IFS. She explains why the real challenge in AI adoption isn’t building agents. It’s actually deploying, monitoring, and tying them to measurable business outcomes. Organizations are now evaluating digital workers ROI by focusing on the operational hours saved, cost reductions achieved, and real-world efficiency gains that can be attributed to the agentic systems.