At Gartner D&A Day 1, I sat down with Antonio, CEO and Co-Founder of BEM, to talk about a problem many enterprises quietly struggle with.

Messy data.

While everyone is excited about agents, Antonio made one thing clear.

Agents do not work well with unstructured, inconsistent inputs. That is where hallucinations and failures begin.

BEM focuses on turning messy inputs, from PDFs and contracts to voice and video, into clean, structured outputs that enterprises can actually trust.

We discussed:

* Why so many AI pilots fail before reaching production

* How BEM acts as the foundation layer before agents

* Why regulated industries like healthcare and finance need production-grade accuracy

* How some teams deploy in minutes by starting with one painful workflow

The message was simple.

If you want agents to work, fix the data first.

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