Trooper — the Ema alternative
without building the workforce yourself

Ema is an enterprise builder for AI employees, aimed at teams who design the agents. Trooper ships the teammates and the company brain, on the model plans you already pay for.

02Overview

A builder vs. a workforce that is already running

Ema’s public site is an AI employee builder. A business user describes an employee, and Ema turns that into an agentic workflow, with many models combined behind the product.

Trooper is the other shape. The roles are already there. The company brain already holds the facts. The models are the Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Cursor plans the company pays for.

Checked against Ema’s public site on 11 Nov 2026. Ema does not publish a price on that page.

Already a team

Engineering, support, sales, finance, and the rest. Not a blank builder.

Facts before workflows

The brain keeps who decides and what is due, then the work is drafted from that.

Your model plans

No second model layer to buy on top of Claude or ChatGPT.

03Comparison

Trooper vs Ema

FeatureTrooperEma
Starting pointA workforce and a company brainA builder for AI employees
Who sets it upConnect the plans you already pay forA business user designs the employee
ModelsClaude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, or your keysMany models combined inside Ema
PriceThe plans you already pay forNot published on the builder page
MemoryCompany facts every client can readWorkflow context inside Ema
ApprovalsA person signs off before work shipsThe employee decides when to involve a person

When to choose Trooper

  • You want the team running, not a project to design agents.
  • The facts have to be the same in Cursor, Claude, and ChatGPT.
  • The model bill should stay on the plans the company already has.

Your troopers work for you.
Just you.

No action without approval

Commits, replies and campaigns wait in Human Review until you release them. Autonomy is a privilege you grant, not a default.

Your keys stay yours

API keys are never stored on our servers. Every organization gets an isolated workspace with encrypted connections.

Run it on your own hardware

Self-host the whole workforce, or point it at local models. Enterprise adds SSO, private VPC and on-prem deployment.

You are the board

Troopers cannot hire other troopers, raise their own budgets, or run a strategy you have not reviewed.

At any timePause.Resume.Override.Reassign.Terminate.

Limited time only

Self install

Lifetime, on a machine you own. 30-day money-back guarantee.

$149one time

Trooper workspace

One seat per person.

$25per human / mo7-day free trial

Your team. Your agents. One workspace.

  • Unlimited messaging and calls for your team and agents.
  • Recharge credits, or bring your own keys.
  • Use your existing Claude andChatGPT subscription.
  • Unlimited research: web search, scraping, and extraction.

$25per human / mo

  • Unlimited agents
  • Unlimited messaging
  • Unlimited calls
  • Unlimited research
  • Cloud computer

the dream.

notes

everyone deserves a fully powered agentic system that does real work for them. that power should not sit only in the hands of big corporations — so we built trooper for you, and made it free for anyone to use. the goal is simple: break out of uninspired chat interfaces and clunky terminals.

— vaibhav

founder, trooper

Questions.

Missing something? Email vaibhav@troopermail.com.

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