AI Automation Dojo by Office Samurai

Can you build a 21st-century digital workforce on a hunch? Mastering #ProcessIntelligence is the only way to scale #Automation and #AIAgents without flying blind. In this episode of the AI Automation Dojo, Andrzej Kinastowski dissects the desperate corporate quest to figure out what employees are actually doing all day. Most organizations still operate in the "Wild West" managing by intu...

Can artificial intelligence handle the constant stream of finance queries? #AIAgents #Automation #ProcessIntelligence In this episode of the AI Automation Dojo, we host Mateusz Ślemp from Amer Sports. We discuss the deployment of their first global AI agent, a tool designed to help employees reclaim time spent on manual payment status checks in corporate systems. Mateusz explains why the agent is...

How to safely implement #AIAgents and #UiPath in a large enterprise? Discover a real-world case study from the #Energy sector, where #Automation and #AI are supporting the legal department. 👉 Download the AI Automation Playbook here . In this episode of AI Automation Dojo, Andrzej Kinastowski breaks down a practical example from a Lithuanian energy company that successfully combined innovative AI...

Are you managing your team based on facts or just "monthly averages"? It’s time to look at the real data behind #ProcessIntelligence, #WorkforceOptimization, and #OperationsManagement. In this episode of The AI Automation Dojo, Andrzej Kinastowski discusses why official company flowcharts and PowerPoints rarely match the reality of daily work. While management often relies on averages to distribut...

How to screen 1,300 CVs in 2 days? Discover #AIAgents and #Automation in this #Recruitment #Enterprise case study. In this episode of the AI Automation Dojo, Andrzej Kinastowski and Ola Kwiecień break down a massive project that actually made it into production. It’s not a theoretical POC; it’s a real-world solution for an HR department that was drowning in 1,300 applications per process. The prob...

Is your department "fully automated"? That is the greatest corporate lie. Discover #ProcessIntelligence #Automation and #AIAgents in our latest episode. In this episode of the AI Automation Dojo, Andrzej Kinastowski takes a katana to the "Full Automation" myth, the claim by regional managers that their departments have nothing left to improve. In reality, most teams are simply...

Why do 95% of #EnterpriseAI projects fail? Stop the #PilotPurgatory and master the #AIAutomationPlaybook with #OfficeSamurai. ROI is a ladder. #AI  In this episode of the AI Automation Dojo, Andrzej Kinastowski, co-founder of Office Samurai, cutsthrough the "consulting bullshit" to explain the AI Paradox. While 75% of companies claim to use AI, most are just "driving a warp-speed sp...

Stop #Logistics chaos with #AI #Automation. See how #UiPath #IDP #ProcessIntelligence & #AIAgents fix the #PDFsmoothie in #BusinessAutomation #GenAI.  In this episode of the AI Automation Dojo, Andrzej Kinastowski (co-founder of Office Samurai) dives into the "swamp" of European logistics. Forget clean PDFs, we are talking about "potato quality" photos of crumpled delivery...

Stop mincing garbage. Learn 3 proven methods for #Automation, #AIAgents, and #ProcessIntelligence to find processes worth fixing. #RPA #GBS #SSC  Most companies fall into the "Excel Trap" - sending out surveys to managers and getting back automation ideas that are either impossible to build or have zero ROI. In this episode of The AI Automation Dojo, Andrzej Kinastowski explains how to stop cloggi...

Are your AI investments actually paying off? In this episode of #AIAutomationDojo, we deconstruct the #ModelWars and explain why traditional #RPA is hitting a wall.#AIAgents #GenAI #ROI #LightAGI In this episode, Andrzej Kinastowski and Krzysztof Karaszewski deliver an "autopsy report" on the state of automation. They explore why the speed of AI development has made tools from just six m...

When you hear “productivity mining”, the first thought might be surveillance. But in practice, it’s much more about transparency and knowing what’s really going onin your teams.  In this episode, we speak with Elena Olichowska-Szydłowska,Automation Excellence Manager at Vesuvius, about what it actually took to roll out task mining across Shared Services. From dealing with IT security, to communica...

Do you trust AI? Like… really trust it? In this episode of The AI Automation Dojo , Andrzej Kinastowski , co-founder of Office Samurai, takes a katana to one of the biggest lies in enterprise AI. The idea that you can just let agents loose and hope nothing catches fire. Imagine you are looking for a perfect product on the Internet. A lawn mower, like Andrzej did. A polite, confident AI helped rese...

In this episode we dive straight into the everyday reality of running AI projects, with Dagmara Sysuła , Delivery Manager at Office Samurai , as your guide.  If you’ve ever tried to run an AI project the same way you run RPA or IT delivery, you already know how that story ends. AI refuses to behave. And Waterfall? It taps out early. Dagmara walks through why AI needs a different kind of steering....

What do we really want to measure and how to do that? This question belongs to Zuzanna Pamula, Process Transformation Manager at Office Samurai .  When she started her career in process improvement, she thought she had it all figured out: data from enterprise systems, colorful dashboards, and enough KPIs to fulfill a Six Sigma dream.  For a young analyst, it felt like going to Disneyland for the f...

How well do you really know your processes? Most leaders rely on reports, meetings, and gut feeling but the real picture of how work gets done is still hidden in the data. In this episode of AI Automation Dojo, Andrzej Kinastowski talks with Adam Bujak, CEO and co-founder of KYP.ai, about how modern AI tools are changing the way organizations understand and improve their operations. The conversati...

Most video games today feel like déjà vu with better lighting. Sequels, remasters, recycled ideas wrapped in shinier engines. You know the pattern – Dying Light with more parkour and zombies, Far Cry giving you another dictator to overthrow, and Assassin’s Creed sending you to take a leap of faith into history for the 12th time. Well, it could be worse – like Silent Hill f, with its repetitive bos...

Every company has procedures, documentation, and reports. But do processes really look the way they’re described on paper? From our experience – not quite. In this episode of AI Automation Dojo, Andrzej Kinastowski talks with Michał Kozubski (Office Samurai) about productivity mining and process discovery. With tools like KYP AI, organizations can finally see how work is actually being done – and...

Samurai & Friends Conference is not a public event. The website and agenda exist, but access is limited to invited guests only, you won’t find them on social mediaor on our official site. It’s an invitation-only meeting, where managers, directors and C-level executives openly share what AI, automation and process improvement really look like in practice. The third edition brought together arou...

Ever wondered how work really gets done in your company, beyond the training manuals and manager's assumptions? 🧐 These “guides” say one thing. Tuesday at 11:40 says another. Someone drags data from a PDF to Excel, retypes it into an ERP, fixes a typo, then starts again. No one calls it a process, because it’s not a process. Rather a lack of ideas on how to automate that. So we decided to wat...

🎙️ What is the real role of process improvement when more and more work is done by AI?In this episode, Andrzej Kinastowski is joined by Zuzanna Pamuła – Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and Process Transformation Manager at Office Samurai – to explore how process excellence is practiced today in large organizations, and why it still matters. We talk about what has changed since the early days of lean pro...

Is your company smarter than an ant colony? 🐜 In this episode of AI Automation Dojo, we dive into Continuous Improvement — no corporate fluff, just real stories you won’t forget. You’ll discover three ways to build a culture of constant improvement: Kaizen – small daily anarchy that can lead to big results. Lean Action Workouts – three-month “change sprints” for entire teams. Six Sigma – tools on...

Is Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) a real solution or just another overhyped technology? In this episode, we take a practical and honest look at where IDP actually delivers results, where it struggles, and what to consider before rolling it out. Our guest is Tomasz Wierzbicki, Senior Automation Consultant at Office Samurai, who shares hands-on experience from IDP implementations across finan...

We can imagine your casual day in the office starts (and quite often ends) with never-ending PDF invoices, databases out of sync, and a disorganized shared drive. It’s the moment in which brilliant minds with potential are occupied with copy-paste routines. Every new document format is an error and automation dreams go to waste. But what if your overworked team could finally throw it into AI to do...

RPA not enough? How LLMs + UiPath Agents could unlock better automations in your processes.  We built actual working flows using UiPath Agents and Maestro and here’s what really happened. What started as “let’s see what this does” turned into a working prototype that screens resumes, extracts data from HR docs, talks to the orchestrator and even escalates queries to humans. Our devs came in skepti...

Sharpen your ears and unleash your curiosity – we’re diving headfirst into Agentic Automation ⚔️Putting agents into your existing automations can add a layer of smart decision-making – without starting from scratch. And no, GenAI won’t replace your team tomorrow. But it can waste a lot of money if you don’t know what you're doing. Andrzej Kinastowski, our Head of Delivery & Managing Partner, s...