AI Automation Dojo by Office Samurai

Office Samurai

Tired of processes so old they remember when 'the cloud' was just a weather phenomenon? The Office Samurai Podcast slices into the heart of modern business, showing how AI and automation aren't just buzzwords for your boss to throw around. We explore practical ways GenAI, RPA, and intelligent automation can actually transform enterprise processes. In the gold rush of automation, we're not just selling shovels — we're teaching you how to dig without breaking your back.

  1. -5 J

    Create best team and company using Expedition 33 pro hacks

    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 bosses, clunky combat, and a storyline so glued to Asian folklore that you spend more time Googling 1960’s Japanese books for kids to get hints than actually playing.It’s the same loop for most AAA titles: big budgets, big promises, small soul.And then, out of nowhere, you hit the “Whoa” moment.Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. A game that shouldn’t have been possible – made by 30 people in France, on a fraction of the usual budget. No corporate roadmap. No marketing empire. Just a small team with a clear vision and something to prove.What they created wasn’t just another RPG. It was art in motion.The visuals felt like a living painting. The music didn’t just accompany the story – it was the story. Every emotional note hit right where it should. Every character felt like a person, not a trope. It was about something studios often forget: meaning.The result? 9.7 user score on Metacritic. 5 million copies sold. And a stunned industry wondering how a tiny team did what 500 people couldn’t.This episode isn’t a fan review. It’s a story about how Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 rewrote the rules – and what its creators can teach anyone building products, leading teams, or just trying to make something that matters.We break it down into three simple rules:1. Make the thing you love and really want to use.2. Hire the spark – teach the skill.3. Hire smart people, then get out of their way. You’ll also hear about:🔸 The broken economics of AAA gaming – and how it mirrors corporate stagnation everywhere.🔸 The quiet power of creative freedom and why most leaders are terrified of it.🔸 Why inexperience might just be your biggest advantage.This isn’t just about gaming. It’s about leadership, creativity, and the art of trust.And if you do one thing after listening – check out this soundtrack. Let the “dim, dim, dam” echo in your ears a bit longer: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLox5pGvBTF_Unzs_XhD5Qm2DW5N6OLCvl&si=4m4tDqgFrU0efB2x

    26 min

  2. 15 OCT.

    Process Discovery with AI - productivity and improvement analysis

    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 use that data to improve efficiency, balance workload, or identify automation opportunities. In the conversation we cover: 🔸 Why companies invest in productivity mining – and what benefits they expect 🔸 The gap between “documented processes” and “real-life processes” 🔸 What productivity mining uncovers (hidden apps, endless copy-paste, overloaded teams) 🔸 Using data to redistribute work and improve team efficiency 🔸 How to address employee concerns and show it’s not about surveillance 🔸 Challenges around people, processes, technology, and data security 🔸 How AI supports analysis and points to potential improvements

    53 min

  3. 1 OCT.

    EXTRA: Samurai & Friends 2025: conference summary

    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 around 160 people and, as always, the focus was not on generic visions or inspirational slides, but on real projects: what works, wherebarriers appear, and how to measure actual ROI in automation. In this episode, we recap the key takeaways from both days of the conference:  🔸 Why an invitation-only formula creates a very different atmosphere 🔸 Agentic automation and meta-prompting – today’s real boundaries of AI 🔸 Email automation – where classical approaches end and AI begins 🔸 How a simple idea can translate into dozens of FTE savings 🔸 End-to-end process transformation and why “lean” can’t stop halfway 🔸 Task/mining and interaction analysis – surprising insights worth paying attention to 🔸 How RPA platforms are evolving and where AI fits in 🔸 AI automation playbook – a phased framework for introducing AI (based on MIT & McKinsey reports)   This was an exchange of experiences about what already works, what doesn’t, and what to improve before committing to new AI projects.

    1 h 1 min

  4. 17 SEPT.

    Measuring office work: The holy grail for CI teams

    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 watch the work and make it “work”.A tiny desktop agent captured clicks, keys, and which apps were in play. Personal stuff stayed out of scope. Data was anonymized, masked where needed, and locked down. Then AI did the boring part we never have time for. It stitched patterns together and pointed at the loops, the detours, the places where time leaks.This is called Task Mining, a powerful technology that uses software to observe and understand how people interact with their work devices to do their jobs. Forget "big brother" - this is about gaining a crystal-clear, data-driven picture of your operations, all while prioritizing security and privacy through anonymization and granular control.We break down the core concept, explaining how a small software agent captures mouse clicks, keyboard entries, and application usage, then uses AI and machine learning to identify patterns, repetitive tasks, variations, and bottlenecks. Tune in to discover how to transform vague complaints into data-driven arguments that leadership can't ignore, leading to a workforce that's engaged, productive, and less frustrated by broken processes and terrible software.This episode was created in a partnership with KYP.ai.

    26 min

  5. 3 SEPT.

    Process Excellence in practice: How large enterprises do it

    🎙️ 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 projects: what tools we now use, how automation reshaped the work of business analysts, and how much of the “old school” thinking is still relevant – sometimes more than ever.Zuzanna shares examples from her experience across UBS, Heineken, Lundbeck, and now Office Samurai. We look at how tools like productivity mining can support large-scale analysis without manual effort, and how Microsoft Copilot, Teams, and Outlook are being used to speed up repetitive work – without removing the need for expertise or good judgment.There’s also a broader question in the background: what happens when organizations go too fast into automation, without first standardizing their processes? Many teams are now coming back to continuous improvement methods after realizing that automation alone doesn’t solve the deeper issues. We discuss why that’s happening, and what the right balance looks like.For anyone building a career in business analysis or process transformation, Zuzanna also shares practical advice on where to start, how to learn by doing, and what skills are worth developing – even in a world shaped by AI.🔸 What’s changed (and what hasn’t) in process excellence🔸 How productivity mining and GenAI tools are being used today🔸 When automation makes sense and when it doesn’t🔸 Why more companies return to lean, CI and harmonization🔸 Practical advice for new process analysts

    48 min

  6. 20 AOÛT

    Continuous Improvement in 2025: What works in the AI Era

    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 only for the true “anarchists at heart.” Expect samurai walking into offices, ant anarchists finding better paths, and the moment someone discovered that years of printing invoices were… completely unnecessary. 🎙️ If you want your organization to be full of “big fat dead cows” (in the best possible way), this episode is for you.

    55 min

  7. 6 AOÛT

    An honest look at Intelligent Document Processing. What works, what fails, and why

    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 finance, HR, and compliance-heavy industries. Together with host Andrzej Kinastowski, they go beyond theory to explore how IDP works in practice and what still requires a lot of human effort. This episode is aimed at business and automation leaders who want to understand whether IDP is worth the investment and how to avoid common mistakes. If you're working in operations, automation, or digital transformation and want a grounded understanding of how IDP can support your business processes – this episode isfor you. We cover not only how the technology works, but how to evaluate ROI, manage exceptions, and decide when automation is not the right answer. This episode was recorded in collaboration with UiPath.

    1 h 12 min

  8. 23 JUIL.

    Your teams are still processing docs manually? Try IDP

    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 the heavy lifting – not just reading documents, but understanding them? In this episode of our podcast, Andrzej Kinastowski, our Head of Delivery & Managing Partner, puts Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) in the spotlight.  IDP is a technology that teaches computers to "read" documents the same way humans do, but faster and without complaining. We are talking about comprehension and semantic understanding, where the simple recognition of printed text is not the end goal, but rather unstructured and semi-structured information is made accessible to automated workflows and systems. What topics are covered in this episode? 🔸 What makes IDP such a powerful tool?  🔸 What are the seven key stages of a typical IDP workflow? 🔸 How do we still remember about "human in the loop”? 🔸 What are the real and measurable benefits of implementing IDP into your workflow? 🔸 In which industries IDP works best? Finally, we take a leap into the future and explore how IDP is becoming a key component of hyperautomation, the rise of multimodal IDPs, and the transformative impact of Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs), shifting capabilities from mere data extraction to knowledge discovery and creation through techniques like Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). If you're ready to fight your company's "paper monster" and transform "unstructured chaos into structured data," stick around – it's going to be less painful than your last expense report.  This episode was created in partnership with UiPath.

    38 min
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Tired of processes so old they remember when 'the cloud' was just a weather phenomenon? The Office Samurai Podcast slices into the heart of modern business, showing how AI and automation aren't just buzzwords for your boss to throw around. We explore practical ways GenAI, RPA, and intelligent automation can actually transform enterprise processes. In the gold rush of automation, we're not just selling shovels — we're teaching you how to dig without breaking your back.

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