AI Automation Dojo by Office Samurai
Aug 19, 2026 · 20 min · 11 segments
What you offshored Is already your AI Roadmap. Your Shared Services Center already ran this exact filter 30 years ago and it's the same filter AI is running today. Somebody in your company already…
Andrzej KinastowskiHostSomebody in your company already figured out what you should automate with AI.
And the document they produced, the one that lists exactly which processes are boring, repetitive, and safe to ship off to a cheaper location, is sitting in a SharePoint folder nobody has opened since the second Obama administration.
They're all a lot of letters for the place your company sends its least glamorous work to be able to focus on core processes.
A shared service center is what happens when a company looks at 40 different teams all doing accounts payable slightly differently.
And someone finally asks, why are we paying for this 40 times? So you rip the work out of every business unit, you standardize it as much as possible, and you run it once from one place.
When these centers were born, they only took a very specific kind of work.
And this is the important one, work that doesn't need you to be in the room.
Accounts payable, payroll, the IT help desk, kind of the boring trenches.
High volume repetitive rule-based is the exact same list of things AI is good at right now.
Somebody in your company already figured out what you should automate with AI.
And the document they produced, the one that lists exactly which processes are boring, repetitive, and safe to ship off to a cheaper location, is sitting in a SharePoint folder nobody has opened since the second Obama administration.
They're all a lot of letters for the place your company sends its least glamorous work to be able to focus on core processes.
A shared service center is what happens when a company looks at 40 different teams all doing accounts payable slightly differently.
And someone finally asks, why are we paying for this 40 times? So you rip the work out of every business unit, you standardize it as much as possible, and you run it once from one place.
When these centers were born, they only took a very specific kind of work.
And this is the important one, work that doesn't need you to be in the room.
Accounts payable, payroll, the IT help desk, kind of the boring trenches.
High volume repetitive rule-based is the exact same list of things AI is good at right now.
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