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Short, opinionated writing on automation.
Field notes from shipping intelligent automations and AI agents for LATAM operations, finance, and shared-services teams. New pieces ship every 2–3 weeks.
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Apr 14, 2026 · SabanaTech Team
Agentic automation, beyond RPA
RPA automates the happy path. Agents handle the exceptions that used to end up in someone's inbox. Here's how to tell which process needs which — and how to ship both safely.
8 minReadApr 8, 2026 · SabanaTech Team
The total cost of an RPA bot at month 13
An RPA programme's true cost is not the build. It's the maintenance you didn't budget for, the bots that quietly stopped working, and the compounding sprawl of badly-named workflows. Here's the model we use to keep month-13 honest.
6 minReadMar 27, 2026 · SabanaTech Team
Automate a good process, not a bad one
The single highest-leverage hour in any automation programme isn't in UiPath Studio or the agent planner. It's at a whiteboard, rewriting the process before a line of code ships.
6 minReadMar 12, 2026 · SabanaTech Team
Process mining: when the spreadsheet beats the platform
Most LATAM enterprises don't need a six-figure process-mining licence to find their automation candidates. They need a clean event log, a senior analyst, and two weeks. Here's the lightweight method we use before reaching for Celonis.
6 minReadFeb 28, 2026 · SabanaTech Team
Close cockpits: the BI pattern that actually gets used
Most close dashboards are built once, looked at once, and quietly abandoned. The ones that survive share a small set of design choices — and they cut close-week confusion by an order of magnitude.
5 minReadFeb 12, 2026 · SabanaTech Team
Staff augmentation pricing without the body-shop math
The cheapest senior engineer is not always the lowest hourly rate. We walk through the four numbers that determine the real cost of an embedded engineer — and the ones every honest staff augmentation contract makes visible.
5 minReadJan 30, 2026 · SabanaTech Team
An automation governance model that doesn't slow you down
The wrong governance model puts every automation through a 12-week intake process. The right one writes down four rules, automates compliance with them, and gets out of the way. Here's the model we ship with new CoEs.
7 minRead