Yota Hamada
Founder, Descarty, Inc.
Creator of Dagu, the open-source workflow engine, and of Kitewell, built on it: AI RPA in which AI operates screens and people approve.
Writing
- WinActor alternative: price revisions, VBScript, and AI RPA
- UiPath alternative: AI RPA versus Healing Agent
- Power Automate Desktop alternative: limits and AI RPA
- Taking over an RPA bot whose builder has leftAn RPA bot's builder has left and nobody understands it. How to take it over without stopping it, decide its fate, and keep a ledger and handover notes.
- How to build a robot ledger for RPA, with a templateHow to build a robot ledger that prevents rogue bots: 15 columns chosen from FISC's items, when to update them, rules that keep it alive, and an Excel template.
- What RPA costs to keep running, beyond licensesWhat RPA costs beyond licenses: fixing bots, manual work while they are down, and rework at end of support. How to total it, and recent vendor price changes.
- Check the terms before you automate a websiteWhy and how to check that a web service's terms allow automated access before you automate work with RPA or AI, with REINS, shipping, and job board cases.
- How to switch from RPA to AI RPA, step by stepHow to move RPA bots to AI RPA: inventory, priorities by how often bots stop, rewriting scenarios, PoC criteria, parallel runs, and cutover.
- Why RPA bots break when screens changeWhy RPA bots stop when web system screens change: five causes, and how to design automation that stops less often and can be fixed when it does.