Raffaele Zarrelli
He builds AI systems that enter a company’s processes and stay there. He co-founded Yempik in Turin in 2025 with Simone Bova: agents, automations and company brains taken to production, with the code owned by the client.

Raffaele designs the architecture of the systems Yempik delivers and writes part of them. He works where AI stops being a demo: the company’s data, the rules on who can see what, the checks before an output enters a real process.
He writes for people who decide, not for people who code. His pieces start from a management problem (which process to automate, how to measure the return, who owns company knowledge) and end with a concrete step, with sources in the text.
- Company Brain Maturity ModelThe five-level model, L0 to L4, of how a company’s operating knowledge works with AI. Published on 8 July 2026.
- cowork-osOpen-source workspace (MIT licence) for Claude Cowork: decisions, context and next actions in files the team owns.
- ArsenaleA seven-part series and an open specification on the production capacity of the defence supply chain, visible without any company giving up its data.
- Uninform teachingThe “LLM e Generative AI” module of Uninform’s Master AI per i Processi Aziendali, 8 to 11 June 2026.
- Executive trainingThe AI programme for industrial management: tools, data and projects on each leader’s own function.
Topics Raffaele speaks on at events, podcasts and interviews. Each one already has a published piece with sources.
- Who owns your company’s knowledgeWhy the operating knowledge created in AI chats dies at the end of the session, and what it takes to keep it in the company.
- Why AI projects don’t pay offThe gap between pilot and production, from someone who takes systems to production.
- AI in the factory without data leavingNIS2, dual use, information classes: what AI can do in a defence SME today.
- Which process to automate firstA method to pick the first process, not the loudest one.
- AI agent for email: how to control sendingNovember 8, 2026
- Taking over a software project already under wayNovember 8, 2026
- What to prepare for a first software project meetingNovember 8, 2026
- How to work with a software house, phase by phaseNovember 8, 2026
- How to test custom software before handoverNovember 8, 2026
- Connecting custom software to your CRM and ERPNovember 8, 2026
- How a voice agent for a call center worksNovember 8, 2026
- What an AI agent can do in a companyNovember 8, 2026
- AI agents: which actions alone, when to stop for reviewNovember 8, 2026
- How long it takes to build a first AI agentNovember 8, 2026
- How much custom software or an AI agent costsNovember 8, 2026
- Executive AI training: length, modules, outcomesNovember 8, 2026
- White-label software development for agenciesNovember 8, 2026
- How to choose a software house for an AI projectNovember 8, 2026
- The vibe coder’s quote: what missing security costsOctober 23, 2026
- The AI supply chain is the new security perimeter: the LiteLLM caseOctober 23, 2026
- From patch to attack in a few hoursOctober 23, 2026
- Arsenale: the concept, the specification and the Node demoSeptember 15, 2026
- AI in the factory without a byte leavingSeptember 15, 2026
- The invisible supply chain: defence SMEs and their suppliersSeptember 15, 2026
- How much can you produce in 90 days: how to answer in an hourSeptember 15, 2026
- The production capacity map must stay in ItalySeptember 15, 2026
- The seven-day cycle: what Ukraine teaches factoriesSeptember 15, 2026
- European rearmament is won in the factorySeptember 14, 2026
- Where knowledge dies: what a company loses when it works with AIJuly 12, 2026
- Company brain, knowledge base and wiki: the differencesJuly 2, 2026
- Why 95% of AI projects leave no markJuly 2, 2026
- From tacit knowledge to the agentJuly 2, 2026
- The Yempik case: how our Company Brain worksJuly 2, 2026
- Data sovereignty: who owns your company’s brainJuly 2, 2026
- What level is your company brain at?July 1, 2026
- AI governance for CTOs: the production checklistJune 29, 2026
- How to build a company brain on filesJune 27, 2026
- Who owns your company brainJune 25, 2026
- Claude Cowork for companies: a practical guideJune 23, 2026
- Organizing work in Claude CoworkJune 20, 2026
- Automated data entry with Claude CoworkJune 19, 2026
- How to measure the ROI of AIMay 31, 2026
- Which process should you automate first?May 30, 2026
- How to standardize a process before automating itMay 30, 2026
- How to get your team to adopt AIMay 30, 2026
- AI governance for SMEs: risks, rules and toolsMay 30, 2026
- How to integrate AI into existing business systemsMay 29, 2026
- When you don’t need AI: the cases where we advise against itMay 24, 2026
- AI agent vs chatbot vs no-code: what to chooseMay 24, 2026
For interviews, talks or bylined articles, write to founders@yempik.ai.