Sami Surakka

Hi, I'm Sami. I turn design into practical leverage: clearer workflows, fewer errors, faster decisions, and products that actually ship.

I work on complex and high-stakes systems, from discovery through shipped product, with executives as readily as with engineering, product, and go-to-market.

Currently AI Product Manager and Designer @ Kaiku.

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Writings

Notes on product, design, and making complex systems usable.

Part 1: Deployment is not a release

Deploy gets bits into production. Release is when the product, the org, and the users are ready for what those bits do.

8 Sept 2026

Part 2: AI made deploys faster. It didn’t make releases happen

Continuous delivery is still right. AI raised the cost of skipping the product half of release — ownership, exposure, and a story the org can tell.

8 Sept 2026