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Julia Raciniewska

01 / About

I work where AI adoption, customer outcomes and entrepreneurship meet.

I'm Julia — Polish, shaped by a decade in the UK and now based in Amsterdam. I help organisations turn capable AI technology into new ways of working. Alongside that, I'm building SEAR Plugs with my partner Andrea.

The interesting part is what happens between those two worlds.

Portrait of Julia Raciniewska

Between two operating worlds

Enterprise AI adoption · Building a physical product company

02 / Two operating environments

Different contexts. The same question.

My work sits in technical customer success at a high-growth AI company. I help enterprise customers move from experiments to adoption: valuable use cases, well-designed workflows, clear ownership and measurable outcomes.

Alongside that, I co-founded SEAR Plugs — a specialist water-sports earplug brand stocked by more than 30 UK retailers, with European expansion underway. It is where I test AI and automation against small budgets, imperfect data and real work.

Together, these experiences give me two views of the same problem: capability matters, but operating design decides whether anything useful actually happens.

SEAR Plugs product box, opened to show the earplugs and case
Close-up of a SEAR earplug worn in the ear

The testing ground

A real product, customers, retailers and limited time.

03 / Why I publish

Operating notes, not opinions.

The internet isn't short of AI commentary. I'm more interested in what was built, why it was built that way, what changed and what failed. This site is a public record of what I'm learning across enterprise AI adoption and building SEAR.

I'm documenting, not presenting a finished formula. If something here saves another team a wasted month, it has done its job.

What you'll find here

  • 01Practical AI workflows
  • 02Adoption lessons
  • 03Decisions and trade-offs
  • 04Experiments that failed
Julia wearing SEAR earplugs, surfing gear on

04 / The idea underneath it all

Freedom is built.

Freedom is created gradually: through useful skills, ownership, assets and systems that create more options.

That belief shapes the career I've chosen, the company I'm building and why I still make room for the ocean.

Read the longer version: Flexibility Is Not the Same as Freedom

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Building something difficult with AI?

I'm open to thoughtful conversations about adoption, workflow design, writing and advisory work.

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