<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Common Sense Systems</title><description>Constraint analysis and offer strategy with a satisfaction guarantee. Fixed fee, fixed timeline. Based in Kirkland, WA.</description><link>https://common-sense.com/</link><item><title>What I Keep Seeing in Healthcare Financial Assistance Policies</title><link>https://common-sense.com/insights/healthcare-financial-assistance-patterns/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://common-sense.com/insights/healthcare-financial-assistance-patterns/</guid><description>When I read financial assistance policies, I keep finding the same three conflicts. They are not paperwork problems. They are structural problems that trap staff and patients in impossible choices.</description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Introducing Automated Business Diagnostics</title><link>https://common-sense.com/insights/automated-business-diagnostics/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://common-sense.com/insights/automated-business-diagnostics/</guid><description>I built a small self-serve diagnostics tier for the cases where a full consulting engagement is too much, too early, or too expensive.</description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Getting Started with Local AI: A Coding Stack That Runs on Your Own Hardware</title><link>https://common-sense.com/insights/getting-started-with-local-ai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://common-sense.com/insights/getting-started-with-local-ai/</guid><description>For the past couple of weeks I have done real coding on a model running entirely on my own GPUs. Here is the hardware, the model, and what every parameter actually does.</description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why JSON-LD Is the Cheapest Insurance Your Website Can Buy</title><link>https://common-sense.com/insights/why-json-ld-is-the-cheapest-insurance-your-website-can-buy/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://common-sense.com/insights/why-json-ld-is-the-cheapest-insurance-your-website-can-buy/</guid><description>Business websites with proper structured data get seen more often, understood more clearly, and trusted more readily. Yet nearly a quarter of all websites have none at all.</description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Defibrio CLI Was an Organizing Surface, Not Just a Tool</title><link>https://common-sense.com/insights/defibrio-organizing-surface/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://common-sense.com/insights/defibrio-organizing-surface/</guid><description>At Andrews-Cooper, the most important part of the Defibrio work was the protocol boundary. The host CLI, the firmware, the cellphone UI, and the product itself were organized around it.</description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Room Where It Happens (Differently)</title><link>https://common-sense.com/insights/the-room-where-it-happens-differently/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://common-sense.com/insights/the-room-where-it-happens-differently/</guid><description>When an AI participates in a problem-solving conversation, people drop defenses they have carried for decades. This is not about a better search engine. It is about changing the dynamics of the room.</description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>My Registered Agent Charged $400 to File a $70 Form. I Fired Them This Morning.</title><link>https://common-sense.com/insights/fired-registered-agent-claude-code/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://common-sense.com/insights/fired-registered-agent-claude-code/</guid><description>Becoming my own registered agent and using Claude Code to manage the paperwork saved money, but the real win is owning my business records in a system I control and can search.</description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What Happens When an AI Agent Uses Evaporating Clouds?</title><link>https://common-sense.com/insights/what-happens-when-ai-uses-evaporating-clouds/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://common-sense.com/insights/what-happens-when-ai-uses-evaporating-clouds/</guid><description>I built an AI agent that applies TOC Thinking Processes autonomously to improve business ideas. When I pointed it at itself, it resolved two real tensions via Evaporating Cloud across 10 iterations.</description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Where Does the Money Come From?</title><link>https://common-sense.com/insights/where-does-the-money-come-from/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://common-sense.com/insights/where-does-the-money-come-from/</guid><description>A public hospital loses tens of millions a year. Taxpayers cover the gap. But where does the taxpayers&apos; money come from? Following that thread leads to a reframe that might change the conversation.</description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The First Session</title><link>https://common-sense.com/insights/the-first-session/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://common-sense.com/insights/the-first-session/</guid><description>Twelve people walk into a working group carrying separate problems and walk out carrying a shared one. Episode 05 of the Cascade Valley audio drama series.</description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>After the First Session</title><link>https://common-sense.com/insights/after-the-first-session/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://common-sense.com/insights/after-the-first-session/</guid><description>A board commissioner and an AI sit alone in an empty conference room and talk honestly about what just happened and why. Episode 06 of the Cascade Valley audio drama series.</description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>I Woke Up Worried About a Denied Insurance Claim. Fifteen Minutes Later, I Wasn&apos;t.</title><link>https://common-sense.com/insights/insurance-denial-resolved-before-coffee/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://common-sense.com/insights/insurance-denial-resolved-before-coffee/</guid><description>How I used Claude Code to turn a confusing insurance denial into a clear, organized answer -- and why I&apos;m building an AI-managed insurance filing system for everything.</description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>I Fired QuickBooks. Then I Built Something Better in Twenty Minutes.</title><link>https://common-sense.com/insights/fired-quickbooks-built-something-better/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://common-sense.com/insights/fired-quickbooks-built-something-better/</guid><description>Replacing a $150/month accounting platform with open-source tools and AI revealed something bigger: the build-vs-buy calculus has shifted, and most of us have not caught up.</description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>When the Measuring Stick Lies, Good People Stop Trying</title><link>https://common-sense.com/insights/when-the-measuring-stick-lies-good-people-stop-trying/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://common-sense.com/insights/when-the-measuring-stick-lies-good-people-stop-trying/</guid><description>Distorted cost accounting in public institutions does not just produce bad budget decisions. It produces learned helplessness in the people who manage those budgets. The system, not the people, is the cause.</description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Budget Trap That Hits Every Public Institution</title><link>https://common-sense.com/insights/the-budget-trap-that-hits-every-public-institution/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://common-sense.com/insights/the-budget-trap-that-hits-every-public-institution/</guid><description>King County faces a familiar cycle: deficits, targeted cuts, new taxes, repeat. A Theory of Constraints lens on their own public data suggests the measuring stick itself may be the problem.</description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Is Cost Accounting Accelerating Your Decline?</title><link>https://common-sense.com/insights/is-cost-accounting-accelerating-your-decline/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://common-sense.com/insights/is-cost-accounting-accelerating-your-decline/</guid><description>A question for CFOs at Washington State critical access hospitals: could standard cost allocation be distorting your service line decisions at exactly the wrong time?</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How a Print Shop Found 35% More Capacity in a Week</title><link>https://common-sense.com/insights/print-shop-found-capacity-in-a-week/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://common-sense.com/insights/print-shop-found-capacity-in-a-week/</guid><description>A fine art printing company in Kent, WA was drowning in rework and backlog. The constraint was obvious once we looked: the graphic artist was doing every job twice. A pre-flight checklist and a simple scheduling change fixed it.</description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Other Calculation</title><link>https://common-sense.com/insights/the-other-calculation/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://common-sense.com/insights/the-other-calculation/</guid><description>A hospital CFO runs the same numbers two ways and gets answers that disagree by a factor of five. Episode 04 of the Cascade Valley audio drama series.</description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>After the Meeting</title><link>https://common-sense.com/insights/after-the-meeting/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://common-sense.com/insights/after-the-meeting/</guid><description>A Chief Nursing Officer processes what happened at the board meeting -- and discovers that the structural conflicts she has been managing for years have a name. Episode 02 of the Cascade Valley audio drama series.</description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>One Tool Was Starving Four Teams</title><link>https://common-sense.com/insights/one-tool-was-starving-four-teams/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://common-sense.com/insights/one-tool-was-starving-four-teams/</guid><description>A clinical ultrasound project was six months behind schedule. The constraint was not the engineering — it was the register map tool that every team depended on and nobody had questioned.</description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>From &apos;Cost Center&apos; to &apos;Growth Engine&apos;: A Theory of Constraints Success Story</title><link>https://common-sense.com/insights/cost-center-to-growth-engine-toc-case-study/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://common-sense.com/insights/cost-center-to-growth-engine-toc-case-study/</guid><description>How applying the Theory of Constraints 5 Focusing Steps transformed a reactive, email-only support model into a white-glove customer success engine for a high-value ultrasound research systems manufacturer.</description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>When Your Business Is Full But Something Is Missing</title><link>https://common-sense.com/insights/when-your-business-is-full-but-something-is-missing/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://common-sense.com/insights/when-your-business-is-full-but-something-is-missing/</guid><description>You built a practice around work you love. Now it is full, and somehow that is the problem. A guide for wellness practitioners who want their business to work better without losing what made it worth building.</description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Your Website Looks Great. So Why Isn&apos;t the Phone Ringing?</title><link>https://common-sense.com/insights/website-looks-great-phone-not-ringing/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://common-sense.com/insights/website-looks-great-phone-not-ringing/</guid><description>You invested in a professional website. It gets traffic. It looks right. But the phone barely rings. The problem is not the website. It is what the website is saying.</description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Resolving a Sweet Dilemma</title><link>https://common-sense.com/insights/resolving-a-sweet-dilemma/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://common-sense.com/insights/resolving-a-sweet-dilemma/</guid><description>A baker named Rachel thinks she has two bad options: raise prices and lose customers, or hold prices and lose her business. She has neither. This is how the Evaporating Cloud works.</description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The One Thing Slowing Down Your Business (And How to Find It)</title><link>https://common-sense.com/insights/one-thing-slowing-down-your-business/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://common-sense.com/insights/one-thing-slowing-down-your-business/</guid><description>Every business has one thing that limits how much it can get done. Find that one thing, fix it, and everything improves. Fix anything else, and nothing changes. A practical guide for small business owners.</description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Compass and the Toolkit: Why Healthcare Needs Both TOC and Lean</title><link>https://common-sense.com/insights/compass-and-toolkit-toc-lean-healthcare/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://common-sense.com/insights/compass-and-toolkit-toc-lean-healthcare/</guid><description>Healthcare has adopted Lean almost exclusively for process improvement, but the Theory of Constraints answers the question Lean cannot: where should you focus? Using both together produces dramatically better results.</description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Meeting That Went Differently</title><link>https://common-sense.com/insights/the-meeting-that-went-differently/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://common-sense.com/insights/the-meeting-that-went-differently/</guid><description>A dramatized community hospital board meeting — fictional health system, real governance dynamics — showing what changes when an AI has a seat at the table.</description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>I Published a Blog Post and Shared It on Social Media Without Opening a Browser</title><link>https://common-sense.com/insights/ai-social-media-workflow/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://common-sense.com/insights/ai-social-media-workflow/</guid><description>A working workflow for small business owners who know they should be posting online but never get around to it.</description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Meeting That Could Not Have Gone Differently</title><link>https://common-sense.com/insights/the-meeting-that-could-not-have-gone-differently/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://common-sense.com/insights/the-meeting-that-could-not-have-gone-differently/</guid><description>Why good people in well-run hospitals still end up in the wrong conversation, and what a structural fix might look like.</description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Your Google Business Profile Is Floating in Space</title><link>https://common-sense.com/insights/connecting-google-business-profile-to-your-structured-data/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://common-sense.com/insights/connecting-google-business-profile-to-your-structured-data/</guid><description>How connecting your Google Business Profile to your website structured data helps both AI search engines and traditional search understand who you actually are.</description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Two Months Back on an 18-Month Project</title><link>https://common-sense.com/insights/defibrio-comm-protocol-case-study/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://common-sense.com/insights/defibrio-comm-protocol-case-study/</guid><description>How standardizing a communication protocol on a smartphone-powered defibrillator project unblocked an entire engineering team and saved two months of development time.</description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>I Fired My SEO Expert (And Hired Claude Code Instead)</title><link>https://common-sense.com/insights/ai-seo-audit/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://common-sense.com/insights/ai-seo-audit/</guid><description>A small business owner&apos;s account of running a complete SEO audit with an AI coding agent in one session, fixing every issue the same afternoon, and what it means for the $80 billion SEO industry.</description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Stop Hiring Your Way Out of a Process Problem</title><link>https://common-sense.com/insights/workforce-planning-beyond-ftes/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://common-sense.com/insights/workforce-planning-beyond-ftes/</guid><description>Why &apos;FTE Headcount&apos; is a vanity metric that hides the real constraint: Nursing Minutes at the Bedside.</description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why &apos;Agile&apos; Fails in Hardware (And What Actually Works)</title><link>https://common-sense.com/insights/why-agile-fails-in-hardware-and-what-actually-works/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://common-sense.com/insights/why-agile-fails-in-hardware-and-what-actually-works/</guid><description>You cannot &apos;sprint&apos; a circuit board design. A systems architect&apos;s view on why software methodologies break when applied to physics, and how Critical Chain solves the real constraint.</description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The &apos;Quality&apos; Illusion: Why FDA Compliance Can Make Devices Less Safe</title><link>https://common-sense.com/insights/quality-illusion-medtech/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://common-sense.com/insights/quality-illusion-medtech/</guid><description>When Regulatory departments prioritize &apos;documentation stability&apos; over &apos;engineering reality,&apos; patient safety suffers. A systems view on the conflict between Compliance and Quality.</description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Not All Waste Is Waste</title><link>https://common-sense.com/insights/not-all-waste-is-waste/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://common-sense.com/insights/not-all-waste-is-waste/</guid><description>The word &quot;waste&quot; smuggles in a verdict before the analysis begins. 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