Friction map
Start with reality, not software
Your practice is already an operating system.
This makes it visible and improvable.
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Your operating context
What kind of practice are you running?
The useful system is the smallest one that makes your real work easier to see, decide, deliver, and preserve.
2–4 minutes
What does the practice need to support?
Operating maturity
How dependable is the practice today?
Rate the system, not your worth: 1 means mostly implicit or improvised; 5 means visible, repeatable, and maintained.
8 dimensions
Current operating layer
Where does work move—and where does it disappear?
List the recurring workflows and tools you rely on. Name the handoff or failure mode honestly; that is where architecture becomes useful.
Editable inventory
Core workflows
Tools and sources of truth
Bounded assistance
Give AI a job description, not your whole practice.
Define the purpose, approved sources, prohibited information, and human approval trigger for each role. The exported cards can become project instructions in your chosen workspace.
Human accountable
Role cards are instructions and governance aids—not autonomous employees. Keep confidential, privileged, regulated, or client-restricted material out unless your approved tool and agreement explicitly allow it.
The operating heartbeat
Build a review you will actually use.
Choose the questions that help you see commitments, money, relationships, evidence, capacity, and next decisions together.
15–30 minutes
Your generated operating architecture
A clearer system for the practice you are building.
This is a decision-ready first architecture. Adapt it, test it for 30 days, and keep only what earns its place.
Ready to export
—operating clarity
Highest-leverage move
Complete the assessment to generate your plan.
30-day sequence
Recommended architecture
Your weekly review
Implementation-ready schema pack
Governed AI workspace cards
Need the architecture built with you?
RN Collins designs and implements operating infrastructure for independent practices.
Use your exported plan as the starting brief. A scoped engagement can include workflow design, workspace configuration, governed AI assistance, migration, testing, documentation, and handoff.
Discuss your practice on LinkedIn →Method and boundaries
A practical diagnostic—not a universal maturity standard.
The eight dimensions are an operating-design heuristic for seeing dependencies across positioning, relationships, delivery, money, evidence, knowledge, administration, and governance. Scores prioritize reflection; they are not certification, benchmarking, or professional advice. Recommendations are generated deterministically in your browser from your answers. No answers are sent to RN Collins or an AI service.