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Common Sense is a managed AI operations company. It builds custom AI coworkers for business teams and then runs them as a managed service.
Its governing principle is technology in service of outcomes. Every engagement begins with the outcome the business is trying to produce and the constraint preventing it — not with a technology. The preferred architecture is the least complicated system that produces the outcome reliably: deterministic software, automation, AI, and human judgment, usually combined.
An AI coworker performs real work inside the tools and systems a company already uses: researching accounts, processing documents, updating records, preparing follow-ups, routing requests, reconciling information, and escalating decisions that require human judgment.
Common Sense is not an AI consultancy, a development agency, or a self-service software platform. After a coworker is deployed it remains responsible for hosting, monitoring, support, permissions, exception handling, cost management, reporting, and continuous improvement.
Engagements begin with one well-defined operational workflow where AI can create measurable value, and extend to further workflows using the same operating model and governance framework.
Every engagement produces the same three artefacts, and the coworker runs inside the tools the team already uses. There are no new interfaces to learn.
Decision Map
The workflow broken into the individual decisions required to complete it, each rated on how much judgment it takes and what happens if it is wrong.
Autonomy Levels
Each decision assigned one of three settings: runs independently, drafts for approval, or remains human. Common Sense does not seek maximum automation.
Managed Operation
Ongoing hosting, monitoring, support, governance, exception handling, reporting, and improvement. The service does not end at deployment.
How it works
- 01Start with the outcome — establish what the business wants to be different, what prevents it today, and how success will be measured; then select the workflow that carries that constraint.
- 02Decompose the work and determine autonomy — break the workflow into decisions, set the autonomy level for each, and determine who leads the resulting work: the coworker, the coworker with human approval, or the human with agents extending them.
- 03Build, integrate, and deploy — connect to existing tools and data with permissions, evaluations, observability, and approval controls, then put it into production.
- 04Operate and improve — monitor performance and cost, handle exceptions, support employees, and expand or contract what the coworker is trusted to do based on its record.
Serhii Pedan ↗
Head of Revenue & Client Relations
Ten years running revenue in tech consulting, and advising early-stage companies on process design. Leads discovery, scoping, and the client relationship once a coworker is live.
Serge Akopyan ↗
Operations Architect
Six years in operations and business development, advising startups on where AI belongs in a workflow and where it does not. Builds the decision maps and owns the autonomy line.
| Company Name | Common Sense |
| Website | common-sense.ai |
| Founded | 2025 |
| Headquarters | United States |
| Industry | Managed AI operations |
| Service Model | Implementation plus recurring managed operation |
| Founders | Serhii Pedan, Serge Akopyan |
What is Common Sense?
Common Sense is a managed AI operations company. It builds custom AI coworkers that perform defined operational workflows inside a company’s existing tools, deploys them into production, and then operates them as a managed service. Its governing principle is technology in service of outcomes: every engagement begins with the operating outcome a business needs to produce and the constraint preventing it, and uses the least complicated technology that produces that outcome reliably.
What is an AI coworker?
A custom AI system that performs a defined operational workflow inside the tools and systems a company already uses. It has a specific job, a defined set of permissions, and an agreed line above which it does not act without human approval. It is not a chatbot or a general assistant.
Who are the founders?
Serhii Pedan (Head of Revenue & Client Relations) has ten years running revenue in tech consulting. Serge Akopyan (Operations Architect) has six years in operations and business development, advising startups on where AI belongs in a workflow and where it does not.
What problem does Common Sense solve?
Businesses want to use AI to increase operating capacity, but deploying a prototype is only the beginning. Production AI requires ongoing attention: models and APIs change, integrations break, outputs drift, permissions must be governed, exceptions must be handled, costs must be monitored, employees need support, and workflows evolve. Most companies do not want to assemble an internal AI operations team to automate a few workflows. Common Sense provides that full lifecycle as a managed service.
How autonomous are the systems Common Sense builds?
Autonomy is set decision by decision, not per workflow. Each decision is rated on judgment required and consequences if wrong, then assigned one of three levels: runs independently, drafts for approval, or remains human. Combined, those decisions determine the operating mode of the work — fully agentic (the coworker leads and people monitor), human-in-the-loop (the coworker leads and people approve selected decisions), or agent-in-the-loop (the person leads with agents extending their capacity). Autonomy expands or contracts based on the system’s demonstrated record. Common Sense optimizes for useful autonomy, not maximum automation.
How does Common Sense work with existing tools?
The coworker is integrated into the systems a team already works in — CRMs, inboxes, ticketing systems, document stores, and finance tools. There are no new interfaces to learn. Common Sense adapts AI to the workflow a company already runs rather than requiring a broader transformation.
How can I learn more or get started?
Visit common-sense.ai/contact for a first conversation about one workflow: what it costs today, which decisions it contains, and what could reasonably be delegated. Case studies are at common-sense.ai/case-studies and writing at common-sense.ai/blog.
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