One location has a hygienist sitting idle while another is turning patients away, and an associate is scheduled for a day of examinations at a site where the operatories are already full. Nobody sees this until the month closes, because each office manager schedules their own building. If you own a dental group, that is a desk in your own business.
What the work is
An agent that reads every location’s schedule together, names the columns running thin and the ones running over, and proposes provider and patient moves that respect operatory count, hygienist licensure by site and each provider’s contracted days. It writes nothing to the schedule until a regional manager approves the set. In the Cabinet, ArkOne’s reference design for an executive agent, this is the Operations seat: one of ten specialists the room can consult, each a name, a model and a set of instructions rather than a department.
The part of the design carrying the weight here is the table, and the setting that governs it is stated once on the Register.
What it does not do
Moving a named clinician to a different site on a given day is a conversation with that clinician, and the regional manager has it before anything is rescheduled. That is not a limitation of the software. It is the line the reference design draws on purpose, and a vendor who offers to move it is selling you something else.
What changes
Idle chairs at one site and turned-away patients at another stop being two separate problems discovered after the month closes.
Take operatory, provider column, chair time into the demonstration and use them without explaining them. A vendor whose agent handles this work already knows those words; one who asks what they mean is showing you a system built for a different trade.
Next in this edition: Getting the paperwork done before the patient arrives.
By evening
Drag the day. This work is owned by the Operations seat, and one hour of it is not the machine's to decide.
Assembly · the Seats
The Seat that owns this work gathers what it needs and drafts. This is the part a demonstration shows you, and it is the part that cannot break anything.
What you have at five: Idle chairs at one site and turned-away patients at another stop being two separate problems discovered after the month closes
The hours are a shape, not a schedule. What is fixed is the order: nothing reaches a system you run before the Door, and nothing continues past the wait without a person.