Systems Journal — Podcast
The Parsimony Training Podcast
Deep-dive conversations on cloud ERP, automation, and the messy reality of running a supply chain — for operators who would rather listen than read the manual.
- 4 episodes · Business Mastery, Supply Chain & Manufacturing, AI Agents, Business Systems
- ~11 min · ~36 min · ~5 min · ~35 min
- Latest: 2026-09-03
Episodes
Two conversations so far.
One on Parsimony's course catalog, one on supply-chain quality assurance. Each episode page carries the full chapter list and the transcript.
- 04Business Systems · ~35 min · 2026-09-03
Scale your business with Parsimony AI: stop being the bottleneck
A 35-minute deep dive for owners who are still the system. It opens with the customer who arrived at 2 a.m. with a credit card and left without an answer, then works through why the company is named after Occam's razor, how natural-language bots differ from the keyword widgets people remember, what happens inside a voice call when a plumber is under a sink, and why none of it works without a single source of truth wired in through APIs and an ERP built on Frappe. It ends with autonomous agent groups and the people who built companies before they built software. The per-bot prices quoted in the episode come from the documentation the hosts reviewed; today's Parsimony Chat packages bundle chat and voice together from $97 a month with a 15-day free trial.
20 chapters, starting with "The 2 a.m. customer and the silent bleed", "Why the company is named after the law of parsimony", "Systems run the business; people run the systems". See the full chapter list and transcript
- 03AI Agents · ~5 min · 2026-09-02
The $97 AI employee: no-code text and voice bots for small business
Two hosts read Parsimony’s AI bot documentation and ask what changes when a solo operator can put a no-code text or voice agent on the front line: upload the handbook and the bot becomes an HR insider, calls get routed on intent rather than keywords, and the company’s scattered data collapses into one source of truth. Then the hard question: does an algorithm on the phone alienate people, or does resolution beat empathy? The $97 a month in the episode is the Kick-Off package of Parsimony Chat, the self-serve AI chat and voice product; every package has a 15-day free trial.
8 chapters, starting with "The premise: an employee who never sleeps for $97 a month", "No-code agents: drag, drop, upload", "Upload the handbook, get an HR policy insider". See the full chapter list and transcript
- 02Supply Chain & Manufacturing · ~36 min · 2026-06-22
Supply chain management: poka-yoke digital — logic meets the factory floor
A deep dive into the hidden, high-stakes world of supply chain quality assurance for ecommerce and multichannel sellers. We explore how digital QA software is designed to work in a perfect world, and what happens when pristine cloud logic slams headfirst into the messy, unpredictable reality of factory floors, bad Wi-Fi, and decade-old hardware.
16 chapters, starting with "The nightmare scenario: 10,000 units, wrong color", "Welcome to global supply chain QA — the hidden stakes", "The digital clipboard: mapping chaos into a hierarchy". See the full chapter list and transcript
- 01Business Mastery · ~11 min · 2024-01-15
Deep dive: 23 courses, mastery, and the business ecosystem
A conversational deep dive into Parsimony's full course catalog — exploring manufacturing mastery, selling mastery, inventory optimization, leadership for founders, and the philosophy of applied knowledge.
9 chapters, starting with "Introduction — 23 courses, one ecosystem", "The interconnectedness of business functions", "Steve Simonson's Axiom Zero — 'I don't know nothing about nothing'". See the full chapter list and transcript
Operator's note
The Parsimony Training Podcast is a small, growing show — two episodes today, more as they get recorded. There is no feed to subscribe to yet; check back on this page, or read the about page and the blog for the same material in writing.
Founder Steve Simonson also has Awesomers, a longer-running podcast for Amazon and ecommerce operators.
More from the journal
Read before you buy.
- 01
Guides
Pillar guides and vertical explainers on AI agents, automation, and ERP.
- 02
Blog
Articles on ERP statistics, measurement, and how businesses actually run.
- 03
HumanityNow case study
Six countries, one ERPNext instance, and a monthly close that dropped from three weeks to four days.
- 04
About Parsimony
The manifesto, the pillars, and the founder's operating history.
Pricing
Automate and Parsimony Chat are self-serve.
Cloud ERP is quoted.
Parsimony Chat, the AI chat and voice agents, is $97 / $197 / $497 a month with a 15-day free trial — see the Chat packages. Parsimony Automate is $57 / $199 / $497 a month with a free trial on every plan (30 days on Startup, 7 on Professional and Premium) — see the Automate plans. Cloud ERP is quoted to the job: call or send the form and we put a package together.
- 01Quoted
Cloud ERP
Managed ERPNext on Frappe Cloud. Quoted to the job; the $999 operations analysis is the fixed-price first step.
- 02$97 / $197 / $497 a month · self-serve
Parsimony Chat — AI chat and voice agents
Chat on your site, voice on your phone line, trained on what you upload. 15-day free trial. No credit card required.
- 03$57 / $199 / $497 a month · self-serve
Automate
CRM, funnels, two-way text, workflows, and websites on one login.