In this work, we show that relatively aggressive approximations can be applied to "gold standard" approaches like Grimme's xvxzd workflow while still maintaining useful accuracy. The xvxzd workflow consists of extensive metadynamicsbased conformation searching in crest, geometry optimization with PBEh-3c in implicit solvent, single-point energy calculations using the double-hybrid functional DSD-BLYP-D3(BJ)/def2-TZVPD, and subsequent implicit solvent calculations using COSMO-RS; here, we replace crest with RDKIT's ETKDG conformer generation algorithm, DSD-BLYP-D3(BJ) with AIMNet2, and COSMO-RS with CPCM-X. While Rowan pKa is not as fast as QSPR-based approaches or as accurate as high-level electronic structure theory-based approaches like xvxzd, the combination of accuracy, speed, and minimal empiricism achieved by our workflow is nevertheless appealing. We anticipate that the ability to obtain fast and reasonable pKa values for unseen regions of chemical space will be particularly useful in drug discovery. Owing to the lack of functional groupspecific corrections, the pKa values computed by Rowan are ideally suited to downstream manipulation or scaling, which can further reduce systematic error where desired.