Finding
The founder is the bottleneck
Nothing moves until you look at it, and you know that.
Every decision routes through one person because that person is the only one who has the whole picture. This is not a failure of delegation; it is what happens when the picture was never written down anywhere it could be delegated from.
It is the hardest of the five to see from inside, because the days are full and the work is real. The measure is not how busy you are. It is how much stops when you take a week off, and most people already know that number without wanting to say it.
It also compounds differently from the others: every new hire makes it slightly worse before it gets better, because a new person is one more thing routed through you.
Paid in the things that never got started rather than in hours.
The next step
A room of people with the same problem does more here than a consultation does, which is what Architect Mode is for.
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