
You're the Monolith: Why Your Business Can't Scale Without You (and How Dan Martell Fixes It)
You're the single point of failure in your own company. Every process runs through you. Every decision requires your approval. Every piece of tribal knowledge lives in your head and nowhere else. You're the monolith — and you can't deploy updates because the entire system goes down when you're offline. You know the symptoms. You take a week off and come back to a queue of decisions nobody made. You try to hand something to a team member and spend forty-five minutes explaining context that exists nowhere except your memory. You've built something that works, but it's coupled so tightly to your personal execution that the bus factor is literally one. class MyBusiness: def handle_request(self, request): return self.founder.do_everything(request) def founder_unavailable(self): raise SystemDown("No fallback configured") If you run a service business — agency, consultancy, coaching practice — doing somewhere between $300K and $3M, this is probably your architecture right now. And it's not be
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