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📝 Blog Post — Post-Launch Reality
Hook: The most common single point of failure in mid-market commerce isn't a server or a vendor. It's the one person who holds all the context.
Angle: Mid-market commerce projects routinely build plans that assume team continuity, but the actual knowledge is concentrated in a single person. When that person goes on PTO, changes roles, or leaves, the recovery cost exceeds the original work. The fix is not documentation. It is distributing ownership before the absence forces you to.
Source material: Baseline: 'Migrations that fall significantly behind during a single owner's absence' pattern. Personal notes: SkuNexus hiring decision where investor advice was to stabilize engineering before adding roles, implying fragile single-owner structures. Cross-cutting theme: 'The plan assumed the team. The team was one person.' Delta: submission readiness under pressure from QA backlog and documentation gaps.
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