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Curious what operational process surprised people the most once their business/client volume grew.

For us, it wasn’t sales or delivery — it was all the small back-office coordination work that suddenly started eating time every day.

Things that were easy manually at low volume became strangely messy once there were more customers, more internal teams and more moving parts involved.

Interested what caught other people off guard operationally once things scaled up a bit.

Not sure if this is just a rough patch or a wider trend, but we’ve noticed payment timing getting noticeably worse over the last few months.

Clients who used to pay pretty reliably within a couple of weeks are now drifting into 45–60 day territory. Nobody’s arguing the invoices — payment just seems to move slower than it used to.

It’s starting to make cash flow a lot harder to predict, especially when a few larger invoices all slip at the same time.

Wondering if other people are seeing the same thing lately or if we’ve just been unlucky.