The Production Line Expansion: Why 'Just Take More Clients' Breaks Everything

Tuesday 9 December 2025
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In This Issue:

  • Why 'just scale faster' destroys what made you good
  • The N+1 pattern: Perfect at N, test at N+1, improve constraints, repeat
  • Event-based milestones vs arbitrary timelines
  • The DAPS filter: Strategic infrastructure vs platform tinkering
  • Toyota's capacity validation applied to client services

Last week I showed you inside The Monday Service kitchen - mise en place protocols for systematic client delivery.

But here's the question that follows naturally: If the system works so well, why not just add more clients?

The answer is the most counterintuitive thing I've learned about growing a boutique agency: "Just take more clients" is the fastest way to destroy what made you good.

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