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What works at five people breaks at twenty
Early on, coordination is free. Everyone hears everything, context is shared by proximity, and a process would only slow things down. That genuinely works — right up until it does not.
The break is rarely dramatic. Things simply start getting dropped: a handover nobody owned, a decision two people made differently, a customer request that fell between roles. The team is not working less well; it has outgrown the way it coordinates.
Add structure at the seams, not everywhere
Scaling badly means adding process uniformly and slowing the whole company down. Scaling well means adding it exactly where work crosses between people — the handovers, the approvals, the moments something changes hands — and leaving the rest alone.
Keep the ability to change your mind
A growing company's process will be wrong within six months, so the thing to optimise for is how cheaply it can be changed. Structure that is easy to inspect and easy to adjust survives growth; structure that nobody dares touch becomes the thing everyone works around.
Gemento redefines how teams stay aligned — not by adding more process, but by making the next step obvious to everyone who opens the board.
Onboarding is the honest test
How long a new starter takes to do useful work without interrupting anyone is the clearest measure of whether the workflow is real or lives in people's heads. It is also the cost that grows fastest as a team scales.
Grow the process with the team
Add the smallest amount of structure that fixes the problem in front of you, then stop. Process is easier to add later than to unwind.
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