Why Some Businesses Scale and Others Trap the Founder

Most founders don’t fail because of bad ideas.

They fail because the business grows faster than the systems supporting it.

In this episode, Jaz and Jamil share hard-earned lessons from restaurants, ecommerce, and agency life:

• Why profit matters more than hype

• How burnout sneaks in through execution gaps

• When to build for scale and when to stop overthinking the future

This is a grounded conversation about building something that works for you, not against you.

When invoices are right and costs are still wrong

Most invoice audits don’t uncover mistakes.
They uncover systems that no longer fit the business.

In a recent engagement, every invoice checked out.
Rates matched the contract.
Accounting approved them.

And the company was still losing six figures a year.

The issue wasn’t pricing.
It was how everyday operational decisions likepackaging choices, weight logic, cross-border data were being translated into carrier billing at scale.

Invoice auditing only becomes useful when it explains why costs behave the way they do, not just whether an invoice is technically correct. That’s what operators actually need to regain control.

We break this pattern down in our latest guide on invoice auditing and margin recovery.

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