Built for Twenty

Mid-build, something felt off. Not broken — just oversized.

Pulled back and looked at the structure. Role-based permissions. Delegation logic. Approval queues. Built for handoffs between people who don't exist yet.

I'm a solo founder. There's no one to hand off to.

The architecture wasn't wrong. It was just answering a different question — one about scale, not about how I actually work right now.

The interesting part: I don't think I'll strip it out. A system that can run twenty can run one, if you scope it correctly. The overhead isn't in the structure — it's in pretending the structure doesn't exist.

Design for where the work is going. Just don't confuse that with where it is.