Hey there,

In yesterday's email, I talked about how agency founders lose hours every week, not because they have too many clients, but because of missing systems.

Today, let me share where that realization actually started for me.

I wasn't sitting in some mastermind learning about operations.

I was inside the agency.

Not as a founder.

Not as a consultant.

As the person sitting in the backend — doing the work, managing content, chasing files, coordinating team updates, helping projects move.

Every day, I saw the same patterns:

Slack was full of message threads, but no clarity.
Google Drive folders where nobody remembered what the "final version" was.
ClickUp or Trello boards that were half-updated.

And that founder? Constantly pulled back into questions and check-ins.

That’s when it clicked for me:

Founders weren’t lacking effort or commitment.

The real issue?

Their backend wasn’t built to scale with the weight of daily operations.

Harvard data shows:

Founders and managers spend up to 62% of their workweek on admin, coordination, and low-leverage tasks.

This is also when I started building my first mini-systems.

At first, they were small:

Centralized client folders.
Custom task dashboards.
Simple automation to reduce check-ins.

But even these tiny systems made a huge shift.

Suddenly, founders weren’t being the "human search engine" every morning.

Their teams could run with clarity.

And client delivery finally felt smooth.

That was the start of my work.

Now, I design full custom Notion systems + automations that fit the real way agency teams operate — across Slack, ClickUp, email, Google Drive, and more.

Not hypothetical.

Not a rigid template you have to adapt to.

A system built around your workflows.

In tomorrow's email, I’ll break down a few of the hidden benefits that founders don’t even realize they’re missing — and how much time, mental load, and energy these systems quietly return.

(And yes — I’ll also share full details of my Founding Client Offer — the limited 50% off custom builds I’m opening right now for 3 founders.)

Talk tomorrow,

Sumanpreet Kaur

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