The Systems Game
A podcast about the systems that compound.
Conversations with operators, founders, and builders about the systems that quietly hold a business together — and the ones that quietly fall apart. Hosted by the team behind Scallle.
Not published yet. The first episodes are being made.
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The show is made by Scallle, a holding company that builds and grows a small number of operating businesses. Rather than run a separate site for it, we moved the podcast here — the same place the thinking comes from.
The show
What we talk about
The unglamorous half of building a company: the routines, handovers, and checks that decide whether growth compounds or quietly eats itself.
The ninety-day spine
What actually gets installed in the first ninety days, in what order, and why the order matters more than the contents. The parts that get skipped are always the same parts.
What breaks at each size
The system that carried a business to five people is usually the thing holding it back at twenty. We talk to people about the specific week it stopped working for them.
Boring systems that compound
Weekly numbers, a hiring loop, a pricing review on the calendar. None of it demos well. All of it is still paying out five years later.
Founder transitions
Handing over the day-to-day without the business losing its shape — what has to be written down first, and what genuinely cannot be.
Where to listen
It is not on the platforms yet. When it is, it will be on the one you already use — and linked from here first.
Want a nudge when the first episode is out? hi@scallle.com
If you run something with a system underneath it.
We are more interested in the week something broke than in the year it went well. If that is a conversation you would have on the record, get in touch — and say what broke.