Creating a tenant in Laravel looks simple when the demo path is just Tenant::create() followed by a redirect. That illusion lasts right up until onboarding starts touching billing, custom domains, role assignment, workspace defaults, seed data, email, and audit logs that all succeed or fail on different timelines. That is the moment when “create tenant” stops being a CRUD action and becomes a workflow. I think teams get this wrong because the first version often works fine inside one controller action. You validate the request, create a tenant row, maybe create an owner user, maybe dispatch a couple of jobs, and call it done. Then the product grows. Provisioning gets slower. External systems get involved. One step succeeds, another times out, a third retries twice, and suddenly you have half-created accounts sitting in production with no trustworthy story for recovery. The practical fix is to stop treating tenant onboarding like a single request-response event.…