A Pattern Every Growing Team Recognises Too Late A SaaS startup in the health-tech space shipped their MVP in four months. By month nine, they had 3,000 active users, a seed round closed, and a database that was timing out on queries that had worked fine in testing. Their backend was a monolith with no clear separation of concerns — every new feature required touching code that had already been touched a dozen times. Two developers were spending more than 40 percent of their sprints on bug fixes rather than new functionality. Their CTO called it 'technical debt.' Their investors called it 'a problem that should have been avoided.' Both were right. This isn't a story about a bad team. The original developers were competent.…