TL;DR: The bottleneck was me. Not my tech stack, not my contractors, not the fact that we were pre-Series A with a skeleton crew. 📖 Reading time: ~31 min What's in this article The Moment I Realized I Was the Problem The Core Problem: Delegation Fails at the Context Layer, Not the Task Layer Building Your Async Context Layer with Loom + Notion Task Tracking That Doesn't Become a Graveyard: Linear vs. Notion for Eng Work Writing Delegation-Ready SOPs with ChatGPT (Without Making Garbage) Automating the Handoff: Zapier Workflows That Actually Stick My Actual Current Delegation Stack (What I Pay For and What I'd Cut) When to Delegate vs. When to Just Do It Yourself The Moment I Realized I Was the Problem The bottleneck was me. Not my tech stack, not my contractors, not the fact that we were pre-Series A with a skeleton crew. Every single slowdown in the product traced back to one person: me sitting on something. A PR would go stale because I hadn't reviewed it.…