Why do things keep falling through with our vendors?

You think you have a vendor problem. You don't. You have a memory problem dressed up as a vendor problem. Every detail — who owes what, by when, to whom — is living only in your head, or scattered across texts and emails no one else can see. That is not a system. That is hoping. This gets worse when others are involved. Your pod each holds a different piece, and none of you can see the whole. So things fall, and every fall feels random, like bad luck. It isn't luck. It's the absence of one shared place where the truth lives. You don't need to try harder. Trying harder is what you've already been doing, and it hasn't worked. You need one list, visible to everyone, that holds what your minds keep losing. Build that, and the overwhelm has nowhere left to hide.