Knowledge disappears as teams and systems change
Key people leave and metrics stop making sense. New hires take months to understand the business. Migrations silently break assumptions.
What this looks like
Key Person Risk
"All the knowledge is in one person's head — they're the only one who knows how all the Excel files connect. When they leave, years of context and tribal knowledge walk out the door."
Onboarding takes months
New hires spend 8-hour days just finding the right table. It takes 3-6 months before they can answer basic questions about the business independently.
Migrations break assumptions
Projects slip because data dependencies weren't visible upfront. That database migration? It silently broke 12 downstream reports nobody knew existed.
No documentation survives
The wiki is outdated. The README was last updated 2 years ago. "Ask Sarah" is the only reliable documentation, and Sarah just gave her two weeks notice.
Why it happens
Business context is implicit, undocumented, and unversioned.
The logic that makes your business run lives in spreadsheet formulas, Slack threads, and people's memories. When those people leave or systems change, the context vanishes—and nobody knows what broke or why.
How Seambo fixes it
Knowledge that survives. People can leave; context stays.
Seambo formalizes definitions as people use familiar interfaces. No separate documentation project. Knowledge compounds naturally.
Who changed "churn rate" last quarter? What was the old definition? Full version history with who, when, and why.
New hires search for answers instead of hunting through Slack. "What does MRR mean here?" gets a definitive answer in seconds.