
He had two branches and was asking himself whether to keep the business at all. That question — should I continue or not — is where most entrepreneurs stall. Instead of continuing to operate in ambiguity, he set a precise threshold: 40 new children per year. If it happens, the business works. Clear, binary, resolved. He stopped doubting and started designing. Now he's opening two more branches. Scaling a business requires more than a growth plan — it requires the internal clarity to commit to a decision rule before the crisis hits. Antano and Harini help entrepreneurs develop this kind of precise, pre-committed thinking: not just strategies, but the capability to define success criteria in advance and operate from certainty rather than perpetual re-evaluation. When business owners stop asking 'should I keep going?' and start asking 'what exactly needs to happen for this to work?', scaling begins.