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Scope creep is the single biggest margin killer for agencies and the most frequent source of client frustration. It happens when discovery was too shallow, success criteria were vague, or no change-control process exists to evaluate new requests. When everything is "in scope," nothing gets finished on time. Dirty data is the second most common culprit: property mapping errors, duplicate records, and historical inconsistencies produce automations and reports that break before launch. Low user adoption follows, where the system works technically but the team does not use it because they were not involved in the design, did not receive adequate training, or do not see how it fits their daily workflow. Disengaged sponsors accelerate all of these problems. Without an executive who holds teams accountable for using the system, the platform drifts. 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