The problem nobody wanted to admit.
Every cooperative gallery runs on three quiet myths. That the spreadsheet is fine. That whoever opened today will remember to update the website. That the artist whose piece sold at the opening will get paid the right amount, eventually, when someone has time to reconcile the books.
For the first year or two of any co-op, those myths hold up. By year three they're costing real money — pieces "sold" that the website still says are available, openings where two members ring up the same painting twice on different terminals, end-of-quarter statements that take a full Sunday to produce because nothing rolls up automatically.
Primatura started as a series of nights and weekends working on what should have been there in the first place: one inventory, one source of truth, one report at the end of the month.
