Every PI provider knows the cycle. Busy for months. Then the cases settle. Then nothing. The scramble to rebuild. Then busy again. Most providers accept it as just how PI works. It is not.

The feast-and-famine cycle is not a market problem. It is a case management problem. And it is completely predictable because it comes from a specific, repeatable failure: the loss of attorney communication during busy seasons that creates a 60 to 90-day silence. By the time you look up from your caseload, the referral pipeline has already been dry for months.

In this episode, Dr. Spence breaks down the exact mechanics of how the cycle happens, why reactive case management cannot catch it, and the one structural system that stops it cold: the sacred scheduling block.

This is not about working harder during slow seasons. This is about never creating the slow season in the first place.

What's covered:

• Why the feast-and-famine cycle is a system output, not market behavior
• The 60 to 90-day communication gap that kills your referral pipeline
• How reactive case management produces predictable famine
• The sacred scheduling block: what it is, how to build it, how to protect it
• How one hour per week of proactive communication changes everything
• Lead time: how to see the settlement wave coming and get ahead of it

Resources:

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