It's barely adjacent but once I worked with a bankruptcy where I learned that firms that design and sell houses commonly work as a front that basically take input from the customer, sketch it out and then just hand it over to some business in Sri Lanka that actually produced the architectural material then used for construction.

The company that had failed pushed in their marketing that their employees were all architects and construction engineers, but in reality they were more like a sales division that had people elsewhere doing the work. According to them this was common practice.