You Have a Sub-Five Miler. Your Relay Team Still Loses.

You have ten engineers who could ship the next quarter alone. You have forty more who, through no fault of their own, cannot. Where do you put the AI investment, across the floor or into the ceiling? On the math, the answer most CTOs give is wrong, and the org chart you currently run is the residue of avoiding it for a decade.

You have ten engineers who could ship the next quarter alone.