Eight engineering contributors can model to 896 productive hours in a month and still miss the roadmap. That planning total leaves real operating variables outside the equation: review time, blocker age, work in progress, defect escape, access, and decision speed.

AI makes the gap harder to ignore. Code can arrive faster while verification, integration, and recovery absorb the saved time. More output at the keyboard can raise delivery instability when the squad is measured as twelve separate people instead of one operating system.

The TeamStation AI Squad Intelligence Report exposes the assumptions behind the plan: role mix, productive-hour math, throughput ranges, quality targets, delivery risk, and governance. The numbers are modeled planning inputs, not a quote or delivery promise. Their job is to make the decision inspectable before capacity gets approved.

Distributed LATAM delivery is where the model meets real work. Time zones, access, review paths, ownership, and buyer response time either preserve productive capacity or consume it. That is why squad intelligence starts with the system around the engineers, not a rate multiplied by headcount.

https://teamstation.dev/research/articles/teamstation-ai-squad-intelligence-report