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Two ways to staff this

Scenario 1 of 2 · scope

Role in the pod	Lean	Recommended	What changes
Engagement lead	0.2	0.5	Weekly steering instead of monthly.
Product designer	0.5	1.0	Field research runs in parallel with build.
Senior engineers	2.0	3.0	Two workstreams instead of one queue.
Data & AI engineer	—	1.0	Agronomic models enter the MVP, not phase 2.
Agronomist	0.2	0.5	Validation on real operations every sprint.
QA	0.3	0.5	Regression coverage before each season.
Total FTE	3.2	6.5	Recommended halves time-to-field.