Cycle Investment

Token consumption, development time and squad efficiency for FoodFlow (delivery marketplace). EST = proportional estimate REAL = verified data from artifacts.

Total Development Time EST

~1h 35min
Agent Execution (pure)
Estimated sum of durations for ~22 agents

~2h 50min

Lead Time without HITL

Agents + orchestration + explore + docs

~3h 20min

Lead Time with HITL

Includes ~30min of human review (12 HITLs)

Total Token Consumption EST

~1,150,000

Total Tokens

~280

Tool Uses

~22

Agents Executed

141

Skills Available

Note on estimates: Scale factor 1.48x vs ECP Emps (proportional to 12,001 LoC / 115 files / 22 features vs 8,257 LoC / 80 files / 15 features for Emps). FoodFlow is the largest product in the ecosystem — 2-sided marketplace with 3 payment methods, SSE, webhooks, splits and admin panel.

Consumption by Phase EST

Setup / Explore

14%

~161K 14% ~20min

01 — Strategic

16%

~184K 16% ~14min

02 — Discovery

36%

~414K 36% ~32min

03 — Delivery

26%

~299K 26% ~30min

04 — Operations

~92K 8% ~12min

Distribution by Agent EST

~1.15M

TOTAL TOKENS

Product Manager (4 sub)16%
Product Owner (3 sub)9%
Product Designer (3 sub)16%
Trio PM+Designer+PO5%
Software Architect7%
Backend Developer10%
Frontend Developer13%
AI Engineer (chatbot)10%
Ops + QA8%
Explore / Overhead6%

Generated Artifacts REAL

115

Code files

12,001

Lines of code

API Endpoints

HITLs approved

Product Delivery (Phase 03)

Backend routes (.mjs)14

Backend services17

Frontend pages (.jsx)18

React components12+

Bounded Contexts6

Test cases (QA report)142

Quality Score82/100

Bugs identified6 (2 critical)

Product Discovery (Phase 02)

Mapped opportunities19

MVP opportunities13

Generated hypotheses14

Prototypes (low-fi + high-fi)2

Epics7

Features19

User Stories51

Customer segments5 (3C + 2R)

Differential Complexity (vs Bank)

Payment methods3 (ECP card + credit + Pix QR)

SSE (Server-Sent Events)Yes (real-time Pix payment)

Processed webhooks2 (bank + ecp-pay)

Payment splitYes (15% platform fee)

Panels (consumer + restaurant + admin)3 domains

Multi-agent AI chatbotYes (orchestrator + 3 agents)

Operations (Phase 04)

Deploy targetVPS + PM2 + Nginx

Domainfood.ecportilho.com

SLOs defined5

A/B tests planned2

Risks identified8 (3 high)

Required env vars14

Efficiency Metrics

Tokens per Artifact EST

Tokens / code file~10,000

Tokens / API endpoint~23,958

Tokens / line of code~96

Tokens / test case~8,099

Tokens / user story~22,549

Comparison with Human Team

AI squad time (with HITL)~3h 20min

Human team estimate (5-7 devs)~10-14 sprints

Acceleration factor~120x

Token cost (est. Opus 4.6)~US$ 23

Human team cost (est.)~R$ 200K+

Cross-reference: BCP

360

BCP Total

Features

16.4

Avg BCP

30.0

BCP / 1K LoC