tier3_canonical/ 6 45 min Full multi-gate problems — spreadsheet evaluator, multithreaded crawler, in-memory SQL, dependency graph, versioned KV store, tool-call retry tier4_async/ 5 15-30 min asyncio ...
A company can field 6 to 9 runners depending on what their budget allows. Squad-chunk sizes adapt: 9 runners deploy as 3+3+3 across all zones, 8 as 3+3+2, 7 as 3+2+2, and 6 as 3+3 across only 2 zones.