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Plan headcount when AI is changing the workforce.

Built for CTO · People Director · CFO

The board has asked for a 10% cut and a roadmap that still ships. The HR system shows people. The AI dashboard shows tools. Nothing shows you which tools can absorb which work, or what a contractor-to-agent swap would actually cost.

Flowstate gives you one ledger across humans, contractors and agents. Model the swap. Run the scenario. See the cost before you make it real.

Scenario diff · FY27 plan
Like git-diff · for the workforce
Current plan As of today
Engineers (perm)142
Contractors38
AI agents (active)14
FY27 cost£24.6M$31.7M
Roadmap deliverableOn track
Scenario A −10% headcount · +agents
Engineers (perm)128 −14
Contractors28 −10
AI agents (active)22 +8
FY27 cost£21.3M$27.4M £3.3M$4.3M
Roadmap deliverableAt risk · 2 features
£3.3M saving$4.3M saving but the roadmap slips on Payments-V2 and CDP. Worth it? Now you can answer in the meeting. Fork the scenario · rerun · share with the board

AI productivity is real. So is AI cost. Plan against both.

The peer-reviewed evidence on AI-assisted engineering productivity is in. The next question is what it costs — and whether the swap actually saves money.

+26%
Weekly tasks completed with AI assistance

Controlled study of GitHub Copilot users: a 26.08% increase in weekly task completion. A real productivity lever — not vendor marketing.

MIT Economics, “Generative AI on High-Skilled Work” →
187 hrs
Saved per developer per year

Average 3.6 hours per week saved by developers using AI coding tools. At a 200-engineer org, that’s 37,400 hours back — or roughly 18 FTE of capacity reclaimed.

DX, AI Coding Assistant productivity research →
1.7×
Cost delta between AI tools at scale

For 500 developers: GitHub Copilot Business ~$114k/yr, Cursor Teams ~$192k/yr. A material decision — and one that compounds with the per-request token costs we’re also tracking.

DX, AI Coding Assistant pricing 2025 →

See the swap before you commit to it.

Book a demo. We’ll model your next-quarter plan against your current ledger — humans, contractors, agents, all in one number.