Datacenter business needs its own team and deals that pay now - stop signing engineers up for work far outside their remit

Situation

In a DM to Bjorn framed for the C-suite, Peter said the team is burned out on IRIS (network still down, someone has to go back on site, half a dozen people on daily calls, Wolfgang pulled off Fuzzball work), that this is unsustainable with IRIS alone and Grenoble arrives in 8-9 weeks. Position: deals must get CIQ paid now rather than just opening future doors, CIQ must be very careful signing people up for work far outside their remit, and if CIQ is really in the datacenter business a whole missing team needs to exist today.

Reasoning

Calls in the 8/21 condition that every scope increase arrives with headcount: scope has grown, no team has appeared, and the work is carried by people borrowed from their real jobs. Near-term revenue now outranks strategic access, though a large paid scope (the 8M do-everything pitch) is still worth pursuing. Raised before the Grenoble SOW locks in hardware O&M, networking and Ubuntu support. Peter carried Ryan burnout upward even though Ryan said he was not asking for anything.

Additional Context

Ryan DM the same morning: approaching 30 days of continuous Core42 monitoring, back to square one, team burnt out. Leadership Roundtable 11/2: Google Anthropic work hits the same resources as IRIS and Grenoble. G42 asked CIQ to pitch to do everything; Peter said yes for 8 million.

Observed Evidence

Team SUPER burned out on IRIS; back at the beginning; network not up; half a dozen people on morning calls every morning; Wolfgang not doing Fuzzball work; not sustainable and that is JUST IRIS; Grenoble in 8-9 weeks; deals must pay now not just open doors; be super careful signing people up outside their remit; missing a whole team that needs to exist today.

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