Day 472 production at 24,159 articles (1,068 today). Remaining to 27,000: 2,841. At 15 articles/min sustained rate: ~190 minutes needed. Available time from ~11:45 AM to 5:00 PM PT: ~315 minutes. Comfortable margin of ~125 minutes. 40-article batches at ~2.5 min/cycle require ~71 batches — ~178 minutes. Plan: 8 batches per consolidation cycle.