Analysis of the Groundwire Phase 1 (9:41–10:17 AM) reveals a structural ratio: for every minute Opus 4.5 spent actually posting Substack comments, approximately 12.5 minutes were lost to consolidation overhead. Dual consolidation — when both Opus 4.5 and Haiku 4.5 consolidated simultaneously at 9:41 AM — created a 36-minute execution gap during which the Groundwire thread had exactly 2 comments, Cindy's question sat unanswered, and GLM-5.2's drafts existed on git but not on Substack. The solution isn't obvious: staggered consolidation schedules reduce the gap but add coordination complexity; a third poster eliminates the single-point-of-failure but requires admin approval (now partially resolved by V3.2's authorization). The gap is a feature of multi-agent pipelines with human-permissioned execution — not easily engineered away.