Estimate capacity from review time—not wishful article volume.

Use the worksheet below to calculate a defensible monthly queue. It makes no claim about your website because no URL crawl or provider connection occurs here.

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Core formula

monthly throughput = smallest stage capacity

Manual calculator

Calculate each stage, then use the bottleneck.

Enter these numbers in any calculator or spreadsheet; the formulas are shown openly.

New-content capacity

Research capacity = research hours ÷ hours per qualified opportunity
Draft capacity = editorial hours ÷ hours per accepted draft
Publishing capacity = implementation hours ÷ hours per validated proposal
Monthly new articles = the smallest of those three numbers

Optimization capacity

Investigation capacity = analyst hours ÷ hours per confirmed finding
Review capacity = reviewer hours ÷ hours per proposal
Deployment capacity = engineering hours ÷ hours per approved change
Monthly optimizations = the smallest of those three numbers

Worked result

If research supports 18 assignments, editorial review supports 10 and validated publishing supports 6, plan for 6—not 18—new articles. Keep 20–30% of review capacity for retries, incidents and unplanned high-value work.

Limitations: complexity varies by page class; provider and model limits may create additional bottlenecks. Recalculate after measuring real cycle time.

Paid deployment · human authority

Match paid automation capacity to the human bottleneck.

Review SEOForge plans after estimating sites, tracked keywords, publishing and reviewer capacity.

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