@bnghstudio80 If I remember, you had stated in a deleted comment that the building is 8 stories. A building of that type is most likely to have concrete/masonry floors that will sharply reduce wifi range and throughput. So I'm guessing the mesh capacity you are seeing is on the workbench before installing in the building with one client to test the speed. At a minimum, I would wire one AP per floor (Root AP), and it should be the most centrally located AP on the floor, with the mesh connections only on their floor. That is to say, each floor will have a different channel for mesh from the floor immediately above and below. Since all the APs in the mesh attached to a Root AP will be on the same channel, there is little extra bandwidth as you add more Mesh APs. Having differing channels between floors, also prevents a Mesh AP from attaching to lower quality signal from an AP above or below.
Now I suspect the full install in the building with active clients, will also perform poorly with one Root AP and 9 Mesh APs per floor. This is because, while AX wifi works really well in dense installations to reduce congestion, not all the clients will be using AX wifi devices. There will still be several AC and N devices that will limit the benefits that come with AX. Also all wifi devices on the floor will be on the same channel, and that will slow things down as everyone waits there turn to transmit, if this is a office building, it will grind the network to a halt, apartments could suffer from IGMP and mDNS slowing things. Depending on how the rooms in each floor are constructed, two wired Root APs per floor will probably perform reasonably when the building is filled. If the walls are dense, like concrete block, you may have trouble getting good mesh more than a room or two away from the Root AP.
I'm also assuming the building is a high occupancy building, otherwise there would be little need for this many APs. So if the building is low occupancy with lots of area per floor and few walls, like a warehouse or light factory, then one Root AP per floor should work well.