Product Growth is a 240K-reader newsletter, a weekly podcast, a live cohort, and a new product shipped every month. Headcount stayed flat all year. For a while that math was breaking us. The fix still feels strange to say out loud. I run that whole stack, and every line of it bottlenecks on the same invisible work. Research pulls, guest prep, sponsor reports, launch checklists. So we hired Viktor, an AI employee who lives in our Slack. Week one, I was already drafting the takedown in my…