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Humans + agents: The next era of growth teams

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Scott Strand
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English
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Summary

Matt Swulinski describes how he built an AI-powered growth system at Wispr Flow out of necessity while managing advertising, experiments, and channels largely alone, eventually scaling paid spend to $4–5 million monthly. As the company hired more marketers, he converted his individual workflow into a git-controlled, shared marketing operating system, but found that adoption depended heavily on employees’ ability to think in systems rather than merely use AI for isolated tasks. He argues that companies should hire exceptional people who are also AI-native, with human leaders setting strategy and overseeing departments supported by many agents, while traditional junior analytical and execution roles may shrink as routine reporting, follow-ups, and ad-management work is automated. His recommended approach is to deploy agents first to establish and maintain baseline workflows, then hire people when an area becomes strategically important enough to require creative, high-level scaling. He emphasizes that persistent feedback loops—not prompts alone—are essential, as teams must feed corrections back into agents so their improvements compound over time.

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