"I could have been done in two days. I really could have."
Lee estimated that 40-50% of PM time was going into chasing people, setting up meetings, and tracking sign-offs. The worst part was not even the time. It was that reviewers barely changed anything after all that overhead.
If this is your week, the problem is not that your team cares too much about alignment. Alignment matters. The problem is that alignment is happening everywhere except the work itself.
People approve in meetings. They react in Slack. They skim a doc. They leave a comment on a ticket after the decision already moved. By the time everyone agrees, the PM has spent more energy moving the agreement around than making the product call.
Hamster makes the Brief the alignment surface. The customer need, constraints, decision history, success criteria, attached context, and plan live together. Review becomes a sharper question: does this match what we agreed to build?
That changes the job. The PM still steers the product judgment. The team still weighs in. But the agreement has a home, and the AI agent reads the same artifact the humans approved.
The team does not need to know everything about Hamster to get started. Start with one real piece of work that already has too many people around it. Put the argument, constraints, and decision into a Brief, ask the right people to review that surface, and let the activity timeline carry the memory.