"My primary job is to fully grasp stakeholder needs... I need to not also spend an equal amount of time writing and creating and documenting. The work about the work gets in the way."
Lindsey named the PM pain exactly.
You are supposed to understand the customer, make tradeoffs, and decide what should be built. Instead, half the job becomes translation. The same intent gets rewritten as a doc, a ticket, a meeting note, a status update, a roadmap blurb, a stakeholder recap, and a handoff for engineering.
None of those artifacts are pointless. The problem is that they usually do not compound. Each one is a copy of the thinking, not the thinking itself. Each one can drift from the last. Each one can go stale.
Hamster keeps the product thinking in one place, then turns it into the artifacts your team needs. A conversation becomes a Brief. A Brief becomes a Plan. A Plan becomes Tasks. The Context Graph keeps the relationships intact, so the next question can draw on the work you already did.
The goal is not to make PMs write prettier documents. The goal is to give PMs time back for the part only they can do: understand the customer, choose the direction, and help the team make the right tradeoff.
If a PM has to explain the same decision three times in three tools, the system is making them carry the product memory. Hamster moves that memory into the workspace.