Growth AfterHeadcount

In progress. Coming 2027.

For founders building AI-native businesses and leaders transforming existing ones.

I draw on conversations with founders and leaders—and my own journey building an AI-native business.

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Growth After Headcount by Haris Odobasic. Small teams. More growth. More freedom. Cover with an unfolding orange paper sculpture.

Growth, with room to live.

AI could let a business grow without demanding more human work—creating more value and more room to live.

Building on Eric Ries’s The Lean Startup, I explore companies that can run and improve their own operations.

A business built to do more.

Scale what people can do.

Explore how AI expands the capacity of founders, accountants, engineers, and growth leaders.

Build toward autonomy.

Understand the five levels from AI-assisted work to a business that runs and improves itself.

Make the system work.

Connect processes, technology, and data so that both people and AI can succeed.

For founders and leaders.

Build with AI from day one—or rethink how an established business runs.

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New conversations. Notes from the book. What I’m learning about building a business with AI.