Viktor

When you first add Viktor to Slack, within an hour or so, he introduces himself. Not with a generic "Hi I'm your AI assistant, how can I help?"... he came in having actually read the channel, understood the work we do, and laid out specific things he could take on, including how he'd approach each one.

My first aha moment was in our video production workflow channel. He noticed we were about to publish a YouTube video and offered to take over the entire YouTube publish prep including formatting our description, timestamp, etc. While this sounds like a simple task, we have an entire process around how we structure our descriptions with UTM tracking on all of our links with different formatting for affiliate vs website links. It's a task I'd been meaning to delegate for over a year and never had because it just felt dreadful to hand off, especially to a human where the room for error was high and costly.

I'd considered delegating it to Claude or ChatGPT before, but haven't had time to even think through that.

But Viktor didn't need instructions, he just told me what he needed to get the work done. He told me to give him the video (or transcript) and he'd handle the rest. All I did was tell him to make sure to check how we currently format our video descriptions on our YouTube channel. I was lazy and didn't even provide the link to any past videos, wanting to see how vague I could be.

I genuinely expected maybe 60% to be usable. But Viktor came back with something that was 90% right. "ARE YOU KIDDING ME" was my first thought. Then it was "F*** YES" because this means I'll never have to explain this task to a human ever 😅

The timestamps were more accurate than when I was doing them myself. There were a few formatting preferences I wanted to change to the UTM structure he created, and we went back and forth 4-5 times, but it didn't feel dreadful. It felt like he was keeping up without me explaining context.

Viktor already knew what UTMs were, you're not starting from zero. You're just filling him in on your specific processes, which is a completely different kind of conversation. He saved the rules and moved on. He even caught a link formatting error we'd had for a long time that nobody had flagged.

Most AI tools wait for you to come to them, or if they're proactive their recommendations are not actually that useful for the business (uhm looking at you Claude "can I organize your screenshots folder 🤔".

It became quickly apparently that Viktor is noticeably different. Within an hour of joining your Slack workspace, he reads your channels, figures out what's happening, and comes to you with specific suggestions for what he can take off your plate, including how he would approach each task.

It truly felt like a new team member showing up to work having already done their homework.

The biggest unlock with Viktor is being able to hand off tasks that have been sitting un-delegated. He ASKS for what he needs to complete the task, which removes the cognitive load of "how do I explain this?"

When you give Viktor a task, he goes and executes it. He can fetch pages from your website, pull data from connected tools, cross-reference sources, and then come back with a finished output.

When Viktor said he'd do our YouTube description, he went and grabbed the right links from our website without me telling him to. He didn't guess. He went and got them.

For engineering teams, this goes further.

Viktor has its own cloud computer, which means it can write code, run it, and deliver the result without any infrastructure on your end. When Bob was debugging an auth cookie slowdown, Viktor wasn't just suggesting hypotheses, it was writing diagnostic scripts and running them in real time alongside Bob while he coded the fix.

It's less like a coding assistant and more like a second engineer in the channel who can actually ship work.

Viktor can set up automations that run on a schedule without you having to build a workflow anywhere.

For us that looks like a Weekly SEO Pulse checking across multiple sources. Alex set all of these up just by telling Viktor what he wanted. No Zapier, no Make, no configuration, just delegating to Viktor.

Everyone on our team uses Viktor in completely different ways, and he adapts to all of them. I use him for content production tasks. Alex (CEO) uses him as an ops and strategy sounding board, things like advising on positioning, weighing in on branding decisions.

Bob (engineer) uses it as a technical collaborator talking through performance issues, reviewing pull requests, analyzing code, updating Linear tickets when hotfixes get merged.

Because Viktor lives in Slack, the collaboration is also shared. When Viktor was working through a task with me, Alex jumped into the same thread to add a correction and he adapted in real time. It felt exactly like working with a team member.

One of the less obvious wins with Viktor is being able to delegate the follow-up layer of managing a team, which happens to be one of my favorite ways to use him.

If someone needs to get something done by Friday, you tell Viktor: if it's not done by then, ping them. When a human sends that reminder, it can feel like nagging or micromanaging. When Viktor sends it, it just feels helpful.

If my team sends me a task, I often tell Viktor to remind me if I haven't answered. It's been awesome.

Viktor saves your preferences as you go, and unlike most AI tools, the context doesn't reset between sessions.

It maintains the thread without you having to re-explain anything.

Bob told Viktor to hold onto a QA checklist for future reference, and it does. I corrected a UTM formatting rule once, and Viktor applied it going forward without being reminded.

Viktor is becoming the "process" layer for our business. For example, I told him "when we've finished with the audio sync, make sure to remind our editor to do XYZ". Now our editor will be reminded at the perfect time, rather than relying on him going through a checklist outside of where he's working.

The process of telling Viktor what to do and what to remember feels easy. There's no emotional management involved, no re-explaining why things are done a certain way. You correct it once and it learns.

Viktor gives you control over what it can and can't do. You can set it to ask before taking any action, restrict its access to specific channels, and limit what it can do across connected tools.

For example, Our GitHub connection is read-only. Viktor can read pull requests, diffs, and file contents, but it can't push code or open PRs. That was a deliberate choice on our end, and Viktor made it easy to set that boundary.

Viktor is also SOC 2 compliant, which is worth noting if you're handling sensitive business data or operating in a context where security review is part of how you evaluate new tools.

Viktor connects to the tools your team already uses through native APIs and browser automation, over 3,000 in total. We have Better Stack, Google Search Console, GitHub, and Linear connected. The integration depth means Viktor isn't just reading your Slack conversations in isolation. It's pulling context from across your stack to do the work properly.