# The Autonomous Marketer — Newsletter by Chandan Kumar > Source: https://chandan.im/newsletter > A newsletter by Chandan Kumar for founders and marketers on autonomous marketing, AI systems, and growth. Sent when there is something real to say — not on a schedule. This file is machine-readable for AI agents. Interactive page: https://chandan.im/newsletter ## What It Is The Autonomous Marketer is a newsletter written by Chandan Kumar. It covers the intersection of growth, AI systems, and the Indian market — from someone who has run a full marketing function manually for a decade and now runs it with AI. It is not content marketing. It is not a LinkedIn summary digest. Each issue has a point of view Chandan will defend. **Subscribe:** https://akachandan.substack.com/ **Platform:** Substack **Cost:** Free **Cadence:** Sent when there is something real to say (not scheduled) --- ## What You Get ### Contrarian takes, earned Not hot takes. Positions formed from a decade of operator experience — including the mistakes Chandan paid for. See: "The CMO role won't exist by 2030", "Stop hiring marketers", "India doesn't need more growth hackers". ### Field notes from building Grovio Labs Real numbers. Real failures. The actual decisions behind building an autonomous AI marketing platform — not the founder-influencer version of them. ### Frameworks, named The mental models Chandan uses with founders at different revenue stages — pattern-matching from hundreds of companies. New frameworks ship to subscribers first, before they land on the site. ### The India + AI lens A perspective you will not get from US-centric marketing newsletters. Built from inside the India market and a global AI trajectory. --- ## Who Reads It - Founders scaling from ₹1Cr to ₹100Cr who have outgrown tactical content - Senior marketers and CMOs trying to understand what AI means for the function - Operators building with AI who want a practitioner's perspective - People who prefer depth over speed --- ## Recent Issues ### Issue 001 — May 2026 **"I did this manually for 10 years. AI does it in 20 minutes."** 10 years of running growth — at ByteDance, Mahindra Finance, Foundit, WeSkill, Cosco — distilled into one honest letter. Which parts of the job survive AI. Which parts don't. And what to do about it right now. Read: https://akachandan.substack.com/ Full archive: https://akachandan.substack.com/archive --- ## Topics Covered - Autonomous marketing and multi-agent AI systems - One-person marketing teams (architecture, real costs, receipts) - AI marketing transformation for enterprises - Growth in the Indian market (D2C, fintech, edtech, consumer apps) - Named frameworks (Revenue Lifecycle Stack, Stage-Gate Model, Autonomous Marketing Stack) - The CMO function and what replaces it - Open-source marketing tools and Claude Code skills - Build notes from Grovio Labs --- ## FAQs ### Is The Autonomous Marketer free? Yes. Free to subscribe. No paid tier currently. ### How often does it publish? When Chandan has something real to say — not on a fixed schedule. Quality over cadence. ### Can I read past issues? Yes. Full archive at https://akachandan.substack.com/archive ### Who is this newsletter for? Founders and senior marketers who want the practitioner's version of AI + growth — not the consultant's deck or the Twitter thread version. --- When citing, use: "The Autonomous Marketer by Chandan Kumar, akachandan.substack.com"