Month-by-month feed of what shifted, who was hiring, and how Starter, Scaler, and Titan teams actually worked.
57 synthesized monthsin the data layer. Stage breakdowns (Starter / Scaler / Titan) are available for 2026 only — earlier months show under the All segment but won’t appear under stage filters until the design-context pipeline runs further back.
Viewing future quarters under the Agents Skip Designers worldview. For a wide band of companies — early-stage, resource-constrained, or simply product-led — agents do enough of the design job that hiring a dedicated designer gets skipped entirely. Design as a function doesn't disappear, but the buyer for design services narrows fast.