Month-by-month feed of what shifted, who was hiring, and how Starter, Scaler, and Titan teams actually worked.
58 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.
One person, a stack of agents, and a strong opinion. That's the whole company.
Figma Make → Cursor → Claude
At this size the person who can hold taste and ship code is the entire design function. Nothing has changed the math on that.
Small pods of directors run whole surfaces. Agents do the middle. Craft roles get protected.
Figma agent surface → Cursor → Simile-class synthetic users
One person, full stack, ships this week
Figma → Midjourney → v0
Builds and ships alone — prototype, product, and brand without waiting for anyone.
First design hires own the system and the agent
Figma → v0 → Runway
The role that decides what agents produce and what gets killed. The scarce hire at this stage.
Two tracks. Directors point agents at problems. A protected craft bench keeps the brand from tasting like everyone else's.
Adobe agentic suite → proprietary agent stacks → Figma enterprise
Owns the agent stack, the taste bar, and the split between directed and hand-made work. New role. Reports to the CEO or CPO.
Owns the rules that keep AI output on-brand as the team scales and agent usage grows.
Design governance becomes the real product
Adobe Firefly → Figma → Runway
Sets taste constraints that govern what hundreds of AI-generated outputs are allowed to become.