B2B Sales Proposal · 2026

Open
Design.

A proposal for your design organization: replace per-seat, closed-model tooling with a self-hosted, agent-native platform your team already half-owns — at a fraction of today's run-rate.

Apache-2.0/Self-Hosted/BYOK
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Prepared for Design Leadership
Sales Proposal
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The case, page
by page.

01The cost of the status quoPain
02What changes on day oneChange
03Proof from teams like yoursProof
04Rollout plan & commercial askAsk
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Agenda
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01
The Cost of the Status Quo
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Section
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Three costs compounding today

Seat fees, lock-in,
and lost leverage

Per-seat SaaS tax

$500-$1,200 per designer per year across Figma, Claude Design, and adjacent AI add-ons — a bill that scales with headcount, not with output.

Closed-model lock-in

Claude Design and similar tools hard-code one model vendor. You can't swap providers when pricing or quality shifts, and you can't self-host.

Assets never leave the vendor's cloud

Every prototype, deck, and brand asset lives on someone else's servers — procurement inherits a permanent data-residency and security review.

Across a 40-person design org, that's roughly $38K-$48K a year in seat fees alone — before counting the AI tooling most teams already pay for separately.

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Pain
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80% lower run-rate

vs. Claude Design

Full BYOK routes usage straight to Anthropic, OpenAI, Azure, or Google at cost. One pilot org's monthly bill fell from $500 to roughly $73 per seat once agent orchestration moved on-machine.

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Current cost
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“

We got our design system git-diffable and out of the vendor's cloud in a week.

VP of Design120-person product org, pilot cohort

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Proof
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Today's Stack

Locked-in
  • Per-seat billing that grows faster than the team
  • One model vendor, no fallback if pricing changes
  • Design files and history live only in vendor cloud

Open Design

Proposed
  • Apache-2.0 — fork, self-host, audit the code yourselves
  • 21 coding agents — bring the one you already license
  • Full BYOK — files and history stay in your own git repo
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Proposed change
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The rollout plan.

Weeks 1-2

Pilot

5-designer pilot on live projects; IT reviews the local-first security model in parallel.

Weeks 3-6

Expand

Roll out to the full design org; import existing Figma files and brand libraries as design systems.

Weeks 7-10

Integrate

Connect existing coding-agent licenses (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex); retire duplicate AI-design subscriptions.

Week 11+

Steady state

Procurement signs the annual support agreement; usage bills directly to your chosen model provider.

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Rollout
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Annual cost · 40-seat design org

Where the spend goes down

$46K
Today's stack
$31K
Pilot, month 2
$19K
Steady state
$12K
Year-2 run-rate

$34K saved in year one — re-deployable to headcount, not tooling (based on pilot cohort actuals).

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Cost model
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Approve the
pilot budget.

Start a 5-seat pilot Request the security & compliance brief
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Commercial ask
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