Every week without full-team access costs Anthem three days of duplicate design work.
Forty seats can't cover Product and Marketing, so requests queue behind Brand and spill onto contractors.
$142K a year in overflow freelance spend, plus a nine-day average concept-to-approved-asset cycle.
Renew for 24 months and expand from 40 to 85 seats, bringing Product and Marketing onto the same platform.
94% weekly seat utilization and a 3.2x rise in shipped projects since go-live, on the existing 40 seats.
Phased onboarding across three sprints, led by Design Ops, with BYOK keys provisioned per team.
Approve the 45-seat expansion and lock the renewal price ahead of the Q3 team kickoff.
Anthem's 40 Open Design seats sit inside Brand. Product and Marketing route requests through Brand's queue or pay outside agencies to skip it — $142K last year, on work Anthem's own team could have shipped in-house with the right access.
"Turnaround went from nine days to three. Renewing was never in question — the only question was how fast we could add more seats."