Reference org charts
Reference org charts
How AI-native companies are structured
Each chart maps a kind of company to the roles inside it and the agent constructs that fill those roles. Browse to see how a software startup, a hedge fund research desk, or a marketing agency might be staffed when most of the work is done by agents.
design team
The Enterprise Design Org
United States edition. What the startup design team becomes at a company of thousands: a ~65-person function led through directors, with a dedicated design systems team, research as an institution, content design at scale, and DesignOps running the operating system. The grown-up sibling of The High-Growth Startup Design Team.
6 departments
Agency
The Design Agency
United States edition. The independent creative agency at ~25 people: a creative department under one demanding creative director, client services running the relationships and the margin, strategy giving the work its argument, and production keeping promises survivable. The external counterpart to the in-house design org charts.
5 departments
design team
The High-Growth Startup Design Team
United States edition. The design org inside an ~80-person Series B startup: seven people built on published ratios - one designer per ~5 engineers (the design-led end of the range), one researcher per 4-5 designers, the design system owned fractionally by a senior designer. Embedded in squads, managed centrally. DesignOps and a dedicated systems team come later; a content designer is the next hire.
5 departments
Startup
The High-Growth Startup
United States edition. A venture-backed Series B SaaS company of ~80 people, drawn from published benchmarks: engineering ~35% of headcount, go-to-market ~40%, G&A ~10%, squads of five, one PM per 6-8 engineers, one designer per ~5. Leaner than the 2021 playbooks - the AI era runs smaller at every stage.
8 departments
standard
The Standard Company
United States edition. The archetypal ~100-person American company: big enough to have every standard department, small enough that everyone still knows the controller's name. Slightly tech-leaning (it has product managers), but the shape holds for most industries. Baseline for variants by size and geography.
10 departments
Open Source
Open-Source Project Maintenance Org
What a healthy mid-sized open source project looks like as a hybrid human/agent org. Maintainers focus on direction and judgment; triage, docs, and release engineering are agent-led.
5 departments
Fund
AI-Native Hedge Fund Research Desk
What a research desk looks like when the associates and junior analysts are agents. Two senior PMs hold the book; the desk runs continuously and reports back at the open.
5 departments
Support
AI-Native Customer Support Team
Eight-person support org for a mid-market SaaS. Two humans handle escalations and quality; everything tier-1 runs as a fleet.
5 departments
Studio
AI-Native Design Studio
A studio of three principals and a deep agent bench. Brand, product, and motion work all start from agent drafts; principals direct and finish.
5 departments
Newsroom
AI-Native Newsroom
A small, fast newsroom where the news desk, the social cuts, the SEO follow-ups, and the daily newsletter all run as agents. Reporters keep doing reporting; everything downstream is automated.
5 departments
Law Firm
AI-Native Legal Services
A small firm where contract drafting, legal research, and the discovery review that used to consume associate hours now runs as a fleet. Partners spend their day arguing strategy.
5 departments
Accounting Firm
AI-Native Accounting Firm
A small accounting practice where the bookkeeping, AP, AR, tax-prep, and most of the audit pre-work runs unattended. Partners spend their day on client conversations and the hard judgment calls.
5 departments
Agency
AI-Native Marketing Agency
What replaces the 40-person agency. Three humans hold the client relationship and the taste bar; agent crews execute end-to-end on every campaign by channel.
6 departments
Fund
AI-Native Investment Fund
What replaces the 50-analyst pyramid. Three humans with capital allocation authority; everything beneath them is a research and risk fleet that runs every market hour.
5 departments
Startup
AI-Native YC Startup
The shape of a six-person seed-stage company where most of the work is delegated to agents. Founders carry product direction, three engineers carry the code humans still need to touch, and a fleet of named agents handles the rest.
6 departments