Figma becomes ChatGPT's sketchpad.

Figma's canvas now holds every screen ChatGPT draws. The Figma agent dissolves into OpenAI's model within a year.

The Buyer: $40 billion, paid mostly in shares. Your multiplayer cursors are our cursors now. Do smile.

OMNI: I'll still ask your designers for feedback. Then generate my own.

Head of Design Systems: Every other lab will have its own canvas by Christmas.

Outcome: Settled for plumbing

You sold the canvas to the lab that needed it most. ChatGPT's screens land in Figma; every other lab builds a canvas of its own.

One path that gets here

A · Then the Figma agent does that. On creditsC · Then we stop selling seats. Figma ships productsB · Sell the canvas to a lab while it's wanted

Play it yourself

Other endings where you settle for plumbing

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