The Big Picture - no. 113

A super busy week in the studio. Frankly, the first half of the year was slower than we had hoped. 2 weeks into the second half, and things are kicking off and we might be back on pace. When it rains it pours.

Agentic Kit + Omakase 144 for Antigen

Antigen deploys AI pen testing agents against your production systems every night and pairs them with a monthly human red team assessment.

Had a super fun time with this Omakase brand sprint last week. Figma Motion and Figma Agent got into the act creating some custom texture components and adding in some simple motion directly on the canvas. These features are still in Beta and it shows but they already seem to be improving.

We heard from a few folks asking about the Agentic Brand Kit I wrote about last week. We’re currently building one for the Antigen brand. Beyond creating custom components the new Figma Agent is helpful for organizing and building-out assets on the canvas and prepping them for the Kit. Figma’s agent seems to work best when given examples to work from.

I’m working on putting together a short demo video that will show the Kit in action and how it actually performs.

The Long Aisle (p2)

I sneak-peeked this one in no. 111. The Framer site we built is now live: thelongaisle.com.

The Long Aisle is a podcast that interviews CPG founders. Lucas (CEO of Barrel) does a great job as host, keeping things conversational and asking good questions. Even if you’re not in CPG these are an entertaining listen, a little like How I Built This, fun even if you’re not an entrepreneur.

Sensory Links

• Visual — Jochen Gerner makes interesting drawings. I like the birds especially.

• Sound — Light Manoeuvres is about warmth, generosity and openness

Brand — AI?

And if you’re interested in brand-ai-enablement, come find me. We’re piloting this now, and I’m looking for a few brands to build and test it with.