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A new publication dedicated to AI actually working in production, with tactical stories on how companies are moving from experimentation to everyday use.

"The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed."

And here at First Round, we want to tell you about the people building that future. While others debate AI's potential at dinner parties, some companies are already seeing incredible impact. We've spent months uncovering their playbooks — the real infrastructure choices, team structures and eval decisions that separate AI theater from AI that works.

Learn directly from the ones who are building it:

From Memo to Movement: Shopify’s Cultural Adoption of AI

The non-obvious insights, tactics and workflows Shopify used to bring an ambitious memo to life.

The Art of Evals: How Figma Built Its New AI Products

Figma’s Head of Product AI takes us behind the scenes of building Figma Make.

With more stories to come, in the coming weeks:

Deep dives into the internal tools and customer-facing products built by teams at a wide range of companies.