0→1 Design Team & Standards Setup with Karthik V Meenaakshisundaram

Who this is for: Founders and early leaders hiring their first design people, or realizing the design work happening today has no system underneath it.

What we'll cover:

• Where your design function actually needs structure right now, and what can wait
• Hiring: what to look for at this stage, and what to deliberately skip for now
• A lightweight design system and workflow that won't collapse the moment you scale
• How to set this up without slowing the team down. This is the failure mode I see most often

Prep: Come with a rough sense of your team's size and stage (pre seed, seed, or Series A and beyond) so we don't spend the call getting up to speed.