# Applied  _Intelligence_

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.

[More on our mission](/content/news/applied-intelligence/index.html)

## 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.](/content/ai/shopify/index.html)

**The Dynamic Context Problem: Inside Carta's Internal Agents**  
Carta built dynamic AI agents that solve complex accounting problems — saving thousands of hours per month.](/content/ai/carta/index.html)

**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.](/content/ai/figma/index.html)

**Scale Smarter, Not Bigger: How Linktree is Using AI to Accelerate**  
How this 190-person company pushed adoption to keep headcount steady, increase velocity and cut costs.](/content/ai/linktree/index.html)

**Agent + Human Ops: How Brex is Changing Roles and Workflows**  
How AI product thinking shapes Brex’s internal operations, changing roles, workflows and required skills.](/content/ai/brex/index.html)

**Start With a Prompt: Inside Warp’s AI Coding Mandate**  
Why every coding task at Warp now starts with a prompt — including the CEO's weekly code contributions.](/content/ai/warp/index.html)

**Context Before Code: How to Build Better Tools**  
To find the right problem to solve — and build the best tool to do it — an AI engineer spent a month as a BDR.](/content/ai/notion/index.html)