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id: michael-schultz
kind: person
title: "Michael Schultz"
role: "Founder — Design Systems Expert"
org_label: "Inverse Digital Design Studio"
confidence: "sourced"
atlas_url: https://designsystems.fly.dev/nodes/michael-schultz.md
---

# Michael Schultz

Writes about moving design-system governance and source-of-truth decisions into code, including an AI-assisted workflow where agents work inside token and component constraints while people retain review authority.

## Links

- studio: https://inversestudio.io/studio/
- linkedin_post: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7500540518284619776/

## Edges

- authored -> Design Systems Without Figma: Our AI-Powered Code-First Approach, Why Design System Governance Belongs in Code
- focus -> Agentic governance, Component contracts, Design tokens and DTCG, Designers shipping code, Figma files an agent can read, Prohibition rules, Validation loops
- works_at -> Inverse Digital Design Studio

## Sources

- https://inversestudio.io/studio/
- https://inversestudio.io/work/design-systems-without-figma-our-ai-powered-code-first-approach
- https://inversestudio.io/work/why-design-system-governance-belongs-in-code