How a six-person design co-op shares Figma Organization

Tabitha runs a six-person design co-op out of Westlands. Three of them used Figma daily, three used it on and off. Paying for six Organization seats was burning money. ## The setup Tabitha kept her Organization plan and listed three seats on Seatkin. Two were taken within a week by other Nairobi-based designers she knew through events. The third went to a designer in Mombasa she met on the platform. ## What broke and what did not Team libraries work for every member regardless of how they joined the seat. Branch protection works the same. The only friction was Figma's email-domain auto-join — Tabitha had to manually approve each new seat the first time they tried to open a file. Two clicks per member, once. ## The math Tabitha pays for six seats. Three seat members pay her about seventy-five percent of one seat each, every month. She keeps fifteen percent of total billing as the owner's reward for running the group. Co-op tooling cost dropped by roughly sixty percent. Most tools quietly support this pattern. You just have to be deliberate about it.