DesignTokenDrift: Token Change Detector
Automatically alerts design teams when design tokens (colors, typography, spacing) drift from their source of truth across Figma, code, and live products.
The Problem
Design systems break when tokens get manually overridden in code or Figma without syncing back to the source of truth. Teams waste hours in design reviews spotting inconsistencies, and engineers ship UIs that violate the design system because they didn't know a token changed. There's no real-time watchdog for token integrity.
Target Audience
Design system leads and engineering managers at mid-market SaaS companies (50-500 people) who maintain design systems but lack formal token management infrastructure.
Why Now?
Design systems are becoming table stakes, but token management is still manual and ad-hoc. Teams are hiring design system engineers specifically because token chaos is expensive to fix retroactively.
What's Missing
Existing tools are *generative* (Tokens Studio makes tokens) not *detective* (spotting when they break). No one watches for token violations in live CSS or Figma overrides automatically.
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