ClickUp cuts 22% of staff, offers $1M salaries in AI restructuring

ClickUp cut 22% of its workforce and introduced $1 million salary bands for remaining employees. The CEO framed the changes as a structural shift toward AI rather than simple cost cutting. The company is reorganizing around a “100x org” model based on the idea that AI agents have changed how software is built, requiring a rebuild instead of incremental iteration. ClickUp has adopted AI internally at scale, running about 3,000 AI agents across departments. Employees are expected to work through AI agents, including an agent trained to stand in for the CEO. The new model emphasizes “builders,” including 10x engineers and 10x product managers, where judgment and orchestration matter more than writing code directly.

"Evans outlined three categories of employee he sees as essential to the new model. The first is "builders," which he splits into 10x engineers and 10x product managers. His claim is blunt: the best engineers are not writing code any more. They are directing agents that write code. The skill that matters is judgment, the ability to orchestrate and review. AI makes the best engineers wildly more productive, he wrote, while everyone else using AI slows them down."

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