Canva is expanding its AI ecosystem with offline capabilities and new partnerships, embedding its Design Engine into Claude and enabling imports from ChatGPT and Claude, while connectors for Slack, Gmail, and Google Drive automate background tasks like briefing documents and visual reports from conversations.

New intelligent workflows introduce Connectors (Slack, Gmail, Google Drive, Calendar) to unify tools, in-background scheduling and multilingual content generation, Web Research, Brand Intelligence, Canva Code 2.0 with HTML import, Sheets AI for structured data, and Template Remix for ongoing inspiration.

The relaunch shifts Canva from a designer-focused tool to a broader workflow automation platform, positioning it against Microsoft and Google Workspace with agents that pull information from Slack and Google Calendar and autonomously manage tasks like memos.

CEO Melanie Perkins emphasizes the scale of investment in AI, describing generative AI as the biggest change in their lifetime after years of heavy spending.

Pricing for the new AI tools includes a free tier with limited credits, an AI pass at $100 per month, and an enterprise tier, targeting a base of enterprise revenue around half a billion dollars annually.

Living Memory stores user and team preferences and brand styles to automatically maintain consistency across projects.

A living memory feature learns team preferences over time, applying brand styles and design patterns automatically across projects.

The platform stresses accessibility and broad reach, with a mission to make design available to everyone, and systems that learn a team’s brand style to produce outputs that feel proprietary rather than generic.

A high-performance vertical AI stack self-hosts training and optimizes inference to scale generative AI for Canva’s 250 million monthly active users while reducing deployment costs.

Magic Insights enables AI-driven data analysis to extract actionable information from datasets.

Users can describe an objective, such as planning a multi-channel launch, and the AI generates and iterates multi-page assets while preserving brand consistency and leveraging persistent memory of guidelines.

The announcement comes amid investor concern about AI’s impact on incumbents’ revenue, but Canva’s private status and recent valuation shield it from public SaaS pressure.