If you've been searching for the Canvas button in ChatGPT and coming up empty... you're not imagining things. OpenAI has started phasing Canvas out. As of the newer GPT-5.5 models, it's no longer available, and the shutdown for everyone else is only a matter of time. A few things worth knowing: - Canvas isn't gone completely... it's being folded into "Writing Blocks", editable documents that appear inside your normal chat - For bigger, more polished deliverables (reports, spreadsheets, presentations), OpenAI is pushing people towards a newer feature called "ChatGPT Work" - None of this has been clearly announced or explained... which is why it just feels like the button vanished My honest take... this is a pattern worth watching, not just with Canvas. Features you rely on today can disappear or move with very little warning. Worth checking in on the tools you depend on every so often, rather than assuming they'll stay put. Has Canvas disappeared for you too? Or have you already found your way to Writing Blocks or Work? 👇

If you've ever thought Claude was too expensive to run for your firm ... this changes things. There's been a lot of confusion about whether Claude's Team plan needs a minimum of five seats or two. I set one up to get you the real answer ... and it's now just two. That finally makes it competitive with ChatGPT's business plan for solo and small firms. In the video I walk you through: - The real minimum, and why the pricing page confuses everyone - How to set up a Team plan, step by step - The important catch: it creates a new account, so your existing projects and chats don't carry over - Why your old Pro plan keeps auto-renewing until you cancel it Watch it here: https://youtu.be/vVzLXUEgwv8?si=OwCKV8rTsWeb0Ep_ Have you moved to a Team plan yet, or still weighing it up? 👇

Big news this week. OpenAI has launched a new set of AI models called GPT-5.6. There are three versions. Sol is the most powerful, Terra is the balanced everyday one, and Luna is the fast, low-cost option. They've also started rolling out "ChatGPT Work", a workspace that connects to your apps and files and can build documents and presentations from a single prompt. Why this matters for accountants: - More capable models usually mean more of the fiddly admin work can be handed off - Having a cheap, fast option and a powerful one lets you pick the right tool for the job - The pace isn't slowing down ... staying curious is now part of the job I'll be honest with you ... I haven't tested any of this yet, and I'd take the bigger claims with a pinch of salt until we've seen it work on real accounting tasks. New and impressive doesn't always mean useful. So here's my question for you 👇 When you hear "another new AI model just dropped" ... are you excited, exhausted, or a bit of both? Drop one word below.

Ever uploaded a document to ChatGPT and then spent 10 minutes trying to find it again three days later? OpenAI quietly introduced a Library feature back in March 2026 ... and it's now available to all users, including free accounts. It solves one of the most annoying things about ChatGPT. Here's how it works. Every file you upload to ChatGPT ... PDFs, Word documents, spreadsheets, presentations, images ... gets saved automatically to your Library. Same goes for any files ChatGPT creates for you, including generated images. The useful bit is you can pull any saved file back into a new chat. Just use the attachment menu and choose "Add from library." No more scrolling through months of old conversations. A few things worth knowing: - Your chats are NOT stored in Library ... it's purely for files - Memories are separate too ... Library doesn't touch those - Project files live in their own space inside Projects - Deleting a chat doesn't delete the files you uploaded ... they stay in Library until you remove them Storage depends on your plan. Free gets 500MB. Plus and Business get 20GB. Pro gets 100GB. My honest take? It sounds small but it changes how you work. If you're regularly uploading client templates, engagement letters, or reference documents ... you only need to upload them once. Then reuse them across any conversation. Having said that, I prefer to keep important files that I want to be referenced often as 'project files'. And I find myself now working mainly inside Codex (ChatGPT) and Cowork. Have you spotted the Library in your ChatGPT yet? Are you using it? 👇

Last week at Google I/O, they announced something called Gemini Spark ... and this one is worth paying attention to. Spark is a personal AI agent that lives inside the Gemini app. But unlike a normal chatbot, it doesn't stop when you close your laptop. You give it a task, and it keeps working in the background ... even when your computer is off. Here's what caught my eye: - It connects directly to Gmail, Docs, and Slides ... so it can actually read your emails, summarise threads, and pull out deadlines without you doing anything - You can set it to do recurring tasks ... like checking your inbox for something specific every day or flagging overdue items - It asks permission before doing anything high-stakes like sending an email or spending money - It's rolling out to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the US first, with a desktop version coming this summer My honest take? This is where AI is heading. Not just answering questions when you ask ... but doing things for you in the background, on a schedule, across your apps. For accountants using Google Workspace, that's a big deal. We're still early days, but this is the kind of shift that will change how firms work over the next year or two. Have you tried any AI agents that actually do tasks for you (not just answer questions)? Or does the idea of AI working in the background make you nervous? I'd love to hear your take 👇