Hello lovely members! I don't know what happened, but either I have become 10x slower or the time has become 10x faster since last week! I am behind on most things since last week and I was hoping to do some work during the weekend, but I got a pleasure to hang out with my kids all by myself this weekend instead😂 (it was great, but 0 time for work). So my only goal this week ahead is to stay FOCUSED on the tasks at hand and actually FINISH them 🫠 I hope you are feeling more productive than I've been and wishing you an amazing week ahead! Feel free to what you are working on in the comments and let us know if you need any support from the community along the way🫶

Canva just released some MASSIVE upgrades and is rolling out Canva AI 2.0! As someone not really impressed with Canva's AI so far, checkin it out right now and I can tell you I am now paying very close attention! ✨SECRET CODE: Type "Activate superpowers" in the design search bar - and you will get a week of extra AI credits to test it out! ✨ What is Canva 2.0 AI? Canva is repositioning from a design tool to an "agentic system for work." Basically instead of you picking a template and dragging stuff around, you talk to it and it builds the thing - including pulling data from your other tools. This is their biggest release ever! The main new capabilities: 1. Conversational Design - you type a prompt in natural language and it generates a full editable design. No templates, no manual layout. 2. Agentic Orchestration - an orchestration layer reads your intent, picks the right Canva tools, and runs multi-step workflows (like "build me a multi-channel campaign for X launch") end to end. 3. Connectors - Canva now plugs into Slack, Notion, Zoom, Gmail, Google Drive, Google Calendar, and HubSpot. So it can pull from your meeting transcripts, emails, and docs to generate newsletters, sales pitches, briefing docs, meeting summaries. This is great, but I wanted to take it further and create a Notion template via Canva - it could not do that. 4. Persistent Memory - it learns how you work, remembers your brand, and auto-updates designs when brand assets change. This is HUGE! 5. Object-Based Intelligence - if you say "swap this image" or "change the headline," only that element changes. The rest stays locked. 6. Brand Intelligence - automatic brand application across everything. 7. Scheduling - you can set tasks to run on a cadence in the background (so your weekly social template can just… rebuild itself). 8. Web Research - it can pull live structured info from the web directly into designs. 9. Sheets AI - structured spreadsheet generation inside Canva. Doubt that it's better than in Claude, but I haven't tested it yet. 10. Canva Code 2.0 — now supports HTML import. Excited to try generating code in Claude and importing it into canva for the design! 11. Under the hood Three proprietary models: Canva Proteus (style transfer), Canva Lucid Origin (image gen), Canva I2V (image-to-video). Canva claims they're 7x faster and 30x cheaper than frontier alternatives. 12. Rollout Research preview right now. First 1 million users get access via the Canva homepage, with broader rollout in the coming weeks.

We just hit 200 members!!! When I started building my one-person business with AI as my side kick, I didn't know a lot of people on similar journeys and it sucked. I needed a space like this and now 200 of us are here and it's honestly THE BEST THING!!😍🥹 Grateful to have all of you here!

The biggest buzz is around its AI design capabilities, which are potentially replacing tools like Lovable, Adobe, Sigma etc etc. Interesting news today, one of my favorite comments/reactions to this on Reddit is "just by thinking about Opus 4.7 i have exceeded my limit" 😅 Opus 4.6 model brought an exponential jump in capabilities, and assuming that even more of the new model's development is outsourced to Claude itself (meta, I know) and releasing this, according to rumors, roughly 3 months later - I am very curious what the experience would be...

Starting tomorrow, we're doing a 5-day challenge to help you build your first workflow in Cowork. Cowork has Projects, Skills, Scheduled Tasks, Connectors, Plugins, Dispatch.... There's a lot in there. But none of it matters until you apply it to a real process in your business and see the value. Before tomorrow, pick a task. Something you do on a regular basis that takes 30+ minutes. Writing proposals, onboarding clients, doing research, content repurposing, creating reports, updating some other tools - anything that needs to be done in your daily work. Let me know in the comments what task would you like to automate - we start tomorrow!