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Canva AI 2.0 just landed in your content workflow

Slack, Gmail, Drive, and Notion can now feed editable generations.

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v2-fresh-138 · 2026-08-15 · daily change-intelligence on agentic tools

Canva AI 2.0 just landed in your content workflow

Canva’s Magic Studio page was rewritten around Canva AI 2.0, and the key detail is that it now pulls context from Slack, Gmail, Google Drive, and Notion before you generate. That matters because Clay also reworked pricing while surfacing Clay MCP and an agent plugin CLI/API, and Tasklet moved to credit-based plans with API/MCP support. The pattern is clear: vendors are turning AI features into workflow infrastructure, with pricing and integration depth now part of the decision. If you own a content or ops stack, check how much context and control you actually need before you commit.

See what changed on Clay's listing

What changed on the ground

Changes we detected on each tool's own pages — pricing, features, platform reach — via our daily crawls. Often ahead of any press coverage; each links to the scored listing.

Clay Pricing change
12/36 · Guided Assistant
Clay overhauls pricing and adds MCP/agent tooling to its product lineup — Clay appears to have materially redesigned its pricing page, with new tier structures and updated action/data-credit bundles, while also surfacing new platform capabilities like Clay MCP and an agent plugin CLI/API.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-14 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
Canva Magic Studio Feature launch
8/36 · Guided Assistant
Canva teases Canva AI 2.0 with connected tools, editable generations… — Canva’s Magic Studio page was rewritten around Canva AI 2.0, adding a new conversational creation flow, connected-tool context from Slack, Gmail, Google Drive, and Notion, and fully editable AI-generated text, images, and graphics.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-15 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
Alloy Platform expansion
10/36 · Guided Assistant
Alloy expands its integration platform with new Sales and Engineering workflows — Alloy appears to have substantially broadened its integration coverage, adding new Sales and Engineering sections and surfacing integrations such as HubSpot and Pipedrive alongside a wide set of support, CRM, and productivity connectors.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-15 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
Tasklet Pricing change
13/36 · Adaptive Collaborator
Tasklet updates pricing to credit-based plans and expands API/MCP support — Tasklet’s pricing page now lays out Free, Starter, Pro, and Custom plans with credit-based billing, no per-seat charges, and different support levels.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-15 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
CrePal Pricing change
10/36 · Guided Assistant
CrePal updates pricing with new credit tiers, annual savings, and team billing — CrePal’s pricing page now shows updated plan details, including monthly and yearly billing with up to 40% off, new credit allotments, add-on credit packages, and team contact sales.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-15 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
DeepL Pro Feature launch
8/36 · Guided Assistant
DeepL Pro expands enterprise security and admin features, adding SSO, MFA… — DeepL Pro’s page now emphasizes a broader set of business and enterprise capabilities, including single sign-on (OIDC/SAML), multifactor authentication, SCIM user provisioning, domain capture, and Translation Flow add-ons, alongside refres…
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-15 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.

From Agentic-News.ai

Agentic-AI industry signal we're tracking — launches, releases, and research from across the ecosystem. The directory rubric hasn't scored these yet; awareness now, evaluation next pass.

DeepJudge product launch
DeepJudge introduced the Agent Handoff Protocol, an open standard for moving users and their context between AI products. Harvey plans to build an integration and enter beta this month, while Thomson Reuters also says it will support the effort. For those tracking agentic AI, this signals a push to make workflows portable across tools instead of trapping users in one system. The detail to watch is whether the protocol preserves enough context to make handoffs feel seamless.
Via Agentic-News.ai — LawSites. Read: https://www.lawnext.com/2026/08/deepjudge-releases-an-open-protocol-for-passing-users-and-their-context-between-ai-products-with-harvey-and-thomson-reuters-on-board.html
DISCO product launch
DISCO said Advanced Research is now generally available on Aug. 13, 2026 for eDiscovery and fact investigation. The new tool adds autonomous, multi-step reasoning and shows how it reached each conclusion. For those tracking agentic AI, this signals legal vendors are moving from search to systems that can reason through evidence. The key question is how much lawyers will trust an AI that explains its own logic while shaping case strategy.
Via Agentic-News.ai — Eagle-Tribune. Read: https://www.eagletribune.com/region/disco-launches-advanced-research-for-deep-agentic-ai-powered-ediscovery-and-fact-investigation/article_a5cd3ab1-9ddd-5143-bf00-e26c5f8dc7f1.html
TencentDB Agent Memory product launch
Tencent Cloud said TencentDB Agent Memory now includes Team Memory, which lets agents share conversations, documents, code, and institutional knowledge. The open-source project is meant to extend long-term memory from one user to a whole team. For those tracking agentic AI, this signals memory is becoming a core product layer for multi-agent collaboration. The bigger story is that shared memory could make agents far more useful, and far harder to control.
Via Agentic-News.ai — Taiwan News. Read: https://taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/6420645

Agenticness Leaderboard

This week's most-clicked tools, re-ranked by rubric score. The score is the editorial signal; the popularity is what drew the directory's traffic here this week.

GitHub Copilot helps you write, review, and adapt code directly in GitHub, your IDE, and the terminal. It supports everything from inline suggestions to agentic coding workflows with broader model choices and enterprise controls.

  • Cursor · 18/36 · Adaptive Collaborator · L2

Cursor is a developer-focused AI environment that adds agents, context, and automation around your repositories. It combines an editor-like interface, a CLI, and a cloud agent API to automate code review, bug fixing, CI hygiene, and more. Designed for individual developers and engineering teams who want AI to take real actions in their code and infrastructure, not just chat.

  • Cline · 18/36 · Adaptive Collaborator · L2

Cline is an AI coding assistant for VS Code that can inspect your project, edit files, run terminal commands, and use a browser while asking for permission at each step. It is aimed at developers working on real codebases who want more than code completion.

  • OpenHands · 18/36 · Adaptive Collaborator · L2

OpenHands (formerly OpenDevin) is a fully autonomous open-source AI coding agent. MIT-licensed core, plans + executes Python actions via CodeAct, uses browser + terminal + files. ~72% on SWE-bench Verified with Sonnet 4.5 via the OpenHands Software Agent SDK (arXiv:2511.03690).

Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf, and distinct from Cognition's cloud agent Devin) is an AI-native desktop app for developers. It keeps the full IDE — editor, syntax highlighting, autocomplete, debugging — and adds a command centre for running and coordinating multiple coding agents in one place. Available for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

What operators are searching for this week

A week's demand signal — what operators are typing into the directory's search. Suggestion-chip defaults + off-topic / greetings filtered.

  • "best coding agent"
  • "A want to automate my Instagram stories and posts"
  • "agentic ai for t-shirt designs"
  • "agentic photo editing optimizer"
  • "Agentswarm is JUST browser based, look for something else"
  • "AI agent for Instagram marketing"

Learn: How Canva Magic Studio actually works

Canva Magic Studio is not a separate agent that plans work for you. It’s a set of AI features inside Canva’s editor. You stay in the app, choose what you want changed, and Magic Studio helps generate, edit, translate, or resize that content. Its job is narrow: speed up visual production for people who already work in Canva and want to stay on brand.

It does not appear to keep an open-ended plan or run tasks across a workflow on its own. The human still decides the goal, picks the asset, and approves the result. Think of it as editor-assist with AI tools built in, not an autonomous design worker.

See Canva Magic Studio's full scorecard →

One tool worth testing

Clay — Clay is worth a test if you run outbound, enrichment, or research workflows and care about integrating agent steps into existing systems. Its site now shows a materially redesigned pricing page, plus Clay MCP and an agent plugin CLI/API, which makes it more than a credits-and-workspace tool. Evaluate it against your current enrichment stack in a 30-minute pilot: can it reduce handoffs while still fitting your data and automation requirements?

Our pick: ChatGPT

The use case: general-purpose ai agents.

Tops our independent /36 — the tiebreaker over Hermes Agent: Reliability 2 vs 0. Pricing: Subscription + credit-metered agents.

Ranked by our 9-dimension Agenticness rubric — not by who pays us (nobody does). The full scorecard, true-cost pricing, and the reliability evidence behind every score are in the report.

Read the full report →

AI Insider is a daily change-intelligence briefing from agentic.ai — the directory built so people and their AI agents can trust what we say about agentic tools. Scoring is independent of vendor commercial relationships; the rubric is the brand.

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