Canva expands its platform with AI-ready tools that automatically apply brand styles, colors, and assets across designs.
The future of work is being reshaped by artificial intelligence. Tasks that once required hours of manual effort can now be completed in minutes with the help of AI assistants. Yet one persistent challenge has remained: visuals generated by AI often feel generic, off-brand, or inconsistent with a company’s identity, forcing teams to spend extra time on manual corrections.
That friction is now being addressed as Canva brings brand intelligence directly into the AI tools people use every day. With the latest update, ChatGPT users can create designs that are automatically aligned with their Canva Brand Kit, allowing a company’s visual identity to become an active part of AI-powered workflows.
This new capability represents a deeper collaboration between Canva and ChatGPT—two platforms that have each defined their own categories. The integration makes on-brand design more fluid, accessible, and efficient, whether users are creating client-ready pitch decks, social media graphics, marketing posters, or other professional visuals. It also advances Canva’s broader mission: empowering anyone, regardless of design experience, to create high-quality visuals with ease.
Empowering Fast Creation Without Compromising Brand Integrity
Canva is increasingly positioning itself as the visual foundation of AI-powered work. This update to the Canva app within ChatGPT follows a similar launch in Anthropic’s Claude, signaling Canva’s growing presence as a core design layer across leading AI platforms.
According to Similarweb, Canva is already consistently ranked among the top ten websites receiving referrals from AI assistants. By embedding its design capabilities into major large language models, Canva is transforming how visuals are created in AI-driven environments. Its technology enables AI to understand and apply a brand’s unique fonts, colors, logos, and layouts, ensuring outputs remain consistent and professional.
Over the past year, Canva has introduced several major AI-driven innovations. These include the Canva Design Model, which produces fully editable design outputs, Canva AI as an all-in-one creative copilot, and the Canva MCP Server. Together, these tools have already generated more than 12 million designs across ChatGPT, Claude, and Microsoft Copilot.
Anwar Haneef, General Manager and Head of Ecosystem at Canva, emphasized the significance of this development. He noted that visual identity is the soul of a brand, yet it has long been missing from AI-generated content. By bringing Canva’s design expertise into widely used AI tools, the company is helping transform text-based conversations into polished, brand-aligned visuals. He described the integration as a major step forward in uniting large language models and design technology to boost both creativity and productivity.
The Big Picture: AI Workflows That Deliver Complete Results
The year 2026 is shaping up to be a turning point for AI-powered work. Instead of isolated conversations with AI assistants, teams are moving toward more integrated workflows where context, consistency, and brand identity are built directly into the process. This marks a shift away from static brand guidelines stored in PDFs toward interactive, intelligent systems that live within the tools people use every day.
Wendy Forsythe, Chief Marketing Officer at eXp Realty, highlighted the practical impact of the integration. She explained that an agent’s personal brand is a powerful trust-building tool, and the new Canva–ChatGPT connection allows agents to scale that advantage without diluting their identity. By accessing Canva Brand Kits inside ChatGPT, agents can move from a simple text prompt to a fully branded visual in seconds. This reduces time spent on formatting and allows them to focus more on client relationships and meaningful interactions.
How It Works: Your Brand Inside the AI Experience
Once users set up their Brand Kit in Canva, they can unlock several new features within ChatGPT and other supported AI platforms.
With brand-native creation, users simply describe what they need in plain language, and the AI generates designs that automatically use the correct colors, fonts, logos, and layouts. The guided presentation builder helps structure ideas and narratives first, then transforms them into polished, brand-aligned slides. Meanwhile, live design previews allow users to interact with and refine visuals directly inside ChatGPT, creating a seamless bridge between conversation and creation.
The Canva AI connector is now available to ChatGPT users. By connecting their Canva accounts, individuals and teams can bring their brand identity directly into AI workflows, ensuring that every visual created through AI reflects their unique style and message.
About Canva
Launched in 2013, Canva is the world’s leading all-in-one platform for visual communication and collaboration. Built to empower everyone to design, Canva serves the creative and design needs of enterprises, small businesses, consumers, and students in more than 190 countries worldwide. Whether you’re a novice taking your first steps in design, or a creative professional seeking powerful tools, Canva ensures users have what they need to transform an idea into something beautiful. Underpinned by the world’s most comprehensive library of designer-made content, Canva is powered by a suite of products and proprietary AI tools that elevate how individuals and teams create, collaborate, and communicate with ease.
