Keeping a written post now schedules it — it appears on your content calendar on the next open day, as a draft you can move or rewrite, instead of just being marked as kept. New sets also arrive on their own after you publish your site, and they are grounded in what your competitors actually charge and promise. **Where:** Creative Studio → Create, and Mission Control → Marketing → Creative. Scheduled posts appear in Marketing → Campaigns' calendar. **How to test:** Press "Use this" on a card — it now says "On the calendar" and shows the date it landed on. Open the calendar and you should find it there as a draft. Publish a site and a new set is written for its brand shortly after, if you have used or turned down what was already waiting. **Watch for:** Nothing is ever posted for you — everything lands as a draft on a date you can change. Pressing "Use this" twice must not create two calendar entries. Posts should not quote a competitor's name or prices; if one does, tell us, because we flag that for review and want to know when it slips through.
You no longer need to link a social account to get posts written. Drafts now arrive for LinkedIn, X, Instagram and Facebook whatever you have connected, each with a Copy button, so you can paste them wherever you actually post. **Where:** Creative Studio → Create, and Mission Control → Marketing → Creative. **How to test:** Open the shelf on a brand with no social accounts linked — you should still get a set. Cards for platforms you have not connected are marked "Copy & paste"; press Copy and paste the post into that network. Cards for connected accounts still schedule straight to your calendar with "Use this". **Watch for:** Connected accounts should still get the stronger pieces, since they are one click from published. TikTok and YouTube Shorts are not written for unless you connect them — their caption only makes sense alongside a video, which we do not make for you here.
Creative Studio now keeps a shelf of social posts written for your business in advance — each one with the angle it argues, who it is for, and the words already drafted — instead of asking you to think of something first. **Where:** Creative Studio → Create, and the same shelf at Mission Control → Marketing → Creative. The bell tells you how many are waiting. **How to test:** Open Create before starting a conversation. Press "Write me a new set" and wait about two minutes. Each card shows the angle; "Read the words" opens the post. Try Use this, Edit, and Dismiss — dismissing asks whether it was the angle, the timing or the tone, and "Just remove it" is always there. **Watch for:** Posts should never repeat an angle you already used or turned down, and should never mention a client, a city or a number you never told us about. We only write for platforms you have actually connected — if nothing appears, connect a social account first. The old "Get 2 ideas for your business" button is gone; the shelf replaces it.
Dismissing a creative idea now asks one optional question — was it the angle, the timing, or the tone — so the next set of ideas can avoid the same miss instead of repeating it. **Where:** Creative Studio → Create → the suggestion grid, and the idea cards in the assistant conversation. **How to test:** Ask for ideas, press Dismiss on a card, and pick one of the three chips. The card disappears either way. "Just remove it" is still there and still removes the card without recording a reason. **Watch for:** The card must vanish on every path, including the plain remove. Dismissing should never block on picking a reason, and the chips should not appear on a card that has already been used or dismissed.
A film can now include a beat made of type and drawn structure — a title, a step list, an animated number, a before-and-after — instead of footage, and it can pull in a real photograph where one is genuinely the subject. **Where:** Creative Studio → Video. Ask the director for a beat that shows a number, a list or a comparison, and it will offer to draw it. **How to test:** Start a film and ask for something like "a beat showing the three steps" or "an animated counter". You should get a card to approve before anything is made. Approve it and the beat joins the timeline. **Watch for:** A drawn beat proposed where a real shot would clearly be better — drawn beats are for words, numbers and structure, not for showing a place or a person. Nothing is made or charged until you approve the card, so a proposal you decline should leave no trace on the timeline.
Your carousel's first slide now carries a real headline across the design, a line underneath saying what the deck is about, and your business name set as a proper lockup — sized for what the post is actually doing. **Where:** Creative Studio → ask for a carousel. **How to test:** Ask for a testimonial or a thank-you carousel. The cover should open with a headline you can read at a glance, a supporting line under it, and your business name at the top rather than tucked in a corner — a post about what clients say should look like it is from you. Ask for something more ordinary and the name goes back to a quiet signature. Attach pictures and the plan is written from what is actually in them: a screenshot too blurred to read is re-typed as copy rather than shown. A deck is now as short as its argument needs, so two slides is a real answer. **Watch for:** A cover whose headline is small, or set inside a screenshot rather than across the design; a business name drawn next to a logo you have never used; a supporting line missing from a cover that clearly needs one; a call-to-action button with nothing written inside it; a deck padded out with slides that only talk about the subject.
Menus, product lists and other catalogs now get a distinct, matching photo for every item instead of repeating one stock picture down the page. **Where:** Anywhere a catalog is created — building a new site for a restaurant, shop, clinic, hotel or similar, and adding a catalog page to an existing site. **How to test:** Create a site for a business with a list — a restaurant menu works best — and open the menu page once generation finishes. Every dish should have its own photo, and the whole set should look like one photographer shot it: same light, same surface, same angle. **Watch for:** Items sharing a photo, or one picture that clearly doesn't match its item. Photos you uploaded yourself are never replaced — if one of yours has been swapped for a new picture, that's a bug worth reporting. Listings imported from Google keep their real photos and are never given an invented one.
You can attach a PDF, Word file, spreadsheet or text file to the site chat, and the words in it go on the page exactly as you wrote them instead of being summarised into a shorter version. Before, the chat accepted only images and video and dropped anything else without saying so, which left pasting the document into the message box as the only option — and what reached the page after that was a rewritten summary. A long paste is now recognised as a document too, so it takes the same route. Four related problems were fixed alongside it: menus no longer fill up with links that go nowhere, asking for a page whose address already exists gets you a choice instead of silence, a newly created page can no longer end up showing a different page's content, and rows of filters and tabs can now be scrolled on a computer, not just swiped on a phone. **Where:** The chat box in your site's Mission Control — the "+" button, or drag a file onto the chat, or just paste. **How to test:** Open the chat, attach an FAQ or services document, and ask for a page built from it. Check that every item from your document is on the page and reads the way you wrote it. Then ask for a page at an address that already exists — you should be offered three options rather than nothing happening. **Watch for:** A document over 4 MB is refused with a message asking you to split it. Very long documents are used up to a limit and the page will tell you if it had to stop early. Scanned PDFs with no selectable text take a few seconds longer to read.
When you asked the planning chat for a cinematic scroll-driven hero, some designs in the round could come back with an ordinary hero instead, because the video clip was only ever lined up on one of the paths that builds them. **Where:** New Site → planning chat → ask for a cinematic scroll hero → generate **How to test:** Ask for a scroll-driven video hero in the planning chat, answer the intake, and generate. All three designs should open with the pinned, scroll-controlled video hero rather than a still image. **Watch for:** If no suitable clip can be found at all, the chat now says so plainly and builds a standard hero, rather than shipping a hero with an empty video in it.
Asking the planning chat for a cinematic scroll-scrub hero and then paying for a made-for-you clip could leave the built designs with no video hero at all — the clip was delivered and charged, but the site's choice of hero style was being dropped by the same chat turn that bought it. **Where:** Planning chat → ask for a cinematic scroll-scrub hero → accept the credit quote for a made-for-you clip → Generate 3 Designs **How to test:** In a fresh site, attach a photo and ask for a cinematic scroll-scrub video hero. Accept the credit price when it is quoted. Once the clip is ready, generate designs and open each one — every design should open with the scroll-scrub hero playing your commissioned clip, scrubbing as you scroll. **Watch for:** A design that opens with a still image instead, or with a video that plays by itself and ignores the scroll — either means the hero style was lost again. Switching the hero back to the standard style in chat should still work and stay switched.
Re-rolling the look sheet — the picture every shot of your film is built from — now has a ceiling of eight drawings per film, which almost nobody will meet. **Where:** Creative Studio → Video → the look sheet, on the right of a film being made. **How to test:** Re-roll the look sheet with notes as normal. Nothing changes for the first eight. Past that you will be told plainly that this film has had its sheets, and offered the two things that still work: approve the one on screen, or say what should be different and have those words carried into the shot prompts instead. A new film starts fresh. **Watch for:** being stopped before eight; a refusal that doesn't say what to do next.
Share links for a creative used to headline the full generation prompt — production direction written for the image model, shown to whoever you sent the link to. They now lead with the creative's own headline and one short line saying what it is and what it's for, and the link preview shows the whole creative instead of a cropped strip of it. **Where:** Creative Studio → any image or film → Share → open the link, and paste it into Slack, WhatsApp or LinkedIn to see the preview card. **How to test:** Share a vertical ad or video thumbnail. The page should read e.g. "Stop Coding Websites Manually" with "Vertical video thumbnail · Awareness" beneath it — no paragraph of image direction anywhere. Paste the link into Slack: the card should show the full creative at its own shape, not a top-cropped band. **Watch for:** A creative with no headline and no named concept (a logo or brand mark) falls back to naming its format — "Brand mark · Square" — which is correct. Link previews are cached by Slack and by our CDN for up to a day, so a link shared before this change may keep showing the old card for a while; a freshly shared link is immediate.
Changes to part of a film are paid for when you approve them, which meant that an edit refused after that point took the credits with it. Now, if nothing was made, the credits return to your balance and the message says so. **Where:** Creative Studio → Video → approve a change to part of a film. **How to test:** Approve an edit that cannot be carried out — for example one pointing at a stretch of a film that has been re-cut since the plan was written. The refusal should end with the credits being returned, and your balance should be back where it started. **Watch for:** This covers edits that never reached the point of being made. An edit that fails part-way through after the work has already started is not returned, because it has already been produced — the message will not promise a refund in that case. A refund is paid once, so re-approving the same failed plan will not pay it twice.
When you asked the editor to turn your hero into a cinematic scroll video and picked a clip, you got an ordinary autoplaying loop instead — and were told it was done. The editor now builds the real thing: the clip advances as you scroll and holds still when you stop. **Where:** Site editor → the chat panel on the right → ask for a scroll video hero, then pick a clip from the Stock library. **How to test:** Open a site whose hero is a static image, ask "can you make the hero a cinematic scroll video?", pick any free stock clip. Then scroll the preview slowly — the footage should move with you, and freeze the moment you stop. Leave the page alone and nothing should be playing. **Watch for:** A hero that plays by itself without you scrolling (the old behaviour), a hero that disappears after a page reload, or the rest of the page losing a section when the hero is replaced. Asking for a plain "background video" should still give you the autoplaying loop it always did.
A carousel idea now arrives as the slides themselves, drawn and readable, inside the chat — and you change them by saying what you want, instead of being sent to a form. **Where:** Creative Studio → Images & Carousels → describe a carousel, or pick a carousel idea. **How to test:** Ask for a carousel. The slides are planned for free and appear in the conversation, one readable slide at a time, with the render price under them. Then type "put a photo on every slide", "change slide 3 to say …", or "make it five slides" — the deck comes back changed, and the price changes with it. Nothing is charged until you press the render button. **Watch for:** A revised deck that quietly loses a slide you did not mention; a price on the button that does not go up when you ask for a picture on every slide; the slide editor refusing to save a line you typed.
Carousels scheduled to Instagram published as a single picture, and no Instagram picture post could go out at all — both are fixed, and you can now build a carousel from photos you uploaded yourself. **Where:** Creative Studio → Calendar → open a planned post → "Visual for this post" **How to test:** 1. Open a planned post and generate a carousel for it, or open the library picker ("Use a clip or image I already have"), press **Carousel**, and tap three of your own photos in the order you want them swiped through. 2. The tiles show 1, 2, 3 as you tap. Press "Attach these 3". 3. Check the post's format field — it now reads Carousel on its own, because the post has three pictures on it. 4. Tap a single picture instead and the format goes back to Image post. 5. Schedule it to a connected Instagram account and confirm all the slides appear on the profile, in the order you picked. **Watch for:** - A carousel that arrives on Instagram with only its first slide. - A post whose format says Carousel while only one picture is attached, or vice versa. - An Instagram post that fails after being scheduled with a message about the picture — pictures are now converted to the format Instagram requires when the post goes out, so this should no longer happen. - A warning under a photo you upload that says it is too tall, too wide or too large for an Instagram post. That warning is new, it never blocks the upload, and it appears while you are still looking at the file rather than days later. - Clips are still attached one at a time; they cannot be part of a carousel yet.
Attach real screenshots, messages or reviews to a carousel and they now go in exactly as they are — on the cover and on the slides — instead of being redrawn or replaced with invented ones. **Where:** Creative Studio → ask for a carousel and attach your own pictures. **How to test:** Attach three or four testimonial screenshots and ask for a testimonial carousel. Pick "Show it as it is" as the role for each. Every one you attached should appear in the finished deck, unchanged and large enough to read, and the cover should carry a real headline across it rather than a few words tucked inside one of the pictures. Attach more than four and it will ask which ones matter rather than choosing for you. **Watch for:** A picture you attached that does not appear anywhere; a screenshot whose wording, names or timestamps differ from the one you uploaded; a cover with no headline on it; slides that describe your evidence without showing it.
You can now make a finished film longer instead of starting a new one — the next piece opens on the last frame of what you already have, so the cut is invisible and the cast, the place and the light carry over. **Where:** Creative Studio → your film → ask for more in the chat ("add ten more seconds", "keep going", "now show the delivery"). **How to test:** 1. Open a film that has already been made and delivered. 2. Ask for it to be longer, or for another beat on the end. 3. Approve the plan that comes back — it says "added to your film" and numbers the new piece by where it lands (Clip 3, not Clip 1). 4. Watch it land: the new footage starts on the last frame of the previous clip, and the finished file is the whole thing joined together. 5. Try the same on a video you uploaded yourself — new footage is added after your own clip, and it stays your video. **Watch for:** The new part should look like the same film, not a new one. Each continuation is built from a still of the piece before it, so after several the look can drift — if you want a lot more film, or the new part is a different place or a different day, start a fresh one instead. A film whose last clip is still being made can't be continued yet; you'll be told so and nothing is charged. You are never charged again for footage you already bought.
You can now point at a stretch of a finished film, say what should be different about it, and have only that stretch re-made and joined back in — the rest of the film is untouched, and you are charged for the seconds you selected rather than the whole piece. **Where:** Creative Studio → open a film → ask in the chat, e.g. "make the sky overcast between 5 and 8 seconds" or "get rid of the box on the counter in the last shot". **How to test:** Open a film that already has footage on it. Ask for a change to a specific stretch by naming the seconds. Check the plan card shows a small credit cost and the range it will change, approve it, then play the finished film: the picture inside that stretch should be different, everything outside it identical, the film the same length, and the sound unchanged. **Watch for:** A selection that runs across a cut will be pulled back inside the one shot it is mostly in, and you should be told that in plain words — if it silently edits different seconds from the ones you asked for, that is a bug. Also watch that the price tracks the length of the selection and not the length of the film, that the picture does not jump in size at either join, and that a film which already has captions or a title drawn on it comes back with those still crisp.
The studio now opens on what you have made, keeps the picture you are working on beside the box you type into, and has one microphone instead of two. **Where:** Creative Studio → Images & Carousels, Video, Library **What changed** - **Images opens on your work.** Instead of a list of conversations down the side, you land on everything this brand has made. Click one and you are back in the conversation that made it. Nothing is created just by opening the tool. - **The picture you pick stays on screen.** Choose a result and it pins beside the conversation at full size, with your other takes under it. Before, the only way to see a picture properly was a pop-up that covered the box you type into — so looking at it and asking for a change were two different screens. - **One microphone.** It is in the message box, where it is everywhere else in the product, and it starts a voice conversation. The floating "Talk to the studio" button is gone; it used to sit on top of the send button on a laptop and on top of the microphone on a phone. - **One place to reuse a picture.** The Assets strip on the right is gone. The paperclip in the message box now has a "Made here" tab alongside Upload and Brand library. - **The Library is one row of filters** — Everything, Images, Video, Logos, Uploads — instead of two separate tabs. - **Old sets of ideas fold away.** Ask for another set of directions and the previous one collapses to a single line saying how many it had and what you made from it, with a Show to open it back up. Nothing is deleted, and the set you are actually choosing from is never the one that folds. - **Video keeps your rejected look sheets.** Draw the reference picture again and the one it replaced stays in the conversation with a "Bring back" next to it. Going back is free; only a new drawing costs credits. - **On a phone, the picture you picked stays with you.** It sits at the bottom of the screen above the message box, folds to a single line when you scroll away, and opens again on a tap. **How to test** 1. Open Creative Studio → pick a brand → Images & Carousels. You should see a grid of what you have made, not a conversation. 2. Click a picture. The conversation that made it opens. 3. Generate something, then click a result — it should pin to the right (above the conversation on a phone) and stay there while you type. 4. Click the paperclip → "Made here" and attach something you made earlier. 5. Ask for a second set of concepts — the first set becomes one line; press Show to bring it back. 6. In Video, re-draw a look sheet twice, then use "Bring back" on an earlier one. **Watch for** - On a phone: a picked picture that is not at the bottom of the screen, a folded strip that hides which picture is pinned, or the message box sitting underneath the picture instead of above it. - The microphone in the message box doing dictation instead of starting a voice conversation. - "Bring back" charging credits, or a brought-back look sheet showing as already approved. - A set of ideas folding away while you were still picking from it, or the assistant's reply disappearing along with the cards. - The Library's "Uploads" filter losing the approve, favourite and delete actions.
Credits you buy as a top-up pack now last 12 months from the day you buy them, and your balance tells you when the next one is due to expire. **Where:** Billing → Credits (the card showing your balance), and the pricing page. **How to test:** Open your billing page and look at the Credits card. If you hold a purchased pack, a line under the balance names how many credits expire and on what date. Buy a pack and the date should sit 12 months out. Monthly plan credits are unchanged — they are replaced at each billing date and the card still shows when that happens. **Watch for:** Credits are always spent in the order that costs you least — this month's plan allowance first, then whichever pack is closest to expiring. You should never see a pack expire while plan credits sit unused. Credits bought before today were sold as never expiring and keep that: they carry no expiry date and are spent last. Work that fails or is cancelled is refunded back into the exact pack it came from, with that pack's original date intact.
Point at a moment in a film you have already made and ask for a cutaway there — the hands working, the sign, the product, the van pulling away — and a few seconds of new footage is made and put in at that moment, with everything after it playing later. **Where:** Creative Studio → Video → open a finished film → ask in the conversation, e.g. "put a shot of the oven in around five seconds". **How to test:** 1. Open a film that has finished being made and has more than one shot in it. 2. Ask for a cutaway at a moment — name the seconds, or say "between those two bits". 3. Check the card: it names the moment, says how long the new shot runs, and shows a small credit figure — the price of the few seconds you are adding, not of the film. 4. Approve it. The new shot appears on the timeline in the right place, everything after it moves along, and the film puts itself back together once the shot lands. **Watch for:** - Asking for a moment in the middle of one continuous shot is refused on purpose, and you are told which moments you can have instead. Pick one of those. - A film that is still being made will not take a cutaway until every part of it has landed. - The new shot is silent and two to six seconds long. If you want a new scene with someone talking, or the film to carry on past its ending, ask for that instead — it is a different thing and a different price. - Your finished file is replaced while the new shot is being made, so the film is briefly unavailable to play and then comes back with the cutaway in it.
When generation was blocked because a question was still waiting for an answer, the builder showed a dead-end "Generation failed to start" instead of the question — now it shows what to do next. **Where:** Site editor → the design/preview screen → Generate **How to test:** Upload a screenshot of a website in the planning chat, then click Generate before answering the "recreate this faithfully or use it as inspiration?" question. You should see that exact instruction, not a generic failure. **Watch for:** Any generation refusal that still reads as a bare "Generation failed to start" with no reason — those now carry diagnostic detail in the error report.
Scheduling a post to a social account now requires confirming it on screen, including when you asked by voice. The voice session can plan, name accounts and prepare the send, but the post only leaves once you have approved the card. **Where:** Creative Studio → chat or voice → schedule a post **How to test:** In a voice session, ask to put a post on a connected account. It should tell you to confirm on screen rather than queueing it. **Watch for:** Cancelling a scheduled send still works straight away — that is the safe direction, and a cancelled send can always be queued again.
Attach a photo or build a carousel and the copy is written from what is actually in it — and copy you already wrote is never overwritten. **Where:** Creative Studio → Calendar → open a planned post → "Visual for this post" **How to test:** 1. Add a post to the calendar without typing anything into it, then attach one of your own photos. 2. The hook, caption and hashtags fill in from what is in the photo. Edit them; nothing publishes until you schedule it. 3. Now type a caption on a different post and attach a file to it. Your caption stays exactly as you wrote it. 4. On that post, press "Write the copy from this picture" to replace it on purpose. 5. Build a carousel from several photos and press the button. The caption should describe what the set builds to, not just the first slide. **Watch for:** - A caption you wrote being replaced when you attach or swap a file. That should never happen now — only the button does that. - A carousel caption that only describes the opening slide. - A post that still reads blank after you attach something to it. - The button is now offered for pictures and carousels, not only clips. It previously appeared only on clips even though it had always worked for pictures.
The confirmation card for putting a post out ran the wrong action when you pressed it — the post was never queued, and in a voice session the approval was used up so the card could not be pressed again. Every surface now runs the action its card was made for. **Where:** Creative Studio → chat, voice, or the assistant inside a site **How to test:** Ask to schedule a post, press Schedule it, then check the queue — the send should be there, named to the account and time on the card. **Watch for:** If a send is refused (a format the destination will not take), the approval survives so you can fix the post and confirm again without starting over.
Three things the chat could not do yesterday: attach a finished film to a planned post, schedule several posts to the same accounts in one go, and — in a voice session — actually put something out. Voice now gets a confirmation card naming the accounts and the time, instead of being told to go and find a screen. **Where:** Creative Studio → chat or voice **How to test:** Ask to put a finished film on Friday's post, then set which frame it opens on, then schedule it. In voice, ask to schedule something: a card appears and nothing goes out until you press it. **Watch for:** Attaching media clears any cover already set — a cover points at one particular file — so set the cover after the film, not before. Scheduling several posts keeps each on its own day; it never moves them.
Add photographs of your team, your product or your place to a video project and the film is built around them — the same faces, recognisable, all the way through the shot. **Where:** Creative Studio → Video → add your pictures to the film, then ask for them to be in it ("put my team in it", "use these three photos of my staff"). **How to test:** Open a video project, add two or three photographs of people, ask the director to build the film around them, and read the plan card before approving. The card should say what the photographs do to the opening shot, and the credit figure should be the same as the film would cost without them. **Watch for:** Up to five photographs — a sixth is refused, and the refusal says why five. A film built around your photographs will not also open on the reference picture you approved earlier; you get one or the other, and the plan card says which this one chose. Ask for the approved picture back and your people appear from the second shot on.
When you asked the editor to take a background video off your hero, the video disappeared from the page but your site quietly kept storing it — and a later redesign could bring it back. Now the value goes too. **Where:** Site editor → chat with the AI about any section **How to test:** Open a design whose hero has a background video and ask to "remove the background video and go back to the static image". The video should disappear from the preview. Regenerate or restyle that design afterwards — the video should stay gone. **Watch for:** Anything you did NOT ask to remove disappearing. Only the exact thing you asked about should go, and only once nothing on the page is still using it; the rest of that section's text and images must be untouched. Undo should bring a removal back like any other edit.
You can now say "put this on Instagram on Friday at 9" and have it actually queued to a connected account, set the frame a reel opens on, and cancel a send that has not gone out yet — without leaving the conversation. **Where:** Creative Studio → chat, once a social account is connected in Settings **How to test:** Ask what accounts are connected, then ask to schedule a planned post to one of them. You will get an approval card naming the account and the exact time before anything is queued. **Watch for:** Moving a post's date or marking it ready still only changes the plan — the reply tells you when something is genuinely queued, by naming the account and the time.
Sharing a carousel used to publish its cover — one slide of four, with nothing on the page to suggest the rest existed. A carousel's share link now opens the whole deck, in swipe order, and there is a "Share carousel" button on the carousel itself rather than only in the menu on a single slide. **Where:** Creative Studio → Images & Carousels → open a finished carousel → "Share carousel", beside "Download all". **How to test:** Open the link. You should see slide 1 with arrows, a slide counter, and every slide as a strip underneath — arrow keys and swipe both move it. Paste the link into Slack: the preview card should show three slides side by side and say how many there are. **Watch for:** A carousel still being composed is not shared as a partial deck — the link shows the cover on its own until every slide exists, then becomes the full deck with no need to re-share. Sharing a single image is unchanged.
A site written in a right-to-left language published as left-to-right, and sites migrating a blog got placeholder cards instead of their real posts. Both are fixed, along with duplicate and blank pages on imports. **Where:** Site editor → Publish, and the "bring my posts across" step when you start a site from an existing website. **How to test:** 1. Start a site from an existing website in Arabic, Hebrew, Persian or Urdu and accept the offer to bring its posts across. 2. Publish, then open the published site. The layout should mirror — menu, headings and body text all flowing right-to-left — and the page should report the site's own language, not English. 3. Open the section that shows your posts. It should list the posts that actually came across, and you should be able to edit them from Content. 4. Check Content for the imported posts. Anything your old site listed twice should appear once, and pages built with Elementor, WPBakery or Divi should arrive with their text rather than blank. 5. In the design preview, click a menu link for a page you haven't built yet. It should say the page gets created when you build, and offer to build it — not warn that the page is missing. **Watch for:** English words in a non-English site — button labels, form fields, footer links. Posts shown as cards that can't be opened or edited. A published site whose text still reads left-to-right. Imported pages that arrive empty.
"Other ideas" now takes your words, so you can say why the first three were wrong instead of spinning for three more — and saying it in the chat works too. **Where:** Creative Studio → Video → describe a film, then look at the three ideas. **How to test:** Press "Other ideas" and type what should be different — "funnier, and set in a shop". The next three should follow it. Typing the same thing into the chat box should work the same way. Leaving the note empty still gives you three different ones, free either way. **Watch for:** three new ideas that ignore what you asked for; the storyboard pictures stop being drawn after three rounds, though the ideas and their scripts keep coming.
Asking the site assistant to turn on the chat widget used to get you an answer about something else entirely — it had no way to reach the widget at all. Now it can check the widget, switch it on or off, and put it on your site for you. **Where:** Site editor → Chat, then ask "enable the chat widget on my site" **How to test:** Ask "is my chat widget on?" — you should get its real state, including whether it is actually installed on the site. Then ask "turn on the chat widget" and confirm. Publish the site and open it: the chat bubble should appear. Ask "turn the chat off" to switch it back off. **Watch for:** Enabling adds the widget to your site's custom code, so if you had custom code switched off site-wide, the assistant turns it back on and tells you. Nothing reaches visitors until you publish. Asking what popups your site has should still answer about popups, not about chat.
Accepting the made-for-you scroll-scrub hero clip in the planning chat now actually starts it — and if it can't start, the reply says so instead of telling you it's on its way. **Where:** Planning chat, while setting up a new site — ask for the cinematic scroll-scrub hero and attach a photo of your space. **How to test:** Attach a photo, ask for the scroll-scrub video hero, let the assistant quote the credit price, then accept. The clip should start, your credit balance should drop by the quoted amount, and the hero should switch from the stand-in footage to your clip when it finishes. **Watch for:** A reply that says the clip has been commissioned while the balance never moves. If a clip genuinely can't be started, the same reply should now tell you that nothing was charged and what to do next.
The site editor's browser tab was showing a plain grey placeholder icon instead of the Mondovo mark, which made it hard to spot among open tabs. **Where:** Any site editor tab — Client → site → editor **How to test:** Open a site in the editor and look at the browser tab icon. It now shows the Mondovo mark. If your organisation has white-label branding turned on with a favicon uploaded, the tab shows your favicon instead. **Watch for:** Your client-facing portal is unchanged on purpose — when white-label is on but no favicon has been uploaded, it still shows a neutral icon rather than ours, so your clients never see our branding.
Choosing what a video should be is now one question with three answers, and bringing your own people into the top one no longer costs more than the film itself. **Where:** Creative Studio → Video → the plan card, before you approve a film. **How to test:** Start three video projects and ask for a different thing in each — footage under a voiceover, one person speaking to camera, then a film that cuts between several shots. The plan card should land each on a different tier without you naming one, and the credit figure should rise across the three. Then add photographs of your team to the third and approve it again: the figure should not move. **Watch for:** Asking for something a cheaper tier cannot do moves you up rather than failing — cuts between shots, anything over fifteen seconds, or photographs of your own people all land on the top tier, and the plan card says so before you approve. Up to five photographs; a sixth is refused with the reason. The cheapest tier is footage only, so nobody speaks on camera in it.
Ask for a shot to open on your logo or your product and the plan now says so, on the card, before you approve it. **Where:** Creative Studio → Video → add a picture to a film, then ask for a particular shot to open on it. **How to test:** Upload your logo or a product photo to a film, then say something like "open the second shot on my logo". When the plan comes back, read the script on the card — the shot you named should say "Opens on …" with your picture's name above its prompt. If it doesn't, the director didn't do what you asked, and you can say so before spending anything. **Watch for:** a shot that should open on your picture and says nothing; the first shot announcing where it opens when you didn't ask (that one is the ordinary case and stays quiet).
A creative built from an attached picture whose lettering you wanted kept — or one carrying your logo — was being asked for that lettering and told to render no lettering, in the same instruction. The words could go missing, and it cost you a credit either way. A recent change closed a real hole: a creative that ended up with no copy of its own had nothing telling the image model to leave words out, so the model would invent a business name and put it on a screen in the picture. That protection stays. What changed is that it no longer overrides the words you deliberately asked for — when a reference image is there to supply the lettering, only invented words are refused. The amber warning on a concept card is also honest now. It appears when the creative really will come out wordless (it used to look only at the headline, so it could warn you about a creative that still had a call to action on it, and stay silent on one that had lost everything). It no longer tells you a number was the problem when the wording was — "free", "guaranteed" and "half price" trip the same check with no figure involved. And when you are picking several directions at once, it opens by itself instead of hiding behind "View direction and proposed copy". **Where:** Creative Studio → Create → attach an image → set its role to "Keep its words" (or "My brand mark"), leave Headline/Offer/CTA empty, Generate. **How to test:** Attach an existing creative, choose "Keep its words", leave the copy fields blank and generate — the finished picture should carry the reference's wording. Separately, ask the assistant for an idea whose headline makes a claim your brief does not back ("Money-back guarantee"); the card should show the amber note above the generate button, and the note should not mention a number. **Watch for:** Lettering missing from a "Keep its words" render; a logo absent from a piece that asked for one; an amber warning on a concept whose card still shows a call to action below it; a picture coming back with an invented brand name or domain on it.
Ask for "us vs WordPress" and you were getting a feature tour with a product line for a hook. Now the brief states what the reader has to end up believing, the hook names the thing you are comparing against, and each slide takes one axis with their-way and your-way side by side. **Where:** Creative Studio → ask for a carousel comparing you to something **How to test:** Ask for a carousel against a named competitor or the way clients do it today. Every content slide should carry two bullets — theirs then yours — on one axis, and the deck should be as long as the number of axes. **Watch for:** Claims still have to come from somewhere real. Your own published pages now count as a source, so the comparison uses your wording.
When you commissioned a custom hero clip, the clip was made and charged for but the page kept playing the old stand-in video — in the editor preview and on the published site. **Where:** Site editor → ask the assistant to replace the hero video → "Made for you" tab **How to test:** Commission a hero clip on a site with a scroll-video hero. Once it is delivered, reload the editor preview — the hero should be playing your new clip, not the placeholder. Publish and the live site should serve it too. **Watch for:** The hero still moves either way, so check the video itself rather than assuming a moving hero means the swap worked. Any other design you switch to should also show the new clip.
The card for a proposed creative printed the same line up to three times — as the title, the hook and the exact headline — above a four-line scene description, so the decision in front of you was buried. Repeats are now dropped, the scene description sits behind "The scene we would paint", and the assistant no longer writes as though the picture already exists. **Where:** Creative Studio → Images & Carousels → ask for a creative **How to test:** Dictate an exact headline ("headline, exactly these words: …"). The card should show that line once, the note should say what it *would* make rather than what it has made, and the price stays on the Generate button. **Watch for:** The offer and call-to-action lines should still appear under the headline when the concept has them.
"Create campaign" has moved off the proposal card and onto the finished result, where it now reads "Make a size set" — the same creative in your other channel sizes, with the picture you approved as the reference. Every asset in the right-hand rail also gained a one-click "Use in chat", so you can keep talking about an image you already made instead of hunting for it. **Where:** Creative Studio → Images & Carousels → generate, then look under the result; and the Assets rail on the right **How to test:** Generate an ad or social image, press "Make a size set", choose placements and review the cost — no new brief is planned and nothing generates until you confirm. Then press "Use in chat" on any rail tile and check it arrives attached to the composer. **Watch for:** The size set is offered only for ads, social posts and banners — a video thumbnail has one frame and no placement matrix, so it is deliberately absent there.
Pressing an option in the video conversation used to spin two loaders at once, show your answer as an internal code word, and leave the question sitting there as if it had been ignored — and the director sometimes replied by narrating the question back at you. **Where:** Creative Studio → Video → open a film and answer one of the director's question cards. **How to test:** Start a film, describe it, and wait for the question card. Press one of the options. The card should retire straight away, your answer should appear as the words on the button you pressed, and there should be exactly one "Working on it…" line underneath — which starts counting seconds once the wait passes about ten, since writing and pricing a film takes a minute or two. The director's reply should ask its question as a question, with no mention of what it costs. **Watch for:** an option that leaves the card on screen; an answer shown as a hyphenated code word; two spinners; a reply that says "I asked you…" or prices a question.
Asking in the chat for a different format — "make this a carousel", "an ad instead" — was overruled by whatever the Making control was set to, silently. Your words now win; the control is the default for when you haven't said. The real-size thumbnail comparison also moved behind a "Compare at real size" line instead of filling the page, and results sit under the proposal that produced them. **Where:** Creative Studio → Images & Carousels **How to test:** With Making set to Video thumbnail, ask for a carousel. The card should say Carousel and offer to plan slides. Generate a few thumbnails and the comparison strip should be a line you open, not a wall you scroll past. **Watch for:** If you say nothing about format, the Making control still decides — that part is unchanged.
Asking the site editor to put a made-for-you clip in a scroll-video hero used to open the stock-and-upload picker with no paid option and no price, however you phrased it — now the picker offers a clip made for your place, with the credit cost on the button. **Where:** Site editor → the assistant panel on the right → ask for a custom video in your hero. **How to test:** Open a site whose hero is the scroll-video one and ask the assistant to replace the hero video with a custom clip of your own space. The picker opens with a fourth tab, "Made for you", showing the credit price. Pick "start from your photo" or "describe the shot", write one sentence about what should be in frame, and start it. Your hero keeps playing the clip it has now and swaps to yours by itself when it is ready. **Watch for:** The tab is only there when your workspace has enough credits and the hero is one that can play the finished clip — if it is missing, the free options (stock, upload, paste a link) are still the whole answer. Nothing is charged until you press the button, and a refusal says so in the panel.
When you ask the planning chat for a cinematic scroll-scrub video hero, the reply now names your footage options in the same breath instead of leaving them out. **Where:** Site planning chat — New Site → describe your business → ask for a scroll-scrub / cinematic video hero. **How to test:** Start a new site, describe the business, then ask for "a cinematic scroll-scrub video hero like Apple product pages". The reply should adopt the hero and, in one short sentence, tell you that you can attach your own clip, that one will be lined up for you free if you do nothing, and — when your balance covers it — that we can make one for you, with the credit price stated as a number. **Watch for:** The options being mentioned on an ordinary site that never asked for a video hero (they should not be), a credit price quoted without a number, or an offer to make a clip when your balance is below the price.
You can now drop a video clip straight into the planning chat, and the assistant will ask whether you want it as the full-screen opening that plays as visitors scroll — or whether it is just reference. **Where:** Site planning chat, on any new or in-progress site. Drag a clip onto the message box, or use the ＋ button. **How to test:** Attach an MP4, MOV or WebM (up to 80MB) and send a message. The assistant should acknowledge the clip and ask, in one sentence, whether you want the scroll-video homepage. Say yes and the clip becomes the opening; say no and it stays saved as reference. Also try a clip larger than 80MB, and a file type that is not supported — both should tell you why. **Watch for:** The assistant assuming you want a video homepage without asking. A clip that uploads but is never mentioned in the reply. An attached video appearing in the site's image gallery, where it does not belong. A file that is silently ignored with no message at all.
The block of attach instructions above the message box is gone. There is a paperclip in the input row instead — it carries a count when something is attached, and opens a small dialog with Upload and Brand library tabs. **Where:** Creative Studio → Images & Carousels → the chat composer **How to test:** Click the paperclip, upload a file or switch to Brand library and pick one, then Done. The thumbnail row above the box still shows what is attached, and the count sits on the paperclip. **Watch for:** Dropping a file anywhere on the panel, and pasting a screenshot, still work without opening anything.
You can now upload a video you already have and work on it in the conversation — a new voice over the words that are already there, music underneath, an opening, an ending, or a shorter cut — instead of paying to make a film you have already shot. **Where:** Creative Studio → Video → the opening screen, where "Upload a video instead" now sits beside "New video". Everything after that happens in the conversation on the left. **How to test:** Upload a clip with someone speaking in it and ask "what is this clip?" — you should get its length, its shape and the words it contains, read off the clip and not invented. Then ask for a warmer voice and some quiet music: each comes back as a plan with its price, and four of the six things on offer are free. Approve them one at a time and watch the film on the right change. Finish with "add an opening and an ending" and check the cards appear either side of your footage. **Watch for:** A redubbed line that cuts off before the last word — it should never happen, and if a line needs more room the picture holds a fraction longer and the reply tells you by how much. Also watch for any suggestion that your video be re-made rather than edited: your footage is the film, and nothing should offer to replace it.
Ask for a post about something your site already argues — "us vs WordPress" — and the assistant now searches your published pages and writes from what they say, instead of from a one-line description of your business. Carousels also stopped being four slides by default: the deck is as long as the argument needs, between three and six. **Where:** Creative Studio → Images & Carousels **How to test:** Ask for a carousel comparing you to a competitor you have a page about. The slides should use your own claims and wording, and the deck length should suit the comparison rather than always being four. **Watch for:** Prices, statistics and guarantees still have to come from somewhere real — your site counts as a source now, so they can appear if they are published there.
In the design gallery, cards were painting every hero headline on top of each other, and catalog sections like Featured Listings showed their heading over an empty grid. **Where:** Site editor → Design Gallery ("Pick a design to build on"), and the homepage thumbnail. **How to test:** Open the gallery on a site with a video hero and a catalog section. Each card should show one hero headline, and the listings section should show real entries with photos. **Watch for:** Overlapping headline text in a card, or a catalog section with a heading but no rows. Cards are cached in your browser, so the first load after this change re-renders them.
Sites built around a cinematic scroll-video hero were being saved with the hero missing from every design — the opening section simply was not there, and nothing reported a problem. **Where:** Site editor → Design view, on sites whose hero is a scroll-video, Ken Burns, or particle background. **How to test:** Generate a site with a scroll-video hero, then open each design. Every design should open on the full-screen video hero with its own headline copy, with the navigation sitting over it. **Watch for:** A design that opens straight into its second section (listings, services, about) instead of the hero. Existing sites already saved this way can be repaired in place — the hero itself was stored correctly, only the page was not using it.
Dragging a file the chat can't read — a text document, a Word file, an SVG — used to do nothing at all, which looked like drag-and-drop was broken. The chat now says which file it couldn't take and what it accepts. **Where:** Site Builder chat (the screen that asks for your business name), and any chat in the site builder. **How to test:** Drag a `.txt` or `.docx` file from your desktop onto the chat. A red message names the file and lists the accepted formats. Drag a PNG, JPEG, GIF, WebP or PDF and it attaches as before. **Watch for:** An image or PDF that fails to attach, or more than one message for a single drop of several files.
Only the most recent batch used to survive a reload, so a thread you had worked in twice came back looking like it had made nothing. Each earlier round now appears under the turn that asked for it — click one to open it full size. **Where:** Creative Studio → Images & Carousels → reopen a conversation you have generated in more than once **How to test:** Generate, ask for something different, generate again, then reload. Both rounds should be in the transcript, each under its own proposal. **Watch for:** Earlier rounds are a record — open and download them there, or send one back into the chat from the Assets rail. The newest batch keeps the full set of actions.
The creative account you connect for image generation and upscaling is now labelled Freepik (Magnific), matching how the service brands itself today — the parenthetical stays so the name still matches the sign-in screen you land on. **Where:** Site editor → Settings → Creative Accounts **How to test:** Open Creative Accounts and confirm the first card reads "Freepik (Magnific)". If you already have it connected, the connection is untouched — no reconnect needed. Connect a fresh one and confirm the sign-in flow still completes. **Watch for:** An existing connection showing as disconnected or asking to reauthorise; the card name wrapping awkwardly on narrow screens; stale "Canva" wording anywhere in the assets panels.
A credit is now 5¢ and buys one image of any kind, so a standard image costs a quarter of what it did — and the only things you can buy are credits, live sites, team seats and the Agency add-on. **Where:** Billing → Credits (Add credits), and the pricing page's credit schedule. **How to test:** 1. Open your organization's billing page and find the **Credits** card. 2. The three packs now read 200 / 500 / 1,000 credits at $10 / $25 / $50 — the same 5¢ a credit at every size. 3. Below them, enter any amount in **Or choose your own amount**. Anything from 200 upward is accepted and the dollar figure updates as you type; below 200 the Buy button stays disabled. 4. Buy one and confirm the credits land in the wallet after Stripe confirms. 5. On the pricing page, open the credit schedule: every image is one line at 1 credit. Voice is 2 credits a minute and video 2 credits per 4 seconds — both the same money as before, since the credit halved. **Watch for:** - A top-up that grants the wrong number of credits, or a checkout total that disagrees with the amount shown before you clicked. Both prices are computed server-side from one versioned rate, so a mismatch is a real bug. - A custom amount being accepted below 200, or a fractional/negative amount reaching Stripe. - Anywhere still quoting "2 credits" for an image or "1 credit a minute" for voice — the assistant, the voice studio and the admin credits page were all updated. - Any surface still offering "Buy 25 more AI images for $3" or extra refinement packs. Both were retired: they only ever appeared on the free plan, priced images at 12¢ against 5¢ on a paid plan, and no screen could actually complete the purchase. The free plan's monthly caps still apply — upgrading is now the only way past them.
Opening a link to a design other than your site's chosen one could show the chosen design's layout underneath the requested design's words, and switching designs could leave the previous design's text on screen. **Where:** Site editor → Design view, opening a design link directly or switching between designs. **How to test:** Open a link to any design and check the layout and the wording belong to that design. Switch between designs a few times; each should fully replace the last, including its catalog sections. **Watch for:** A layout and copy that look like they come from two different designs, or text that lags one design behind after a switch.
Cards in Video now carry your brand's colours and typeface, arrive line by line over a gradient with an accent rule, and are drawn by the same template system the rest of the studio uses — and a clip where somebody is talking now gets word-by-word captions instead of plain subtitles. **Where:** Creative Studio → Video → open a finished film and ask for captions, a hook line or an end card. **How to test:** On a film where somebody talks to camera, ask for captions. You should be offered the moving kind — words appearing one at a time with two or three lifted into your brand colour — and if you specifically want plain readable subtitles, say so and you will get them. Then ask for an end card: it should come back in your brand's colours with your logo, not flat black and white. **Watch for:** an end card still in plain near-black (a brand with no colours anywhere and no logo to read them from will still look like that); a reply that describes captions as "dynamic" when they are plain.
Pausing, removing or toggling a tracking tag, script or overlay now updates your site's live page immediately instead of waiting for the page to refresh itself. **Where:** Site editor → Settings → Tracking (and the overlay switches in Settings) **How to test:** Install a Google Search Console verification tag and open your live site — the verification tag is in the page. Pause it in Settings → Tracking without publishing, then reload the live page: the tag is gone on the next load. **Watch for:** A change that still looks like the old state after a full reload — try a hard reload first, since your browser keeps its own copy of the page.
Choosing a cover direction for a video in Creative Studio failed with "Selected reference was not found" — the frame we captured from your video was attached to the message but then rejected as a reference. **Where:** Creative Studio → attach a video → pick one of the two cover directions **How to test:** Drop a video (or paste a link) into the Creative Studio chat, wait for the two cover directions, click one. The assistant should answer with a concept built around the captured frame instead of a red error line. **Watch for:** The frame still should not appear in "Pick from library" — it is an input, not brand imagery. Only the attachment you explicitly chose should be used.
Reviewing a video thumbnail in the detailed form failed with "Couldn't plan the creative — Invalid creativeKind". The only way through was "Skip — use my prompt as-is", which skips the step that writes the words and the art direction — so the picture came back with no text on it. **Where:** Creative Studio → Images & Carousels → Video thumbnail → Advanced image settings → Review creative **How to test:** Set the deliverable to Video thumbnail, write a prompt, press Review creative. You should get planned concepts with headlines, not a yellow warning. **Watch for:** Every other format planned fine before and still should — ads, social posts, carousels, logos.
Every finished creative used to sit under nine labelled buttons — and on a thumbnail batch, where the picture lives in the compare strip, those buttons were all that was left, so the page filled with empty boxes. The grid is pictures now. Click one and everything you can do to it is in the viewer with it, at the size you actually judge it at. **Where:** Creative Studio → Images & Carousels → after a generation **How to test:** Generate a few takes. Click a picture: the viewer opens with keep/avoid, Edit, More like this, and a "…" menu holding reply, size set, share, board and delete. Hover a picture in the grid to find the selection checkbox. Tick "Don't ask again — just generate" beside a proposal and the next one renders without waiting for approval. **Watch for:** "Reimagine this" is gone — reply about the picture in chat instead, which does the same job without a detour through the form. "Don't ask again" spends credits without asking, is remembered per brand in this browser, and the same checkbox turns it back off.
The deck was a row of thumbnails the width of a postage stamp, which is no way to read the slides — and the middle slides are exactly what gets published. One slide at a time now, at a size you can read, with arrows, dots and a counter. **Where:** Creative Studio → ask for a carousel → Plan slides **How to test:** Plan a carousel. Step through the slides with the arrows or the dots; edit the copy of whichever one you are looking at. What is on screen for a middle slide is the finished slide. **Watch for:** The cover is still the only slide whose picture can be art-directed, and it says so only while you are on it.
Sites whose hero is a scroll-scrub video were playing back a clip that was never prepared for scrubbing, so dragging through it snapped and stuttered rather than gliding. **Where:** Site editor → Design view, and the published site, on any site whose hero is a scroll-video. **How to test:** Open a design with a video hero and scroll slowly through the opening section. The video should track your scroll frame by frame, with no snapping or pauses. **Watch for:** A hero that jumps in chunks rather than moving continuously, or a pause the first time you scroll before the video catches up. Sites built before this change keep their old clip until it is re-prepared.
Every website image now comes from the same model Brand Studio uses — five times cheaper for us and better at type — and hero videos no longer appear as blank cards in the admin Visuals grid. **Where:** The editor's **AI Images** panel, image fulfilment during site generation, and **Admin → Creative Studio**. **How to test:** 1. In the site editor, open **AI Images** from the toolbar's More menu and generate a hero image. It should return in roughly 20–30 seconds and cost 1 credit. 2. Generate a few different kinds — a portrait, a plain scene, a laptop showing a dashboard, a chalkboard menu. All four now come from one model, so a single site's imagery should look like it belongs together. 3. Open **Admin → Creative Studio** and click **Videos**. Any commissioned hero clip now appears there and plays. 4. Click **Visuals**. No blank cards with a "succeeded" chip — every card in that grid should show a picture. **Watch for:** - An image that comes back noticeably worse than before on portraits or plain photographic scenes — those two used to route to different models and now do not. If OpenAI is unavailable they still fall back to the old photo models. - Any price rendered as "1 credits". One credit is now the common case for the first time, so several labels were switched to a shared formatter; a stray one may remain. - A hero clip appearing in both Visuals and Videos, or disappearing from both.
Picking a different design while the previous one was still loading could leave the canvas showing the new design's layout with the old design's text — and the page structure list agreeing with the wrong one. **Where:** Site editor → Design view, switching between designs. **How to test:** Open a design, then click another design chip before the first has finished loading. The canvas, the headline copy and the structure list should all settle on the design you picked. **Watch for:** Copy that belongs to the previously selected design, or a "Reconciling this variation" spinner that never clears when opening a link to a design other than your site's chosen one.
"Check the live site" was telling site owners their analytics and chat tags were not on the published page, even though they were — any site with the cookie banner set to hold scripts until consent got the warning on every check. **Where:** Site editor → Settings → Tracking → "Check the live site" **How to test:** On a site with the cookie banner on and "block scripts before consent" enabled, add a tag (e.g. Google Analytics 4), publish, then press "Check the live site". Each active tag should read "present in published HTML". **Watch for:** A tag you added *after* the last publish is genuinely not on the live page yet — that one should still read "not found on the live site" until you publish again.
Ask for a change to an image you just generated — "put the headline in front of him" — and the assistant now knows which picture you mean instead of asking you to attach it again. Each finished result also has "Use in chat", so with four takes on screen you can point at the one you mean. **Where:** Creative Studio → Images & Carousels → generate, then keep talking **How to test:** Generate an image, then type a change without attaching anything. The reply should propose the change against that picture. With several takes, press "Use in chat" on one first. **Watch for:** It still asks for a picture when your request is clearly about a different image than anything it has made.
Reload a creative conversation and the assistant now remembers the questions you had already answered, instead of starting its questions over from scratch. **Where:** Creative Studio → pick a brand → Images & Carousels **How to test:** Answer a question the assistant asks you ("who is this for?"), keep going until it proposes something, then reload the page and ask for another creative. It should pick up where you left off rather than re-asking the same question. **Watch for:** The assistant asking a question you have already answered in this conversation; the header offering to "continue refining" a conversation you never started; the "New conversation" button staying available after there is nothing left to clear.
The full reel treatment — your words on screen as you say them, a few lifted into your brand colour, a graphic on a fact you state, one word passing behind you — used to be available only on footage you uploaded. It now works on a film the studio made for you. **Where:** Creative Studio → Video → on a finished one-clip film where somebody is talking, ask to make it look like a trending reel. **How to test:** Make a film with somebody talking to camera, then ask for captions or for it to look like a trending reel. You should be offered the full treatment rather than plain subtitles, and it should cost nothing. **Watch for:** being offered it on a film with cuts in it — that one is planned word by word against a single clip, so a multi-clip film still gets words placed the ordinary way.
When the studio offers you several directions and you choose one, that choice now stays attached to the idea you picked instead of quietly becoming a fourth idea nobody discussed. **Where:** Creative Studio → Visuals (and the same conversation at the microphone), after asking for several directions. **How to test:** Ask for a few directions, then say "go with the second one". The brief that comes back should be the second direction — its copy, its reference images — and the studio should keep treating it as that same idea when you carry on adjusting it. **Watch for:** A brief that reads like the direction you chose but behaves like a brand-new one — for example, the direction you picked still showing as merely "offered" after you have accepted it.
While you dictate a message, the mic button now shows a live microphone with a pulse, and a spinner while your words are being written down — it used to show a crossed-out red microphone, which everywhere else means the mic is off. **Where:** Any chat composer with a mic — Creative Studio, the site editor assistant, blueprint chat **How to test:** Click the mic, speak a sentence, stop talking. The button pulses while listening, spins briefly, then your words appear in the box. **Watch for:** Clicking the mic a second time should still keep what you already said, not discard it.
On sites that open with a scroll-video hero, the menu could slide out of view on the first scroll and never come back. **Where:** Site editor → Design view, and the published site, on any design whose hero is a scroll-video. **How to test:** Open such a design and scroll down through the hero. The navigation bar should stay pinned to the top of the window the whole way. **Watch for:** A menu that scrolls away with the page instead of staying put. Designs generated before this change keep the old behaviour until repaired.
Our own art-direction note told the image model to run the headline behind the subject — so a word could end up hidden behind someone's head, and asking for it to be moved in front competed with a standing instruction that said the opposite. Overlap is now allowed rather than demanded, never across a face, and what you ask for wins. **Where:** Creative Studio → Video thumbnail **How to test:** Ask for a thumbnail with a person in it. Every word should be fully readable at small size. Ask for the headline in front of the subject and it should come back in front, unbroken. **Watch for:** Type crossing a shoulder or an arm is still fine and still looks designed — it is only faces and interrupted words that are out.
Two people editing a site's settings at the same moment used to overwrite each other silently — both saves reported success, but only one survived. Each save now updates just the setting it changed, so nothing gets rolled back by someone else's edit. **Where:** Site → Settings → Integrations and Tracking; also the "hide this card" control on the dashboard guides and checklist. **How to test:** Open the same site's tracking settings in two browser tabs. In tab one, turn on an integration; in tab two, add a tracking tag and save. Reload both — both changes should still be there. Do the same with the dashboard guide cards: hide a different card in each tab, reload, and both should stay hidden. Then press "Check the live site" in one tab while saving a setting in the other; the saved setting must survive. **Watch for:** A setting that reverts to its earlier value after a reload, a hidden card reappearing on its own, or a verification result that lists a tag you had just deleted.
Linking a button to Calendly, flipping an overlay switch, or turning the cookie banner on and off used to save a copy of your integration settings as they looked when the page loaded — quietly reverting anything you or a teammate had changed in the seconds since. Each of these now saves only the one setting it actually changes. **Where:** Site editor → Settings → Integrations, Overlays, and the Cookie Banner toggle; plus the "Link to Calendly" action on any button. **How to test:** Open the same site in two browser tabs. In tab A, save a Google Tag Manager container ID. In tab B, turn on an overlay or link a button to Calendly. Reload tab A — the container ID is still there. **Watch for:** A setting that reads as saved but reappears as its old value after a reload, or a privacy request disappearing from the compliance audit trail.
When the AI told you it couldn't apply a change, version history sometimes still recorded that turn as a successful edit — so the permanent record said the opposite of the chat. **Where:** Site editor → any design → History (the version list beside the canvas) **How to test:** Ask for a change the AI can't make (e.g. point at something vague, or repeat a change that's already in place). When the chat replies "I wasn't able to apply that change — nothing on the page actually changed", open History: there should be no new entry for that turn. A turn that does change something — including a text/content-only edit — must still add an entry you can undo. **Watch for:** A real edit that no longer appears in History, or an Undo that jumps back two steps instead of one.
Video now asks how long the film should be before it shows you ideas, offers the second quality as something you can press rather than a price mentioned in a sentence, and records what you said the moment you say it. **Where:** Creative Studio → Video → start a film and describe it. **How to test:** Describe a new film without saying a length. You should be asked 15 / 30 / 60 before any ideas appear, with what each is for beside it. Answer, pick an idea, and when the plan arrives it should carry a quality choice showing both prices — pressing the other one changes the number on the Approve button, and that is the number you are charged. Reload the page while the director is working: your message should already be in the conversation. **Watch for:** being asked the length twice; an Approve button whose number does not match the quality you picked.
Describe the film you want and a director talks it through with you — three storyboarded ideas to pick from, a plan with its exact price before anything is made, and then the film. **Where:** Creative Studio → Video. **How to test:** 1. Open Creative Studio and pick your brand, then click Video in the left rail. 2. Click **New video**. Say what the film is for, in your own words — "a fifteen second reel for the winter menu", or just "something for Instagram about the new opening hours". 3. You get three ideas back, each with a hook, a shape and an ending. Pick one, or say what you would rather have. 4. Before anything is filmed you are shown the look — a still of who and what is in it — and then a plan with the number of credits beside it. Nothing is made and nothing is charged until you press the button on that plan. 5. When the shots land, ask for what you want next in the same conversation: captions, an opening card, an ending with your logo, a different line. Then ask for the finished file. Already have the video? Press **Bring your own video** on the same screen and upload it. From there you can have it re-voiced in a different voice or language, put music under it, add an opening or an ending, trim it, or put captions and graphics over it — all by asking, in the same conversation. Everything you have made is listed under those two buttons, and finished files you drop in are kept beside them. **Watch for:** the price on the plan is the price you are charged — tell us if the two ever differ. A film being made keeps working if you close the tab; come back and it picks up where it got to. If a shot comes back wrong, say so in the conversation rather than starting again — re-rolling one shot costs one shot.
Shots are written as timed beats that cover the whole clip, with the spoken words placed in the second they are heard, so a film no longer opens on several seconds of somebody silently holding an expression. **Where:** Creative Studio → Video → approve a plan and watch the clip that comes back. **How to test:** Read the plan's script on the card. It should be laid out as consecutive timed beats — 0-4s, 4-8s and so on — each saying what is seen, what happens and what is said in that window, with the last beat ending exactly at the clip's length. The first beat should open on something happening, and the speech should start in it. **Watch for:** a clip that opens on a held expression with no sound; speech that starts several seconds in; a prompt asking the camera for a laptop or phone screen showing an app, which comes back as garbled lettering every time.
Describing what you want in Video used to hand back a finished plan a couple of minutes later, with no ideas, no discussion and the script folded away behind a small link. **Where:** Creative Studio → Video → start a film and say what it should be. **How to test:** Open a new film and describe it in terms of a subject or a format ("a trending UGC reel about X"). You should get three drawn ideas with their scripts, and the conversation should stop there for you to pick one — no plan, no price, nothing bought. Pick one, or say none of them and describe your own; the plan then follows, with the whole script open on the card rather than hidden. Read the script: a talking clip should have enough words to fill its length. **Watch for:** a plan arriving before any ideas; a plan whose script is collapsed; a script with an @ symbol followed by a made-up name in it; a talking clip with several seconds of silence in the middle.
Choosing "Video thumbnail" and generating could fail outright with a validation error, or quietly produce a social post instead — and asking for one by voice was refused entirely. **Where:** Creative Studio → Visuals → format rail → "Video thumbnail", and the same request made through the assistant or by voice **How to test:** Pick "Video thumbnail" in the format rail, ask the assistant for a concept, and generate. The job should start rather than erroring, and the card should read "Video thumbnail" — not "Social post". Ask the assistant for a YouTube thumbnail by voice and it should plan one instead of asking you to pick an ad, social post or carousel. Check the quoted credit cost matches what is charged. **Watch for:** An error mentioning a list of formats when you press Generate; a thumbnail that comes back labelled as a social post; a thumbnail delivered with no headline drawn on it, as a PNG, or with the brand wordmark applied.
If your site uses the scroll-video hero, you no longer need footage of your own — send a photo of your space and we turn it into the moving shot, or just describe what you want to see and we make it from scratch. Either one costs 4 credits, quoted in the chat before anything is spent. **Where:** The site chat, on any site whose hero is the scroll-scrub video. Ask for that hero and the assistant will tell you what your options are. **How to test:** 1. Open a site's chat and ask for the Apple-style hero where the video scrubs as you scroll. 2. The assistant should name your options in one sentence — your own clip (free), what is already lined up, and the two made-for-you ones at 4 credits. 3. Say yes to one of them. Attach a photo if you picked that option. 4. The assistant confirms it is being made. Carry on with the conversation — you are not blocked. 5. Within a couple of minutes the clip appears as your hero. Check your credit balance: it should be 4 lower, and the entry in your credit history reads "Hero video clip". **Watch for:** - Being told a clip is on its way when your balance is too low — that should not happen. Below 4 credits the assistant should say you need to top up, and nothing should be charged. - Attaching your own video after asking us to make one. Yours must win, and the 4 credits must come back. - A clip that fails or never arrives: the credits are returned automatically, and the site falls back to the footage already lined up for it. - The hero should be smooth as you drag it, not steppy.
Each publishing profile gains a place to write, in your own words, how that voice actually sounds — and a brand can now keep the pieces it reuses between videos, so you set an ending once instead of describing it every time. **Where:** Creative Studio → Brand Kit → "Publishing profiles" for the voice and its formats, and the new "Pieces" tab for what the brand keeps **How to test:** Open Brand Kit → Publishing profiles, write a few paragraphs under "How this voice sounds" — who the voice is, its pacing, humour or none, what it never says — and add one or two entries under "Formats you reuse". Save, reload the page, and both should come back exactly as you typed them. Rename a format and save again: it keeps its place rather than becoming a new one. Then open the Pieces tab, upload an outro or a product photo, tag it to a voice or leave it for the whole brand, and check it appears under its heading with the right voice beside it. Remove it and it should be gone after a reload. **Watch for:** Text that comes back shortened, reordered or reworded rather than exactly as written; a format that loses its name after a rename; an upload that appears to succeed but is missing after a reload; a piece tagged to a voice showing up as "Whole brand".
A finished clip used to sit on a spinner for a long time before the first frame appeared, even though downloading the same file was instant. **Where:** Creative Studio → Video → open a film whose footage has landed. **How to test:** Open a film with a ready clip. It should start playing within a second or two and show its length immediately, rather than showing 0:00 and a spinner while the whole file downloads. **Watch for:** a clip that still takes many seconds to start — a copy made in the first minute or two after the footage lands falls back to the slower file until the fast one is ready, so try again shortly.
Upload a video of yourself talking and the studio now puts the creator treatment on screen for you to approve, free, instead of waiting for you to know how to ask for it. **Where:** Creative Studio → Video → upload your own clip, then read the director's first reply. **How to test:** Start a video, upload a clip with somebody speaking in it, and ask "what is this clip?". The reply describes the clip and a plan is waiting: your words on screen as you say them, a couple lifted in your brand colour, a drawn moment on a fact you state, and one word passing behind you. Approve it or tell the director what to change. Under the message box, tap one of the three examples — it fills the box and sends nothing until you press send. **Watch for:** A clip with nobody talking in it should propose nothing and say plainly that captions need speech. Describing the same clip twice must not put a second identical plan up, and it must never replace a plan you are already reading.
Videos about people, products or places are now built with a photograph or a shot under every cut, with captions, titles, maps and the end card animated over it — drawing the whole frame is reserved for explainers, diagrams and data, where the drawing is the point. **Where:** Creative Studio → Motion → any new video. Visible on the storyboard screen, where the recommended version is now the one with pictures in it, and in the finished film. **How to test:** Brief a video about a person or a service — two people at a desk, a shop, a tradesperson at work. On the storyboard screen, check which version carries the Recommended badge and read both descriptions: each says what you get, and the credit figure beside it is the real comparison. Then brief a genuine explainer — how a process works, a number going up — and confirm the drawn version is still offered and still recommended. **Watch for:** A video about people that comes back as shapes and colour fields instead of photographs; an explainer that has been pushed into buying footage it does not need; a recommended version whose description does not match what it costs.
When you gave a video as a reference to copy the structure of, the new "Social reel (organic)" goal was never one of the options it could come back with, so an organic reel was read as a promo and the film was planned to sell rather than to earn the watch. **Where:** Creative Studio → new video → paste or upload a reference video **How to test:** Drop in a vertical organic reel — the kind that opens on an observation and ends on a payoff, not on "link in bio" — and let it read the video. The suggested video's goal should come back as "Social reel (organic)", and the storyboard should end on the result rather than a call to action. **Watch for:** A reference that is genuinely an ad being labelled a reel. The distinction is whether the original asks for the click at the end; a paid placement should still come back as "Promo" or "Offer".
Attach a hero mockup in the editor chat and ask for an exact copy, and the hero now gets that mockup's photograph restored as its background, with the mockup's text and buttons removed. Before, the chat could rebuild the layout but had to reuse whichever photo the site already had, and sometimes pasted the whole mockup in as the background instead. **Where:** Site editor → design chat → attach an image → "make the hero an exact copy of this image" **How to test:** 1. Open a design in the editor and attach a mockup of a hero that contains a photograph. 2. Type a request that asks for a faithful copy, such as "recreate the hero exactly like this image", and send. 3. The reply should mention the photograph being restored, and the hero background should be that photograph without the mockup's own headline or buttons baked into it. 4. Ask for "something like this" instead: the layout should follow the mockup but the photograph is not swapped. **Watch for:** - The mockup itself appearing as the hero background with its text visible inside the picture. - The hero photo changing when the request only asked for inspiration, or when a non-hero section was selected. - A refinement that ends with a broken image where the hero background should be.
The storyboard now lets you edit each shot where you're reading it — what happens in it, what the narrator says, and the words on screen — instead of going back to the brief and preparing the whole thing again. **Where:** Creative Studio → a video project → Prepare storyboard → "Edit this shot" under any shot **How to test:** Prepare a storyboard, change a headline or a narration line on one shot, and save. The other shots, the chosen angle and the pricing should all stay exactly as they were. Then build — the video should use your edited words. **Watch for:** Timing and the media for each shot are deliberately not editable here; those are decided across the whole film. A shot that shows the exact words being spoken says so instead of offering a text field.
Connected accounts now asks the question the right way round — pick the Instagram and Facebook Pages this brand or site posts to, and star a default for each platform — instead of asking, once per account, which of your sites may publish to it. **Where:** Creative Studio → Settings → Connected accounts, and a site's Settings → Integrations. Look for "Pages this workspace posts to". **How to test:** 1. Open Creative Studio → Settings for a brand with more than one connected account. 2. The line under the heading should read "Every account in this workspace" if you have never chosen. 3. Press "Choose pages". Untick "Every account in this workspace", tick the pages this brand posts to, and press "Set default" on one page per platform — one default Instagram, one default Facebook Page. 4. Save. The summary should name the pages you ticked, and the account rows should show a "Default Instagram" / "Default Facebook Page" badge. 5. Open the calendar for that brand: only the pages you ticked are offered as targets, with the starred ones pre-selected. **Watch for:** - A brand that has never chosen must still see every account — it should say so, not show an empty list. - Starring a second page on the same platform should MOVE the default, never leave two. - A brand that also has a website shares one answer with that site's Settings → Integrations. Changing it in one place should change it in the other. - Ticking nothing and saving is "every account", not "no accounts".
When you connect a social account and your workspace has more than one website, we now ask which of them can publish to it — instead of quietly letting every site use every account. **Where:** Site settings → Integrations → Connected accounts (also in Creative Studio → Settings and above the content calendar). **How to test:** Connect an account from a workspace with two or more sites. When you land back, the accounts panel asks "Which sites can publish to this account?" with "Every site in this workspace" already selected. Leave it as it is and press Save to keep the account available everywhere, or pick "Only the sites I choose" and tick the ones you want. The question disappears once you answer, and you can change it later from the account itself. **Watch for:** A workspace with a single site should never see the question. Accounts you connected before today are asked about once, with "Every site" pre-selected, so saving without changing anything leaves them exactly as they are. An account connected from inside one site's settings pre-selects that site — check it before saving if you meant to share it.
Some designs showed only their navigation bar and a black area in the Design Gallery even though the design itself was fine. Heroes whose height was written as a calculation on the viewport height grew to the height of the whole page inside the gallery card and pushed their headline far out of view. Those cards now render the hero at a normal height. **Where:** Site editor → Design Gallery **How to test:** 1. Open a site whose designs include a dark hero that fills the screen (for example one with a headline centred over a full-height background). 2. Open the Design Gallery and let the cards load. 3. Every card should show its hero headline directly under the navigation bar. Nothing should appear as a tall empty block. **Watch for:** - A card that shows the header and then only background colour until you scroll far down. - Cards that keep growing taller while you watch them.
Anywhere your products, services, menu or FAQs are managed under Content, the pictures the platform renders of your site — design thumbnails, gallery cards, and the starting content of a site cloned from a template — were showing the placeholder items the AI invented at generation time instead of the rows you actually entered. **Where:** Site editor → All designs (the thumbnails), the design gallery, and any new site started from a gallery template. **How to test:** 1. Open a site whose catalog lives under Content, and edit one item's title and photo. 2. Re-capture the design thumbnails (All designs → refresh) and compare a card against the live page — the item you just edited should appear on both, with the same photo. 3. Start a new site from a gallery template that has a catalog. Its starting items should be the template's real ones, not invented products. **Watch for:** A thumbnail or card showing a product name you never entered, an empty catalog grid on a card whose live page has items, or a cloned site arriving pre-filled with unfamiliar products.
Give the video tool a clip that works and it reads the format behind it — the beats, what carries each one, and what each one answers — then writes that same structure as a video for your brand, ready to build. **Where:** Creative Studio → Video → "Start from a reference" (on the screen where you begin a new video). **How to test:** 1. Open the video tool and choose "Start from a reference". 2. Drop in a video up to 90 seconds. It costs 1 credit, and nothing is charged if it cannot be read. 3. Watch the clip beside the breakdown: each beat shows what happens and what it answers, plus the treatments that recur. 4. Read the concept at the bottom — the same structure, aimed at your business — and press "Build this video" to start it. **Watch for:** a breakdown that describes what appears but never says what it answers; a concept that borrows the original's product, claims or figures instead of your own; a credit charged when the read failed. The uploaded video is removed after a week — the breakdown stays, and can be built from again for free.
The Replace Image box invited you to drag and drop, but only the click worked — a dropped or pasted picture did nothing at all, while the button read "Detecting..." as though something were loading. Dropping a file and pressing Ctrl+V now both upload it, and the button only says "Detecting..." when there is genuinely an image to look at. **Where:** Site editor → click any image (or Images panel → Replace) → Upload tab. **How to test:** Open Replace Image on any picture. The button at the bottom should read "Apply Image", not a spinner. Drag a PNG from your desktop onto the box — its border should light up and say "Drop to upload", then the picture should appear as the new preview. Close and reopen, copy a screenshot to your clipboard, and press Ctrl+V anywhere in the box — same result. Typing in the URL or AI Generate fields should still accept a pasted link as normal. **Watch for:** A dropped file opening in the browser tab instead of uploading; a pasted screenshot also turning up attached to the AI chat behind the modal; the same file refusing to upload twice in a row.
Clicking an image or a line of text inside a products, services or menu section now saves straight from the preview, instead of stopping you with a note about editing it somewhere else. **Where:** Site editor → open a design → click an image or heading inside a collection-backed section (products, services, menu, portfolio) → replace the image or edit the text. **How to test:** Open a site whose section lists items from a collection, click one of the item images in the preview, and replace it. The new image should save and appear in the preview, and the same change should show up on that item in the Collections editor. **Watch for:** A message saying the item is managed as collection content. That now only appears when the item genuinely has no saved record behind it — and when it does appear, it comes with an "Open collection editor" button that takes you straight there.
Asking the assistant to change a heading while viewing a page other than the home page could change the home page instead, or report that nothing changed — the edit was being matched against another page's wording. **Where:** Site editor → open any inner page (Services, About, Contact) → the editing assistant **How to test:** Open an inner page, ask the assistant to change its main heading, then reload. The heading on that page should be the new one, and the home page should be untouched. **Watch for:** A heading that changes on the home page instead of the one you were viewing; an assistant reply saying it couldn't apply the change when the wording was clear; a reply claiming the heading was updated while the page still shows the old text.
Creative Studio used to attach a brand to the *client folder* rather than the website, so two sites in the same folder quietly shared one brand — and it was named after whatever the folder was called, which is often still "New Site". Each website now gets its own brand, named after the business, and the studio home offers to merge any duplicates you already have. **Where:** Dashboard → Creative Studio, and Site editor → Marketing → Creative **How to test:** 1. Open Creative Studio and start any job for website A, then for website B under the same client folder. Each should open its own brand, each named after its own business. 2. On the Creative Studio home, brands that share a name show a "these look like duplicates" panel. Press Merge — the visuals, videos, calendar and connected accounts all move to the brand you keep. 3. Fork a site to a build version and open its Creative tab. It keeps the parent's brand, so the library does not appear to vanish. 4. A website whose business name arrives after the brand was made (you named it later in chat) gets its brand renamed on the next visit. **Watch for:** A brand still called "New Site" after you have given the business a real name; two websites opening the *same* brand; a merge that leaves videos or the content calendar behind; the home listing a brand for every site you own rather than only the ones with work in them.