The AI Promo Brief: Issue #31

Canva’s New Brush Model Edits Your Whole Deck From One Prompt

Canva’s new Brush model reads an existing Canva design and edits anything from one line of text to a whole deck from a prompt, and the result stays editable. It’s for Canva Pro only for now, and it can’t pull from your Brand Kit yet, but Canva states that Brush is up to 69% faster for general design editing tasks and delivers a 46% lower cost per edit compared to its previous design agent. The release comes hot on the heels of Canva’s image-generation model, Canva Craft, launched a week prior. Industry watchers note that major creative tools are shifting toward native canvas agents.

Search is Changing! Reddit Lost a Million Google Visits a Week

Google searches are growing at their fastest in five years, Sundar Pichai says, but fewer of those searches seem to end in a click. Reddit says its search referrals were down more than 1 million a week on average in October. CEO Steve Huffman names AI Overviews and AI Mode as the main suspects and says AI Mode “does not drive traffic.” If Reddit can lose that many visits, your site can too. Ask every new lead how they found you and track it monthly. Then put more into the channels you own + double down on tooling your site for AI!

Could Anthropic’s Claude Duet Be Your Next Virtual Acct Coordinator?

Your follow ups could be drafted before you reach your desk. Anthropic previewed Claude Duet, an agent that works like a virtual account coordinator. It checks apps like Gmail, HubSpot and QuickBooks every few hours while you’re away and sends you a morning brief of what needs attention. Anthropic says it can draft a follow up from a HubSpot deal’s history, then show you exactly what it plans to send and wait for your yes. For now it’s a waitlist preview for US Pro and Max subscribers, with no Team or Enterprise plans yet. But imagine this: With commonsku’s upcoming MCP, it’s quite possible Claude Duet could be a new coordinator who helps stitch together all your connected apps with your primary workflow and make your life hella easier!

Bobby and Charlie Map Where AI Is Headed in Promo

Missed it live? Our Chief AI Officer Bobby Lehew and VP of Product Charlie Moscoe walked through the AI shifts landing in promo right now, what market-leading distributors are doing with them, and which admin tasks you can hand off today inside commonsku. Benchmarking data from skucamp backs it all up. Watch now →

Are agents ready for B2B? Not yet. 

B2C is always a bellwether for what’s possibly coming in B2B. DoorDash took 993 million orders last quarter, its results show, and outside AI agents have sent it maybe several hundred in all since they started. CEO Tony Xu gave that count on the third quarter earnings call, answering an analyst who asked about agents like Muse, and said people still order mainly through DoorDash’s own app. Later on the call, he said the hard part isn’t placing the order but making sure it shows up the way the customer expected, and promo runs the same way. Yes, Muse, GrokBot, Duets and Dots are getting buzz (rightfully so!) but so with some buying experiences, a homegrown solution (like their Ask DoorDash) still works!

Big Finance is Blocking Agent Access

Give an AI agent your banking password and what it does is on you. Bank of America told customers not to give their login to an AI agent, and warned that “you’re responsible for activity resulting from that access.” TechCrunch notes most banks’ account agreements say the same. Morgan Stanley has started blocking outside AI agents, and JPMorgan, Bank of America and Citi are moving to limit them, Axios reports, though Morgan Stanley says it has seen no rogue agents. If an agent holds a login to your bank, payment tools or supplier portals, take it back until that provider says how it treats agents.

📄 Gemini now creates and edits docs, PDFs, slides and spreadsheets inside the chat for every user on the web.

📈 Anthropic filed to list on Nasdaq with $16.3 billion in first-half revenue, and OpenAI is reportedly offering discounts to win its customers.

💸 Elon Musk says Grok Bot costs too much to run, and paying users are hitting their weekly limits early. Expect AI tool pricing to keep moving.

🦆 Preorders for the open-source Microduck robot topped 20,000 after Jensen Huang’s video went viral. Picture your client’s mascot as a desktop bot at the booth.

🧪 A one-person company ran 11 outside labs with Claude, and Anthropic brought it in-house.

🍎 Apple’s AI assistants arrive in Keynote, Pages and Numbers as a beta this month.

🎙️ Grok Voice 3.0 costs 8 cents a minute, and SpaceXSI says it settles about 70% of Starlink’s support calls without a person. Order-status lines are getting cheap.

🎬 Missed it live? Bobby and Charlie’s Agentic Distributorship webinar is now on demand, with skucamp data on how top distributors use AI.