Creative Monthly - Feburary 2026

Join us today for a live conversation with Dan Fogelman, Global Brand Program Manager at Indeed, hosted by Tobias Cummins, COO at Pencil.

We’ll explore how one of the world’s most influential hiring platforms is integrating AI across creative and marketing workflows, from early-stage ideation to production efficiency, and the cultural shifts that empower teams.

This session unpacks how Indeed balances rapid AI innovation with its mission to help people get jobs, and how Pencil supported the journey from experimentation to structured, enterprise-grade adoption.
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AI Adoption Inside Global Brand Teams

With visual steps and branching paths, Workflows make it easy to explore multiple creative directions in parallel—without losing structure or control.

Re-introducing workflows... 

This Image Enhancement Agent exists for one reason: to restore and upscale images without changing what makes them true. Instead of adding style or interpretation, it focuses on removing compression artifacts, AI noise, and quality loss while preserving the original composition, identity, colours, and details exactly as they are. By asking only for an aspect ratio and delivering a clean 4K output, it gives creative teams a reliable way to make AI-generated or compressed assets production-ready, without risking brand drift, visual surprises, or creative rework.

The Most Boring Agent We Ever Built (And Why It’s One of the Most Important)

Join Tim Bowers for another hands-on Pencil in Practice session, focused on creating seasonal campaign assets for moments like Valentine’s Day — from images to video and beyond.In this live walkthrough, Tim breaks down how to use Pencil to quickly generate, adapt, and scale creative for seasonal moments, showing how to produce on-brand assets that feel timely without starting from scratch each time.You’ll learn how to:<ol><li data-list="bullet">Create images, video, and other creative assets tailored to seasonal campaigns</li><li data-list="bullet">Adapt core creative ideas for moments like Valentine’s Day quickly and efficiently</li><li data-list="bullet">Scale seasonal assets across formats and channels without losing consistency</li><li data-list="bullet">Use Pencil to reduce turnaround time for time-sensitive campaigns</li></ol>Whether you’re building Valentine’s Day creative, planning ahead for key retail moments, or responding fast to cultural and seasonal opportunities, this session gives you a practical, repeatable approach to seasonal campaign production at speed.

Pencil in Practice - Seasonal Ads P2 - "Love is in the air"

Join Tim Bowers for another hands-on Pencil in Practice session, focused on Workflows — a new feature (released in beta) that lets you connect Agents into structured sequences to automate complex creative tasks with consistency and scale.In this live walkthrough, Tim breaks down how Workflows move teams from manual, multi-step processes to repeatable automation, showing how to design flows that handle complex creative work without added technical setup or overhead.You’ll learn how to:<ol><li data-list="bullet">Replace repetitive, multi-step Agent coordination with a single, automated Workflow</li><li data-list="bullet">Build structured sequences that produce consistent, high-quality output at scale</li><li data-list="bullet">Connect multiple Agents into one repeatable creative flow</li><li data-list="bullet">Use Workflows to automate real creative tasks without engineering or technical setup</li></ol>Whether you’re managing complex creative production, scaling asset creation, or standardising output across teams, this session gives you a practical, repeatable approach to automation that still leaves room for creativity.

Pencil in Practice - Workflows

Editing, Refining, and Scaling (Post-production)Join the Pencil Creative Team for a live walkthrough of real case studies followed by an open Q&amp;A.See how the team uses Pencil to bring ideas to life across campaigns, from first prompt to final creative. Then stick around to ask your own questions, get live feedback, or explore how to tackle your next project using Pencil.You’ll learn how to:<ol><li data-list="bullet">Build and refine campaigns with Pencil’s creative tools</li><li data-list="bullet">Apply best practices from real client examples</li><li data-list="bullet">Experiment with styles, workflows, and storytelling approaches</li><li data-list="bullet">Get tailored advice from the team behind Pencil’s top work</li></ol>

Use It Like a Creative - Storyboard P3

Join Tim Bowers for another hands-on Pencil in Practice session, this time focused on building interactive HTML5 display ads that move and react — not just static banners.In this live walkthrough, Tim breaks down the most common questions around creating dynamic display ads in Pencil, showing how to design ads that respond to user interaction and feel more alive across placements.You’ll learn how to:<ol><li data-list="bullet">Build interactive HTML5 display ads rather than static banners</li><li data-list="bullet">Add motion and responsive behaviour that reacts to user interaction</li><li data-list="bullet">Design display ads that adapt across formats and placements</li><li data-list="bullet">Use Pencil to speed up display ad production without sacrificing creativity</li></ol>Whether you’re creating display ads for performance campaigns, brand activations, or testing new interactive formats, this session gives you a practical, repeatable approach to building display creative that does more than just sit there.

Pencil in Practice - Display Ads

This event has finished, please view the recording <a href="https://youtu.be/U8kuqYRC8Gk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">h</a><a href="https://youtu.be/U8kuqYRC8Gk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ere</a>From Storyboards to Video Gen (Production)Join the Pencil Creative Team for a live walkthrough of real case studies followed by an open Q&amp;A.See how the team uses Pencil to bring ideas to life across campaigns, from first prompt to final creative. Then stick around to ask your own questions, get live feedback, or explore how to tackle your next project using Pencil.You’ll learn how to:<ol><li data-list="bullet">Build and refine campaigns with Pencil’s creative tools</li><li data-list="bullet">Apply best practices from real client examples</li><li data-list="bullet">Experiment with styles, workflows, and storytelling approaches</li><li data-list="bullet">Get tailored advice from the team behind Pencil’s top work</li></ol>

Use It Like a Creative - Storyboard P2

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