Canvas

# Live

Launched March 31

Blake Portmann

We’re excited to announce Infinite Canvas, a new way to work in Pencil that brings all your creative output into a single, flexible view where you can organize your work and collaborate with your team.

Until now, work in Pencil lived in fixed layouts and separate views. That structure is great for finding work, but it makes it harder to visualize ideas, connect assets, and iterate fluidly. Infinite Canvas changes that. With a flexible, freeform space, you can bring together everything associated with a project—work, assets, templates—and arrange them however you want, all in one place.

It’s a more visual, intuitive way to stay organized. Instead of relying on tables or lists, you can group everything related to a project on the canvas, create sections to keep things structured, and even create new canvases inside other canvases. The easiest way to think about it is: folders, if folders also worked with agents, had chat available at all times, let you edit anything with a click, and enabled real-time team collaboration. In other words, it’s the ease of folders combined with the full power of Pencil.

What’s new

A single, unified canvas that holds all work created for a project in one place.

Nested canvases to structure complex projects, break work into sub-spaces, and keep everything organized.

Freeform organization — move, arrange, and group assets however you want.

Zoom in and out to move effortlessly between big-picture views and fine detail.

Labels you can search across libraries, making anything on the canvas easy to find.

Access editors directly from the canvas, make edits, or create new work, and send it right back.

Why it matters

Having the flexibility to put all of your information, ideas, and work in place will help you to stay organized, while also giving teams an easier way to review and collaborate.

Who it’s for

Designers and creative users

Content and brand teams

Strategists and marketers

Agencies and cross-functional teams

Anyone who wants a fast, visual way to map ideas and organize work.

What this unlocks

Infinite Canvas centralizes your entire creative process, eliminates fragmentation, and gives teams a shared space to think, create, and align.

FAQ

Q: What is Infinite Canvas solving for? A: Canvas is a more visual way of organizing your work in one place and making it easy to find—think of it like folders, but with more intention. While the current setup using tables and labels functions more like a database where everything is stored, Canvas is designed around purposeful creation. What you add to a Canvas is intentional and curated, not just accumulated. The long-term vision for Infinite Canvas is for it to become the central hub for creating new work. Even now, as you explore different ways of working in one place, you can start to see the direction: moving from passive storage to an active, visual space for thinking, organizing, and building.

Q: Do admins have any control over the canvas in terms of who can see which ones? A: Not at this time. Canvases are tied to workspaces, so access can’t be restricted by user role. We plan to explore more granular access controls in the future, but this won’t be available in the initial release.

Q: If a user has a specific role (e.g., can only generate copy), does that apply within a canvas? A: Yes. They will still only be able to generate a copy if they open a canvas. However, they can still view creative work.

Q: Can you share a canvas across workspaces? A: Yes. For example, you could build a canvas in one workspace—such as a brand creating a campaign toolkit—and then share it with the workspaces their agencies are using. This allows the canvas to be shared across teams so everyone is working from the same source of truth.

Q: Are chats automatically public when using a canvas? A: No. It works the same way as in the editor. You’ll need to manually make chats public. Public chats can be viewed but not continued.

Q: If you have multiple agencies in one workspace and only want to share your canvas with one agency, can you do that? A: Not at the moment.

Q: After I create something in the editor and save it to a canvas, can someone else continue editing my work? A: Yes, you’d share your canvas with the folks you’d like to collaborate with. However, you can not view version history. In the future, we’re working on a version history page.

Q: How does nesting canvas work? A: Think of it like a main folder with multiple subfolders. You can create one canvas at the start of your project, and depending on the project phases, who’s working on it, or what needs to be executed, you can use nested canvases to organize your work. If you want to move work from one canvas to a new or existing canvas, you’ll have the option to do that.

Q: Will Canvas change the way we review, approve, and give feedback on work? A: Yes! Canvas brings all reviews and feedback into one place. You’ll be able to:

View all work in a single, centralized view

Approve creative and review full comment history

You can see work in canvas and leave comments, or open in a preview page

Tag teammates in comments for easier collaboration

Leave time-based comments directly on video timelines

Zoom in on the canvas to review small or detailed elements

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