Canva, without opening Canva.
Designs and the comment threads on them, with a new one started from chat.
- Free to start
- No card
- Every write waits for you
- Your own account, not a shared login
Ask in your own words.
Nothing to configure and no builder to open. Copy one of these into a thread, swap in your own Canva details, and Ray takes it from there.
@Ray start a design for the launch banner in the brand folder.
@Ray has anyone commented on the pricing one-pager?
@Ray reply on that design thread that the logo is fixed.
@Ray what brand templates do we have for social posts?
What Ray can and cannot do in Canva
Reading is free, because reading changes nothing. Everything that writes waits for you. The rest is not on Ray’s list.
13 reads wired, 7 actions that wait for a human.
Runs on its own
What Ray reads in Canva
- Designs, their pages, and metadata
- Comment threads and replies
- Folders, assets, and brand templates
Reading changes nothing, so Ray never stops to ask whether it may look something up.
Asks first, every time
What waits for your approval
- Create a design
- Create a folder
- Comment on a design, or reply
- Rename an asset or a folder
- Move an item
Ray posts a card showing exactly what it is about to do. Nothing happens until someone clicks approve, and no setting turns that off.
Not on the list
Things Ray is never handed
These are left out during curation, so they are not something Ray could do and decides against. They are not in front of it at all.
- Delete an asset
- Move a folder and its contents to trash
- Export a design, or import one from a URL
Exactly what Ray will ask you to approve.
Not a category of permission. These are the Canva actions Ray can take, each one stopping in the thread with the real content before it happens.
- Move a Canva item
- Create a Canva design
- Comment on a Canva design
- Reply on a Canva design
- Create a Canva folder
- Rename a Canva asset
- Rename a Canva folder
Move a Canva item
Showing Item id, each carrying the exact content that will land.
How Ray works with Canva
No workflow to build, and nothing to maintain when the work changes.
- 01
Connect Canva
One click, right where you asked. Ray posts a connect card, you authorise Canva with your own account, and the work you asked for picks up where it left off.
- 02
Ask in plain words
In the conversation you were already having. Nothing to build, no trigger to map, no tab to open.
- 03
Approve, and it lands
Reading runs on its own. Anything that creates, sends or spends stops first and shows you the exact content.
Priya
@Ray the checkout bug is back. Take a look in Canva, and tell Dana it is being looked at.
Move a Canva item
- Waiting on
- your approval
Ray uses Canva together with the rest of your tools.
One ask can read Canva, cross-reference what is in these, and land the finished result back in the thread. Not four connectors taking turns, one teammate with one memory.
What does connecting Canva to Ray actually do?
Ray is an AI teammate that works in your team chat, on Slack today. Connect Canva and it can do the Canva part of a request without anyone leaving the conversation: read what it needs, draft the change, and post it for approval before anything is written.
It is not a workflow builder. There is no trigger to configure and no automation to repair when your process shifts. You describe the outcome in the thread and Ray picks the actions, including actions in your other connected tools when the request spans more than one.
Every person on the team connects their own Canva account, so Ray can only reach what that person can already reach, and the history in Canva shows who actually asked.
Security and permissions
- You authorise Canva on its own login screen. Your password never passes through Ray.
- Writes are gated in the execution path, not by a prompt. There is no setting that grants blanket approval.
- Each workspace is isolated at the database level, and that isolation is tested by trying to break it.
- Disconnect Canva in a message, or uninstall Ray and every connection it held is revoked.
Canva and Ray, answered
The questions teams ask before they connect Canva. Every answer is how this integration is built rather than a promise about it.
More design & whiteboards integrations
Ray uses them together in a single run when a request spans more than one.
Put Ray to work in Canva.
Free to start, no credit card, and it asks before it acts.