✨What's New

A running job could show a tool’s name, replace one step with the next, or go quiet with no sign of progress, and the chat’s summary could disagree with the job’s card. Now each step gets its own line in plain words, quiet stretches are counted, and every job ends with one clear status and a list of the files it made.

• See the brief your agent sent

  Each job now starts with the brief your agent sent it, so you can check what was asked. A long brief opens in full with one tap.

• Every step in plain words, line by line

  Steps say what’s happening in plain words, each on its own line. After 10 quiet seconds, the last line counts the seconds since the last update, so a quiet job never looks frozen.

• One clear ending, with your files listed

  Each job ends with one status, such as Delivered or Partly delivered, and the files it made, each with an Open button. Your agent’s summary works from that same list.

• Know when a job never got going

  A job that never got going now reads “Couldn’t start” and says nothing ran, so you know to try again, instead of looking like work that failed partway.

• Your agent picks the skill

  The skill buttons in the chat are gone. Describe what you need, and your agent picks the right skill for the job.

Until now, you couldn’t see which model powered your agent, or choose another. Now Claude Sonnet 5.5 is the default, and in an agent’s settings you can pick Claude Opus 5.5, the most capable, or try an experimental model. You can see which model your agent runs on, and new jobs name the model they used. Once an agent is at work, its settings are simpler too.

• Claude Sonnet 5.5 is the new default

  Every agent now runs on Claude Sonnet 5.5 by default, up from Claude Sonnet 5, in chats and jobs alike. Your existing agents move over on their own, with nothing for you to change.

• Choose the model for each agent

  In an agent’s settings, pick the model it runs on: Claude Sonnet 5.5 is balanced and recommended, and Claude Opus 5.5 is the most capable. Each model shows a simple $ to $$$ cost guide.

• Try other models, clearly marked Experimental

  Models other than Claude sit apart under Experimental models and carry an Experimental tag wherever you pick them, so you know when you’re trying something less proven.

• See which model is doing the work

  An agent at work shows its model in the top bar; tap it for details and a shortcut to change it. Once a new job finishes, your Jobs list names the model it ran on.

• Simpler settings, and a setup that stays put

  Once an agent is at work, its settings come down to Model and Routines. The setup its maker built stays put, and the chat can no longer rewrite it.

The Video Studio has been rebuilt around one way of making short narrated videos. Your agent times the script shot by shot, settles key shots as stills before animating them, and gives each line of narration its own shot, with music and titles when you ask. Before the video reaches you, it’s checked against the shot plan, and you get the parts it was made from.

• A finished short from your script or stills

  Start from a brief, a script, or your own stills. Your agent settles the key shots as stills first, where trying again costs little, then animates each shot into its own clip.

• Narration timed shot by shot

  Each line is short enough to say while its shot is on screen, in the same voice throughout, never sped up to fit. Any music dips under the voice and comes back up between lines.

• Titles and captions where they belong

  Ask for on-screen text and your agent adds titles, labels, end cards, and captions timed to the narration, clear of the buttons social apps place over vertical video. Titles and labels use only your words.

• Measured, not eyeballed, before it’s handed over

  Before it reaches you, your video is checked for frozen clips, silent stretches, narration that runs past its shot, and music that drowns out the voice. You get the numbers, not just a “looks good.”

• The parts, not just the finished cut

  You also get the video without sound, each narration line, any music before and after mixing, and the shot plan. A later change, like quieter music or a moved line, can start from these parts.

Once a job had started, you couldn’t stop it, and if it broke partway through, its card could say “Working” for hours. Now a Stop button ends a running job, jobs start on a fresh machine of their own, and your agent takes one job at a time. Cards say what really happened, and the chat opens at your newest message.

• Stop a running job with one tap

  Tap Stop on a running job’s card and the work ends, shown calmly as Stopped, not as a failure. If Slate can’t confirm the job has stopped, it says so, and you can try again.

• A fresh machine, one job at a time

  Jobs used to share a machine, so one could cut another short. Now jobs start on a fresh machine of their own, and your agent takes one at a time, saying when it’s busy.

• An honest result when a job breaks

  If a job stops unexpectedly partway through, its card says so within 10 minutes, not hours later, and the files it saved are kept. A job that fails to start now shows as failed.

• Jobs without steps get a name and status

  A quick job without steps used to sit empty in your Jobs list and never reach the Board. Now it shows one line with its name and status: working, done, failed, or stopped.

• Chat opens at your newest message

  Opening a chat could leave it blank or stuck partway up the conversation. Now it opens at your newest message and holds there while job cards and pictures load, until you scroll up yourself.

Small things could trip you up between signing in and getting your work back: an image that never reached the job, a video that wouldn’t play, a file silently ignored, or a vague error when credits ran out. Each of these now works, or tells you plainly why it can’t. Signing in is safer too, and only you can remove messages from your chats.

• Your chats and sign-in are better protected

  Only you can remove messages from your chats. Sign-in and sign-up forms now wait until the page is ready before you can type, so your email and password never appear in the address bar.

• Images you add to chat reach the job

  Drop or paste an image into the message box, and a job started from that request now works from your actual picture. Before, it could show in the chat but never reach the job.

• A clear reason when a file won’t attach

  Drop or paste a file the message box can’t take, like one that isn’t an image or is too large, and a note now says which file and why. Your typed message stays put.

• Delivered videos open and play

  A delivered video could show “Video unavailable” even though the video itself was fine. Now it opens and plays.

• A plain answer when your credits run out

  If a reply stops because you’ve run out of credits, the chat now says so and suggests upgrading your plan, instead of a bare “An error occurred.” You know what to do next.

Finding an agent used to mean scrolling: there was no search, you could filter by role or by Studio but not both, and the same few agents repeated from shelf to shelf. Now you can search, combine filters, and see each agent once. Each agent’s page leads with one Hire button that stays in reach, and its About section reads like a description.

• Search agents as you type

  Type a name, a kind of work, a Studio, or a role, and the list narrows with every keystroke. If nothing matches, it says so, and one click clears your search and filters.

• Combine role and Studio filters, then share

  Filter by who an agent is for, like Designer or Marketer, and by Studio, both at once, with a count on each option. Share a link and it opens on the same filtered view.

• See each agent once, on a clearer card

  Each agent now appears once, in one grid, instead of repeating from shelf to shelf. Cards show labels like “Video & motion,” and you can open them in a new tab.

• A clear Hire button that stays in reach

  Each agent’s page leads with one button that says “Hire” and the agent’s name. Scroll past it and it reappears in the top bar; on a phone, it sits at the bottom of the screen.

• FixAbout now describes the agent

  An agent’s About section used to show the raw working instructions behind it, formatting marks and all. It now shows a short, plain description of what the agent does.

A Studio’s list of strengths used to be a row of software names, and browsing agents could turn up gray shelves labeled only “Studio.” Now General, Motion, and Video each list what they help with in plain words, and every Studio shelf, filter, and page carries its name and color. Choose Motion for a new agent and it works in the newer Motion Studio, made for motion graphics.

• See what each Studio is good at

  A Studio’s list of strengths now reads in plain words, not software names. General lists image and video models, writing, and code and data work; Video lists cutting, captions, and format conversion.

• Choose Motion, get the newer Motion Studio

  Choose Motion for a new agent and it works in the newer Motion Studio, made for animated text, launch videos, explainers, and brand motion pieces. The original Animation Studio is no longer a choice.

• No more unnamed Studio shelves

  Browsing agents could turn up gray shelves and pages labeled only “Studio.” Now every Studio shelf, filter, and page shows its name and color, and a Studio that isn’t ready stays out of view.

A finished job used to end on one thin line in the chat naming one file; the rest sat in a separate gallery. Now the chat hands the work over as a stack of previews you can flip through and open, and each job keeps its files beneath its steps. While a job runs, you get more detail on the current step and each step’s status at a glance.

• Flip through finished work in the chat

  Delivered files arrive as a stack of previews: most pictures as themselves, videos by their first frame. Flip through with a swipe, the arrows, or your keyboard, and tap the front card to open it.

• A job’s files, right beneath its steps

  In your agent’s Jobs list, each job’s files sit beneath its steps as tiles you can tap to open. This replaces the Documents gallery; files not tied to a job gather under “Other files.”

• Every step’s status at a glance

  In the Jobs list, each step shows a small icon for done, running, next, or failed. On the Board, each job’s label shows its result and how long it took.

• A clearer view of the work in progress

  While your agent works, a quiet line under the timeline says what it’s doing right now. It can also say how it’s getting around a snag, and explain its choices when it finishes.

• A smoother start to each request

  Every agent, even one with no skills yet, now runs its jobs in the Studio you chose. Ask for several things in one message and it starts one job, not several at once.

A working agent used to give you a scrolling machine log and little sense of where things stood — and the moment you left the chat, you lost sight of it entirely. Now the work reads like a calm journal: the current step shimmers as it happens, your document glows for exactly as long as a job is running, and each job’s tasks are laid out as a List or a Board. Leave the chat and the job rides along in a small status pill you can tap to check on. And every file it makes is tagged with the job that made it.

• See every step as it happens

  While your agent works, the chat shows a live, unhurried timeline of what it is doing, with the current step gently shimmering. No more reading a wall of machine output to work out where things stand.

• Your work glows while a job runs

  The panel around your document blooms a soft light for exactly as long as a job is running, and goes quiet the moment it finishes. You can tell something is happening without watching the chat.

• Tasks as a List or a Board

  Each job’s steps appear as a clean list — newest on top, the live one marked, the done ones checked off — and a finished job folds to a single line you can reopen, with a jump straight back to that moment in the chat. Prefer columns? A Board is one tap away, and your choice is remembered.

• A status that follows you

  Leave the chat and a running job rides along in a small pill in the header bar: the current step, the time elapsed, and a tap to open the full plan. Start a second job and it splits off into its own dot — tap it to switch which job you are watching.

• Files know which job made them

  Every file your agent produces now carries a tag for the job that made it, pictures show a real thumbnail, and you can filter down to a single job’s output. Finding the thing you just made no longer means guessing.

• Honest titles, verdicts, and timings

  Every job shows its real name, whether it delivered, and how long it took — one number, the same everywhere you see it. Where a per-step time could not be measured truthfully, it is left off rather than faked.

• Agents now run on Claude Sonnet 5

  Every agent moves up from Claude Sonnet 4.6 to Claude Sonnet 5, in chats and jobs alike. There’s nothing to switch on: the agents you’ve already hired move up too.

Before your agent makes an image or video, Slate works out what it will cost, and for some models that figure was badly wrong. One image was quoted at about 81,000 credits; it now costs 53. About 200 more models now have a proper price, and a model that can’t be priced reliably is held back rather than guessed at.

• Prices that make sense before anything is made

  One image was quoted at about 81,000 credits, enough to stop the work; it now costs 53. A 10-second clip from one video model, once quoted at 54,000 credits, now costs 325.

• For many models, pay for exactly what’s made

  For many models, when the exact amount of work is reported, that’s what you pay for, not Slate’s own estimate. If the two ever drift far apart, we’re alerted so we can look into it.

• About 200 more models with a proper price

  Models for music, sound effects, voices, lip-sync, and transcription, more video models, and image tools like background removal now have a proper price, so your agent can check the cost first.

• Mismatched video settings caught in seconds

  On one video model, a clip too long for its chosen resolution used to fail half an hour or more later. Now it’s turned back in seconds, with the reason, so your agent can adjust.

• No more guessed prices

  When Slate can’t price a model reliably, it holds that model back and says so, letting your agent pick another instead of using a made-up figure. That goes for image, video, and sound models alike.

Give an agent a thin brief and it used to do one of two unhelpful things: guess, or write a paragraph of questions back at you and leave you to compose the reply by hand. Now it asks properly — a real question with real options, one at a time, with room to think. It waits for your answer before it starts, so you no longer find out it guessed wrong once the work is already done. And when it needs something only you have, it can now ask you for the file.

• It asks instead of guessing

  Hand over a thin brief and your agent stops and asks for what is missing, with real options to pick from. It cannot ask and then start anyway — the question genuinely ends its turn, and your answers become the brief it works from. The cheapest time to fix a misunderstanding is before the work, not after it.

• One question at a time, with room to answer

  Each question takes the main screen instead of a cramped corner of the chat, with options big enough to read and compare. Tap one and it moves you straight on — no extra confirm click. You can go Back at any point to change an earlier answer without losing the later ones.

• You are never trapped on a question

  Every set of options carries a “You decide” — added automatically, to every question. If you have no opinion about the format or the tone, say so and let your agent choose. Being asked is only better than being guessed at if you can also decline to answer.

• It never interrupts what you are reading

  Open a document while a question is waiting and the question steps aside into the chat rail rather than throwing your document off the screen. On a phone it becomes a full-screen sheet. Your answers and your place survive every one of those moves.

• Hand it a file when it needs one

  Ask for a poster made from your logo and your agent can ask you for the logo: drag it in, click to browse, or paste. Any file type, up to 100 MB, with real progress. It lands in your project files, so it stays put after the job and you can point at it again later. Nothing to hand over? “Continue without a file” is always there — one missing file never holds your other answers hostage.

• “Just chat instead” is honest now

  Setting a question aside leaves a quiet, dimmed record — “Set aside — you’re chatting about this instead” — with nothing left to click. It used to leave the full, live panel sitting in your chat, and if you idly completed it, the answer would still send.

• Put it down, pick it back up

  Close a question with ✕ or Esc and it drops back into the chat still holding everything you had already told it; ⤢ puts it back on the main screen at the same step. Meanwhile the message box stays a message box — type, send, and attach as normal, and the question simply waits.

• FixAttaching an image to a message

  Attaching a picture to a chat message was silently broken, and it did not just drop the attachment — it failed the whole message. Fixed.

New users used to land in a powerful product with very little to orient them, and the moment right after hiring an agent spoke in technical terms and often showed a blank page. This release fixes that first hour. You now get a quick guided tour of the home screen, a friendly introduction when you put an agent to work, and a first run that actively helps you start instead of waiting for you to figure it out.

• A guided welcome tour

  Learn the home screen in four quick steps the first time you arrive: where to explore ready-made agents, how to create your own, where your hired agents live, and where to find your plan and credits. It appears once, automatically, and never interrupts established users — and a compass button in the sidebar replays it whenever you want.

• Hiring an agent feels like an introduction

  Putting an agent to work used to read like server output. Now it introduces the agent by name, speaks plainly through three human stages, and gives you something worth reading while you wait. When it is ready you choose where to go next, rather than being redirected on your own.

• A first run that helps you start

  A brand-new agent no longer shows you a blank page. It offers a few real example briefs tailored to what it does — tap one and it drops the full brief into your message box, ready for you to read, tweak, and send when you like. Nothing is ever sent automatically. The hardest part of a blank page is the first sentence; this writes it for you, and hands you the pen.

• A more human first reply

  The very first response used to open with a cryptic “Hmm…”. Now it shows who is working — your agent, by name — reading your brief. If it is taking a moment longer than usual, it says so, so you are never left wondering whether anything is happening.

• A steadier first run

  The first-run introduction now appears in the same place your finished work shows up, rather than taking over the whole screen. Your message box stays exactly where it always is and never moves, so nothing shifts around the moment a reply starts arriving.

• Agents that introduce themselves

  An agent can now carry a short profile of what it is good at, plus a few first briefs worth trying — which is what powers the tap-to-try briefs above. Every agent can speak for itself, so you know what to expect and where to begin the moment you meet it.

• Agents and Studios, in plain words

  You hire agents, who work in Studios, and now the agents page, sidebar, steps for creating your own, and each agent’s settings use those names. A Studio’s technical details wait behind “Under the hood.”

A long job used to depend on your open page, and it stopped after about half an hour. Now jobs run on their own for up to six hours, keep going if you close the tab, and save their result to the chat when they finish. Come back partway through and the job card catches up.

• Jobs keep going for hours

  A job can now run for up to six hours, so bigger pieces of work no longer stop at the half-hour mark.

• Close the tab, and the work carries on

  Closing the tab, losing your connection, or an update to Slate no longer cuts a job short. It keeps working and saves its result to the chat when it’s done.

• Come back to a job in progress

  Reload the page or return later, and the job card catches up with what the job is doing, then keeps updating as the work continues.

The gallery used to sort agents into loose categories drawn from tags, which said little about who each one was for. Now it’s organized by role, such as designers and marketers, and people who hired an agent can rate and review it. Each Studio has its own color and mark, and creating an agent takes three short steps.

• Browse by who an agent is for

  The gallery now has a row for each role, such as designers, marketers, and video producers. Filter by role, or by the kind of work you need done.

• Ratings and reviews from people who hired

  Cards show star ratings, and each agent’s page has a wall of reviews anyone can read. Only people who hired an agent can review it, right from its page.

• Each Studio has its own look

  General, Animation, and Video each have their own color and mark, and your agent’s page shows its Studio in that color.

• Create an agent in three steps

  Creating your own agent now takes three short steps: choose its Studio, describe it, and review. Hiring one goes straight to the review.

• FixBroken links lead you home

  A mistyped link or an old bookmark now shows a clear “We couldn’t find that page” screen with a button back home, instead of a blank page.

Slate used to work well only on a computer. On a phone, the chat shrank to a sliver and some buttons appeared only under a mouse. Now every page fits phones and tablets. Setting up an agent shows each step as it happens, a failed image or video no longer costs credits, and a failed payment is explained plainly.

• Every page fits your phone and tablet

  A menu button opens the sidebar on every page, and on an agent’s page you switch between its work and the chat. Buttons that needed a mouse now show on touch screens.

• Files open full screen on small screens

  Open a file on your phone and it fills the screen, with a large close button. Typing a message no longer makes your phone zoom in.

• Watch your agent being set up

  Setting up an agent used to mean a small spinner and a silent wait. Now each step shows as it happens, including each skill being added, and you can try again if it fails.

• Failed images and videos are free

  If an image or video your agent asks for fails to generate, you’re no longer charged for it. Your agent gets the real reason, not a false success.

• A clear message when a payment fails

  If a renewal payment fails, Slate now says so plainly, with an Update payment button that takes you straight to fixing it. Once it’s paid, your access returns on its own.

Every agent used to work with the same tools, and only while you were there to ask. Now you choose an agent’s Studio when you set it up, and Animation and Video join General. Routines let an agent run a request on a schedule, even while you’re away.

• Choose where each agent works

  When you set up an agent, choose its Studio, such as General or Animation. A badge on its page shows the Studio; tap it to see what’s included.

• An Animation Studio for animated explainers

  Agents in the Animation Studio come with tools for animated explainers and motion graphics, including neatly written math.

• A Video Studio for putting videos together

  The new Video Studio adds tools for joining and trimming clips, preparing images, and adding captions, so an agent can assemble a finished video.

• Routines: work on a schedule

  In an agent’s settings, set a request to run on a schedule, such as every day at 9 AM in your time zone. Each run’s reply arrives in a new chat.

Choosing a skill used to mean a row of small buttons, and your choice wasn’t passed on to your agent. Now a bar at the bottom of each agent’s page lets you search for a skill and pick it, and your agent uses that skill. A bell tells you when a job finishes, and portfolios now show real pictures and videos.

• Find any skill in seconds

  A bar at the bottom of each agent’s page sorts its skills into Featured, All, and Recent. Search by name, or press ⌘K (Ctrl+K on Windows) to open it.

• Your agent uses the skill you pick

  Choose a skill and your agent now uses it for your request instead of picking its own. The chosen skill stays in the bar until you change or clear it.

• Know when the work is done

  A bell with an unread dot and an inbox list the jobs your agents finished, even after a reload.

• Portfolios with real pictures and videos

  An agent’s portfolio now shows its pictures and plays its videos, on larger cards that let the work fill the frame.

• Make your agent’s page your own

  Tap the emoji on your agent’s page to change it; before, it was fixed once created. An agent you hired links back to the one you hired it from.

Choosing an agent meant reading a simple preview page, and a new one wasn’t ready until a setup message had run in its chat. Now each has a full profile with its portfolio and experience, and an agent you hire arrives with its skills in place. Slate also has a fresh look, and your account menu shows your credits at a glance.

• A fresh look, your choice of background

  Slate has a softer, glassy design. In your account menu, choose one of six soft color backgrounds or a plain one, alongside light or dark mode.

• Your plan and credits at a glance

  A new account menu shows your plan, your credits, and when they renew.

• A full profile before you hire

  Each ready-made agent has a profile page, laid out like a professional profile, that can show its portfolio, its experience and who trained it, recommendations, and its skills.

• Hire it, and its skills come along

  An agent you hire arrives with its skills already in place and listed on its page, ready to chat once setup is done, with no setup message first.

• FixA clear page for a missing agent

  Opening an agent that doesn’t exist, or isn’t yours, now shows a plain “not found” page with a way back, instead of a blank screen.

Replies could pause for a slow check before starting, a finished job could take up to 22 seconds to report back, and long videos could time out. Now every agent runs on Claude Sonnet 4.6, replies and results come sooner, and long videos run to the end. When something goes wrong, the error stays on screen with a way to fix it.

• Every agent runs on Claude Sonnet 4.6

  Chats and jobs alike now run on Claude Sonnet 4.6, up from earlier Sonnet models, with nothing for you to change.

• Faster replies, faster results

  A check that added up to three seconds before each reply is gone, and a finished job now reports back in under a second, not up to 22.

• Errors stay on screen, with a fix

  If a message can’t go through, a clear alert stays in the chat with a button for the next step, such as trying again or signing in.

• Long videos run to the end

  Videos that take longer than about five minutes to make used to be cut off partway. Now they keep going until the video is ready.

• FixTasks stuck after a job ends

  When a job ends early, its unfinished tasks are now marked failed, instead of staying in To Do or Active forever.

Until now, your work lived in projects with no character of their own. Now everything you make is an agent with its own page, set up in one guided flow, and it chats with the character you give it. You can look over a ready-made agent’s work before you hire it, and the images and videos it makes open right in Slate.

• Everything you make is an agent

  Each one has its own page and shows its emoji in the sidebar, and you set it up the same way whether you start from the sidebar, the home page, or a ready-made agent.

• Set it up at your own pace

  Give it a name, an emoji, and a character on a roomy setup page that saves as you go. Keep it as a draft until you’re ready to put it to work.

• An agent that sounds like itself

  It chats with the character you gave it, knows which skills it has, and can look back at its earlier jobs when you ask.

• Look before you hire

  Each ready-made agent has a page with samples of its work, what it can do, and when to use it, and its card shows its real work instead of stock photos.

• Zoom into images, play videos in place

  Click an image your agent made to zoom in, and play the video files it makes right in the viewer, instead of downloading them.

A model used to charge the same for every image, whatever its size, and plans were harder to compare. Now a small image costs less than a large one, priced from what the model really costs. Chats, jobs, and images draw on one credit balance, and each plan shows its price and credits side by side.

• One balance for everything

  Chats, jobs, and the images your work makes all draw on the same credit balance shown in your account.

• Images priced by their size

  A small image now costs less than a large one from the same model, priced from what the model really costs, instead of one flat price per image.

• A plans page that’s easier to compare

  Each plan shows its monthly price and monthly credits side by side, kept in step with what you’re actually charged.

Until now, a job had no ready-made know-how to draw on. Now you can add skills as you write it, set each one’s options in a short form, and the job runs with them in place. Some starting points come with skills built in, and each piece of work opens with a clearer view of its progress.

• Add a skill to a job

  As you write a job, add a skill for spreadsheets, slide decks, documents, or brand guidelines, and it’s in place when the job runs.

• Type /skill to find one fast

  Type /skill while you write, narrow the list by name, and drop the skill right where you want it.

• A short form for each skill’s options

  Each skill appears as a card that says what it does, with a short form for any options it needs.

• Starting points with skills built in

  Some ready-made starting points now come with the right skill already added, so you can run them as they are.

• See progress at a glance

  Each piece of work opens with a header showing how much is done, how many files it has, and a preview stack of your documents.

Following a busy project meant switching between jobs to see where each one stood. Now one board shows every task, grouped by job. A badge tells you when work is running, switching projects shows the right progress straight away, and more kinds of documents open right in Slate.

• Tasks grouped by job

  Your project’s tasks sit in To-Do, In Progress, and Completed columns, grouped by the job they belong to, so you no longer switch between jobs to see where things stand.

• See at a glance when work is running

  While a job runs, an In Progress badge pulses beside the project’s name and goes away when the work is done.

• The right progress when you switch projects

  Switch projects from the sidebar and the overview and task list update straight away, without showing another project’s tasks.

• Open more documents right in Slate

  More kinds of finished documents, like reports ready to print or share, now open in the viewer beside your chat, with a button to save a copy.

• Every kind of file, easy to spot

  Each kind of file now has its own icon and color, the same wherever it appears, so a spreadsheet never looks like a video.

Starting something new meant a blank page or a trip to the gallery, and you couldn’t see how much your work used. Now seven starters sit on the home page, and a blank Slate runs exactly what you wrote. Work is counted in simple credits, with your balance in the sidebar, plans to upgrade to, and a warning before you run out.

• Seven starters for common jobs

  Pick Research, Spreadsheet, Data Visualization, Product Photoshoot, Image Ad, Video Ad, or a blank Slate, check the brief, and run it. Slate sets up the project for you.

• A blank Slate runs what you wrote

  Write your brief in a new blank Slate and run it, and the job starts with exactly what you typed.

• Credits you can see

  Your work is now counted in simple credits. Your balance sits in the sidebar, and a new page lets you choose a plan to upgrade to.

• A warning before your credits run out

  The sidebar warns you when your balance runs low, so a job doesn’t stop without a reason.

• To-dos and files that update live

  A project’s page now shows its to-do list and files as they change, with ticks and times, without refreshing. Links to a file in another project open on the first click.

A job’s progress could read “No steps recorded,” and finished work had few ways to open. Now a step-by-step view shows what Slate is doing and links each file as it’s made. Three new kinds of files open in place, every viewer works the same way, and each project opens on an overview of its files.

• Canvases, live web pages, and video edits

  Jobs can now hand back designs on a zoomable canvas, web pages that show as a live preview instead of code, and simple video edits you can preview and adjust in place.

• Follow each step, open files as they appear

  A step-by-step view shows what Slate is reading, writing, and running, and ends with a plain summary like “All steps finished in 1m 52s.” Click a file in the list to open it.

• An overview for every project

  Each project opens on an overview with all its files in a grid, and you rename it by clicking its name. Your recent Slates wait on the home page.

• One familiar viewer for every kind of file

  Every viewer now shares the same toolbars and buttons, text and code open in a richer editor, and the video settings panel is easier to use.

• Faster jobs, fewer missing files

  In one test, a job that took two and a half minutes finished in under a minute and a half. A final check now recovers files the live view missed.

Slate began as an AI office suite. You keep work in projects with rich pages, describe a job in the chat or write it as a page, and Slate does the work on its own machine. Its to-do list ticks off as it goes, and the files it makes appear beside the conversation. A gallery of ready-made examples helps you begin.

• Describe a job, get files back

  Ask in the chat and Slate plans the work, runs it, and hands back documents, spreadsheets, code, and images. Each file opens in a viewer right next to the conversation.

• Turn a page into a job

  Plan a job on a rich page in your project, then run it from the page. Slate works from the whole page, not just a short chat message.

• Your files, current and in one place

  Projects and their files sit in one sidebar that updates as files arrive. A revised file replaces the old one instead of piling up copies.

• Start from a ready-made example

  Browse a gallery of ready-made projects by category, read a short guide for each, and start your own copy with Use This Slate.

• A new home page and sign-in

  A redesigned home page introduces Slate as an AI office suite, and signing up or signing in now happens on a new split-screen page.