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04 Canva Newsroom · 16 September 2026

The creative stack is becoming a connected studio

Canva’s ProSuite connects Affinity, Cavalry, Flourish and Leonardo into a broader workflow spanning craft, animation, data visualisation and variation.

Affinity
Shape and refine the core artwork
Cavalry
Add motion and procedural behaviour
Flourish
Turn information into visual stories
Canva / Leonardo
Scale, adapt and distribute variations

The interesting shift is not another AI feature. It is the attempt to connect specialist tools into one production loop.

The Story

Canva’s ProSuite positions creative work as a connected pipeline: make in Affinity, animate in Cavalry, visualise with Flourish, generate variations in Leonardo and distribute through Canva.

That is useful for a multidisciplinary studio because it reflects how real projects move. The value is less about replacing craft than reducing the friction between disciplines, formats and handoffs.

The design opportunity is to define the handoff rules before the toolchain defines them for you. Decide what remains source-of-truth, where human review happens and which transformations are allowed to be automatic. ([canva.com](https://www.canva.com/newsroom/news/canva-prosuite-launch/?utm_source=openai))

Studio Wensday Angle

A strong toolchain protects craft by making transitions legible.