What’s new

Preview and remove what you attach. In Generate Deck, hover a picture, video or file under Attachments to see it larger and whole, with its name and a line on what it shows. The same hover brings up a remove button, so you can take anything out of the brief before you generate, including files you attached from the composer.

Locked layers stay out of the way. In the deck editor, clicking on a locked layer now reaches whatever is behind it, so a locked shape or picture covering the slide no longer stops you selecting the text and pictures underneath it. Empty space under it clears your selection or starts a box selection as usual. To change a locked layer, select it in Layers: once selected, its toolbar, with Unlock, works as before.

Your template's pages, as drawn. A deck generated from a template made on an A4 or other non-widescreen page now keeps each page's layout exactly as you drew it. Pictures, text boxes and type stay at their own size and place, instead of being shrunk and shifted. A heading gets the room the page has rather than shrinking into a small box.

The template sets the page and the look. When you pick a template in Generate Deck, the deck is made on that template's own page size. The Format control shows "From template" with the page, and the Style control in the review shows "From template" too. Both are locked while the template is applied; choose Foveate default to change them. The review also lists the fonts the deck will use, each in its own typeface, with which one sets the headings and which the body.

Pictures shown whole. A slide with a picture now goes on a template page with a proper picture frame, not one whose only frame is a thin strip that would crop the picture to a sliver. Where a template doubled up a frame, a second picture is no longer stacked on top of the first.

Only your pictures. The deck Foveate makes when you set up from your website now uses only photos and video from your site, in the outline you review and in the finished deck. A slide with no picture of yours is laid out for words instead of showing a stand-in photo.

One large cover. The cover shows a single large photo, or your site's video if it has one, never a slideshow.

Each project on its own slide. Every project slide shows that project's own photos, and a project's photos stay on its slide.

No template filler text. Generated decks no longer leave example text such as "Heading" or "The first point" on a slide. Points, figures, features and steps from your outline go into the layout, and anything the outline doesn't fill is left off.

Project descriptions show in full. When you open a project in your Portfolio, its description now grows to fit everything you've written, rather than sitting in a small box with its own scroll bar. Write as much as the project needs, and scroll the details panel to read or edit all of it.

Studio can read your website for you. "Read more from your website", at the top of Studio once your workspace is set up from your website, goes through your About, Contact, Team and Services pages. It notes your offices, team size, services and sectors, and only records what your site actually says. Before anything is charged, it shows what it will do and the most it can cost. What it finds is shown as Details on the Firm tab.

Edit your Details by hand. Choose Edit beside Details on the Firm tab to correct or fill in your website, offices, team size, founding year, services, sectors and spelling, including anything your website doesn't say. What you set stays as you set it: reading your website again never changes it. Your offices and spelling also shape the Playbook rules Studio suggests.

Keep working while it reads. The read takes about a minute. The button shows that it's working. When it's done, Studio shows what it found, or, if you've moved to another page, a notification tells you what it found and what it cost.

Add what it found in one click. When the read finishes, Studio shows what it found, all ticked: the people on your team page, and Playbook rules to match. The rules cover your offices, how to write for where they are (American or British spelling, units and date style), and the checks RFPs in your country usually require, such as participation goals in the US or social value in the UK. A rule your Playbook already has isn't offered again, even when it's worded a little differently. "Add selected" puts the people in Studio → People and the rules in your Playbook. Untick anything you don't want. Anyone already in People and any rule already in your Playbook is skipped, and nothing you've written is changed.

Keep going: more projects, more people. One read takes in your newest work and the start of your team list. "Find more projects" reads project pages that aren't in your Portfolio yet, with their photos, year and place. "Find more people" picks up your team list where the last read stopped. Both show their cost first, and what they find comes back to tick and add. The button at the top of Studio offers them, led by "Find more projects" on Portfolio and "Find more people" on People.

Studio has a new Playbook tab. It holds how your firm decides, checks and writes its bids, in three sections: your go/no-go criteria, what to look for in every RFP, and your writing rules for proposals. Owners and members can edit it, and guests can read it.

Rules suggested from your Firm profile. What you told the Firm tab is offered as go/no-go criteria: what you turn down, your project size, and the sectors, clients, accounts and markets you want. Your firm's name is offered as a writing rule. When you set up from your website, Foveate also notes the offices your site lists and whether it uses British or American spelling, and suggests rules to match. Add them one at a time, or all at once. Nothing is used until you add it.

Switch any line off without deleting it. Every line in your Playbook has a check mark: green while it's in use, grey when it's switched off. A line that's off stays on the page for later, and nothing uses it until you switch it back on. Each go/no-go criterion is a must have, important or nice to have, shown by how full its dot is, and one click moves it between them.

The compliance matrix checks for what you always check. List what your firm looks for in every RFP, such as insurance minimums, page limits, required licences or forms. When the compliance matrix is built, each one the RFP states becomes a normal row. Each one it doesn't mention is listed under "Your playbook — not in this RFP", so you can confirm it with the client before you submit, and add it to the matrix if it applies.

Proposal drafts follow your writing rules. Set the rules your firm writes by, such as how to refer to the firm, British or American spelling, words to avoid, or claims never to make. Every proposal draft and revision follows them, including when you rewrite or add a single section, though anything the RFP itself requires still comes first.

Every go/no-go shows what it was judged against. A go/no-go recommendation in an RFP chat now says how many of your criteria it checked and links to your Playbook to change them. An RFP chat's Next steps list links there too, so the rules every step follows are one click away.

Type a page's name to go straight there. Search now finds the pages inside the main ones, not just the main ones. Type "firm" for your firm profile, "proposals" for past proposals, "templates" or "brand" for those parts of the Library, "billing", "storage" or "api keys" for settings, and "support" for help. A page inside another says where it lives, such as Firm in Studio. The page you name comes first, so "billing" opens Billing rather than Settings. Typing "studio" lists Studio, then each of its tabs. Search jumps to the right tab even when you're already on that page.

An update no longer breaks the page you have open. If Foveate is updated while you have it open, a window like Plans or Invite members now asks you to reload instead of showing an error page.

Comments link to the widget you have selected. Select a drawing, picture, text box or any other widget on a deck slide, write a comment, and the comment is linked to it. The comment box shows what it will be linked to before you send, and one click removes the link when your comment is about the slide in general. Select several widgets and the comment links to all of them.

Find what a comment means. In the Comments panel, a linked comment names the widget it's about. Hover it and that widget is outlined on the slide; click it and the deck goes to that widget and selects it, even if it has since moved to another slide. If the widget has been deleted, the comment stays and says so.

Comment on words in a text box. While you're editing a text box, select a phrase and an Add comment button appears beneath it. Your comment quotes the phrase and links to that text box. People with view-only access could already comment on highlighted slide text; their comments now link to the text box too. Click a comment like this in the Comments panel and the deck goes to those exact words and highlights them, rather than the whole text box. The highlight stays until you click somewhere else. Hovering the comment previews it when the words are on the slide you're looking at. If the words have moved into a linked text box further on, the comment follows them there.

Viewers can point at words too. On a shared deck, while the Feedback panel is open, viewers can select text on the slide and choose Add feedback. Their feedback quotes those words and links to the text box they came from. Clicking that feedback in your Comments panel goes to the exact words and highlights them, the same way your team's own comments do.

Reframe a video to a new shape. Generate Media's Video tab has a new model, Hailuo 3 Max Reframe. Attach a clip, choose the shape you want (16:9, 9:16, 1:1, 4:3, 3:4, 21:9 or 9:21), and it fits your footage into the new frame and fills in the space around it. The original footage, timing and sound stay as they were. You can describe what should fill the new edges, or leave that blank.

You pay for the length of your clip. The new video is as long as the one you started with, so the price follows it: 40 credits a second at 768p, or 25 at 480p. A 5-second clip costs 200 credits at 768p. Reframe takes clips up to 15 seconds.

See what you're starting from. When a generation starts from your own media, such as a clip to reframe or restyle, a picture to edit, or a first frame to animate, Generate Media now shows it large in the output area until the result arrives, labelled as the source. Reference images you add for style aren't shown there, since the result doesn't start from them. While a generation from a clip is running, the clip's frame now sits behind the progress message instead of the plain gradient.

A prompt only when the model needs one. Aleph 2.0 now runs from your clip alone, like Reframe and LTX Extend, so Generate is no longer greyed out until you type something. The character counter also matches what each model accepts: LTX Extend takes up to 5,000 characters, Kling 3 and Grok up to 2,500, and Aleph up to 1,000. Before, the counter could approve a Kling or Grok prompt that the model then turned down.

Contained videos sit on the slide. A video set to Contain no longer fills the empty space around it with black. The slide shows through instead, the same as a contained image, in the editor, when presenting, on share links, in slide thumbnails and in PDF exports. Full screen still plays on black.

Fit is now a menu, with Native. For images and videos, Cover, Contain and Fill have moved into one Fit menu on the toolbar. Its last option, Native, reshapes the frame to the picture's or clip's own proportions, within the space the frame already takes up. Once a frame matches its media, the menu reads Native.

The Fit menu on drawings, comparison sliders and carousels. Drawings get Stretch, Keep proportions and Native in the same menu; the first two used to sit in the Settings panel. A comparison slider's Native fits the frame to your before and after images, so neither loses its edges. A carousel can now be set to Contain, which shows every picture whole instead of cropping it to the frame.