Create content with AI Studio

AI Studio helps you create documents, images, tables, audio, and webpages directly on your canvas. You can write a prompt, attach files or URLs, select existing canvas objects, and use that context to generate a first draft.

Use it when you want to:

• Draft a brief, meeting note, proposal, or summary
• Turn a file or URL into a document, table, or visual direction
• Use existing notes, images, or files on the canvas as context for new work

Treat every result as a draft. AI Studio is good at getting the first shape onto the canvas; you still own the facts, tone, dates, source permissions, and final handoff.

This is the reference for AI Studio. For the step-by-step canvas-entry flow, see Use AI Studio in a canvas.

Before you start

AI Studio creates canvas content, so it is available to workspace members who can edit the canvas. On desktop it appears as the canvas AI panel; on supported mobile or narrow screens it uses the canvas toolbar panel.

Credits are checked at submit time: AI work starts only after the workspace credit check passes. Workspace admins buy credits in Billing; other members need an admin to add them.

Choose what to create

Auto is the safest starting point. It resolves the output type from the prompt and context, and with completed files or URL tiles it also decides whether to save source material, open Object Chat, or generate.

For images, Count goes up to 10. Leave Model, Style, and Ratio on Auto unless the result must match a specific production format (a vertical social image, a square concept tile, a wider presentation visual). Auto lets ALLO pick the model and format from your prompt and references; change the controls only when the format actually matters.

Add the context AI Studio needs

The best prompt gives AI Studio the material it needs, not the most words.

New placeholders anchor near the visible center of your viewport, not on the selection, so generated work appears where you can see, move, or cancel it. On a freeform whiteboard, smart arrows from a source object to a result let AI Studio and Object Chat treat the source as prior context.

Attachments

AI Studio accepts up to 10 attachments per draft (images, PDF, Office and HWP, Markdown, text and code, CSV, JSON, SRT, and spreadsheets), reading each for context up to a 20 MB per-file cap. Split oversized source material first.

Completed uploads are included in the request; in-progress uploads are not; failed uploads stay visible with an error so you can remove and retry. Draft recovery stores completed upload metadata, prompt text, selected context, and options, but not files that were still uploading, so reattach those.

When Auto sees completed attachments or prompt URLs, it runs an intent check before generating:

So "what does this say?" on a pasted URL gives you a source object plus Object Chat, while "turn this into a client-ready launch brief" gives you a generated Doc.

Write prompts that reduce cleanup

Give the model the decision shape you want, not just the topic: audience, format, source objects, and constraints. For example: Turn the selected notes into a one-page project brief for a product lead, with headings, risks, decisions, and next steps.

If a result is bland, do not keep regenerating the same vague request. Add the missing audience, format, source object, or constraint. Manual editing is often cheaper than asking AI to guess again.

Voice input is prompt writing, not generation: it checks credits before the browser microphone starts, then records, transcribes, and appends the transcript. If the microphone is blocked or missing, or transcription fails, the error appears in the prompt box; recordings with no speech are treated as empty. Skim the transcript before submitting, because a small transcription mistake becomes a large mistake in the object.

Check generation status and review the result

After AI Studio accepts a request, work continues in the background and the placeholder is the live sign of progress. While it processes, output actions (edit, preview, download, duplicate, copy, lock, thumbnail) stay blocked; selection and deletion are the safe controls.

To cancel, delete the processing placeholder; deleting the canvas also stops any generation still running there. If generation already finished or credits were already consumed, deleting the final object does not undo the spend. Longer file-heavy, audio, image, and web page jobs continue server-side after you leave, so return to the canvas to review rather than resubmitting the same expensive prompt.

AI Studio and Object Chat are different

Use AI Studio when the next step is to create or save something on the canvas. Use Object Chat when the next step is to ask about one existing object or keep working on one result. It explains, rewrites, critiques, or edits an artifact after it exists. Generated and AI-edited objects can show an AI badge as their object-level AI entry point, which is separate from human comments. Before using AI output in client-facing work, read Review AI output and share web pages.

How credits are used

AI credits belong to the workspace. The actor is recorded for audit, but the balance is checked at the workspace level before any AI work runs. AI Studio generation, Object Chat messages, recommendation buttons, and voice transcription all go through the same check.

Admins recover by buying credits in Billing; non-admin members, external collaborators, and guests cannot buy credits from the blocked flow and need a workspace admin. Successful AI work can spend credits even if the output is later wrong, deleted, or needs cleanup, so check that the prompt and source context are worth the spend before a large image, audio, or web page request. For details, read Understand AI credits and AI credit billing.

When the result is not right

When you contact support, send the workspace name, canvas link, output type, prompt summary, attachment types, approximate time, and whether credits were blocked or spent. Do not send passwords, API keys, private customer data, or unnecessary source files.