The canvas is built around your files. Not next to them.
In chat, files are dropped into a stream. In documents, they sit inside a page of text.
In ALLO, the files can become the page: spread reference images across the canvas, play a video where it belongs, and keep the brief beside the draft it explains.
The card opens into the whole project.
Most project cards point to attachments and links while the files and drafts live elsewhere. An ALLO card opens into the Canvas itself, with the brief, references, versions, comments, and current direction laid out in front of you.
Put the material where it makes sense.
Drop in images, video, PDFs, links, tables, notes, and voice. Group related things. Put alternatives side by side. Make the important part easier to see. The arrangement helps explain the work before anyone reads a recap.
Build the project in the same place you will share it.
Start with the brief and references. Add the first drafts, the difficult feedback, the new direction, and the files that follow. Multiple people can work on the canvas as it grows, so the project does not have to be reconstructed whenever someone new opens it.
When the project ends, the reasoning is still there.
A final file rarely explains how the team got there. The canvas keeps the attempts, references, feedback, and changes around it, so someone can return months later and understand more than the last version.
A clear reading order, not an endless wall.
ALLO canvases can be read from top to bottom like a page. Give the project a beginning, a middle, and a current state so the person receiving the link knows where to start and what to look at next.
Built for understanding, not just generation.
Making more material is easy. Helping other people compare it, question it, and carry it forward is harder. Use the canvas to keep options, context, feedback, and current direction visible together.