The visual canvas and the Visuals Agent are open to everyone, starting today.

Until now they were a closed alpha, available to a small group and to our own team. If you have only ever used Visuals through the create pages and the video editor, this is a whole new half of the product opening up to you. Along with it, we rebuilt the entire path from signing up to your first finished piece of work.

The visual canvas is a build surface. You place cards on it, one card per step, and draw connections between them so that what one card makes feeds into the next. A set of connected cards is a flow, and flows live inside projects.

The Visuals Agent sits beside the canvas. You tell it what you want in your own words and it builds the flow for you, then runs it.

That's the short version. The rest of these notes are about getting you into it.

Onboarding used to be a wizard. A grid of 14 tiles before you saw anything of the product, then a plan picker, then a song upload you were pushed through whether you needed it or not, which most paths then threw away. It ended on a confetti screen that did nothing.

It now asks one question: who are we creating for? Four answers:

Pick one and you are in. There is no Next button, because a single-choice question does not need one. Nothing here locks you into anything: the answer shapes what Visuals suggests first, and you can still make anything either way.

Everything a setup wizard used to ask you up front, the Visuals Agent now asks only if and when it actually needs it. Your name, your files, what you want to make, which plan. If the Agent needs your artist name to put it on a cover, it asks then. If it doesn't need it, it never asks. So you answer questions about the thing you are making, in the middle of making it, instead of answering a form before you have seen anything work.

Your answer also stocks the workspace you land on. Each of the four gives you a different set of tap-to-fill starting points in the composer, so someone working on their own single sees "a music video for my new single" and "a looping Spotify Canvas from my cover", and someone at a label sees prompts written for a roster.

There's a new blank workspace with the Visuals Agent ready and waiting. It's the page returning users land on when they open Visuals.

It writes nothing until you send your first message. Open it, change your mind, close it, and your library stays clean. No trail of empty untitled flows.

Before, hitting zero credits was a dead end. On the canvas you got a message and nothing to do about it. On the create pages you were thrown out to the pricing page, and whatever you had on screen was lost.

Now an upgrade dialog opens right where you are. You top up and carry on, with your work still in front of you.

While we were in there we found that the credit figures shown on plans were understated, in some places by as much as 10 times. They're corrected, and they're now checked against the pricing page so they can't drift apart again.

The Visuals Agent can see your credit balance, and it always offers you at least one option you can actually run today.

It may also offer a bigger version of the same idea that costs more than you have. It shows you the price of both, so you can see what the difference buys. If you pick the bigger one, the upgrade opens first, instead of the run starting and failing halfway through.

Ask for something large and the Agent breaks it into phases and checks with you as it goes, so you can steer it before it spends your credits on the wrong thing.

The canvas fills in as each piece is built, rather than sitting empty while you wait for the whole thing.

The full journey works on a phone. Sign up, tell the Visuals Agent what you want, and watch it build, without going near a desk.