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Custom User Interfaces in Workbench Mode

Enables vibe coding to fully customize plugins or extensions to the MindStudio IDE, especially powerful with new AI image and video generation capabilities.

Image & Video Generation Models and LoRAs

12 new image and video generation models plus native LoRA support from Civitai. "Workbench" mode enables iterative building and running of agent pipelines for professional image and video generation.

Image and Video Workbench Blocks

New capabilities for advanced media processing.

• Image upscaling
• Video upscaling
• Video / image face swaps
• Video background removal
• Video watermark removal

G Suite Blocks

Gmail blocks now available. Google Docs and Sheets blocks can read externally-created documents.

Grok Imagine

xAI's generative AI tool creating AI-generated images and short videos from text prompts or existing images.

Flux 2 Dev LoRA

Developer-optimized LoRA fine-tune enabling fast, high-quality image customization.

SDXL LoRA

Lightweight Stable Diffusion XL fine-tune for style-specific, high-resolution generation.

Wan 2.2 / 2.5 / 2.6

Family of progressively improved multimodal generative models for high-fidelity image and video creation.

ByteDance Seedream 4.5

Advanced image generation focused on photorealism and fine detail rendering.

Lightricks LTX-2 19b LoRA

19B-parameter video generation model with LoRA support for style-tunable creation.

Kling O1 (video)

Next-generation text-to-video model for cinematic realism and production-ready quality.

Google Veo 3.1 / 3.1 Fast (video)

Google's text-to-video model producing cinematic, high-resolution videos with improved motion consistency.

New Workbench Mode

"Workbench" run mode for building and running agents directly inside the IDE. New runtime mode for quick prototyping and generating one-time outputs in Debugger without launch variables—ideal for personal, stand-alone experiments and asset pipelines.

New Telegram Bot AI Agents

Instantly connect to Telegram bots in the Start block to build Telegram Messenger bots connected to AI agents.

Menu Block Adds Custom Interfaces

Menu block now supports custom interfaces for tailoring in-product guidance and menu experiences to specific workflows and audiences.

GPT 5.2 Pro

Delivering improved speed, understanding, and generation quality for advanced workflows.

GPT-Image 1.5

Offering improved image quality and faster generation.

Mistral 3 (Large, 14B, 8B, 3B)

All open source and affordable.

1-Day AI Agent Bootcamp & Certification

Single-day intensive training on foundational skills for designing and deploying AI agents impacting roles in product, operations, sales, and marketing.

2-Day AI Agent Bootcamp & Certification

Elite two-day training program for mastering agent design, prompt engineering, structured data work, and research automation.

• 10 fully functional AI agents
• Capstone project
• Level-1 AI Agent Developer Certification
• 1-year MindStudio Personal Plan ($4,800 value)
• Alumni community

HubSpot x MindStudio: From Empty to Engine

December 18th — Exclusive workshop introducing MindStudio AI Agent for automatically capturing and syncing leads into HubSpot for startups.

AI Agents for Product Managers

December 5th — Led by Dannielle Sakher, VP of GTM at MindStudio. Covers six essential AI agents every modern PM should use with step-by-step design and deployment guidance.

Deborah Sherman | AI Workflow Consultant | AIEZ.ai

"People walked into our November AI workshop feeling overwhelmed. They walked out using words like 'useful,' 'time-saving,' 'fun,' and 'exciting.'"

Adam Sowden | Owner | Marketing Fight Club

Built agents to simulate target audience feedback and predict ad conversion before spending.

• Lead costs dropped 75%
• 30 hours/week reclaimed
• Generated $60M–$100M prospects vs. previous $42M best

New App Home (Getting Started) Page

Streamlined onboarding experience with quick access to essential setup steps.

Workspace Update

Revamped user workspace with new capabilities.

• Community Agents submission capability
• Agent Templates for easy starts
• Folders for organization

Anonymous Access Controls

Two new controls for anonymous access.

• Custom agent subdomain for personalized links
• Lifetime spend cap to limit costs

Add Subtitles to Video

Automatically transcribes audio and burns captions into videos with flexible fonts, colors, sizes, and positioning. Users can edit transcripts, preview captions, and export final videos.

Get Image from Video Frame

Converts frames from generated videos for use as reference images, enabling smooth transitions for longer marketing videos and immersive stories.

Firecrawl Update

Updated to latest API version for improved website scraping reliability. Introduces Mobile mode for scraping mobile-optimized sites with mobile screenshots.

Hotkey Update

Two new hotkeys for Array and Key-Value Pair inputs.

• Shift + Right-Click — copy block config field value
• Shift + Left-Click — paste clipboard content into block config field

Gemini 3

Advanced depth, reasoning, and reliability.

Nano Banana Pro

More accurate, context-rich visuals with enhanced reasoning.

Claude 4.5 Opus

Sharper reasoning, more natural dialogue, improved conversational performance.

Flux.2 Pro (BlackForestLabs)

Strong prompt adherence, stable lighting, sharp textures, consistent character and style.

2-Day AI Agent Bootcamp & Certification

December 8–9, 2025 — Elite two-day training program.

• 10 fully functional AI agents
• Capstone project tailored to your role
• Level-1 AI Agent Developer Certification
• 1-year MindStudio Personal Plan ($4,800 value)
• Alumni community access

Fireside Chat — Unfirable: Transforming Media Publishing with AI Agents

November 14th — MindStudio CEO Dmitry Shapiro discussed with David Cohn of Advance Local how 300+ AI agents automate processes in large media companies.

Embedding AI Agents on Your Website

October 30th — Luis Chavez-Mattos hosted session on embedding agents into websites and apps.

Makeda Boehm | Enterprise Account Executive | Granicus

"Access to over 200 AI models. That's like having an entire team of specialists who never sleep, never complain about deadlines. MindStudio has all the power, but easy to use."

Sachin Kumar | Sr. Director, IT Business Solutions | Fred Hutch

"MindStudio truly stood out: Thoughtful design. Radical clarity. Flexibility. Ready-to-use agents. Robust connector library."

Anonymous Access

Share MindStudio AI Agents with anyone without requiring a MindStudio account. Easy distribution to teammates, friends, and the public.

Agent-Level Error & Checkpoint Notifications

Email notifications when an agent fails during a background run or an unattended run hits a Checkpoint block.

Detect & Redact PII Blocks

Detect PII and Redact PII blocks automatically find and anonymize sensitive data as AI Agents run, maintaining compliance.

Claude 4.5 Haiku

Similar Sonnet 4 performance at 1/3 cost and 2x+ speed.

Sora 2 + Sora 2 Pro

Create cinematic, high-fidelity videos faster and cheaper.

2-Day AI Agent Bootcamp & Certification

November 3–4, 2025 — Elite two-day training for mastering agent design, prompt engineering, structured data, and research automation.

• 10 working agents
• Capstone project
• Level-1 Certification
• 1-year MindStudio Personal Plan ($4,800 value)

Build AI Agents that Connect to Real-World Tools

Two-part hands-on session with Luis Chavez-Mattos on building agents connecting to external services through integrations, connectors, and HTTP requests.

HubSpot for Startups x MindStudio

October 23rd — Exclusive partnership workshop introducing AI Agent for capturing and syncing leads into HubSpot.

Megan McPhaden | Product Manager | The Globe and Mail

Built alt-text browser extension using MindStudio for Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism AI Journalism Adoption Lab to generate high-quality, accessible, SEO-friendly image descriptions.

Josh Tindell | Client Partner | Tonic

"Built 15x Agents from scratch using Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT addressing different challenges. Deployed workflow automations generating blog posts and scheduling news updates."

Alan Wamser

Demonstrated technical underpinnings of Tracking/Billing Proof of Concept showing proxy layer mediating client requests to MindStudio agents.

Debugger Feature Updates

Multiple new debugging features for faster agent development.

• Breakpoint — Pause agent execution at specific steps during building
• Mock Data — Bypass long or costly steps by reusing previous results
• State Snapshots — Compare before/after states and variable changes for each execution

Generate Asset Block — Vibe-Code HTML Assets

Vibe-code HTML Assets in the Generate Asset block to create highly professional, unique, personal web apps for AI Agents.

Search Perplexity Block

AI agents can tap real-time index of hundreds of billions of webpages bringing fresh, source-backed knowledge into workflows.

Fireflies.ai x MindStudio

Fireflies.ai integration brings 15 new blocks. Agents access Fireflies' meeting intelligence and automate workflows with zero code.

Video Generator Blocks

New Video Generator blocks for powerful media manipulation.

• Merge Video
• Merge Audio
• Mix Audio into Video
• Trim Media
• Extract Audio From Video
• Mute Video
• Generate Static Video From Image

Grok 4 Fast & Grok 4

Claude Sonnet 4.5

Anthropic's best coding and reasoning model for building smarter agents.

AI Interview Mastery: Land Your Dream Job

September 25th — MindStudio CEO Dmitry Shapiro led session on leveraging AI Agents to stand out in job search.

AI Agent Workshop for Product Managers

September 22nd — Google Gen AI PM Lead Dr. Marily Nika and MindStudio CEO Dmitry Shapiro hosted 2-hour workshop attracting 500+ attendees.

2-Day AI Agent Bootcamp & Certification Launch

Launched with professionals from Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, Mastercard, Atlassian, Adobe, TikTok, and more.

• 10 fully functional AI agents
• Business-ready capstone project
• Level 1 AI Agent Developer Certification
• 1-year MindStudio Unlimited Personal Plan ($4,800 value)
• Alumni community access

Alexis Marin | Lead Data Analyst | The AES Corporation

"Three weeks later debating with AI agent why it kept spitting wrong results. AI won 51 times. But in back-and-forth debugging, rebuilding, redefining patience, I leveled up. Here I am… Certified. Smarter. Humble."

Shilpa Shastri | Principal Product Manager | IBM (Apptio)

"Inspiring to see MindStudio empower non-technical users designing and deploying AI agents across practical use cases like deep research, content generation and beyond."

Sasha Rappaport | Senior Customer Success Manager | Atlassian

"Dive deep into Agentic AI workshop gave new perspectives applying immediately. Big takeaways: Engineering better prompts for precise LLM results and understanding Agentic Workflows for streamlining complex automation."

Chat Block — Dynamic Tool Use Update

New Dynamic Tool Use allows building truly agentic experiences mixing agents and workflows inside a single user-directed chat session. Combines capabilities like Anthropic's MCP and OpenAI Tool Use with MindStudio safety, introspection, and guardrails.

Debugger Insights Feature

Insights is an AI Agent built natively into Debugger, helping navigate run logs, understand agent behavior, identify breaks, and suggest fixes.

Full Virtual Machine Execution for Custom Functions

Custom Functions can now run in a VM with full access to native NodeJS and Python runtimes on production-quality web infrastructure. Any npm package can be installed.

Generate Asset Block — Dynamic HTML

MindStudio AI Agents vibe-code their own web pages. Used for autonomously designing sites, building interactive content, games, quizzes, and multimedia presentations.

Custom User Interfaces

Vibe-code fully Custom User Interfaces shaping agent interaction. Combines live preview and conversational "vibe coding" — from layout changes to styling to multi-step flows.

MindStudio Connector Registry (MSCR)

New open-source repository housing 500+ actions including ActiveCampaign, Airtable, Apollo.io, ElevenLabs, Fireflies.ai, HeyReach.io, Notion, WooCommerce.

Airtable Blocks

Retrieve, update, and delete Airtable records directly from agents.

Google Search / Image Search Block Update

Supports country, language, date ranges, with configurable result counts (1–100).

Transcribe Audio Block Update

Supports ElevenLabs Scribe v1 model in addition to all OpenAI transcription models.

Claude Opus 4.1 (Anthropic)

GPT-5 & GPT-OSS (OpenAI)

Gen-4 Turbo (Runway)

Eleven Music & Eleven v3 (ElevenLabs)

Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Model (Google)

MindStudio Bootcamp Cohort 1

500 selected participants from 14,000 applicants. Four-week bootcamp includes virtual sessions, exclusive curriculum, and final exam leading to Level 3 certification.

MindStudio x Toronto AI Meetup

Led by VP of Partnerships Dannielle Sakher with bootcampers, customers, and partners from TikTok, Zapier, McCain Foods, and more.

Matt Wolfe — "This AI Agent Does 12-Months of Work in 10 Minutes"

Keira Nesdale | Portfolio Manager | MH Ventures

"MindStudio compared to platforms like n8n, Make, Zapier, but truly league of its own: 100x easier, especially for less technical creatives like myself."

Rachel Zhang | Senior Product Manager, GenAI | TikTok

"Discovered MindStudio, all-in-one agent platform changing everything. Quickly built functional agents streamlining content digestion and writing."

Slack Channel History Block

New Fetch Slack Channel History block easily pulls messages from Slack channels into MindStudio AI Agents for reports, analysis, and summaries.

Test Block Button

New Debugger feature running single, selected blocks for testing without running the entire agent.

Email Block — HTML Design

Update in Send Email block allowing agents to generate professional HTML emails instead of text-only reports.

Scraper Block Updates

LinkedIn and X Scraper blocks updated with new underlying scrapers.

• LinkedIn Company Page
• LinkedIn Profile
• X Post
• X Profile

MindStudio July Hackathon

Hackathon with judges from Google, TikTok, Reddit, AWS, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Adobe, Oracle, General Motors, McKinsey & Company.

• 1st Place: Personalized Itinerary Planner by Shay Bar
• 2nd Place: SecureAsk by Kevin Vandever
• 3rd Place: Pool Cleaning QA Assistant by Matthew Dickens

MindStudio University Launched

MindStudio University launched with dozens of hours of in-depth agent-building tutorials.

UK Government's Incubator for Artificial Intelligence

MindStudio led hands-on session for the UK government team tasked with scaling AI tools across departments.

Forbes — "From Prompts To Products: The Business Of No-Code AI Is Booming"

Matt Wolfe — "19 FREE AI Tools You Need In Your Life"

AdSkills — "MindStudio vs. n8n: Why I Chose MindStudio"

David Cohen | Advance Local

Leverages MindStudio at Advance Local to enhance publisher work and journalism workflows.

Justin Brooke | Founder, AdSkills

"Boy if N8N is worth $2.3B... MindStudio must be worth twice that. N8N good tool, super hard to figure out. MindStudio same power, easy use."

Dhwanit Agarwal | Sr. Machine Learning Engineer | Adobe

"MindStudio quickly became favorite tool building personalized AI agents with few clicks. Compared n8n, Zapier—great workflow automation—MindStudio goes further: intelligent agents reasoning, personalizing, acting across steps."

Self-Hosted AI Models

Connect to custom AI models running in the cloud (for enterprises with fine-tuned models) or your own hardware. Now supports any OpenAI-compatible model beyond the 150+ already provided.

11 New Module Blocks for Transforming Text

Built-in text transformation blocks requiring no prompts.

• Summarize — Instant TL;DR
• Improve — Fix grammar, clarity, polish
• Translate — Any language
• Rewrite for Persona — Adapt tone and audience
• Adjust Reading Level
• Merge — Combine multiple text inputs
• Tone — Formal, casual, fun options
• Brand Align — Stay consistent with voice
• Rewrite at Scale — With user-defined rules
• Convert Format — Email, blog, post formats
• Extract — Pull clean data from messy text

Transcribe Audio Block

Block taking a URL to an audio file and returning a transcript using OpenAI's gpt-4o, gpt-4o-mini, or Whisper models.

ActiveCampaign & MindStudio Integration

ActiveCampaign users build AI agents connecting to the platform, automating follow-ups, personalizing engagement, and supercharging lead management.

Flux 1 Kontext (image)

Google's Veo 3 (video)

Centre de Formation Professionnelle & USJ — 5-Day AI Workshop

Using MindStudio to teach a 5-day AI Workshop.

The Next Wave AI Podcast — Most Popular Episode

journaldunet.com — "AI Agents in SEO: What They Already Know How to Do"

Create an MCP Server

Zero-Config MCP Servers exposing agents to Claude, Cursor, and other MCP apps.

Webhook Triggers

MindStudio supports Webhook Triggers allowing agent activation by external events from Shopify, Stripe, GitHub. Enables real-time, secure automation using industry-standard practices.

Query Database Block

Connects agents directly to PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server for reading, writing, updating data. Includes secure connections and parameterized queries.

Packaged Workflows

Support for Packaged Workflows creating custom blocks extending agent capabilities like a plugin system without coding.

• Deep Research
• Generate Podcast
• Track Website Changes
• Analyze CSV

Zapier, Make, and n8n Integration Blocks

Integration blocks for Zapier, Make, and n8n allowing agents to trigger and interact with external automation workflows. Enables two-way communication supporting complex multi-step processes without custom code.

Gemini Pro 2.5 (LLM)

Meta Llama 4 (LLM)

Luma Labs Ray Flash 2 (Video)

Luma Labs Ray 2 (Video)

Luma Labs Ray 1.6 (Video)

Luma Labs Photon 1 (Image)

Luma Labs Photon 1 Flash (Image)

CNET — "I Used MindStudio AI to Help With Research. It Was Remarkably Handy"

Podcast Generation Agent

Turn written topics into complete audio episodes including dialogue, sound effects, and music. Enables creators to produce high-quality podcasts without specialized gear or editing skills.

HTTP Request Block

Lets agents interact directly with external APIs using standard web methods. Supports headers and authentication for fetching data, sending updates, and triggering actions across services.

• GET
• POST
• PATCH
• PUT
• DELETE
• HEAD
• OPTIONS

Grok 3 (LLM)

Grok 3 Mini (LLM)

OpenAI GPT Image 1 (Image)

Generate Asset Block — Static React Templates

Developers can now build frontend components as agent workflows.

Asset Permission System

Private, Unlisted, and Public access levels for creator visibility and usage control.

Parallel Execution in Run Workflow Block

Cuts runtime 50%+ in complex workflows.

Three Data Source Upgrades

• Direct Text Access for plain text reading
• Auto-Summarization for document condensing
• Improved debugging showing agent data interpretation