Canva app
Ounie for Canva
A side panel inside the Canva editor: ask your brain, drop a grounded and cited answer onto your design, and file the finished design back to the brain that informed it.
What you get#
The Ounie panel adds two things to the Canva editor, both grounded in your own sources:
- Ask & insert. Pick a brain, ask a question, get a cited answer drawn only from your sources, and drop the whole answer (or a selection) onto the canvas as text.
- Save as asset. Export the current design and file it against a brain as an asset — beside the brain, never ingested. An optional Add to brain button promotes it into your knowledge when you want that.
Connect your account#
Open the Ounie panel in Canva and tap Connect. A short-lived, single-use link opens in your browser; sign in to Ounie (or you're already signed in) and the two accounts are bound. From then on the panel knows which brains are yours — no API key to paste, nothing to copy.
Re-connecting from a different Ounie account rebinds cleanly. You can disconnect any time from the panel.
Ask a brain#
Choose a brain, type a question, and Ounie answers from that brain's sources with inline citations to the pages it used. If the brain doesn't have enough to answer, it says so plainly rather than guessing. Tap Insert on canvas to place the answer as a text element you can style like anything else in Canva.
What it counts against#
Canva asks are ordinary personal asks — they draw on your plan's question allowance, exactly like asking from the dashboard. Free draws on your one-time question bank; Pro and Team have monthly allowances. There is no separate Canva quota and asking never spends credits.
Save a design#
In the panel's Savemode, pick a brain and Ounie exports the current design and files it as an asset in that brain's library. Assets are outputs, not knowledge — they're never synthesized, embedded, or used to answer questions. If you want a design to inform the brain, use Add to brain after saving; that, and only that, files it as a source.
Saved designs count toward your storage just like any uploaded file. Re-saving the same design updates the existing asset rather than making a duplicate.
Plans#
Connecting Canva, asking your brain, and saving designs work on every plan. Higher plans simply have larger ask allowances and remove the “Powered by Ounie” footer in the panel.
Privacy & permissions#
The panel only ever reads brains your linked Ounie account can already access. Answers are generated solely from your own sources. The app requests the Canva permissions needed to read your identity, place elements on the active design, and export the current design — nothing else. Your Canva content is never ingested into a brain unless you explicitly promote a saved design with Add to brain.
Troubleshooting#
- “Connect your Ounie account.” The Canva user isn't linked yet (or the link was removed). Tap Connect and finish the sign-in in your browser.
- “This link expired.” Connect links are single-use and short-lived — generate a fresh one from the panel.
- Out of questions.You've used your ask allowance. Upgrade in settings or wait for the next window.
- Export failed.Canva couldn't export the design — try again in a moment.