Melanie Perkins built Canva by spotting what Adobe missed. Non-designers needed simple tools. She delivered. Now, with AI, she’s rewriting the rules again. In a recent Verge Decoder podcast , Perkins laid out Canva’s bold shift. “We’re moving from a design platform with AI tools to an AI platform with design tools,” she said. Type an idea. Pull data from Slack or Gmail. AI orchestrates a full editable file. No more one-shot images. Iterative agents handle the heavy lifting. Canva AI 2.0 hit research preview. Magic Layers splits photos into editable objects—eight million uses in four weeks. Dictate prompts for accessibility. Connectors fetch real context. Outputs land as layered Canva files, ready for drag-and-drop tweaks. Perkins uses it herself. Pulled her calendar for a personal audit. Built decks from company data. The company runs on Canva now. But. Public polls rank AI below ICE in popularity. Job fears loom. Perkins pushes back.…