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August 2025

New Platform Capabilities

Chat Block - Dynamic Tool Use Update

The new Dynamic Tool Use update allows you to build truly agentic experiences and mix-and-match agents and workflows inside a single user-directed chat session. This gives you capabilities like Anthropic's MCP and OpenAI/ChatGPT Tool Use combined with the safety, introspection, observability, and guardrails of MindStudio.

Debugger Insights feature launch

Insights is an AI Agent built natively into the Debugger to help you navigate run logs and understand what your agent is doing, where things might be breaking, and how you can fix them. You can even continue to chat with the agent for additional help and support.

Full Virtual Machine Execution for Custom Functions

Custom Functions now offers a new option that allows you to specify that your custom functions should be run in a VM, giving you full access to native NodeJS and Python runtimes. This means your functions run on production-quality web infrastructure. Anything that can be done on native JS or Python backend your agents can now do in MindStudio, including installing any packages from npm.

Generate Asset block - Dynamic HTML feature

MindStudio AI Agents can vibe code its own web pages with the Dynamic HTML feature. This can be used to autonomously design sites based off your prompt as well as use it to build interactive content, games, quizzes, multimedia presentations, and more.

Custom User Interfaces

Vibe-code fully Custom User Interfaces to shape how people interact your agents. The new feature combines code, live preview, and conversational “vibe coding”, so you can describe what you want and watch it take shape — from layout changes to styling to multi-step flows.

MindStudio Connector Registry (MSCR)

The MindStudio Connector Registry (MSCR) is a new open-source repository of connectors to extend the capabilities and connections of MindStudio agents. The MSCR already houses 500+ actions including ActiveCampaign, Airtable, Apollo.io, ElevenLabs, Fireflies.ai, HeyReach.io, Intuit Mailchimp, Notion, and WooCommerce. Anyone can contribute and anyone connecting to third-party services can leverage it, even outside of MindStudio.

New Available Models

New Blocks & Updates

Airtable Blocks

Users can tap into Airtable and retrieve, update, and delete records.

Google Search / Google Image Search Block Update

Supports country, language, date ranges, and allows you to specify number of results to return (1 to 100)

Transcribe Audio Block Update

Supports ElevenLabs Scribe v1 model in addition to all OpeAI transcription models

Community & Events

MindStudio Events

MindStudio Bootcamp Cohort 1

MindStudio Bootcamp’s Cohort 1 kicks off with 500 selected participants out of 14,000 applicants. The four week long bootcamp includes virtual sessions, an exclusive curriculum with assignment submissions, and a final exam that leads to a Level 3 certification.

MindStudio x Toronto AI Meetup

MindStudio hosts a meetup in Toronto led by VP of Partnerships, Dannielle Sakher and consisting of Bootcampers, customers, and partners from TikTal, Zapier, McCain Foods, Ledvance, Marketing Copilot, Toronto B2B Marketing Community, StilwaterAI, AI Advisors Group and more.

More Events

Making Noise - Social Mentions from the Community

Keria Nesdale | @keiranesdale (TikTok) | Portfolio Manager | @MH Ventures

MindStudio is often compared to platforms like n8n, Make, and Zapier, but it’s truly in a league of its own: 100x easier to use, especially for less technical creatives like myself.

Rachel Zhang | Senior Product Manager, GenAI @TikTok

Then I discovered MindStudio, an all-in-one agent building platform that changed everything. I quickly built functional agents streamlining my content digestion and writing. The difference between struggling with fragmented tools and having an integrated platform became crystal clear.

Joseph Van Nausdle | Staff Technical Program Manager @Intel Corporation

My Saturday morning just disappeared into MindStudio! I spent three hours in the Interactive Build Club, building and dissecting AI agents, and it was more fun and educational than I could have imagined.

July 2025

New Platform Capabilities

Slack Channel History Block

New Fetch Slack Channel History block makes it easy to pull messages from a Slack channel into a MindStudio AI Agent and generate reports, analyze them, create summaries, etc.

Test Block button

A new Debugger feature that runs single, selected blocks for testing without having to run the entire agent.

Email Block - HTML Design

An update in the Send Email block that allows agents to generate professional HTML emails instead of sending text-only reports. Users can provide additional instructions for the agent to consider as it designs and re-updates the email.

Scraper Block Updates

LinkedIn and X Scraper blocks were updated with new underlying scrapers that improves the ability for agents to retrieve publicly available information from Linkedin and X URLs.

Updated Blocks include:

  1. LinkedIn Company Page

  2. LinkedIn Profile

  3. X Post

  4. X Profile

Community & Events

MindStudio Events

MindStudio July Hackathon

MindStudio hosted a hackathon with judges from Google, TikTok, Reddit, AWS, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Adobe, Oracle, General Motors, McKinsey & Company and other leading organizations.

Congrats to the winners:

1st Place: Personalized Itinerary Planner by Shay Bar

A smart travel agent in your pocket — crafting personalized, multimedia-rich itineraries based on your profile, preferences, and real-world data.

2nd Place: SecureAsk by Kevin Vandever

Real-time financial intelligence — combining SEC filings, Reddit/TikTok sentiment, and graph reasoning to uncover actionable insights.

3rd Place: Pool Cleaning QA Assistant by Matthew Dickens

AI oversight for pool service companies — monitoring techs, flagging issues, and ensuring consistent quality without the overhead.

MindStudio University

MindStudio University launched, consisting of dozens of hours of in-depth tutorials on building AI agents for users to leverage and become MindStudio experts.

UK Government’s Incubator for Artificial Intelligence

MindStudio led a hands-on session for the Incubator for Artificial Intelligence, a UK government team tasked with scaling AI tools across its departments and learn to leverage AI agents to address and resolve public sector challenges.

More Events

Press Mentions

Forbes Article | From Prompts To Products: The Business Of No-Code AI Is Booming

Matt Wolfe Youtube Video | 19 FREE AI Tools You Need In Your Life

AdSkills Youtube Video | MindStudio vs. n8n: Why I chose MindStudio

Making Noise - Social Mentions from the Community

  • David Cohen leverages MindStudio at Advance Local to enhance publisher works and enhance journalism workflows

  • Justin Brooke, founder of AdSkills eliminates spending by using MindStudio Agents to test Ad Copy

Justin Brooke | Founder/CEO | @AdSkills

Boy if N8N is worth $2.3B... MindStudio must be worth twice that. N8N is a good tool, but it's super hard to figure out. MindStudio has all the same power, but easy to use.

Dhwanit Agarwal | Sr. Machine Learning Engineer | @Adobe

MindStudio has quickly become my favorite tool for building personalized AI agents with just a few clicks. Compared to n8n or Zapier, which are great for automating workflows, MindStudio goes further — letting you design intelligent agents that reason, personalize, and act across multiple steps, not just trigger simple tasks.

Jonathan M K. | Head of GTM Growth | @Momentum.io

Stop being the 93.56%. I have been digging deep into agents with n8n, Make, Zapier, you name it and been geeking out on MindStudio agents...

June 2025

New Capabilities

Self-Hosted AI Models

CommentShare feedback on the editorUsers can now connect to their own custom AI models, either running in the cloud (enterprises with fine-tuned models) or on their own hardware (hobbyists running models on their laptops, etc.).CommentShare feedback on the editor

By default, MindStudio gives you access to 150+ AI models with no API keys required (including Claude 4, GPT 4o, DeepSeek, and all other flagship models)—but now you can go beyond that and connect to any OpenAI-compatible AI model.

11 New Module Blocks for Transforming Text

Everything you actually need to do with text — now built in. No prompt required.

Just drop the block in and go.

Here’s what’s now built in:

  • Summarize – Instant TL;DR

  • Improve – Fix grammar, clarity, polish

  • Translate – Any language, any time

  • Rewrite for Persona – Adapt tone + audience

  • Adjust Reading Level – Simpler or smarter

  • Merge – Combine multiple text inputs

  • Tone – Formal, casual, fun… you choose

  • Brand Align – Stay consistent with voice

  • Rewrite at Scale – With rules you define

  • Convert Format – Email, blog, post—you name it

  • Extract – Pull clean data from messy text

Transcribe Audio

Block that takes a URL to an audio file and returns a transcript, using OpenAI’s gpt-4o, gpt-4o-mini, or whisper models.

Also available without the block by using the new “Upload Audio” user input and setting the Processing option to "Transcribe"

New AI Models

ActiveCampaign & MindStudio

ActiveCampaign users can now build AI agents that connect with ActiveCampaign to automate follow-ups, personalize engagement, and supercharge lead management.

Learn more

Updates & Improvements

  • Extracting values from JSON variables simplified to no longer require {{get}} helper. You can now simply use {{myVariable.path.to.value}}

  • Google Docs & Google Sheets now support dynamic connections on runtime, allowing end-users to connect their google drive account to upload files while using an Agent.

In the Wild

Community-Hosted Workshops

Interesting AI Agents from the Community

Organic Press

MindStudio Mentions on LinkedIn

"AI is moving fast. And for many, that brings more noise than clarity. More tools. More decisions. More pressure to adapt."

"We just can't believe how wild it is that for $0.02 you can get a top-quality, in-depth research report."

"If you believe your role is immune to being replaced or that AI is too technical to learn, you’re mistaken. Companies are aggressively integrating AI to cut costs and drive innovation."

"If APIs sound foreign or scary to you, MindStudio has a great plug in called API Cheat Sheet that can make them easy."

"It’s a smarter, faster, and slightly less soul-crushing way to assess vendors—using AI agents that act like your own tiny task force of tireless interns. Only without the coffee breaks or existential crises."

"The video series provided by the MindStudio team has helped me to develop and publish simple AI Agents. Since yesterday, I’ve learned key concepts such as debugging, prompt generation, and how to chain multiple blocks together in their automation canvas."

"If like me, someone close to you lives with #neurodiversity then read on to understand how Visual Development Platforms like MindStudio can open the doors to a fulfilling career."

May 2025

New Capabilities

Create an MCP Server

MindStudio now supports Zero-Config MCP Servers—the fastest way to expose your agents to Claude, Cursor, and any other app that uses MCP. It's live now, with tutorials and docs coming soon, but you can start experimenting right away.

Webhook Triggers

MindStudio now supports Webhook Triggers, allowing agents to be automatically activated by external events from platforms like Shopify, Stripe, and GitHub. This enables real-time, secure automation across a wide range of third-party services using industry-standard practices.

Query Database Block

MindStudio’s new Query Database Block allows agents to directly connect to databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Microsoft SQL Server for reading, writing, and updating data. It includes secure connections, parameterized queries, and optimization features, enabling powerful data-driven automation without extra integration code.

Packaged Workflows

MindStudio now supports Packaged Workflows, letting you create custom blocks to extend what agents can do. It works like a plugin system—no extra coding needed. To start, we’ve added powerful new blocks for Pro users, including Deep Research, Generate Podcast, Track Website Changes, and Analyze CSV.

Zapier, Make and n8n Integration Blocks

MindStudio now includes integration blocks for Zapier, Make, and n8n, allowing agents to trigger and interact with external automation workflows. This enables two-way communication between agents and popular automation platforms, supporting complex, multi-step processes without requiring custom code.

New AI Models

Updates and Improvements

  • The Deep Research Agent has been upgraded to version 4, expanding its output to include formatted reports, academic citations, and AI-narrated podcasts. It now synthesizes information from multiple sources with strong fact-checking, making it a versatile tool for researchers, educators, and content creators.

  • There's a new “Preview Workflow” option in the landing page settings that, when enabled, shows a clean visual preview of the automation behind the workflow’s remix link.

In the Wild

Organic Press

Interesting AI agents from the Community

MindStudio Mentions on LinkedIn

"I just used the free LinkedIn Connection Crafter app on MindStudio to write a personalized connection message to talk about partnerships. Great sales tool!"

"Mindstudio absolutely smashed it. The report output was of a quality that should concern major consulting firms.... and cost less than $1.50 🤐"

April 2025

New Capabilities

Podcast Generation Agent

MindStudio has released a podcast generation agent that turns written topics into complete audio episodes, including dialogue, sound effects, and music. It enables creators to produce high-quality podcasts without needing specialized gear or editing skills.

HTTP Request Block

MindStudio has introduced an HTTP Request Block that lets agents interact directly with external APIs using standard web methods. With support for headers and authentication, agents can now fetch data, send updates, or trigger actions across a wide range of services—no custom code required.

Available methods include:

  • GET

  • POST

  • PATCH

  • PUT

  • DELETE

  • HEAD

  • OPTIONS

New AI Models

Updates & Improvements

  • MindStudio’s Generate Asset Block now supports Static React Templates, allowing developers to build frontend components as part of their agent workflows.

  • MindStudio now includes an asset permission system with Private, Unlisted, and Public access levels, giving creators detailed control over visibility and usage of their agents and workflows.

  • MindStudio now supports parallel execution within the Run Workflow block, cutting agent runtime by over 50% in complex workflows based on internal tests.

  • MindStudio has introduced three major upgrades for working with data sources: Direct Text Access for reading plain text without preprocessing, Auto-Summarization for condensing long documents, and improved debugging tools that show how agents interpret and use source data.

In the Wild

Interesting AI Agents from the Community

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