August 14, 2026 Product Updates: Expert Review for Decks and PDFs, 30-Second Video with Sound, and Chat Memory

Last week we shipped a document editor. This week you can send what you make in it to a human expert - mark up a PowerPoint deck or a PDF, attach your notes, and get corrected versions back. We also added a Max quality tier that generates video up to 30 seconds with native audio, gave chat a memory that carries between conversations, and made File Management roughly five to ten times faster on large accounts. Here’s everything that shipped in the week ending August 14.

Expert Review

Send a deck or a PDF to a human expert

Expert review used to stop at images. You can now open a PowerPoint deck or a PDF, mark up any slide or page, and send the whole document to a human expert who returns corrected versions. Pin a single point, draw freehand, or box off an area, then attach a note to each mark saying what needs to change — and add an optional brief for the document as a whole.

There are three places to do it: the file preview in chat, Studio, and the File Editor. In each one, Annotate is a mode you opt into from the toolbar, so normal viewing and editing behave exactly as they did. Marks number continuously across the document rather than restarting on each page, so mark 12 is the twelfth note you left, not the second one on page six. And the flow says “Slide” for decks and “Page” for PDFs throughout. Send a document to an expert →

Review what comes back, side by side

Deliveries arrive with Compare, Annotations, and Final tabs. Compare puts the original and the returned document next to each other with linked paging, so both versions turn together as you work through it page by page, and a fullscreen inspector opens anything you want to look at closely. Every round shows the delivered options and the full revision history, so you can see how a slide got to where it is.

Attach reference files to any instruction

You can attach files to the opening brief and to every mark and revision note - images, documents, design sources, fonts, and zips. A revision made only of files counts as valid feedback, so sending a corrected logo or the right font file is enough on its own; you don’t have to write a paragraph to go with it. Attachments come down under their original filename.

Experts also see your brand kit for the work they’re on - colours, logos, typography, fonts, voice, and guidelines, read-only - so corrections come back on brand without you assembling a reference pack each time.

Images & Video

Max quality: video up to 30 seconds, with sound

A new Max quality toggle in Studio’s video settings produces substantially longer video with native audio. With Max on, every video mode - text prompt, start and end frames, and ingredients - can generate at 10, 15, 20, or 30 seconds with sound. Standard video is unchanged at five to ten seconds, silent, at its current price.

Max is a premium tier: it costs more than standard video, and the cost scales with the length you choose. If a Max generation fails, you get back the full amount you were charged rather than a fraction of it, along with a retry - and the error now tells you the actual reason it failed instead of a generic message. Try Max quality →

Video settings that match what you’ll actually get

Selecting two images at once in frames or ingredients mode now fills both slots: the first becomes the start frame, the second the end frame. Previously the second one was quietly dropped. Frames-to-video is now adaptive on both tiers, so the frames you upload determine the shape of the output instead of you picking a ratio the generator might not honor. And the aspect ratio and resolution pickers only offer what the active mode actually produces - options that would have silently given you something different are hidden rather than offered and ignored.

Chat

Chat remembers your brand between conversations

Chat can now hold on to details about you and your brand and carry them across conversations, so you spend less time restating the same context every time you open a new thread. When something has been remembered as part of a reply, the thread shows a memory indicator, so it’s visible rather than invisible. A memory view in brand setup lists everything saved and lets you remove any entry - or you can simply tell chat to forget something.

Documents & Files

Reorder slides, and see real charts

The document editor picked up two things decks genuinely need. You can reorder slides by dragging them in the left sidebar, and a page menu handles per-slide actions. Charts in PowerPoint files now render as charts rather than flattening into a static image, so an imported deck looks like the deck you imported.

The editor stays where you put it

Clicking into a text block, editing, or undoing no longer throws you back to the top of page one - once you’ve set your zoom and scroll position, it stands. Documents also open while a save is still in progress. The “This content is being saved, please wait” message used to make a document unopenable for the entire duration of a blog generation; the editor now waits for the save to settle, then opens.

File Management opens in about a second

On a brand with more than 15,000 files, the file listing used to take between six and eleven seconds. It now loads in about 1.2 seconds. Favorites, Recent Work, folder navigation, and content-type filters all got the same treatment, and the item count in the toolbar is finally accurate - it had been reading “4 items” above lists of thousands of files.

One of the three fixes underneath this was a lookup that had been running on every single API request across the product, so this should make the whole app feel a little quicker, not just this screen.

Playbooks

Categories

Playbooks are now organized into categories, each with its own icon. Pick a category when you create or edit a playbook, and use the category filter chips on the playbook list to narrow down to what you’re after. Categories are curated by our team, so the set will grow without waiting on a release.

Limitations & expectations

• Max availability is set per environment. If you don’t see the toggle yet, it hasn’t been switched on for your account.
• Expert attachments cover images, documents, design sources, fonts, and zips. Video and audio files aren’t supported as attachments.
• Document expert requests follow your plan’s expert terms. If you’re not sure what your allowance covers for decks and PDFs versus images, check with your account contact before you queue up a batch.

Also in this release (smaller improvements & fixes)

• Requesting several variations of a treatment now returns all of them - it previously produced one output while charging for the full set
• Videos no longer get stuck at “Finalizing… 99%”

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– The MorningAI Team