Jason Gordon

Canva has been part of our stack for 10 years plus now, it's the easiest place to get designs done. The new AI suite actually is surprisingly good, I'm referring to the one that just launched in the last month or two, mid-2025. The previous AI features were hard to access and use, but the new ones work really well. I don't feel we would cancel Canva anytime soon. Even though we have our own AI features inside of our software, Jaydus AI.

We use Slack because it's kind of the middle ground between Google Chat and Microsoft Teams, which both are not that great. Slack is a good messenger tool. If you use it just as a chat, trying to integrate anything else into it, and/or trying to juggle multiple workspaces, or get people onboarded who have never used it before is a bit challenging. I think Slack was better before they tried to add all of the features that all of the other tools most companies already use. It feels less polished, kind of clunky, and difficult to navigate. Conversation threads, lose messages and get buried if you get too many messages in a day. We use it because there's nothing else really. Would love to see a Slack Lite with just messaging and no other features.

Email most integrated with all of the modern tools. Much simplified compared to Microsoft Outlook when comparing paid workspace tools. The AI is not very well integrated compared to say Claude connected directly to Gmail does a much better job at scanning and analyzing emails and finding things than Gemini Direct does. Which is why I dropped it to 4 stars.