Shopify’s new Canvas site builder lets merchants create and customize their online stores by chatting with its AI agent Sidekick, while watching the changes happen in real time.
Shopify debuts Canvas, a way to build online stores by chatting with AI
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- Shopify introduced a new site-building tool Thursday called Canvas that lets merchants set up their Shopify store by chatting with AI.
- While Shopify already offered a fairly capable no-code builder before Canvas, it involved editing a selected theme by rearranging modular sections and blocks.
- Now, with Canvas, merchants simply chat with Shopify’s AI agent, Sidekick, to create their site.
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