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Figma launches data residency in Japan

Figma strengthens data protection and security for enterprise customers with local data hosting.

Listrak Launches Studio to Turn Figma Designs into Emails

Listrak, a cross-channel personalization platform, has launched Listrak Studio, a new plugin for Figma that converts designs into ready-to-send emails within minutes. The tool eliminates the manual rebuild process between design and deployment by saving the emails directly into Listrak accounts, where they can be attached to campaigns. It features automatic content, image syncs, and design recommendations based on Listrak's email expertise, flagging issues like Gmail and iOS clipping before sending. This helps retailers accelerate their campaign launch times and reduce email build time by potentially over 250 hours per year.

• Listrak launched Listrak Studio, a plugin for Figma that converts designs into ready-to-send emails.
• The plugin eliminates manual rebuilding and the need for developers to translate designs into HTML.
• Emails are directly saved into Listrak accounts and can be attached to campaigns.

AI Needs Brand Context to Deliver Marketing Results

This article discusses how AI in marketing needs to be trained with brand-specific context, including past performance and strategy, to be effective. Sandeep Menon, CEO of Auxia, argues that AI tools must understand the unique approach of each company and the knowledge held by individual team members. Auxia offers an end-to-end agentic marketing platform with two products: Auxia Decisioning, which builds customer profiles for ad targeting, and Auxia Agent Studio, which uses AI agents for campaign optimization. The platform integrates with external tools like Figma and Salesforce, and is trained on a client's own data, ensuring data privacy. Menon sees AI adoption as an organizational change, not just a technology implementation, comparing it to the industrial revolution. He stresses that marketers need to restructure teams so humans focus on strategy and machines handle repetitive tasks.

• Auxia is a marketing orchestration platform that provides context and intelligence for AI.
• Auxia has two products: Auxia Decisioning and Auxia Agent Studio.
• Auxia Agent Studio was launched in August.

Showly.ai Launches First Agent Artifact Cloud Platform

The article introduces the concept of an 'agent artifact cloud', a new category of software for storing and sharing outputs generated by AI agents. It argues that as tools shift from being designed for humans to being designed for agents, there is a need for a persistent, shareable medium for agent-produced content, such as research reports and dashboards. Showly.ai is presented as the first product in this category, enabling users to create and publish HTML pages directly from agent runs in Claude Code, Codex, and other MCP-compatible agents. The platform is described as agent-neutral, public by default, and versioned, with no editor or manual formatting required. The article also discusses the evolution of document mediums from paper to digital files to canvas-based tools, and positions HTML as the next medium that requires no human maintenance.

• Anthropic open sourced the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in November 2024.
• Showly.ai is described as the first agent artifact cloud, launched and live.
• Showly.ai connects to Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, Hermes, Pi, MyClaw, and other MCP-compatible agents.

Slashy's Cross-App Agent Architecture Detailed

This article provides a technical deep dive into Slashy (YC S25), a cross-app AI agent. It outlines the architecture's three core primitives: custom tools, semantic search, and personalized memory. The agent coordinates actions across various SaaS APIs, such as Slack and Google Calendar, using a session object to manage state and error handling. The piece discusses failure modes, including rate limits and auth errors, and mitigation strategies. It also covers the security boundaries, observability, deployment details, and the trade-offs of this design, concluding that it is best suited for exploratory workflows tolerating eventual consistency, not for real-time or transactional applications.

• Slashy is a Y Combinator S25 startup providing a cross-app AI agent.
• The architecture uses three primitives: custom tools, semantic search, and personalized memory.
• Slashy coordinates actions across SaaS APIs including Slack, Google Calendar, and Notion.