Studio

Studio

Say what you want.
Adjust what you must.

A prompt, a canvas, and about fifteen controls — the ones where your hand is genuinely faster than a sentence. Everything else, you can just ask for.

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Studio doing the thing this page claims. Writer on the canvas with a tracked change accepted, the dark console on the left mid-instruction (“tighten the second section and pull the Q3 figure from the model”), and the resulting edit highlighted in the document. Show the app-switcher so Writer · Sheets · Slides all read as one family.

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The surfaces

Three applications, one document model

Writer, Sheets and Slides share a chassis, a console and a single store. They are three views of the same objects, not three file formats that need converting.

Writer

Documents · tracked changes

Long-form work with tracked changes and provenance on every paragraph — you can always see which sentences an agent wrote and accept or reject them one at a time.

Sheets

Models · live data

A real formula engine with a console beside it. Ask for a scenario and watch the cells change; the numbers stay the source, never a screenshot of one.

Slides

Decks · present

Describe the deck, then judge it. Layouts, themes, a filmstrip and a full-screen present mode — and charts that are windows onto the model rather than pictures of it.

Files, notes, planning and tasks live inside Studio too, rather than as separate destinations. If it is work you make or work you schedule, it is here.

Why the interface is this small

Language is fast for intent. The hand is fast for precision.

Two hundred features exist in the old applications because there was no other way to express intent — someone who wanted a chart had to be handed a chart-building interface. Remove that constraint and most of the interface has no reason to exist. What is left is the twenty per cent where taste lives.

Language · everything that is intent

Ask for it in the console, in your own words.

  • Generate“a ten-slide deck on Q3 for the board”
  • Restructure“cut this to eight, lead with the revenue slide”
  • Restyle in bulk“every heading navy, tighten the body text”
  • Rewrite content“make slide four less defensive”
  • Work across documents“pull the numbers from the model and chart them”
  • Match by example“make this one look like slide two”

The hand · fifteen continuous operations

Kept, because describing exactly where is slower than doing it.

  • Selectclick
  • Movedrag
  • Resizehandles
  • Rotatehandle
  • Nudgearrow keys
  • Aligntoolbar
  • Distributetoolbar
  • Crophandles
  • Reorderdrag thumbnail
  • Recolourpicker
  • Duplicate⌘D
  • Zoomscroll
  • Panspace-drag
  • Undo⌘Z
  • Redo⇧⌘Z
Design work is roughly eighty per cent intent and twenty per cent precision — and the twenty per cent is the difference between a deck that persuades and one that merely contains the right information. Keeping the fifteen is what stops the product being used to produce competent, forgettable work.

One store

Nothing here is a copy

The chart on slide four is the spreadsheet, seen from a different angle. Change the model and every surface that reads it changes with it — because there is nothing to re-export, re-paste or forget.

Write once, read anywhere

A table in a document, a chart in a deck and a range in a model are three views of one object, addressed by the same handle.

Agents reach objects, not screens

Alti edits the object directly and returns an operation, not a paragraph for you to carry back by hand.

Every change is recorded

Who changed what, when, and under whose authority — see Operations for the op-log.

The new job

When most drafts are generated, the work becomes judgement

A review surface needs different affordances from an authoring surface. Studio is built for the job people actually do once an agent has done the first pass.

Accept · reject, line by line Compare two versions side by side Make this one more like that one Comment in place Approve and publish Revert any operation
That is not a stripped-down version of something familiar. It is a different product, and the fifteen controls are what is left of the old job — not the ambition for the new one.

Describe the deck. Then argue with it.

Studio is included on every paid plan, with the full suite on Personal and above.