Unleashing the Power of Context: Introducing Kanvas Ecosystem API v1.99.5

Expanding Company Knowledge, AI-powered Product Discovery, and Human-in-the-Loop Agent Workflows.

We are thrilled to announce the release of Kanvas Ecosystem API v1.99.5! This latest update represents a massive leap forward in how organizations manage context, execute commerce discovery, and orchestrate autonomous processes.

In this release, we’ve focused heavily on three key themes: deepening company knowledge ingestion, enhancing AI-powered commerce intelligence, and streamlining human-in-the-loop validation.

Let’s dive into what’s new in v1.99.5.

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🧠 Slack → Company Brain: Turning Conversations into Knowledge

A company's most valuable, up-to-date knowledge is often trapped in daily chat conversations. With v1.99.5, Kanvas introduces a native Slack Company Brain Ingestion Layer.

Instead of agents only understanding structured static databases (like documents or CRMs), they can now continuously ingest and learn from the operational dialogue happening across your workforce.

Slack Conversations ➔ Kanvas Brain ➔ Search / RAG ➔ AI Agents

By preserving channel and user context, agents can trace exactly where information originated. This elevates the Company Brain from a static repository to a living, breathing organizational memory layer.

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🛍️ Conversational Commerce: AI-Powered Product Recommendations & Discovery

Navigating traditional product catalogs can be rigid and tedious. Our major iteration of the commerce intelligence layer introduces highly advanced recommendation capabilities powered by Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and Typesense.

Rather than relying purely on simple database filters, commerce agents can now reason over your entire product catalog. Key improvements include:

• Recipient-Contextual Searches: Recommendations are tailored to the intended user profile or gift recipient.
• Smart Exclusions: Out-of-scope categories (like gift wrapping fees) are intelligently filtered out from product-specific recommendations.
• Uniqueness Guarantees: Discovery flows avoid repeating recommendations the user has already seen.
• Enhanced Typesense Indexing: Drastically improved search and variant indexing behaviors ensure missing collection metadata doesn’t disrupt discovery.

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🧾 Frictionless Governance: Better Slack Human Approvals with PDFs

Building on the Slack-driven approval workflows introduced in v1.99.4, this version delivers a major upgrade for finance operations.

When agents like Apex (AP) or Arc (AR) queue up a pending transaction, they can now attach the source invoice PDF directly to the Slack approval request.

Invoice ➔ Agent Processing ➔ Kanvas Pending ➔ Slack + PDF ➔ Human Review ➔ Execution

Reviewers no longer have to jump between applications; they can inspect the original invoice PDF right inside Slack and hit "Approve" with complete confidence.

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📞 Caller-Aware Voice Agents

Our voice agent runtime is now smarter. Voice agents can automatically resolve the lead or contact details associated with an incoming phone number before the call starts.

Incoming Call ➔ Phone Number ➔ Lead / Contact Lookup ➔ Rich Context ➔ Personalized Voice Agent

Instead of asking tedious identification questions, your voice agents can greet callers by name, immediately reference active lead status, and seamlessly bridge conversations across SMS, email, Slack, and voice.

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🚀 Additional Platform & Connector Upgrades

• 📅 Google Calendar Syncing: Now supports event synchronization generated from specific event versions, maintaining reliable, real-time sync with external schedules.
• ✉️ Per-Receiver Lead Notifications: Guild receivers can now specify distinct lead notification email addresses, giving sales managers total control over localized lead distribution.
• 🔗 Resilient Salesforce Integration: Upgraded mapping, queue processing, Salesforce custom-object support, and error handling for robust enterprise synchronization.
• 🚗 Automotive & Twilio Enhancements: Improvements to credit submissions, driver-license merges, Twilio premium-line call blocking, and engagement URL welcome states.
• 📰 WordPress Media Pipelines: Enhanced media processing reliability for automated content publishing agents.
• ⚡ Platform Diagnostics: Upgraded Agent Pulse metrics, Typesense indices, and core backend libraries to optimize multi-agent execution.

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Upgrading to v1.99.5

We recommend all teams migrate to the latest release to take advantage of these new RAG, finance, and Slack-connected features.

Check out the Full Changelog for a complete list of commits and dependency upgrades.