Designing with the AI Assistant
Auto-review the result
A text-only model can lay out a design without ever seeing it. Auto-review the result closes that gap: after the Assistant finishes building, it looks at an actual render of your Canvas and fixes what a blind pass would miss.
The after-building check
Open the Assistant options flyout — the sliders icon in the composer bar — and look under After building ("Check the result once it's built."). There you'll find Auto-review the result. Unlike the other options in the flyout, this one is on by default, because catching a broken layout before you do is almost always worth it.
What it does
The Assistant composes your design from a description of what should go where. That works well, but a description isn't a picture — so once the build is complete, Auto-review renders the finished result and inspects it the way a person would. Its hint says it plainly:
Checks the finished render and fixes illegible text, overlaps, and misalignment.
Anything it spots, it corrects in the same turn, then re-checks its own work before marking the turn Done.
What it catches
Auto-review targets the visual problems that only show up once pixels land:
| Problem | What Auto-review does |
|---|---|
| Illegible or clipped text | Enlarges, re-wraps, or reflows so it reads |
| Low-contrast text on a busy background | Adjusts color or adds separation so it stands out |
| Overlapping elements | Nudges them apart so nothing collides |
| Misaligned or uneven layout | Realigns and evens the spacing |
These are exactly the issues a text-only composition step can't feel — the numbers looked fine, but the render tells a different story.
Reading the review in the thread
When a review pass runs, it appears in the chat as a slim Auto-review divider marked with a magnifying-glass icon. Any corrective edits it makes show up right after, in the usual action timeline (for example, realigning a group or enlarging a headline). If nothing needs fixing, the pass simply confirms the result and the turn wraps up.
When to turn it off
Auto-review costs a little extra time and a few more credits, since it runs a second look over your work. For a tiny, obvious edit you'll eyeball yourself — "make the title bigger," "change the background to navy" — you can switch it off in the options flyout and save the round-trip.
Leave it on for full designs, multi-element layouts, and anything print-bound, where a missed overlap or an unreadable line is easy to ship by accident.
Tip: pair Auto-review with Plan before building. Plan locks the art direction up front; Auto-review verifies the build actually matches it. Together they cover both ends of a design turn.
Where it stops: print correctness
Auto-review is about visual quality — legibility, spacing, alignment. It does not check whether your file will print correctly. Resolution, bleed, ink coverage, and spot-color separations are a different concern, handled by the print preflight checks when you export. Think of it this way: Auto-review makes the design look right on screen; preflight makes sure it survives the press. A design can pass one and fail the other, so lean on both.
Where to go next
- Meet the Assistant — how the Assistant edits your Canvas, reads its activity, and rewinds a turn.
- Refine my prompt & Plan before building — the two before-building options that shape the brief before any pixels move.