---
title: "Build a playlist with AI Mode"
slug: "/help/playlists/ai-mode"
tags: ["playlists","ai-mode","ai","demo center"]
description: "Use AI Mode inside the playlist editor to build sections, pull in demos and assets, write copy, and brand the hub — with a plan you approve and a one-click undo."
product: "playlists"
sidebar_label: "AI Mode"
last_updated: "2026-09-06T11:36:36.259Z"
---

## **Overview**

**AI Mode** lives inside the playlist editor. Ask it for a small change ("write an intro for this section") and it applies the change right away. Hand it a goal ("create a focused playlist — a short intro and a gallery of our best demos, on-brand") and it proposes a plan, then builds the whole hub while you watch it happen on the canvas.

Everything AI Mode does goes through the normal editor and save path, so nothing is hidden: you see each change land, and you can keep it or undo it.

### **Snapshot 📸**

**Feature Status:** Generally available · consumes AI credits
**Role Access:** Anyone who can edit the playlist
**Location:** Playlist editor → **AI Mode** in the top command bar

:::note
AI Mode only appears once your company has accepted the AI terms in **Company Settings → AI**. If the button is missing, that opt-in is the first thing to check.
:::

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## **Open AI Mode**

1. Open a playlist in the editor.
2. Click **AI Mode** in the top command bar.
3. The panel opens docked to the left of the canvas.

The panel has three states:

- **Docked** — a card pinned beside the canvas.
- **Floating** — drag the panel header (or click **Pop out**) to tear it off into a movable, resizable window. Click **Dock to left** to put it back.
- **Closed** — click **✕**. The **AI Mode** button reopens it.

Your choice is remembered, and the floating window keeps its position and size.

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## **Two ways to work**

The panel has no Ask/Agent switch — AI Mode reads your prompt and picks the right mode.

### **Quick asks**

Small, well-scoped requests apply immediately:

- "Write a title and intro copy for a section"
- "Update the header title, logo, and styling"
- "Reorder the demos in the gallery"

### **Agent runs**

Bigger goals — building a playlist from scratch, or overhauling one — become an **agent run**. AI Mode first shows a **plan card**: a short summary plus the concrete changes it intends to make, each tagged *added*, *edited*, or *styled*. You choose:

| Choice | What happens |
| --- | --- |
| **Run as agent** | AI Mode executes the whole plan on its own. |
| **Step by step** | It walks the plan one change at a time. |
| **Refine** | Type what should change. AI Mode re-proposes an updated plan instead of executing. |

Once you approve, the card stays in the conversation with a **Plan approved** chip, so you can always scroll back to what was agreed.

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## **What AI Mode can do in a playlist**

**Structure and content**
- Add, remove, reorder, and move content sections — gallery, carousel, text, banner, embedded, and side-by-side embedded.
- Clear empty sections, or reset the hub to a blank canvas before a from-scratch build.
- Write and rewrite section titles and body copy.

**Pull in your content**
- Search your company's demo library by name, description, tags, folder, owner, or AI summary — and add the best matches to a gallery.
- Search the Resource Hub and add images, videos, and PDFs.
- Add a video by URL (YouTube, Vimeo, or a Walnut-hosted video).
- Set a thumbnail on any content item.

**Interactive widgets**
- Ask for a **calculator, comparison table, pricing tiers, or quiz** and AI Mode authors a self-contained interactive widget and places it in the hub.
- It surveys you first — one to three focused questions about the metric, inputs, and visual style — then recommends where the widget should live and confirms placement before building.
- Widgets inherit the hub's brand colors, stay readable down to phone width, and run sandboxed: no external scripts, no network calls, no data collection.
- Ask for a change ("add a discount row", "make it darker") and AI Mode updates that same widget in place instead of adding another one.

**Branding and styling**
- Set the hub name, header title, and header logo.
- Apply your brand colors, or infer them from a website — give AI Mode a URL and it reads the brand's palette and applies it.
- Set section backgrounds, including background images.

**Grounding**
- **Web search** — find real facts about a company, competitor, or product to ground the copy.
- **Learn from a URL** — paste a link and AI Mode reads the page for this conversation only. It does not change your account's saved AI context; that is set explicitly in the AI settings.
- **Knowledge base** — AI Mode can look up Walnut help articles when it needs product detail.
- **Generate an image** from a description when nothing in the Resource Hub fits.

:::tip
Advanced playlists with pages (QBR and Product Gallery layouts) can be managed by AI Mode too — adding, renaming, reordering, and hiding pages, or moving a section to a different page. See [Add pages and in-hub search](/help/playlists/pages-and-search).
:::

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## **Keep or undo**

When a run finishes, AI Mode posts a **result card**:

- A **N changes** row — expand it to see every individual change, jump to it on the canvas, or revert just that one.
- **Keep** — finalize the run. The card stays in the thread with a **Done** pill.
- **Undo** — revert that run's edits in one click. Other runs in the same conversation are untouched.

Undo is blocked only when a later change overlaps the same content — AI Mode tells you rather than silently reverting something you meant to keep.

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## **Steering a run**

- **Keep typing** while the agent works. Mid-run prompts feed into the current run.
- **Stop** — the stop button sits next to send while a run is in progress.
- **Attach** a file — images, video, PDFs, Office documents, and audio — to give AI Mode something concrete to work from.
- **Questions and confirmations** — AI Mode asks rather than guesses. Clarifying questions come with suggested answers you can click, and anything destructive asks for a yes/no confirmation first.
- **To finish, please add** — if a run needs something only you have (a specific deck, a dashboard screenshot, an asset that isn't in the library), AI Mode leaves a checklist of asks instead of inventing a placeholder.

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## **Conversations and credits**

- **Previous chats** (clock icon) — reopen an earlier conversation on this playlist.
- **New chat** (**+**) — start fresh. Threads are named automatically.
- The credit chip in the panel header shows your remaining AI credits. Usage is metered as **Playlists** in the [AI Control Center](/help/account/ai-control-center).

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## **Good to know**

- The **header and footer are locked** structural sections. AI Mode can change the header's title and logo, but it cannot add or remove those sections.
- **Changing the layout replaces the existing sections and content** with that layout's defaults. AI Mode confirms before doing it.
- Videos must be YouTube, Vimeo, or Walnut-hosted URLs. YouTube Shorts links are refused.
- Generated widgets are sandboxed by design — they cannot call out to an external service, so a widget that needs live data from your systems is not something AI Mode can build.
- AI Mode edits the playlist you have open. It does not publish or share it — that stays your call.

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## **FAQs**

**Do I have to approve a plan every time?**
No. Only from-scratch builds and overhauls get a plan card. Small asks just apply, and you keep or undo them.

**Can I stop a run halfway through?**
Yes. Press stop. Everything already applied stays on the canvas, and the result card still offers **Undo**.

**Can I keep tweaking a widget it built?**
Yes. Say what should change and AI Mode edits the existing widget in place. You do not need to describe it from scratch again.

**Does AI Mode learn from what I type?**
Not automatically. A URL you paste grounds that conversation only. Account-level AI context is set deliberately in your AI settings.

**Can it work on a playlist that already has content?**
Yes — that is the common case. On a populated hub AI Mode leads with personalization asks ("personalize this for a specific customer") rather than blank-slate builds.

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## **Related Resources**

- [Build a deal room with AI Mode](/help/deal-rooms/ai-mode)
- [Advanced playlists](/help/playlists/advanced)
- [Add pages and in-hub search](/help/playlists/pages-and-search)
- [AI Control Center](/help/account/ai-control-center)
- [Write effective AI Mode prompts](/help/demos/edit/ai-mode/ai-prompt-guide)