October 2026
Everything that reached general availability in Walnut in October 2026, with links to the full guide for each feature.
October 2026
October opens with AI Mode taking on more of the work you used to do by hand in the editor, including the same change across every screen in a single request. The Walnut MCP now works in ChatGPT and Codex as well as Claude, and every presenter note in a demo can be exported as one document.
In the second week came one of the biggest changes to what Walnut can demo: your native mobile apps and desktop apps can now become interactive demos, recorded straight from the browser. A new Homepage starts with what you want to do, Playlists and Deal Rooms personalize once for every embedded demo, public demos can be read and cited by AI assistants, and Seller Xpert joins you in the presenter window.
In the third week, Branding Themes let one workspace carry every brand you sell under, the Screens Library lets you capture a screen once and reuse it in every template, and AI Mode can create the screens your capture doesn't have.
Here's what we shipped this month 👇
- AI Mode: the edits you used to make by hand, now one request away
- The Walnut MCP in Claude, ChatGPT and Codex
- Export presenter notes: every note in a demo, in one document
- Demo your native mobile and desktop apps ⭐
- The Walnut Homepage: start with what you want to do
- Personalize Playlists and Deal Rooms once, and every demo follows ⭐
- Make your demos readable by AI and search engines ⭐
- Seller Xpert: an AI co-pilot while you present
- The Template map ⭐
- AI Mode edits any chart on the screen ⭐
- Deal Rooms: status columns and smarter due dates
- Branding Themes: one workspace, every brand ⭐
- The Screens Library: capture a screen once, reuse it everywhere
- AI Mode creates the screens you never captured
- Playlists and Deal Rooms: a pinned hero, a banner above the nav, and better AI widgets
⭐ = you asked for this on our public roadmap.
AI Mode: The Edits You Used to Make by Hand, Now One Request Away
Some changes still meant leaving AI Mode for the editor, and asking for the same change on every screen often stopped partway through.
Now AI Mode handles more of that work, including one change across every screen in a single request.
Make the same change on every screen
What you can do:
- Copy an element (a button, back link, banner or nav item) to every screen that needs it, with its edits and links
- Move an element from one screen to another
- Apply an edit you made on one screen to the same element on other screens
- Remove a link from every screen at once
- Undo the whole change in one step
Style anything by asking
What you can do:
- Add borders, outlines and shadows
- Round corners and rotate elements
- Change text alignment and capitalization
- Remove automatic list numbering
Set up guides from the chat
What you can do:
- Rename a guide
- Turn spotlight on or off for a guide step
- Change the tooltip colors for every guide in the template
- Lay out a step's buttons horizontally or vertically
- Write or replace a screen's presenter notes
- Duplicate the template you're working in
- Find an earlier version of your demo and open it in Version History, ready to restore
The result:
Fewer trips out of AI Mode, and big repetitive edits done in one request instead of one screen at a time.
The Walnut MCP: Work With Walnut From Claude, ChatGPT or Codex
The Walnut MCP launched in September with Claude. It now connects to ChatGPT and Codex too, so your team can use it from whichever assistant they already have open. Setup takes about a minute in any of them.
What you can do:
- Ask about demo sessions, completions and top performers
- Check users, seats and activity
- Search, tag, rename, move or archive library items in bulk, with a preview first
- Invite, update and offboard members (Account owners and Company admins)
- Connect with Full access or Read-only, always within your own Walnut permissions
The result:
The questions and cleanups you used to click through happen in a sentence, in the assistant you already have open.
Connect your assistant › · See everything it can do ›
Export Presenter Notes: Every Note in a Demo, in One Document
Preparing for a call meant clicking through a demo screen by screen to read your notes.
Now you can download all of a demo's presenter notes as one PDF or Word file.
What you can do:
- Export from the demo's ⋯ menu, or from the presenter notes panel in the editor
- Choose PDF (print-ready) or Word (.docx)
- Follow along easily: notes are grouped by section and numbered to match the editor
- Skip the clutter: screens without notes are left out
The result:
Review, share or print your talking points before the call, in one place.
Demo Your Native Mobile and Desktop Apps, Not Just Your Web App
⭐ You asked for this
Until now, Walnut could only demo what ran in a browser tab. If your product includes a native iOS or Android app, or a desktop app, that part of the story was out of reach.
Now you can record your phone or your desktop app right from Walnut in your browser, and turn it into an interactive demo. No Chrome extension needed.
What you can do:
- Demo a native mobile app: mirror your phone to your computer, choose Record my phone, and walk through the flow
- Demo a desktop app: choose Record my screen and share the app's window
- Get each key moment as a screen, with a hotspot where you tapped or clicked, so the demo clicks through end to end
- Show mobile screens in a matching iPhone, iPhone SE or Android device frame
- Already have screenshots or a recording? Upload up to 100 screenshots, or one video up to 60 minutes
- Mix mobile, desktop and web screens in the same demo
The result:
Your whole product, web, mobile and desktop, in one demo.
How to capture a mobile or desktop app › · All the options ›
The Walnut Homepage: Start With What You Want to Do
Getting something done in Walnut meant knowing where it lived first.
Now the Homepage starts with one box: type what you want to do, and Walnut takes you to the right place with your request carried over.
What you can do:
- Land in the editor, a Deal Room, a Playlist, Insights or Settings, depending on what you asked
- Get Insights and Help Center answers right on the page, and keep asking follow-ups
- Mention a template, Deal Room or demo with
#to point your request at it - Plan a new demo with the demo planning assistant before you capture a single screen
- Tidy the library with an organisation plan you review before anything moves (admins)
The Homepage needs Walnut's AI features to be turned on for your workspace.
The result:
Fewer clicks between deciding what you need and having it.
Personalize Playlists and Deal Rooms Once, and Every Demo Follows
⭐ You asked for this
Personalizing a playlist meant editing the playlist, then editing every demo inside it.
Now Playlists and Deal Rooms use the same library variables and presets as demos, and the values flow into every embedded demo.
What you can do:
- Insert text, image and date variables into playlist and Deal Room text, images and Mutual Action Plan tasks
- Pick a preset or type your own values on the playlist's Preflight screen, with a live preview
- Copy a link that opens the playlist already personalized
- Set a Deal Room's values once, when you create it from a template
- Keep time-sensitive copy current with Dynamic Dates
The result:
One personalization step covers the whole experience, embedded demos included.
Make Your Demos Readable by AI and Search Engines
⭐ You asked for this
Buyers now ask AI assistants about products, but Walnut demos are JavaScript apps that crawlers can't read.
Now you can let AI assistants and search engines read a short summary of a public demo, so it can be found and cited.
What you can do:
- Turn on Make readable by AI and search engines per demo, in Link Settings
- Share the demo's name, description and AI summary, never its screens, guides or viewer data
- Rely on gated demos staying invisible: an email gate or access code switches it off automatically
- Preview exactly what an assistant sees
The result:
Your public demos show up where your buyers are already asking questions.
Seller Xpert: An AI Co-Pilot While You Present
The hardest question on a live call is the one you didn't prepare for.
Now Seller Xpert sits in your presenter window and answers with talking points only you can see.
What you can do:
- Ask about the screen you're on, the product or the deal, and get a headline plus talking points with sources
- Let it listen to the call and suggest answers as the buyer asks
- Jump the buyer's screen to the one that answers the question
- See seller-only material, like battlecards and pricing guidance, marked Internal
- Log the call against the buyer's CRM record
Admins set it up in the AI Control Center, and it uses AI credits.
The result:
A confident answer on the call, without leaving the demo.
The Template Map: See How a Template Hangs Together
⭐ You asked for this
Checking how a template is wired meant clicking through it screen by screen.
Now the Template map draws every screen, link and guide step on one board.
What you can do:
- Arrange the board by section, in reading order, or by path from the start screen
- Spot broken links and screens nothing links to, from the health counts in the header
- Switch to the Guides view to follow a guide across the demo
- Focus on one screen and the screens a few links away
- Rearrange the board and share the layout with everyone who edits the template
The result:
Find what's broken or orphaned before a buyer does.
AI Mode Edits Any Chart on the Screen
⭐ You asked for this
AI Mode could already edit live Highcharts and Chart.js charts, but SVGs, canvas charts and charts captured as images were out of reach.
Now AI Mode has a dedicated chart flow that covers every chart on the screen.
What you can do:
- Point at a chart, or describe it, and say what should change
- Review the change in place before it's applied
- Update a chart image and keep its look, or rebuild it as a live chart you can keep editing
- Edit Google Charts alongside Highcharts, Chart.js and Recharts
The result:
The chart in your demo says what your story needs it to say.
Deal Rooms: Status Columns and Smarter Due Dates
Two changes for keeping a deal on track.
What you can do:
- Turn a comparison table column into a status column with your own statuses and colours
- Let buyers update a status right in the published room
- Set a Mutual Action Plan due date relative to when the room was published, or when the CRM opportunity was created
The result:
Plans and trackers that stay current without anyone re-editing dates.
Comparison tables › · Mutual Action Plans ›
Branding Themes: One Workspace, Every Brand
⭐ You asked for this
A workspace had one brand look. Demoing a second product line, a sub-brand or a partner co-brand meant re-editing brand settings before every demo, or opening a second workspace.
Now you can save several named themes and pick the right one for each demo.
What you can do:
- Create as many themes as you need under Company Settings → Brand style, each with its own colors, fonts, buttons, avatar, dim and interactions
- Pick a theme for each template, or for each new demo in the Create demo wizard
- Switch an existing demo's theme from Demo preferences or the Share modal
- Apply a theme to Playlists and Deal Rooms from their Styling panel, so the hub matches its demos
- Pair a theme with a demo preset: the theme sets how a demo looks, the preset sets what it says
Your current brand becomes the workspace default automatically, and no live demo changes. Links shared earlier keep their look until you republish.
The result:
One library, one team and one set of analytics, with every audience seeing the brand they expect.
The Screens Library: Capture a Screen Once, Reuse It Everywhere
The same screen often lived in a dozen templates, each one captured separately and each one updated by hand when the product changed.
Now the Resource Hub has a Screens tab: one shared library of screens your team can pull into any template.
What you can do:
- Fill the library from the Chrome extension, or promote screens from templates you already have
- Label screens by product and feature, then group, filter and search the whole library
- Add library screens to any template from the editor's Add screen dialog, with their links and variables
- Edit a library screen once, then choose which templates take the update with Update in templates
- Keep local changes safe: a template that edited its own copy keeps its edit
- Restore an earlier version from the screen's version history
The result:
Fewer recaptures, and a product change you update once instead of template by template.
Read more here › · Reuse screens across products and brands ›
AI Mode Creates the Screens You Never Captured
Sometimes a story needs a view your capture doesn't have, or a feature that isn't built yet.
Now AI Mode can generate a new screen styled after your template's existing screens, and add it to your demo for review.
What you can do:
- Describe the screen you need in your own words
- Confirm or swap the reference screens AI Mode suggests to match the look
- Keep the navigation and header and replace only the content, or generate the whole page
- Review it on the canvas, refine it with follow-up prompts, then keep or discard it
- Let AI Mode suggest links from the new screen's menu items and buttons to your other screens
- Save the new screen to your Screens Library to reuse it in other demos
The result:
Show the idea now, gather feedback early, and fill the gaps in a demo without waiting on a capture.
Playlists and Deal Rooms: A Pinned Hero, a Banner Above the Nav, and Better AI Widgets
A few changes that make multi-page hubs look more finished.
What you can do:
- Pin a Deal Room's first-page banner with Show on all pages, so it leads every page of the room
- Run a page's banner across the top of a hub that uses side navigation, above the nav and the content
- Get more polished, more reliable AI widgets, written by a stronger model
- Change a widget's colours and font from the toolbar, without asking the AI
- Let widgets size themselves to their content, with no empty space and no cut-off content
The result:
Hubs that keep their headline in view and widgets that look built for the page.
Pin a hero banner › · Banner above page navigation › · AI Mode in Deal Rooms ›