Canva Lifts AI Use Above 90% After 5,000-Employee Learning Week

2 articles · Updated · Fortune · May 28

More than 5,000 Canva employees were given a full week to explore AI tools, a program the company says helped push weekly or daily AI-assistant usage above 90%.
Canva said the main barrier was not tool access but employee behavior: staff lacked time, permission and role-specific space to experiment, so the company logged 26,000 hours of hands-on exploration over two years.
The program combined guided sessions, workshops and a two-day hackathon with teams from Canva, Anthropic, OpenAI and Google, producing projects such as a 7-agent ad workflow that saved 60 working days.
Canva now backs the week with an AI Hub, fortnightly forums and internal AI champions, arguing that sustained adoption depends more on culture and leadership fluency than on buying more tools.