How to use Canoa AI

Augment your workflow with Canoa AI to help you discover, collect, and design the right products for your design.

About Canoa AI

Canoa is constantly learning about products through images and text and vector drawings. These learnings allow it to continuously improve the quality of search and recommendations provided to any individual user. The Canoa AI combs through the extensive Public Catalogs feature and provides recommendations generated from hundreds of millions of product combinations. This is why the more users Canoa has in its community, the richer and higher quality search and discovery will be. The more designers that use our Canoa AI-assisted tools, the more intuitive the tools, and the more effective people can be.

Using Canoa AI

When you select an image on your Canvas, the Canoa AI function gets triggered. Click on the AI Recommendation icon in the bottom left corner of Canvas to activate the engine. Use the tabs Similar and Pairs to advance through additional suggestions. When you see an option you like, simply drag the image into your Canvas board.

Canoa AI recommendations for inspiration images

Canoa AI Recommendations for Products

You can also use the Canoa AI icon to find alternate or additional product recommendations on the product from our Public Catalogs. Simply select the product in your Canvas, then click on the Canoa AI icon to view pages and pages of product recommendations. When you see an option you like, simply drag the product into your Canvas board.

AI recommendations available for any of our Products.

Controlling Canoa AI

There are three helpful filters within the AI icon to help you find exactly what you want and need - Similar, Pairs, and Filters.

Use the Filters button to assist with narrowing your AI search down by Catalog, Categories, Condition, Price, Lead Time, Manufacturer, Vendor, and various Tags. This will help you filter out products and inspiration images that do not fit your criteria.

The filtering ability within our AI recommendation engine gives you better control so you can find exactly what you need. Here, you are able to look at suggestions that fit in your lead time requirements, that fit within your budget, or that come from a certain manufacturer. You can also decide if you want to see recommendations from within the Public Catalogs or just from your personal My Catalog. For example, I only want to look at Gently-Used sofas that are under $800 so I expand the Category, Condition, and Buy Price fields within the Filter menu. Canoa AI will then narrow down my search and only show me recommendations that fit my criteria.

Control the AI recs to filter exactly what you need

When you click on Similar, Canoa AI will recommend alike products to the one you have selected. For example, with a chair selected, you might see interchangeable chairs in different colors or finishes.

When you click on Pairs, Canoa AI will recommend products that go well in a vignette with the product you have selected. For example, with a lounge chair selected, I may see a comparable side table, planter, sofa, or ottoman to go with my lounge chair that I'm hoping to build my design off of.

Find Similar AI rec example

Pairs With AI rec example

Auto-Enrich your Product Data

When adding in your products via URL copy paste to your Canvas, CanoaAI will automatically give them a subcategory and a color tag and add the product to your My Catalog.

Learn more about this feature here:

How to add Links into Canvas

Canoa AI for Interior Design

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Filtering Canoa AI