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MCP server updates

We’re continuing to make improvements to the Canny MCP server! It now has over 55 tools, with new ones spanning ideas, groups, users/companies, and portal.
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Ideas
  • move_idea
    moves an idea under a new parent or into a new group
  • create_insight
    ,
    update_insight
    , and
    delete_insight
    manage insights, with priority supported on create
  • move_insight
    moves an insight to another idea (insights linked to a vote or comment can't be moved)
  • link_opportunity
    and
    unlink_opportunity
    connect or disconnect a HubSpot deal or Salesforce opportunity from an idea
  • create_view
    ,
    update_view
    , and
    delete_view
    manage saved views
Groups
  • retrieve_group
    looks up a single group by ID or urlName, which is faster than
    list_groups
    when you already know the identifier
Users and companies
  • create_user
    creates a new end user and returns their ID. Passing an email deduplicates against existing users
  • create_company
    creates a company with a domain and optional MRR or ARR
  • add_user_to_company
    associates a user with a sepcified company
  • remove_user_from_company
    removes a user's association from a specific company
Portal comments
  • list_portal_comments
    pulls paginated comments across all published ideas or scoped to one
  • create_portal_comment
    adds a top-level comment or reply on a published idea
  • delete_portal_comment
    removes a comment and its replies
The MCP server is available to teams on the Pro plan and above.
Autopilot now automatically links open Salesforce and HubSpot opportunities to the feedback it captures.
When Autopilot finds feedback in a customer conversation/call, it looks up the company in your CRM and attaches the relevant open opportunity. No more manual linking needed.
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Note: Autopilot only links the opportunity when:
  • the company has a single open opportunity
  • the close date is in the future
  • the last activity happened within the past year
This is on by default for every team with Autopilot and a Salesforce or HubSpot integration installed.
Opportunities and deals are part of the Salesforce and HubSpot integrations, only available on Canny Business. Request a demo or reach out to our support team if you're interested in the Business plan.

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Autopilot

Ideas

Run auto-grouping on demand

Autopilot automatically sorts new ideas into groups for you. If you have ungrouped ideas, you can now trigger auto-grouping manually.
Once your team has at least three groups, you'll see a button to run auto-grouping. Make sure your group descriptions are really good so Autopilot will be best informed.
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Learn more about groups in Canny here.
The Canny Ideas beta is now available to all teams on the Core plan (now legacy).
Ideas is the centralized home for all your customer feedback inside Canny. It's where your team prioritizes feedback coming in from sales calls, support conversations, and your feedback portal.
Feedback automatically triaged to the right team
Groups in Ideas represent your product areas or teams. As feedback flows in from Intercom, Slack, Gong, and your portal, Autopilot triages it into the right groups.
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Connect feedback to revenue
Insights carry customer and company context so you can answer the questions that actually drive prioritization:
  • How much existing ARR is tied to this idea?
  • Which missing features are blocking your biggest deals and renewals?
  • How much closed-lost revenue last quarter mentioned this feature?
Learn more about Ideas in this help article
Join the beta
Click on your profile in your Canny admin to see the "Join Ideas beta" option. If you need more time to trial Canny, reach out to our team to get you set up.
Creating insights on behalf of companies is how you keep track of which customers are interested in a feature.
If you're able to sync in company information via a data source, we highly recommend that route. See Canny Identify to set up our SDK. This way, companies are automatically created, updated (ARR changes, admin changes, etc.), and you can pass in additional fields for segmentation (e.g. billing plan, NPS score, etc.).
We're now supporting manual creation of companies so:
  • Teams just starting out with Canny can see how things work without setting up syncing
  • Teams who are unable to get company data into Canny have an option to do it manually
How it works
When adding an insight, you'll see an option to create a new company.
create-company
Name and domain are mandatory. Optionally include their MRR/ARR.
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Selecting a user will automatically associate that user with the newly created company. Users can be unlinked from a company from the users tab.
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If you start with manual creation and sync data afterwards, Canny will attempt to dedupe companies with domain name.

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Integration

Admin

Ideas

New Slack DMs

Many teams work in Slack so we're enabling new workflows by sending relevant notifications. Here are two new ones:
DMs to account owners when ideas marked as complete
When an idea moves to a Complete status, account owners get a Slack DM with the customers they own who shared insight on that feedback. It allows customer success and sales to close the loop with their customers and prospects.
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The DM lists each company and (if available) links straight to its Salesforce or HubSpot record so they can jump in and follow up.
For this to work, you'll need the account owner field mapped under your company data settings:
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DMs to owners when ideas are assigned
When ideas are assigned to an owner, they will get a Slack DM. This helps you stay on top of important work.
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These DMs are available for teams on all plans.

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Ideas

Exporting ideas

You can now export any Ideas views to CSV. Just right-click a view and select Export view.
Exports preserve the view configuration, including:
  • sort order
  • applied filters
  • visible fields
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This is available to teams on any Canny plan.

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Feedback

Autopilot

Portal

Push to Portal settings

These settings are relevant for teams using the feedback Portal. By default, ideas created by Autopilot are not published the Portal. This leaves it up to your team to decide which ideas are visible to end users.
With the new Push to Portal settings, you can configure it so that ideas created by Autopilot are also automatically published.
push-to-portal
Note that this is a per-integration setting so you'll need to turn it on for each integration you want this behavior to take place.
Push to Portal is available for: Intercom, Zendesk, HubSpot, Salesforce, Slack, and the Chrome Extension
Admins can now read and update portal fields (board, tags, categories, ETA, portal status) directly from the ideas table.
These fields are marked with an eye icon and tinted on hover to remind you that these are public fields. Adjustments to these fields from the table will affect the portal.
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Ideas

Attachments on insights

Insights now support attachments, so you can include files alongside the feedback you capture.
insight-attachments
This is helpful when you want to add deeper context. Consider adding things like a screenshot from a support ticket, a transcript from a customer call, or a PDF from a user research interview. Attaching these directly to the insight keeps everything in one place.
There are three ways to add an attachment to an insight:
  • Click the Add attachments button
  • Drag and drop a file
  • Copy and paste a file directly into the insight box
This feature is available to all teams in the Ideas beta.
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