Roadmap

Implement WESley (new Editor)

WESley is now enabled for external HTML documents, allowing users to open, edit, and upversion content that wasn’t originally created in Activator. This gives teams a way to bring legacy or third-party material into the platform without manually rebuilding it. Once opened, the content is handled by the new WESley engine, which is faster, more modular, and easier to maintain than the legacy editor. This marks the first live step in Activator’s long-term editor migration strategy. Internal Activator documents will continue using the current editor until parity is reached, after which WESley will become the default across all channels.

User Notification System

The new User Notification System ensures users stay informed about important background actions — even when they navigate away or log out. Notifications persist across sessions and can be reviewed at any time from the bell icon in the top-right corner of the interface. This includes events such as publishing, translation progress, content generation, and MLR reports. The system is part of Anthill Cloud’s shared notification framework, which means future enhancements will roll out consistently across all products. Over time, more notification types and deeper context will be added to make this a central source of system awareness.

Role-Based Designer Access (Designer Lite)

Designer functionality can now be tailored per role, giving teams much more granular control over who can modify what. Instead of treating all “designers” the same, organisations can define lighter or heavier design capabilities based on the user’s responsibilities. This keeps complex configuration options away from users who only need layout or content-level adjustments. It prevents accidental changes, reduces clutter in the UI, and enables safer collaboration across mixed-skill teams. This is the first step toward a broader role-configurability model that will eventually apply across the full authoring workflow.

Translate with Arcane

Arcane translation is now embedded directly into the authoring flow, eliminating the need to export or reimport XLIFF files. Users can trigger a translation directly in Activator, and the translated version automatically reappears once processing is complete. The translation engine combines DeepL with Arcane glossary logic, ensuring terminology stays consistent across languages and brands. This significantly reduces manual copying and rework, speeding up localization across markets.

CSS Variables

CSS variables are now supported across Activator’s styling framework, giving design systems a more flexible and centralized way to define visual properties. Colors, space tokens, and typography rules can now be updated in one place and reflected across multiple components automatically. This reduces duplication and makes future design changes faster and safer to roll out. While most of this change is foundational, later releases will expose variable usage more visibly in the UI.

Channel: Briefs

A new Briefs channel is now available for structured creative input and campaign alignment. Briefs use template definitions from the design system and follow a full creation and publishing workflow, just like other channels. This brings briefing closer to execution and ensures creative intent is captured upstream in a consistent, reusable format.

Share

We are redesigning how sharing works in Activator. The new approach will make it easier for teams to distribute content securely and in line with client requirements.

Copy/Paste (Briefcase)

The Briefcase enables copying across documents using the same Design System. Copy as many items as you need from one document, open another document, and see your copied items displayed in the Briefcase to simply drag into your document.

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Reference Feature

A new capability requested by our clients, the Reference Feature will allow teams to manage reference material in a more structured way. This will make compliance processes smoother and ensure key information is always accessible.

Guided publishing experience of a Collection

During the publishing process, this feature will inform the user of Slides that hasn't yet been published or has unpublished changes.

Ability to use Web URL as method in Media Library

Nested Collections

We will introduce support for nested collections, making it easier to organize complex content hierarchies. This is particularly valuable for large global teams managing multiple brands and markets.

Drag and Drop

We are introducing drag-and-drop functionality to simplify content creation. Users will be able to add and rearrange content more intuitively, saving time and making the experience more user-friendly.

Notes

Notes make it possible to leave comments directly in the document, potentially for someone else to review or change.

Source code editor

Add a dedicated source code editor allowing users to edit document source directly in Activator.

Collaborative Editing

We plan to introduce real-time collaborative editing, allowing multiple team members to work on the same content at once. This will bring Activator closer to modern collaboration tools and improve efficiency for distributed teams.

Activator AI Capabilities

Looking ahead, we will expand AI support in Activator beyond translations. Arcane will help suggest layouts, check compliance rules, and optimize content for better performance. This will further reduce time-to-market and empower teams with intelligent assistance.

Fusion 3 - standard components

Upload assets to DAM

Teams will be able to upload assets directly from Activator into their connected DAM systems. This closes a workflow gap and eliminates the need for manual steps, helping ensure assets are always stored in the right place.

MLR Report for Collections

Generate detailed MLR reports for Collections with overviews, slide details, page numbering, and more.

CDN Rendition Selection

To give teams more control over performance and delivery, we will introduce the ability to select specific CDN renditions of assets. This ensures content is optimized for different devices and channels.

Compare

Enable side-by-side comparison of two documents during translation, helping users align and verify localized content more easily and accurately.

Favorites

Mark a document as a favorite by clicking the star icon to make it easy to find again. All your favorites are available from the tab on the Dashboard.

Where Used

Users should be able to see where a document or asset is used across Collections and other documents, helping manage dependencies.

Document Renditions

Further down the roadmap, we will introduce document renditions, expanding flexibility in how content is exported and delivered to external systems.