Canva Reports 27 Billion AI Capability Uses and 30-40% Month-Over-Month MCP Connector Growth

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Canva's Anwar Haneef told SaaStr AI 2026 the platform now serves 250M+ monthly users, has logged 27 billion AI capability uses across 1,700+ apps, and is seeing MCP connector usage grow 30-40% month over month. His warning to builders: "Agents use your service in surprising, nonlinear ways" — MCP does not reduce the importance of a well-designed API, it raises it, and domain expertise beats generalist capability in what agents actually reach for. That MCP growth rate is the clearest public number yet on how fast the agent-to-SaaS integration layer is displacing conventional point-to-point integrations.