What’s new at Brightspot
The latest Brightspot release helps teams move faster, stay on brand and scale without risk. It introduces Esca Automations and our Esca CMS AI agent, both designed to reset how you create, govern and optimize content.
Esca Automations is a workflow automation engine for Brightspot CMS. Design automations that handle repetitive tasks so your team can focus on high-impact work. Incorporate agentic AI, connect the systems you already use and keep every action governed by your roles and permissions.
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We want editors to have more control over their content.
—Basima Zafar, Software Engineer
Brightspot’s latest AI capabilities center on Esca, our AI agent. Esca Automations lets you design no-code workflows that automate repetitive tasks and orchestrate content operations across the systems you already use. The Esca CMS agent works alongside you anywhere in the CMS to search your library, suggest tags, update and create content. The Brightspot MCP server, released in spring 2026, gives the agents you build a direct, governed connection to your content. All of these capabilities build on existing AI features including author personas, inline editing, conversation history and source-backed answers.
Esca is Brightspot’s AI agent. She appears throughout the content operations platform. In the CMS, she operates as your assistant wherever you are working. She also drives Esca Automations, Brightspot’s standalone workflow automation tool.
Esca Automations is a workflow automation engine for Brightspot CMS. You design automations that handle repetitive tasks, connect the systems you already use and keep every action governed by your roles and permissions. Esca is a standalone application that connects to your Brightspot CMS rather than being installed inside it.
The Esca CMS agent is Brightspot’s in-CMS assistant. From an AI panel available anywhere in the CMS, you can ask Esca to search your library, suggest tags or draft new content. Every suggestion is grounded in the content you own.
They address different parts of your content workflow. The CMS agent supports the person doing the work in the CMS, while Esca Automations handles recurring processes and repetitive tasks along with human oversight. Customers have the flexibility to use one or both, depending on their requirements.
MCP is an open standard released by Anthropic in November 2024 that lets AI agents interact with enterprise systems through structured, callable actions. It provides a consistent interface so agents can work across multiple platforms without custom integrations for each one.
Agents can discover your content model, search content using keyword or semantic queries, and create or update content through governed endpoints. Discover more about Brightspot’s MCP server here.
The Brightspot Toolkit is a browser extension that gives editorial, marketing, QA and development teams a shared window into your live site. You can inspect and edit pages, and audit SEO, accessibility and performance without leaving the browser. The latest Toolkit release introduces role-based views to show the panels most relevant to your work. With role-based views, an editor can quality-check content while a developer can use debugging tools. You can switch roles or customize which panels appear at any time.
The release is available to all new customers and as an upgrade for current customers. Contact us to request a demo.
