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Send your Boldstream images straight to Figma

Boldstream can read the frames in your open Figma file and place a freshly generated image straight into one — no exporting, no re-uploading.

Written by Dan Pillay

Boldstream can now place the images it creates for you directly into your Figma frames — no exporting, no re-uploading, no dragging files across tabs.


Before you start

This is an early-access feature we're piloting with a handful of accounts. It needs a Boldstream plugin, which we install for you — talk to your Boldstream contact if you'd like it switched on.


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You'll need the Figma desktop app — this doesn't work from a browser tab. And the plugin needs to be running, not just installed, since Figma plugins only work while they're open.


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How it works

Boldstream works on whichever Figma file you currently have open, with the plugin running. There's no file picker and no way to point it at a file by name or link — open the file you want to work in first, then just ask.


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Try it: from an idea to a placed image

Ask “list my Figma frames” and Boldstream reads the open file and tells you exactly what's there — the file, the page, and every frame by name.


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Boldstream listing the frames found in the open Figma file — the file name, page and two frame names


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Give it a starting point — a board, a campaign idea, a rough thought — and ask Boldstream to turn it into a social concept. It checks two quick things first: what role the post plays, and how polished you want it (see our guide to creative outputs for what each level means) — then generates a fresh image.


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A freshly generated Instagram concept image and caption, ready to place into a Figma frame


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Happy with it? Just ask in plain English — no layer names or coordinates needed. Here's a request that worked:

“Place that image in the Social Post 1 frame in Figma.”


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A plain-English chat request asking Boldstream to place the generated image into a named Figma frame


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Boldstream places it straight into the frame you named, and confirms it's done.


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Boldstream confirming the image has been placed into the Social Post 1 frame in Figma, with a note that the placement can be undone


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And here’s how it lands in Figma:


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The Figma board showing the generated image placed inside the Social Post 1 frame


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💡 Tip: Nothing here is permanent — undo a placement in Figma exactly like any other edit, with Cmd+Z on a Mac or Ctrl+Z on Windows.


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If Boldstream says Figma isn't connected

Figma plugins only run while the file is open, so if Boldstream can't see your frames, it says so plainly:


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Boldstream's message when the Figma plugin isn't running: Figma isn't connected right now


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Open the Figma file you want to work in, run the Boldstream plugin, and ask again.


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What's next?

This works the other way too — see how Boldstream reads a tool's own data back into chat in Connect monday.com — or any tool — with your own key, or turn any idea into a ready-to-approve post with Draft and publish social posts directly from chat.

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