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New features, tips, and step-by-step guides for getting the most out of Sustain.

The visitor asks for an album from their Italy trip; an AI agent calls Sustain’s named tools — create_album, request_photos, build_album — each ticking off in turn, and the finished album spread appears

Sep 9, 2026

Your AI agent can now build an album with you

Most websites make an AI agent squint at pixels and guess which button to click. We did the opposite: Sustain hands agents real tools — create an album, get photos in, build it. Now they can reach them from outside the browser too: paste one URL into Claude and approve what it may do.

A finished Sustain album spread — photos placed, captioned and themed automatically

Guide

Sep 6, 2026

Sustain vs the other photo book makers

Every photo book service asks you to lay out the pages. Sustain does that part for you. Here is how it compares to the alternatives — including when they are the better pick.

A family standing together in an open field at sunset, in golden light

Guide

Sep 6, 2026

What album should you make first?

A wedding, a first year, a family year, a trip. Four albums worth making from photos you already have — and what changes about the curation for each one.

The Sustain album assistant answering “find photos with mountain views” with a row of photo thumbnails, one marked “new”

What’s New

Aug 10, 2026

Find any photo by describing it — no scrolling required

Stop hunting through hundreds of thumbnails. Describe the photo you’re after — the assistant finds it and shows it to you, ready to drop into your album.

Diagram of a nested agent: the album chat agent makes one tool call to a dig agent, which burns through captions in its own context and returns only the vetted photo list

Guide

Aug 5, 2026

Nested AI agents: why our album chat has a search agent of its own

When you ask our chat to “find the photos of Omri laughing at the beach,” a second AI agent quietly wakes up, does the digging in its own workspace, and hands back only the answer. Here’s why that design matters.