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Have your AI design your slides

Running out of time but want a swish deck to present? Fear not; tools like Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT are really good at this.

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Stephanie Decker FAcSS FBAM
Oct 30, 2026

Running out of time to do everything, but still want a decent deck of slides, if possible, even good-looking ones?

In my experience, this is a good use of AI. And in contrast to even last year, AI is now pretty good at this. But like all things AI, they do often look AI.

In what way, you may ask? AI-generated slides tend to be a bit overengineered, with many different elements on the slides. If you try to animate them, it is a bit crazy, because boxes, circles, numbers and text will all be layered on top of each other in different colours.

AI also manages to put an impressive amount of information on a slide - often well organised with offset boxes, but definitely often more than I would put on a slide.

As I use Claude, I recognise Claude slides. They look professional in a very Claude way. It’s like a smarter Manus, which is a tool I tried last year when the main Chatbots were not so impressive yet.

If you want your slides to be really visually interesting and look less corporate, go wit…

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