Build A Presentation Deck in Minutes With AI

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Tahnee Perry
November 15, 2023

This Week

  • Feature: Build A Presentation Deck in Minutes

  • 6 AI Deck Building Tools

  • Around the Web: The Greatest Deck Ever Created, Automating Slide Content

  • Growth: Openview 2023 SaaS Benchmark Report

  • News: Google SGE update

  • Folks to Follow

Build a Presentation Deck in Minutes with AI

The internet is littered with websites promising you can create [insert anything here] with the click of a button. 

But is that true?

I’ve been experimenting with AI tools for months now, and while none of them work like Hermonie’s magic wand, I’ve found shortcuts and efficiencies I can apply to my work. 

Could the same be true for presentation building? 

I wanted to find out…

6 Top Tested AI Deck Builder Platforms

Beautiful.ai

Description: I found Beautiful.ai has the best set of features and the most relevant content creation. You can also export your slides to PowerPoint or Google Slides for more editing control. 

Best Feature: 'Design AI' which adapts your slide’s layout in real-time as you add or adjust content.

Cost: $12/month 

G2 Rating: 4.7/5

Presentations.ai

Description: Presentations.ai gives you the option of starting with a template, or you can use their text-to-deck feature to build out your slides automatically. 

Best Feature: You can import a PDF or doc, and Presentation.ai will convert to a slide deck. 

Cost: Free for the basics or $396/year for full access.

Rating: 4.5/5

Plus AI, for Google Slides

Description: If you love Google Slides and refuse to try anything else, check out Plus AI, the Google Slides extension that helps you build your content and layouts with AI, right inside Google Slides.

Best Feature: You can drop in a block of text and ask Plus AI to remix the copy and layout so it works on a slide. 

Cost: Free for the basics or $10/month

G2 Rating: 5/5 

Typeset

Description: If you want a platform that allows you to create more than just decks, Typeset is a good option. It has a nice layout, text-to-content prompts, and a range of starter templates.

Best Feature: It can auto-format citations and references in 7,000+ styles.

Cost: $19/month

G2 Rating: 4.4/5

Prezi

Description: Prezi has been around for years, but it’s leaning into its AI functionality. They’re integrating it into the user interface to help users create non-linear presentations.

Best Feature: Its 'Smart Structures' automatically organize content for visual impact.

Cost: You can start for free or upgrade for $15/month

G2 Rating: 4.2/5

Slidebean

Description: Slidebean is best if you’re looking for investor pitch deck templates and other startup-related features. If you want granular control over your slides, you’re better off with something like Beautiful.ai.

Best Feature: The suite of startup documentation you can create with text prompts.

Cost: Free for basic functionality or $149/year for an all-access pass.

G2 Rating: 4.5/5

How to Make a Deck Using AI

Storydoc has a great how-to guide on using AI for deck creation. 

Automating Slide Content with Sal Judieh

Sal Judieh is a growth expert and AI wizard. He custom-built an automatic slide generator by linking up Airtable, the ChatGPT API, and Maker. You can watch the magic in this video on LinkedIn, and he’s promised to write up an easy-to-follow how-to in the coming weeks. Stay tuned!

The Greatest Deck Ever Made

Andy Raskin’s Zuora deck teardown on Medium has some of the best presentation-building advice I’ve seen to date. It’s not AI-powered, but it’s worth understanding the fundamentals before you start applying AI to your work process. Give it a read on Medium.

SaaS Growth Benchmarks

Openview just published their 2023 Saas Benchmarks Report. Here are the top three takeaways:

  1. While growth is still slow, there are pockets of resilience

  2. ARR per FTE is the new key metric

  3. Positioning yourself as “AI” doesn’t impact growth, but monetizing AI does

News

Google’s AI-powered search experience expands globally to 120+ countries and territories.

Folks to Follow

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