Building Slide Decks Without the Drudgery

Every ugly deck is a deck that started in slide view. Good decks start in an outline — one bullet per slide — and only become slides once the story lands. AI shortens the outlining step from an hour to ten minutes.

The 45-minute deck workflow

1. 1In Claude or ChatGPT, dump your raw thinking — messy is fine
2. 2Ask for a 10-slide outline with one headline per slide
3. 3Revise the outline until it reads as a standalone story
4. 4Paste into Copilot for PowerPoint, Gamma, or Google Slides' Help me create
5. 5Apply your brand template and edit the 3 slides that still feel wrong

Turn my messy notes below into a 10-slide outline for a board update.

Structure:
- Slide 1: one-line takeaway (not an agenda)
- Slides 2–4: what's working, with one number per slide
- Slides 5–7: what's not, with the specific root cause for each
- Slides 8–9: what we'll do next quarter, with owners and dates
- Slide 10: what I need from the board, in one sentence

Each slide should have:
- A headline that states the point, not the topic
- 3 supporting bullets, under 8 words each
- A note for me on the visual (chart, photo, table)

Notes:
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[dump your thinking]

The big idea: the hard part of a deck is the story. Let AI rescue you from the outline, then spend your human hours on the three slides that actually need polish.