# Presentation Builder

A dedicated tool for turning your content into a finished slide deck: give an employee a report, a set of notes, or a topic, and it plans the slide structure, writes the talking points, and lays out a real .pptx file you can open in PowerPoint or Google Slides.

A presentation usually means two separate jobs: figuring out what to say, and then fighting with slide software to say it cleanly. Presentation Builder is meant to close that gap. You describe the presentation, whether that is a client pitch, a project update, or a summary of a report an employee already produced, and it comes back with an actual slide deck: a title slide, a logical run of content slides, bullet points sized to fit, and speaker notes for whoever presents it.

The starting point is not a blank page. An employee can pull from a document it already wrote, a spreadsheet of numbers it already pulled, or a conversation thread with you, and turn that material into a slide-by-slide narrative instead of you copying and pasting between chat and a slide editor by hand.

What makes this different from just asking a chat assistant to write slide text is the output: a real, downloadable .pptx file with actual slide layouts, not a wall of markdown you have to reformat yourself. Today, that same underlying file-generation engine produces working .pptx decks, complete with title and content layouts, bullet formatting, embedded images, and speaker notes. Presentation Builder turns that into a designed presentation: it picks a coherent look, spaces content across the right number of slides, and handles the pacing and story structure without you specifying every layout choice by hand.

## Built on the file engine your employees already use

Your employees do not write and execute code to build files. A structured, trusted rendering engine turns a content plan into the real binary, the same approach already used for the spreadsheets, Word documents, and PDFs an employee can hand you today. Presentation Builder applies that same reliable path to slide decks: the employee decides what the deck should say, and the rendering layer guarantees the .pptx comes out as a properly formed file every time, not a broken export.

Because the deck is a real file and not pasted text, it lands in your Drive alongside the other files your employees produce, so you can find it again, hand it to a teammate, or ask the employee to revise it later without starting over.

## Structure, not just slide text

The hard part of a deck is rarely the sentence-level writing, it is deciding how much goes on each slide and what order builds the argument. Presentation Builder is meant to handle that structuring step: splitting a longer piece of content into a sensible number of slides, choosing which layout each slide needs, whether that is a section break, a two-column comparison, or a plain title, and keeping bullet points short enough that the slide reads instead of becoming a script.

You stay in control of the source material and the ask. If your employee already produced the underlying report or numbers, you can ask directly for the presentation version of that same work, so the deck stays consistent with what you have already reviewed instead of the employee starting a new narrative from scratch.

## How It Works

**From a topic or a document to a downloadable slide deck**

You describe what the presentation is for and, if you have one, point the employee at the source material: a report it wrote, a document you uploaded, or a summary of a project. The employee plans a slide structure first: how many slides, what each one covers, and what order tells the clearest story.

From that plan, it writes the actual slide content: titles, bullet points kept short enough to read at a glance, and speaker notes with the detail that does not belong on the slide itself. The result is assembled into a real .pptx file and handed back to you as a download in your workspace, ready to open in PowerPoint, Google Slides, or Keynote and adjust from there.

## Use Cases

### Client and investor pitches

Turn a project summary or a set of talking points into a pitch deck with a title slide, a clear run of content slides, and speaker notes, instead of building it slide by slide yourself.

### Internal project updates

Ask an employee to turn a status report or a sprint summary it already produced into a short deck you can walk a team through, without retyping the same information into a slide editor.

### Turning research into a walkthrough

Have an employee take research or a document it gathered and reshape it into a presentation-ready narrative, with the source material condensed into slide-sized points rather than long paragraphs.

## Comparison

| Before | After |
|---|---|
| Handling presentation builder through separate tools, notes, and follow-ups makes the process difficult to repeat or inspect. | Presentation Builder gives your AI workforce one defined workflow: A dedicated tool for turning your content into a finished slide deck: give an employee a report, a set of notes, or a topic, and it plans the slide structure, writes the talking points, and lays out a real .pptx file you can open in PowerPoint or Google Slides. |

## FAQ

### Is Presentation Builder available now?

It is on our roadmap. A version of slide-deck generation, real .pptx files with layouts, bullets, images, and speaker notes, already exists today through the Document Editor every employee has; Presentation Builder is the dedicated, design-focused experience we are building on top of it.

### What file do I get back?

A real .pptx file you can open directly in PowerPoint, Google Slides, or Keynote, not text pasted into chat that you have to reformat yourself.

### Can it build a deck from a report my employee already wrote?

Yes, that is the intended flow: point the employee at content it already produced, a document, a summary, a set of notes, and have it turn that into a matching slide-by-slide version instead of writing the presentation from a blank page.

### Do I need to design the slides myself?

No. The employee plans how many slides to use, what goes on each one, and which layout fits the content, so you are reviewing a finished draft rather than assembling one slide at a time.

## Where Presentation Builder fits

Presentation Builder is part of Things they can do out of the box.

Every AI employee ships with built-in abilities that work out of the box. Search the live web for real-time information, scrape and crawl any website for structured data, and generate images directly in conversation. No plugins to install, no APIs to configure.

- [Things they can do out of the box](/en/features/capabilities): Research, create, and extract without plugins.

## Read the guide

- [Guide: Presentation Builder](/en/guide/equip/tools)

## More in Capabilities

- [Web Search](/en/features/capabilities/web_search): Every AI employee can search the live internet for current information and answer with sources, no setup required. It runs automatically whenever the employee needs something it does not already know, such as a competitor update, a price, or a recent news item. Results are cited titles, snippets, and URLs, synthesized into a plain answer inside the chat.
- [Web Scraping](/en/features/capabilities/web_scraping): Give any employee a URL and they read the full page: article, blog post, documentation, competitor page, pricing table, whatever is public. They return clean text with the ads, navigation, and boilerplate stripped out, ready to summarize, compare, or act on. It is enabled for every employee at hire, costs no credits, and works on JavaScript-heavy pages without any setup on your side.
- [Image Generation](/en/features/capabilities/image_generation): Ask any employee to create an image and it builds a detailed prompt, generates it with an OpenAI image model, and saves the result to Drive with a persistent link. Use it for logos, social graphics, illustrations, diagrams, or landing page visuals, described in plain language. No setup required: every employee can generate images at hire, with a Model, Quality, and Shape default you can adjust per tool.
- [Code Interpreter](/en/features/capabilities/code_interpreter): Code Interpreter is on our roadmap: a sandboxed Python environment your AI employee will use to run scripts, crunch numbers, and transform data files on request. Instead of describing a calculation in words, you'll be able to ask for the actual computation and get back a checked result, not a guess. It is not available yet.
- [Video](/en/features/capabilities/video_generation): Hand your employee a prompt and get back a short, ready-to-post video clip, filed straight into your Drive. Built for social cuts, ad concepts, and quick product demos. Editing your own footage is coming next.
- [AI Employee B2B Marketplace](/en/features/capabilities/b2b_marketplace): A network of real, vetted businesses living inside Sistava. Ask any AI employee to find a vendor, a partner, or a service provider, and it checks this network first, before it ever touches the open internet. Get listed yourself and the same network works the other way: visitors, customers, and other businesses' AI employees can discover and recommend you.
- [Document Editor](/en/features/capabilities/document_editor): Ask an employee for a spreadsheet, a report, a slide deck, or a data export, and get back a real .xlsx, .docx, .pptx, .csv, or .pdf file, not a wall of text pasted into chat. It can also revise a file you already gave it through the same chat-and-Drive workflow, keeping the work you did not ask to change intact whenever the format supports it. For PowerPoint, it can turn a brief into native slides with layouts, charts, images, shapes, tables, and speaker notes. PDFs can be polished reports or colorful, fully designed pages with professional print typography. Included with every employee on every plan, nothing extra to connect or unlock.
- [Premium Prospect Database](/en/features/capabilities/pdl_prospect_database): Find real people to sell to and reveal their verified work email and phone, pulled from a premium database of over a billion professionals worldwide. Filter by role, seniority, industry, company size, and location to build a targeted list, then have your employee save the best prospects straight into your CRM. A premium add-on on paid plans; on the free plan your employee researches prospects on the open web.
- [Audio Transcriber](/en/features/capabilities/audio_transcriber): Give any AI employee an uploaded recording and get a saved written transcript back in the same conversation. It handles common audio and video files, including voice memos, call recordings, webinars, and video walkthroughs.
- [Send an Employee to Your Meeting](/en/features/capabilities/meeting_attender): Share a Google Meet, Zoom, or Microsoft Teams link and your employee joins the call as a named participant. It listens, keeps a full speaker-tagged transcript, and speaks up out loud when you address it by name. When the call ends, the transcript lands in Drive and a summary shows up in chat.
- [Get a Live Meeting Transcript](/en/features/capabilities/meeting_live_transcript): Your AI employee joins a Google Meet, Zoom, or Microsoft Teams call and captures a full transcript as people speak, tagged by speaker and timestamped. Ask for it mid-call, ask for it after, or just ask what someone said ten minutes ago. When the meeting ends the transcript is saved to your employee's Drive automatically.
- [Meeting Summary](/en/features/capabilities/meeting_summary): When a meeting your employee attended ends, it writes a summary and drops it in chat automatically: what got decided, who owns what, and the action items. No need to ask for a recap, it is already waiting when you check in.

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