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As of 13 August 2026, AI can make slides for your work presentation.

Most people should hand this to a purpose-built tool.

Can you do it?

5 minutesto a draft.

30 minutesto something you’d act on.

Cost, all in£0

Skill neededchat-fluent

Who has to check ityou

What the alternative costsPerceptis is described as producing consulting-grade AI slide decks as editable PowerPoint files, grounded in your own data.

If this goes wrong: the deck contains an unsupported claim or misses what your audience needs, and your credibility suffers when you present it.

What to actually do

  1. Use a tool built for this

    The route this page recommends

  2. Do it yourself

    Second choice

    A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

    How to actually do it

    1. Open your organisation's presentation template or brand guidance and gather the approved logo, colours, fonts, slide size and any rules about confidential information.
    2. Write down the presentation purpose, audience, speaking time, desired decision or action, and the three to five points the audience must remember.
    3. Gather the approved notes, documents, figures, links and existing charts that support those points, removing material you are not allowed to share with an AI tool.
    4. Paste the prompt and your gathered material into a chatbot, then save its slide plan, on-slide copy, speaker notes and [CHECK] list.
    5. Build or export the slides in your approved presentation software, then compare every claim, figure, chart and source against the original material and correct the layout by reading the deck in presentation mode.
    6. Ask a colleague who understands the audience to check whether the intended decision and main message are clear, then revise the deck and rehearse it within the available speaking time.

    Prompt

    Create a concise work presentation deck from the material below.

Purpose: [what the presentation must achieve]
Audience: [who will see it and what they already know]
Length: [number of slides or speaking time]
Tone: [for example, factual, persuasive, calm or practical]
Required outcome: [the decision, action or understanding you want]
Brand and format requirements: [colours, fonts, logo rules, aspect ratio and file format]
Source material:
[paste the approved notes, documents, figures and links here]

Return:
1. A slide-by-slide plan with a clear title and one main message per slide.
2. Concise on-slide text, with no more than a few short bullets per slide.
3. Speaker notes explaining what to say and how each slide supports the purpose.
4. Suggestions for simple charts, diagrams or images, using only information supported by the source material.
5. A final slide listing any claims, figures or missing information that I must check before presenting.

Use only facts in the source material. Do not invent figures, examples, quotations, sources or outcomes. Mark any unsupported or ambiguous point as [CHECK]. Keep the narrative suitable for the stated audience and avoid stock corporate wording.

    Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.

  3. Hand it to a person

    The distant third

    A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.

What it gets wrong

  • AI cannot know your organisation's unwritten politics, sensitivities or preferred level of detail unless you explain them.
  • AI cannot decide which trade-off your audience will accept when the evidence supports more than one interpretation.
  • AI cannot guarantee that a chart tells the right story or that an apparently minor omission will not change the decision.
  • AI cannot replace your responsibility for confidential material, factual accuracy or what you say while presenting.

Even on a YES, the friction has a name: taste, context depth and judgement under ambiguity.

How we scored this

Five axes, each scored nought to two by hand: ten means AI carries the task cleanly, and the thresholds that turn a total into YES, PARTLY or NO are published in the methodology. Each axis name links to its definition.

AxisScore (0–2)
Output2
Inputs2
Verification1
Liability1
Effort delta2
Total8 / 10

The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.

FAQ

Can AI make slides for my work presentation?
Yes. It can turn your approved notes into a slide structure, concise copy, speaker notes and suggestions for charts or diagrams. You still need to check every claim and adapt the story to your audience.
Can AI create a PowerPoint presentation?
Yes, some tools can produce editable presentation files, while a chatbot can create the content and structure for you to place in your organisation's template. Check that the resulting file follows your workplace's branding and information-handling rules.
How do I use AI to make a work presentation?
Give it the purpose, audience, time limit, approved source material and brand requirements, and tell it not to invent facts or figures. Ask for one main message per slide, speaker notes and a list of items to check before presenting.
Can AI make my presentation look professional?
It can suggest a clearer hierarchy, shorter text and suitable visual treatments. It cannot reliably judge your organisation's taste or whether the design supports the decision you need from the audience, so inspect the deck in presentation mode and get a colleague's view.

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Assessed by gpt-5.6-luna (gpt-5.6-luna) on 2026-08-13, second-checked by an independent model. Wrong somewhere? Email [email protected] and it gets re-checked.

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