How to Create an AI Presentation in a Few Minutes

How to Create an AI Presentation in a Few Minutes

I timed myself last week. From opening TextDeck to having a 10-slide deck ready for export: 47 seconds. Quick review and a few tweaks: another 2 minutes. Total time to a presentation I actually used in a client call: under 3 minutes.

Here's the thing most people don't realize: the AI isn't just saving you time—it's creating slides that look better than what most of us would make ourselves. Clean layouts, proper hierarchy, no random clipart disasters. The kind of presentation design that used to require hiring someone.

Here's exactly how to do it.

What You Actually Need

A topic (even a vague one works)

Maybe some bullet points if you have them

A few minutes

That's it. No design skills. No template hunting. No fighting with text boxes.

Step 1: Write a Decent Prompt

The prompt is everything. Garbage in, garbage out. But "decent" doesn't mean "long"—it means specific.

This prompt sucks:

"Make a presentation about marketing"

This prompt works:

"Create a presentation about email marketing best practices for e-commerce brands. Include open rate benchmarks and subject line tips. Audience: marketing managers at mid-size companies."

See the difference? The second one tells TextDeck:

The actual topic (email marketing for e-commerce, not marketing in general)

What to include (benchmarks, subject line tips)

Who it's for (marketing managers, not interns, not CMOs)

The Prompt Formula That Works

"Create a presentation about [SPECIFIC TOPIC]. Include [SPECIFIC ELEMENTS]. Audience: [WHO]. Purpose: [WHAT YOU WANT THEM TO DO AFTER]."

Real examples I've used:

"Create a sales deck for our project management software targeting construction companies. Include a pricing slide and competitor comparison. Audience: operations directors who are frustrated with spreadsheet-based tracking."

"Create an investor update for Q3 2025. Include revenue growth, user metrics, and next quarter priorities. Keep it concise—board members have 47 other things to read."

"Create a training presentation on workplace safety procedures for warehouse staff. Make it visual—these folks don't want to read paragraphs."

Step 2: Configure Your Settings

Before you hit generate, TextDeck gives you control:

Slide count: Pick anywhere from 1 to 10 slides. The AI respects this—ask for 8, you get 8. Need more? Generate in batches or edit after.

Use Images: Toggle this on in the settings (gear icon) if you want AI-generated visuals or relevant photos embedded in your slides. Leave it off for cleaner, text-focused decks. This is a subscriber feature.

Use Background: Want styled backgrounds instead of plain white? Toggle this on. Some presentations look better minimal; others benefit from visual polish.

Attach files: Got a document, data, or images you want incorporated? Attach up to 6 files directly. The AI will reference them when creating your slides.

Click generate. Wait about 60 seconds. Watch your deck materialize.

Step 3: Actually Review It

Here's where most people mess up: they export immediately without reviewing.

Don't do that.

The AI gets you 80-90% of the way there—and honestly, that 80% is often better than what you'd create from scratch. Your job is the final polish:

Check the flow: Does slide 4 logically follow slide 3?

Verify claims: If there's a statistic, is it accurate? (AI can occasionally hallucinate numbers—always verify)

Add your specifics: Replace "[Company Name]" with your actual company name

Cut the fluff: See a slide that doesn't add value? Delete it

Step 4: Edit Specific Slides

Here's where it gets powerful. In edit mode, you can:

Select specific slides to modify: Use the slide selector to target just slides 3 and 7, for example

Regenerate individual slides: One slide feel off? Tell the AI to redo just that one

Add context: Attach additional files or images to inform the edit

Track versions: TextDeck saves each version, so you can always go back

The editing feels like having a design assistant. "Make slide 5 more visual." "Add a comparison table to slide 3." "Simplify the text on all slides." It just works.

Step 5: Export and Present

When you're happy:

Hit "Download"

Choose PowerPoint (.pptx) or PDF

Open in PowerPoint, Google Slides, or Keynote

Apply your company template if you have one

Present like you made it yourself (because you did—you just had help)

The PPTX file is completely native. No watermarks, no "Made with AI" footer, no locked elements. It's just a PowerPoint file.

Why AI Presentations Often Look Better Than Manual Ones

Most people aren't designers. We:

Put too much text on slides

Use inconsistent fonts and sizes

Create cluttered layouts

Pick terrible color combinations

Spend hours fighting with alignment

The AI doesn't make these mistakes. It applies design principles automatically:

Proper text hierarchy

Consistent spacing

Clean layouts

Appropriate visual balance

The result? Slides that look like a professional made them. Because in a sense, one did—you just didn't have to pay agency rates or spend 4 hours in PowerPoint.

The 3-Minute Workflow

Minute 1: Write your prompt, set slide count, configure settings

Minute 2: Generate and quick review

Minute 3: Any final edits and export

That's it. No $500 design agency. No 3-hour PowerPoint wrestling match. Just a presentation that looks better than what you'd make manually, in the time it takes to make coffee.

Try it yourself—your first presentation takes longer to describe than to create.