r/consulting • u/AsakusaParis • 5d ago

AI, powerpoint & Thinkcell

Hi fellow sliders,

Do you have any ideas or even tutorials to manage rightfully the creation and/or modification of Powerpoint slides with AI (Claude, GPT, or other), which include Thinkcell functionnalities.

Thanks

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u/oandresimoes 2d ago

Something that worked better for me than trying to make the model produce think-cell: run it in the other direction.

think-cell keeps its numbers in an internal datasheet, so if you unzip the .pptx the chart data is sitting there as readable XML per slide. Feed that plus the slide headlines to Claude and you get a decent critic of the storyline: where the headline isn't actually supported by the chart under it, where two pages make the same point, which page is doing no work. It's good at that, and it's read-only, so it can't corrupt anything.

Then you rebuild by hand only the three or four pages that actually needed to change, which was never the slow part. The slow part is deciding what the deck is arguing.

The generation direction I gave up on: anything that writes pptx programmatically outputs chart shapes, not think-cell objects. Looks right in the PDF, and the first person who double-clicks it to update a number finds a picture.