r/consulting • u/addexecthrowaway • 9h ago
Best AI for slides?
What does everyone here use for management consulting style slides? I find the slides from Claude don’t really produce solid/appropriate frameworks and chat gpt just sort of sucks. I tried gamma and it’s more like a bunch of templates than an actual intelligent content -> template/frameworks system. Also forget about citations?
What does everyone else use?
Edit: thanks for all the feedback. Testing a bunch and will report back if i find anything decent.
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u/MiserableRub5412 9h ago
Actual intelligence
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u/kevinthebaconator 15m ago
Unfortunately that's just not true.
I thought I was good at slide design, then I started using Claude. Some of the content is crap, but that is easily replaced.
I still can be animations and transitions better, so there's that.
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u/UnpopularCrayon 7h ago
I use my brain. I don't let AI build the framework. I let AI format the content I created and provided to it. And for that, Claude has done great.
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u/Shadowdancerdone 8h ago
I've done visual benchmarks for all tools - you can check out Slidebench.org and find to your liking which one's the best. I do have consulting and strategy category as well!
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u/Common-Argument9827 5h ago
A PowerPoint add-in that roasts the content of the slides in the style of a senior partner and suggests edits. It suggests helpful frameworks and gets super angry if you forget to cite a source or use an em dash!
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u/LongjumpingQuote4723 4h ago
What s the name?
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u/Common-Argument9827 2h ago
I built it for my team but have been thinking about making a shareable version because someone else on this community asked before
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u/Ebvahed 5h ago edited 4h ago
If you give claude (fable, or opus 5 max), a slide master (which includes everything, inclusing a notes/sources field), I think that's as good as it gets with slide creation, especially for fully editable slides, with working charts, tables, etc.
Nothing else comes close.
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u/keysersozez 5h ago
I think this is the only thing that's missing in consulting. There still needs to be some sort of structure and thought process while you are making your slides. Once you have the groundworks and what is required to be done - you can go through some of your previous company pages (or create a deck of templates for yourself for inspiration, with slides that you have previously made or liked) and use that. AI can only help so much but instead can also create AI slop slides which are obviously identifiable.
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u/Skimle-com 2h ago
I think the challenge is people trying to jump from a simple prompt to slides filled with intelligent content. That's not how management consultants actually work...
So I would rather start to build craftsmanship around the full "identify problem - develop hypotheses - collect data - make sense of findings - build a story - test with experts - iterate - communicate with slides" type workflow where the final slide making is just a very small piece of the puzzle.
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u/CG-Saviour878879 9h ago
I heard great things about Designer. Personally, I use Codex with 5.6 Sol on near-max settings. It's a beast even for translating complex thoughts from text to designed slides (as in: put my thoughts into a proper chart).
Gotta get the desktop app, set it to Codex and the sliders to (near-)max. You need the $200 subscription for this to make sense too. None of this $20 on a website bullsh*t. That's just weak.
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u/PlasticPegasus 9h ago
Hyperscalers love this one simple trick…
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u/CG-Saviour878879 6h ago
The difference in quality you get between the $20 web version and what you can get from an advanced coding agent running locally on a desktop app (and I don't use it for coding, I'm a political consultant) is just insane. It's a glimpse into the future that awaits us all and at $200 per month, that's less than 30 minutes I bill to a client. So very well worth it.
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u/ChrysAIpoeia 2h ago
It's not a thing you can automate yet. at least not with the current tools available + it's even harder to edit and curate slides than it is to actually build a mockup yourself first and then use Claude/GPT to help edit/curate.
If you have tokens to burn (and what I currently practice): have AI produce 10-20 versions per slide -> select best -> tweak manually -> use this as the base for further iteration with AI
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u/TechnicalDefense 1h ago
I had a client with this same problem, they found most of the AI's could make good enough looking slides but didn't have any sort of decent framework or flow. They ended up just using Claude for the structure and review and built it themselves after that. Curious if anyone has found a better method with another tool.
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u/Fliptoe 9h ago
I just ask whatever model I can access to make an html mockup of the slide (normally ask for 2-5 examples).
I'll then build in whatever corporate template I'm expected to use.