If you have been in the corporate world for any length of time, you probably create a lot of presentations: for prospective clients, existing clients, internal stakeholders, you name it. And if you’re anything like me, the building of those decks has long been the bane of your existence.
The hard part was never really the idea. It was everything around it: gathering the information, formatting it, getting it to match company standards, writing content that’s actually intriguing instead of a wall of text, not overloading every slide, and avoiding those cheesy cut-and-paste graphics that make a deck look like it was thrown together in a hurry. Once you’ve built a company template, great, but then you still have to make each slide interesting, consistent, and worth sitting through.
This is one of those areas where AI has genuinely changed the game for me. Here’s the exact process I use.
The short version
I use two tools together: Claude to capture and clean up my thinking, and Gamma to turn that content into a polished, good-looking deck.
You can absolutely build presentations with other AI engines: Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude on its own. What I like about Gamma is that it’s already trained specifically to create slides, so it takes far less effort than coaxing a general-purpose engine into laying things out well. Gamma’s base plan runs about $9 a month, and there’s a free tier so you can try it before you pay anything. The $9 plan covers everything I need, and for the time it saves me, that’s a tiny price.
My workflow, step by step
- Talk it out into Claude. I pull up a Claude chat (I’m on a Claude Max subscription), hit the microphone, and just start talking about whatever topic I’m covering. Free-forming it is so much faster than typing. You can use Whisper, Claude’s dictation, or any number of transcription tools. I won’t get into each one here, but the point is you just speak your slides.
- Pause and pull in sources as you go. I’ll often stop the recording for a minute to look something up, grab a quote, or pull a paragraph from Google, then come back and keep talking. All the pauses, misspeaks, and out-of-order rambling don’t matter. That’s the whole point.
- Have Claude clean it up. Once I’ve covered every angle of the topic, I stop recording and tell Claude something like: “I’m putting this into a presentation. Clean it up and summarize it into bite-sized chunks.” It organizes my scattered thoughts into a sensible, sequential order even when I talked through them out of order.
- Review the summary. I read through what Claude produced to make sure it’s clean, flows well, and is in the right order. Usually only minor tweaks are needed.
- Paste into Gamma. I drop that summary into gamma.app and tell it how I want the deck laid out. I pick the slide types, the graphics, and the layout. I’ve also built a few Gamma templates so it’ll hold a consistent format and style when I want one.
That’s really it. The amount of time saved by speaking your content, having Claude tighten it up, and letting Gamma assemble the deck is phenomenal.
A note on doing it all in Claude
There are a dozen ways to do this, and you could do nearly all of it inside Claude alone. My honest advice: if you already pay for Claude or Copilot, start there. See what it produces. It might be more than good enough for you.
Claude does a solid job on presentation content. I’ve used it for exactly that. My one complaint is that Claude can’t really do graphic design. It’s limited when it comes to graphics and visual alignment. So I tend to draft everything in Claude first, have it break things into bite-sized chunks and prep it for presentation, and then move that into Gamma.
What I love about Gamma is the part that always tripped me up: the visuals. It creates the graphics, handles the layout, keeps a clean and consistent style, and chooses fonts that work together: all the fiddly stuff like nudging boxes around and making slides match each other. It does all of that for you, and it does it well. No matter what I choose, it comes out looking gorgeous.
Want a video walkthrough?
That’s all I’ve got for this one. If you’d like to see this in action, leave a comment below and let me know. I’m happy to record a short walkthrough of how I use Claude and Gamma together and post it for everyone to learn from.
Have a great rest of your day.
Brian Largent
Father to five, husband to one, founder, CEO, and all around swell fella (or so I'm told)
