Author, founder, and practitioner
Co-Founder and COO, MD
Florian Ploszczyk is offgen’s COO and leads product and go-to-market strategy. His work combines management consulting at PwC, hands-on development of agentic systems, finance and investor relations, and research across business and engineering.
Professional profile
Co-Founder and COO
Leads product and go-to-market strategy for secure, PowerPoint-native automation.
Management Consultant - Agentic AI
Developed agentic systems for major capital-project clients and advised decision-makers on workflow design and efficiency.
CFO
Led fundraising, investor relations, financial planning, and data-driven forecasting.
Student and researcher
Combined business and engineering studies with international research experience.
Articles start with a concrete professional task and separate automation from accountable judgment. Primary sources support legal, regulatory, and security claims. The named author owns the practical perspective and final editorial approval; specialist review is identified where a topic requires it.
This author is a founder and executive of offgen. Articles discussing offgen distinguish product claims from general guidance and disclose where the product fits.
Hands-on test of ChatGPT Astra for PowerPoint presentations: where GPT-6 Astra makes good slides, where templates and sources break, plus a 30-minute test.
Build consulting storylines without overlaps or gaps. Includes split patterns, a worked slide sequence, a 12-point MECE checklist, and an AI prompt pattern.
A conservative PowerPoint automation ROI model with formulas, a worked example, sensitivity analysis, and a pilot plan for measuring time, quality, and risk.
The Pyramid Principle in PowerPoint on one worked example: message tree, a weak storyline rewritten answer-first, action title tests, seven steps, AI prompt.
Fifteen AI use cases that hold up in a consulting firm, ranked by value and risk, with the control each one needs and the ones I would not start with.
Automate the monthly finance reporting pack without losing number integrity: one source per figure, native charts, variance commentary rules and reconciliation.
The data model behind a credentials library that AI can safely retrieve from: CV fields, reference fields, permission levels, tagging, review cycles and GDPR duties.
Forty checks across argument, evidence, numbers, confidentiality, brand and the final file, ordered the way an experienced reviewer actually works through a deck.
Most slide libraries fail because nobody owns them. Here is the taxonomy, ownership model, review cycle and retrieval design that makes reuse actually happen.
Pitchbook automation for investment banks: comps, profiles and charts from approved data, compliance controls in the system, and a conservative ROI model.
A page by page structure for an investment committee paper, what each section must contain, and the review checklist that stops a committee debating formatting instead of risk.
Thirty five pitchbook checks across valuation, comps, market data, confidentiality, disclaimers and the final file, in the order an experienced reviewer works.
PowerPoint brand governance for enterprises: lock masters, logos and disclaimers in the file, and what a brand compliance checker should verify on every deck.
A PowerPoint Company Brain is a governed knowledge layer that connects approved slides, CVs, references, templates and wording to the people and agents who build decks.
A step by step workflow from RFP receipt to submitted proposal deck: compliance matrix, bid thesis, controlled retrieval, native slides and three separate reviews.
What I learned building proposals in consulting, and the workflow from RFP to finished deck I would use today: approved evidence, bounded AI, partners still accountable.