Practical guides for consulting, banking, M&A, insurance, and regulated industries. Learn how to automate presentation work while protecting confidential data, approved content, brand standards, and human review.
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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.
AI presentation governance defines what an AI system may read, generate, change and release in your slide production. Here is the framework we use with enterprise teams.
An AI agent in PowerPoint can read company knowledge, plan a deck and edit slides. How to scope its permissions, bound its actions and test it before rollout.
Forty checks across argument, evidence, numbers, confidentiality, brand and the final file, ordered the way an experienced reviewer actually works through a deck.
A buyer's checklist for AI presentation software in 2026: data processing, permissions, output format, brand control, auditability, contracts and exit. 60 questions.
Native slides are not a formatting preference. They decide whether review is possible, corrections stay cheap, content is accessible and you can switch vendors.
PowerPoint brand governance for enterprises: lock masters, logos and disclaimers in the file, and what a brand compliance checker should verify on every deck.
Human review only works when the reviewer has time, evidence, authority and a checklist. Here is how to design a review gate for AI generated decks that actually catches things.
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.
How I would build PowerPoint automation for a regulated team: approved inputs, bounded actions, traceable sources, native output, and a named human approver.
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Our founders write from first-hand experience: Florian on consulting and agentic AI, Maximilian on data protection and enterprise operations, and Robin on AI architecture and security. We share this expertise to help teams build safer, faster, and more professional presentation workflows. Regulatory content is grounded in primary sources and receives specialist review where required.
Product strategy, consulting, and agentic AI workflows
Florian writes about consulting workflows, professional presentations, company knowledge, and the controlled adoption of agentic AI.
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Strategy, enterprise operations, and data protection
Max writes about management consulting, enterprise adoption, data protection, and the operating controls required for AI in regulated organisations.
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AI infrastructure, software architecture, and security
Robin writes about AI architecture, secure data flows, software engineering, PowerPoint systems, and scalable enterprise integrations.
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