Short answer: yes, Claude can make your slides. I built a full training deck with Claude Design. The first version took 10–15 minutes of prompting and looked professional. Then I spent two hours improving it by talking to it, and went through the whole deck about 10 times. It didn’t remove the work. It removed the part of the work I hated.
Why I care about slides
I’ve made at least 2,000 slide decks in my life. Internal updates. Board meetings. Investor pitches. A real chunk of my life went into moving boxes around in PowerPoint. I’ve watched mentors hire someone just to do their slides. That’s how much decks matter.
So when a tool changes how decks get made, I pay attention.
My setup
- Claude Design for the deck. I used to use Gamma.
- ChatGPT for the images.
- Voice feedback instead of typing, so I never stop to fiddle.
How the deck actually got built
Step 1: get a first draft. I described the training and let Claude build the deck. After 10–15 minutes of prompting, the first version looked professional.
Step 2: talk to it, slide by slide. This is the part that changed everything for me. I didn’t edit text boxes. I talked into my mic:
- “Make this slide simpler.”
- “This chart’s wrong.”
- “Add an example here.”
It updates and I keep going.
Step 3: repeat the whole deck. I went through the entire deck about 10 times in two hours. That was never possible before. When every pass used to mean an evening of nudging layouts, you stopped at version two.
What changed from Claude Design to “Claude Slides”
When I built this deck I used Claude Design. Anthropic now gives presentations their own tool, Claude Slides, and its help center says decks can be exported to PowerPoint or PDF (Claude Help Center). Anthropic also has an official tutorial on using Claude Design for presentations and slide decks.
The workflow above is the same either way: get a fast first draft, then spend your time on feedback instead of formatting.
It’s not a free lunch
I was still working on that deck at 3am, slept a couple of hours, then went to the training center. AI moves so fast that I’m rewriting the class almost every time.
AI didn’t remove the work. The hours now go into making the ideas better instead of lining up text boxes. That’s a much better use of the time, but it’s still time.
Try it this week
If you still build decks by hand, try one with Claude this week and give your feedback out loud instead of editing.
If your team spends hours a week on decks and reports, that’s exactly the kind of work I help companies rethink in my AI corporate training in Hong Kong. And if you want the system I use to decide which work deserves AI in the first place, it’s in my book, The 38X AI Company.
