--- title: "How to Automate Presentation Work with AI" description: "Detailed instructions on how to spend 20 minutes instead of hours creating presentations." slug: how-to-automate-presentation-work-with-ai publishDate: 2025-01-26 author: Igor Dobzhanskiy tags: [Instructions, Life Hack, AI Tools] --- Over my career, I've built a ton of presentations — for IT companies, real estate developers, startup pitch decks, you name it. And when you're making a presentation like that, you have to consider a million things: branding, tone of voice, and a lot more. But if you want a real wow-effect and you want the meaning to land properly, it takes time. So what if you don't have time? If you're the only designer on the product, you'll run into that classic problem: you need to design, explain things to devs, analyze metrics, and, and, and… So when exactly are you supposed to do the presentation? And honestly, if we're talking about startups — a pitch deck can be more important than the product itself. Some founders get that. Some… not really. So how do you balance a wow presentation with the desire to still get everything done? **The answer is actually super simple — AI.** I tested a loooot of AI tools that were supposedly made for building presentations, but all of them produced something boring — like "default PowerPoint 2007". That's when I realized: it's easier to adapt the tools I already know to my needs. So I tested it and… eureka! With just one prompt and 20 minutes, I got a super-animated, detailed, and branded presentation. And it's only a few steps. ## Step 1: Prepare Your Materials First things first: if you already have the content (text, numbers, images, etc.), consider your presentation 90% done. And to lay everything out, you can use the tools everyone already knows: Claude and Lovable (for more complex presentations, I'd also bring in Cursor). But wait — isn't that basically the same toolset we use for building websites? Yep. Because it's honestly easier to build a presentation website than to draw the whole thing from scratch in Figma. Welcome to 2026… So step one: send Claude everything you have: - Presentation text — even if it's not grouped into slides. In that case, just ask Claude to structure it logically into a slide flow. **Quick lifehack:** if you don't have text but you know what you want to talk about — just voice-record it to ChatGPT or Gemini and ask it to generate a transcript file. Then you use that transcript as your "presentation text", and ask Claude to clean it up and structure it into a presentation format. - Photos or mockups that should be on slides — and also explain what each image relates to, like: "mockup 1 is for the onboarding slide". - Colors / fonts / tone of voice of the company you're making the presentation for (if you have them) — you can even send screenshots from the brandbook. No need to rewrite every variable or style. - Style references you like — from your past decks or just from Pinterest. That's it. Then you just write: > "Based on the information provided, create a super-detailed prompt in .md format for Lovable to develop a presentation according to the description." You can see the full prompt for the "build a presentation based on this article" case right here. And after a couple of minutes, we get our prompt in the required format, save it, and head to Lovable. ## Step 2: Build with Lovable With Lovable it's even easier — you just need to send: - The generated prompt in .md format. - All images/mockups that should be in the presentation — and I highly recommend describing them for Lovable as well (like: "mockup #1 is for the onboarding slide", etc.). - And optionally, the references you attached — but make sure to also mention it in your message (like: "Attached 6–8 UI reference images"). Then you give Lovable this prompt: > "Based on this information, build me a presentation website with the ability to switch slides. Follow the instructions I have attached in detail." **Important:** Lovable can accept up to 10 files. So if you have more, write this at the very top: > "Don't start development until I send you all the materials and write the command to start." This way you can feed everything in separate messages, and only then start the build. This is what my prompt looks like. ## Step 3: Review and Approve If you have Planning mode enabled (which I recommend, especially for more complex projects), you can review how it understood your task and, if needed, make adjustments — and once you approve it, it'll start working. Planning mode lets you review how Lovable understood your task before building. ## The Result And here's the result — built from just a couple of references and text that wasn't even grouped into slides. The final presentation — animated, branded, and ready to impress. You can click through the final result here — [Lovable App](https://slide-show-magic-31.lovable.app). But I have to mention: I did this super fast — no prepared text, no proper examples — and still, the result was fire in just a couple of minutes. ## Final Tips That's it. If you do everything right, Lovable will give you a solid version of your presentation on the first try. And if something needs tweaking — you can always ask Lovable to adjust it. After that, you can publish your presentation on the Lovable-generated domain and use it anywhere. Or you can export it to Figma via the [html.to.design plugin](https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1159123024924461424/html-to-design-by-divriots-import-websites-to-figma-designs-web-html-css) (if you really need it) — but you'll lose the animations. Or you can use [Codia AI Design: Screenshot to Editable Figma Design](https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1329812760871373657/codia-ai-design-screenshot-to-editable-figma-design) — there you can literally just drop a screenshot, and it turns it into a fully editable layout. Want more lifehacks and links to useful resources? Subscribe to my [Telegram channel](https://t.me/dobzha_pro_design)!