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Automate PowerPoint Creation with AI

Transform your notes into polished presentations or update existing decks through natural conversation.

Fergana Labs Team

Automate PowerPoint Creation with AI

Creating presentations is one of the most time-consuming tasks in knowledge work. With Stash Desktop, you can transform rough notes into polished PowerPoint decks through simple conversation.

The Pain of Manual Updates

We've all been there: your quarterly board meeting is tomorrow, and you need to update 15 slides with the latest numbers. Each slide requires:

  • Opening Excel to copy the new data
  • Pasting into PowerPoint
  • Reformatting because it never pastes correctly
  • Realigning all the graphics
  • Repeating for every single slide

What should take 10 minutes becomes 2 hours of tedious, error-prone work. One wrong number, and you're explaining a discrepancy in front of the board.

How It Works

Stash Desktop eliminates this pain entirely. Simply tell Stash what you want:

  • "Create a pitch deck from my meeting notes"
  • "Update the Q4 results slide with the latest data from the spreadsheet"
  • "Add a competitive analysis section to the strategy deck"

Stash understands context from your existing files, maintains your brand guidelines, and can even pull in data from spreadsheets or research documents.

Start with Your Existing Deck

The best part? You don't need to start from scratch. Stash works with your existing presentations:

Example 1: Updating an Existing Deck "Take my Q3 board deck and update all the financial slides with Q4 numbers from the latest spreadsheet. Keep everything else the same."

Example 2: Using a Template "Create a customer case study presentation using our standard template. Pull the metrics from the success_metrics.xlsx file and the testimonials from customer_feedback.docx"

Example 3: Monthly Recurring Updates "Update the monthly performance deck with this week's data. You know the format - same as last month but with fresh numbers."

Stash learns your organization's templates and can replicate them perfectly, saving hours of formatting work.

Real-World Example

The Old Way: Your CFO asks for updated financials in the board deck. You spend 2-3 hours:

  1. Opening the Excel file
  2. Finding the right data ranges
  3. Copying to PowerPoint (oh no, the formatting broke)
  4. Fixing alignment and fonts
  5. Realizing you copied the wrong quarter
  6. Starting over

The Stash Way: "Stash, update the board deck with Q4 financials from finance_2024.xlsx. Update slides 7-12."

Result: Draft deck ready in 2 minutes. You review for accuracy and you're done.

Key Features

  • Template Awareness: Stash learns your organization's presentation style and replicates it perfectly
  • Smart Updates: Updates existing decks while preserving formatting and layout
  • Data Integration: Pulls numbers directly from Excel, Google Sheets, or CSVs - no copy-paste errors
  • Bulk Updates: "Update all revenue slides across these 5 different decks with the latest numbers"
  • Version Control: Maintains history of all changes so you can always roll back

Getting Started

  1. Download Stash Desktop
  2. Connect to your Google Drive or OneDrive
  3. Start a conversation: "Help me update my presentation with..."

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