Preparing a talk means both distilling content from your material and making the narrative and visual style of each slide fit the audience. Once the first draft is done, specific slides usually still need adjusting based on feedback. This case study shows how to use PilotDeck to generate a presentation and then keep editing the original file: generate the deck from the topic and source material, then adjust slide content and visual details according to feedback.

1. Generating a Deck from Your Requirements

When to use it and what to prepare: suitable for tasks such as product introductions and technical talks, where a presentation has to be assembled from source material. The goal in this case is to introduce PilotDeck's technical philosophy at an academic sharing session, where the audience consists of teachers and students working in AI with a solid technical background. The task provides PilotDeck's GitHub address as the source material and specifies a blue tech style, concise wording, and suitable images and use cases.

How to do it:

1. Start by stating the topic, the occasion and the audience, so PilotDeck can settle on the depth of the content and the way it's presented.
2. Provide links to material it can consult, and specify the core content to cover, the visual style and the delivery format.
3. After the deck is generated, open the preview and go through it slide by slide to check whether the structure, text, images and charts all serve the main points.
4. For slides that need changes, make specific follow-up requests, then review how the revised deck presents.

Example instruction:

Please create a presentation introducing PilotDeck for an academic talk to teachers and students in the AI field. Product material can be found at https://github.com/OpenBMB/PilotDeck/tree/main. Organize the content around the product's technical philosophy, use a blue tech style with concise text, and include suitable images and use cases. Deliver an editable PPTX file.

The result: this case produced a 14-slide deck introducing PilotDeck's technology. Once the preview is open, you can check the content order and layout slide by slide, then continue editing specific slides.

2. Adjusting Slide Details in the Original File

How to do it: once the first draft is generated, locate the slide you want to change right in the preview and point out the specific object and the effect you want. In this case, the title of the summary slide on page 14 is selected and changed to yellow, after which the re-rendered slide is reviewed.

Example instruction:

Please change the title of the summary slide on page 14 to yellow, keep the rest of the content and layout on that slide, and check the preview after the change.

Process and results: this case shows the full process, from stating the requirements for the talk, generating the PPTX and opening the presentation preview, to selecting the title on the last slide and changing its color. The yellow title can then be seen in the preview, and you can keep reviewing the rest of the file.

3. Usage Tips

• Spell out the audience and the occasion: technical talks, product pitches and internal reports each call for a different depth of narrative.
• Provide trustworthy source material: supply the product homepage, repository or existing documents, and state which information should follow those sources.
• Be specific about visual requirements: the clearer you are about the primary color, text density and how images and cases should be used, the easier it is to get a suitable first draft.
• Review slide by slide before editing: for slides that need changes, point out the page number, the object and the intended effect; before using the deck for real, double-check the facts and readability when projected.