Presentation Playbooks

Alfrada OS has more than one way to make a deck, and picking the right one up front is the difference between a clean result and a rebuilt one. Start here.

Which Deck Tool?

You want…	Ask for
A brand-new deck Alfrada OS builds from your notes and files	HTML Dashboard slide deck — live in the Dashboards panel, downloads as editable PowerPoint
Changes to a deck Alfrada OS made earlier in this chat	Just ask — it edits the same deck and re-exports the .pptx
A new deck in your template's colours, fonts and logo, with fresh layouts	HTML Dashboard with your saved template as the brand — see Brand A New Deck below
Surgical edits to a .pptx you uploaded, keeping its design and animations	PPTX Patch — see Patch An Uploaded Deck below
The classic slide-template decks	Presentation Create / Presentation Edit — ask for them by name
An editable Canva design — brand templates, social sizes, export-ready assets	Canva — see the Canva Playbooks
A deck that must live in Google Workspace, shared and commentable in Drive	Google Slides — Alfrada OS turns markdown straight into a themed Slides deck
Data that should stay live and explorable instead of frozen on slides	HTML Dashboard — see the Dashboards playbook

The split people get wrong most often: a deck Alfrada OS built is revised by asking for the change — it edits the slides and sends a fresh .pptx. If you uploaded the file, ask for PPTX Patch — it edits the slides you name and leaves the rest of the design untouched.

New decks are 1280×720 slides built from ten layouts (title, section, content, split, cards, KPIs, chart, table, quote, steps). Review them in the Dashboards panel, then download PPTX or PDF there — or ask for "the PowerPoint" and the link comes back in the reply. Text and shapes stay editable in PowerPoint; charts and images arrive as pictures.

Board Deck Draft

• Good for: high-level business reviews
• Best setup: upload your source notes and spreadsheets; Alfrada OS builds the deck in the Dashboards panel
• Example prompt:

Board deck

Create a 10-slide board deck from the attached materials. Keep the story executive-level, lead with the key decisions, and make each slide title a takeaway instead of a topic.

Sales Narrative Deck

• Good for: positioning and pitch refinement
• Best setup: product notes, customer context, and deck generation
• Example prompt:

Sales narrative

Turn these product notes into a persuasive sales deck for [buyer type]. Focus on pain, differentiators, proof points, and the call to action. Keep the tone sharp and modern, not corporate filler.

Investor Update

• Good for: monthly or quarterly investor communication
• Best setup: metrics, milestones, and short executive tone
• Example prompt:

Investor update

Create an investor update deck from these notes and KPIs. Include wins, misses, momentum signals, and the next 90-day priorities. Keep it honest, concise, and easy to scan.

Report To Slides

• Good for: translating long-form material into presentation form
• Best setup: upload the source report first
• Example prompt:

Report to slides

Read the attached report and convert it into an 8-slide presentation. Preserve the strongest evidence, cut repetition, and end with a slide that turns the analysis into recommended actions.

Brand A New Deck From Your Template

• Good for: a new story that doesn't fit your template's slide layouts, but must still look like your company
• Best setup: save the template under Settings → Templates (or upload it), name it, and say new layouts are fine
• What carries over: the template's theme colours, heading and body fonts, and logo. The template's own masters and layouts don't. To fill those, use Patch An Uploaded Deck instead
• Example prompt:

Template brand, new layouts

Make a new 8-slide product launch deck using the colours, fonts and logo from my saved template brand-deck.pptx. New layouts are fine. Send me the PowerPoint.

Patch An Uploaded Deck (Keep The Design)

• Good for: surgical edits to a finished .pptx you already have
• Best setup: upload the existing deck first; name the exact slide(s) and what must NOT change
• What a patch can do without rebuilding: replace text (including multi-line titles), edit table cells, recolor fills and outlines (status chips), update native bar/column/line/pie chart data and titles, swap a logo or a template hero photo, add a picture into a slot, move or hide a shape, duplicate / delete / reorder slides, update speaker notes, and set the file's author so it does not ship as the template vendor
• What it cannot do: invent brand-new animation sequences (existing ones stay), swap a linked (non-embedded) image, rewrite XY / scatter / bubble charts, or edit a deck Alfrada OS built in this chat — ask for the change instead and it re-exports that deck
• Example prompts:

Design-preserving edit

I uploaded board-deck.pptx. Replace the cover image with the new logo and fix the title on slide 2, but keep the original design and don't change any other slide. Preserve the existing animations.

Update chart data in place

In q2-review.pptx, replace the revenue chart on slide 4 with these categories and series, keep the chart style and every other slide, and tell me if any label overflows.

Fill a template deck

The attached deck is our client template. Fill every placeholder for [client] — names, dates, pricing, and the hero photo — keep the master and typography, and list anything you could not fill.

Markdown To Google Slides

• Good for: decks that need to live in Google Workspace — shared in Drive, open to comments, presented from Slides
• Best setup: connect My GSlides first under Settings → Tools & Data → Data Sources; then hand Alfrada OS an outline, or let it draft one
• Example prompt:

Outline to Slides

Turn this outline into a Google Slides deck in my Drive with a clean dark theme.

Alfrada OS writes the deck as structured markdown and converts it straight into a themed Slides presentation in your Drive — no copy-paste step, and the result is a normal Google Slides file your team can edit.

Image Sourcing For Decks

• Good for: landing the hero image before the deck is built, instead of settling for a placeholder
• Best setup: name the subject and the style, and ask for options rather than a single image
• Example prompt:

Slide imagery options

Find three candidate hero images for slide 1 — search Google Images and Pexels Stock for [subject], or generate one with Image Lab in [style] — and show me the options.

Web results come with their sources, Pexels Stock images are royalty-free, and Image Lab generates something original when nothing found fits. Pick your favourite and Alfrada OS places it in the deck.

Narrated Deck

• Good for: decks that present themselves — async reviews, sales follow-ups, onboarding material nobody walks through live
• Best setup: build the deck first, then ask for narration; pick a voice (Alfred or Ada) and a delivery style
• Example prompt:

Deck with voice-over

Create an 8-slide onboarding deck from these notes, then narrate it slide by slide in Ada's voice — thoughtful and confident, a few sentences per slide.

Alfrada OS builds the deck, then voices the narration with Speech. Each clip is short — up to about 150 words — so a per-slide or per-section script works best. The MP3s land in your session files next to the deck, and the Video Editor can reuse them if you'd rather ship one narrated video than a deck plus audio files.

Under the hood — the tools behind these workflows

• New decks: html_dashboard with the slide_deck template and export_format='pptx'; revisions edit the same deck and re-export · template brand: get_template with brand_template · design-preserving edits to uploaded files: pptx_patch (text, tables, category charts, pictures including template placeholders, slide order, visual check) · classic decks on request: presentation_create / presentation_edit
• Google Slides runs through the My GSlides integration (gslides_* tools); the markdown conversion is gslides_create_slides_markdown
• Image sourcing: google_images, pexels_media, image_lab
• Live-data deliverables: html_dashboard · narration: speech (two voices, six delivery styles)