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Need to make over a slide but don’t have access to the data in a graph? AI to the rescue. Upload a screen shot to an LLM and you get back pretty good estimates of the data values in the chart. It might not be scientifically 100% accurate, but good enough to recreate the graph in your own presentation software.
One of my big slide puzzles is usually a messy table of pros/cons of a product, or a competitive comparison. How to highlight the right dimensions. Make sure that one is not a sub point of another. Make sure that cells have short text in them. Make sure that text is roughly equally long in each cell.
GPT-5 is very good at this. Copy-paste the messy table into the interface, and the output is pretty useful. Something to integrate in SlideMagic at some stage.
Many confidential presentations often use disguised case examples of clients, potential investments, drugs in development. AI has become incredibly good at uncovering even the most vague ones. Before sending your deck, double-check them in an LLM to see what comes up…
Apologies for the click bait…
I have not been writing here for a while now as I am focusing on 9xc/9vc. But recently, as I am pushing further into the world of AI, all my pas experiences seems to be coming together: computer science, company analysis, presentation design, and hardcore biopharma science…So I might occasionally come back here.
The majority of “presentations” are documents that are used make decisions inside companies. They happen to have graphs and other visuals inside them, hence the word “presentation”. Most humans are not very skilled in writing a concise memo to make a point: hence bullet points in large font and visuals to the rescue.
AI could change that: boiling down these big slide decks to a few paragraphs with a decision that needs to be taken, pros/cons of alternatives, and the recommended way forward. No slides needed.