How Slaide works: from a brief to a finished document

Start a new document and write what you need in the message box, the way you would brief a colleague. Name the kind of document, who it is for and what should happen after they have seen it: a sales review for the management board, a one-page offer for a client, a report for an advisory board. Add the length if it matters, the figures that must appear and the tone.

Files are optional. When the document should use your own material, attach it to the request: a PDF report, a Word draft, a spreadsheet, an existing PowerPoint, images or text files. Slaide reads them as context. If your brief contains links, Slaide reads those pages before it plans. If you name your website and ask for its look, Slaide reads colours, fonts and the logo from it.

Figures that Slaide cannot know, such as your revenue or your prices, belong in the brief or in a file. Slaide can search the web for public facts, but it does not guess internal numbers.

The questions appear one after another in the middle of the editor, with your brief above them. Every question comes with a few answers to choose from, and some answers carry a short note on what they would change, for example “one slide per topic, the decisions at the end”. Where several answers can apply, you tick all that fit. “Something else” lets you type your own answer, and Back takes you to the previous question.

If you would rather not answer, “I'll take it from here” lets Slaide answer the remaining questions itself with sensible assumptions. Planning can also be switched off in the start composer before you send the brief. It only runs for the first request of a document.

Under “Here's how I'd build it” you see your decisions from the questions, one card per page with its title and content, and what Slaide assumed where you gave no answer. The format switch above the plan sets the page format, for example 16:9 slides or A4 pages, before the build starts.

You can change the plan in three ways: edit a card directly, open the whole plan as text with “As text”, or use “Tweak it” and say in one sentence what should be different. “Let's go” approves the plan and starts the build.

On the free plan the plan still covers the whole document, up to 12 pages, and Slaide builds the first 3 of them. You see which pages are included before you approve.

Slaide writes and designs one page after another. Each finished page appears in the page strip on the left and in the editor, so you can already read the first slides while the later ones are still being written. The assistant panel lists what is happening, such as “Writing page 5” or “Checking the render of page 3”.

The check is a real one: Slaide renders the page and looks for overflowing or clipped text, broken or blank images and weak contrast, fixes what it finds and checks again. At the end it reviews all pages together. When your request needs current public facts, you also see the web research as a step with the number of sources.

You do not have to wait. The message box stays open and queues your next request, which then runs automatically. The stop button ends the run.

When the build is done, the assistant panel shows “Done” with the number of steps and offers Present, Copy link and, for presentations, the PowerPoint download. The document stays in your library.

From here you edit in two ways. Click any object on a page to change it directly, or ask for a change in the message box, such as “Slide 3: add a footnote that explains the win rate”. Before every AI change Slaide saves the previous state, so you can go back in the Versions tab.

Export sits at the top right. Presentations export as PowerPoint with editable text, shapes and images, page documents such as reports export as Word with real headings, lists and tables, and every document exports as PDF, PNG or JPG.

The brief asked for a Q3 sales review for the management board of a measurement technology maker: revenue against Q2 and plan, the three strongest products, the lost deals with reasons and a plan to reach the Q4 target. The three questions settled the length (about 15 minutes, 8 slides), the message (where we stand and which approvals we need) and what the Q4 plan should show (an owner for each action, milestones by month and the revenue target).

From these answers Slaide planned the eight slides below. After the build, three short requests changed single slides: a footnote that explains the win rate on slide 3, the Q4 target as a large number on slide 7 and an accent colour in the title on slide 1. Each of them created a version in the Versions tab.

The format is proposed in the plan and can be changed there before the build: A4, 16:9 slides, a custom size or an Excel model. Documents with pages can always be downloaded as PDF, PNG or JPG as well.