This is Part 2 of a short series on moving from AI chat to AI that works for you, using presentation slides as the running example.
In Part 1, we discussed how to extract what makes you you into a base editorial file, so your AI knows how you like to say things.
Once AI know how you say things, the next challenge is teaching it how to present like you.
Sure, ChatGPT or Claude can make something clean but clean is not the same as you.
Usually, to get it to look and feel like something you would have done manually, you iterate through prompts:
Use these colours and fonts.
Keep it minimal.
Put the title in the lower third, not in the centre.
That works, but you have to do it every time.
If you have existing presentations, carousels, pitch decks, or even just a few slides you like, those examples give you a much better place to start.
Upload them, and ask the agent to study them.
Most people skip this and jump straight into:
Use this as reference.
Instead, start with:
Extract the branding and generate guidelines from these sample slides.
And once more, review and adjust the output.
The final guidelines should answer questions like:
What colours are used, where, and for what?
How much text should a slide have?
What do slide titles look like?
Which layouts keep coming back?
What should the presentation avoid?
Once you have a complete set of rules, ask it to create a reference-template artifact.
One cover slide. One comparison slide. One takeaway slide. One closing slide.
And once that template is approved, still by you, you then have a design system your AI friend can start from for every future presentation.