Build a PowerPoint with Claude

You do not need a blank PowerPoint open to start a PowerPoint. The Deck Builder is one prompt you paste into Claude with your topic, and it hands back a full slide-by-slide plan you copy straight into PowerPoint or Google Slides. It writes the words for every slide so the empty deck is filled before you open it, because the writing is the bit that eats your afternoon, not the clicking.

Claude can write a full slide-by-slide deck with titles, bullets, and speaker notes that you paste into PowerPoint or Google Slides, but it does not design the visuals.

The four things to tell it so the deck comes out usable

1. Your topic, your audience, and how long the talk is. "A 10-minute update on Q3 sales for my regional team", not just "sales". Claude sizes the deck and picks the level from this, because a board wants numbers and a new starter wants the basics, and it cannot guess which room you are in.
2. How many slides you want. Give it a number, like 8 or 12, or a time and let it work out the count (roughly one slide a minute). Pin it down because left open Claude will write you 25 slides you then have to cut by hand.
3. One idea per slide. Ask for a single point per slide with three or four short bullets under it. One idea a slide because a slide crammed with everything is the fastest way to lose a room, and the split forces you to actually structure the talk.
4. Speaker notes for every slide. Ask for a few sentences of what you would say out loud, kept separate from the bullets. This matters because bullets are the reminder and the notes are the talk, so you read the notes and the audience reads the slide, instead of you reading the slide to them.

The Deck Builder prompt

Paste this into Claude, fill in the four bracketed parts, and send it. It gives back the whole deck as plain text you can copy slide by slide into PowerPoint or Google Slides. Paste it into a chat to use once, or save it as a skill in Claude, a file that does the same job the same way every time, so it loads whenever you need a deck.

You are helping me build a slide deck. Write the full deck as a slide-by-slide outline I can copy straight into PowerPoint or Google Slides. Do not design anything visual and do not produce a file. Write the words for every slide only.

Here is what the deck is for:
- Topic: [WHAT THE DECK IS ABOUT, IN ONE LINE]
- Audience: [WHO IS IN THE ROOM AND HOW MUCH THEY ALREADY KNOW]
- Length: [HOW MANY SLIDES, OR HOW MANY MINUTES THE TALK IS]
- Tone: [PLAIN AND FRIENDLY, FORMAL, PERSUASIVE, WHATEVER FITS THE ROOM]

Build the deck like this:
1. Start with a title slide, then an agenda slide, then the body slides, then a short closing slide with the one thing I want them to remember or do next.
2. One idea per slide. Give each slide a short, clear title of six words or fewer.
3. Under each slide title, write three or four bullet points. Keep each bullet to one line, no full sentences, no sub-bullets.
4. Under each slide, add a "Speaker notes" section: two to four sentences of what I would actually say out loud on that slide. This is the talk; the bullets are just the reminder.
5. Keep the language plain. No jargon, no filler, nothing I would not say to a person's face.

Rules:
- Never invent a number, a name, a quote, or a statistic. If a slide needs a figure I have not given you, write "[figure needed]" in the bullet instead of guessing.
- If anything about the topic or audience is unclear, ask me before you write the deck, not after.

Lay out every slide in this exact shape so I can copy it cleanly:

Slide [number]: [Slide title]
- [bullet]
- [bullet]
- [bullet]
Speaker notes: [what I say out loud on this slide]

Where the line is

Set it up once

Copy the prompt, fill in the four brackets, and run it on the deck you actually have to make this week. Ten minutes and you have every slide written, notes and all, ready to paste into PowerPoint. Save it as a skill and you never write a blank deck again.

If you want to see it fill a deck in under a minute first, the reel and carousel for this show it start to finish. Comment DECK on the post and I will send you this exact prompt.

FAQ

Can Claude make a PowerPoint?

Claude writes the whole deck as text, one slide at a time, with titles, bullet points, and speaker notes you paste into PowerPoint or Google Slides. It does not design the slides or export a file, so the layout stays your job.