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Product Update April 2026
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Hey, I'm Anders from SlideHub, here to give you the April product update. We have a fairly brief update this month with a lot of focus on AI and the ability to generate slides and now also presentations. For the Text-to-Slides, we now also have the ability to generate presentations through the same experience. In the following, I'll just show you how that all works. Alright, so I am on an account that has access to Text-to-Slide. The slide has PowerPoint added, so I'll just illustrate how you can now also generate presentations. Let's generate a presentation about our services. What this system will do is that it will analyze your prompt and try to understand the intended purpose, but what it will also do is that it will look at the existing slides and the presentations in the platform and try to judge whether some of those might actually serve the purpose. Since we, for natural reasons, have a lot of presentations on this topic, it will suggest some of those. But I will continue to generate this to be new. You can see it picked up that we are trying to create a presentation. It then asks where should I find content for the presentation, and I can use both Web Search and Library Search. I'll just use Library here. Then it asks me for the style. I'll take this high detail style layout, and I will go with one to five topics. The feature also allows you to review the outline, so I can click that, and then I'll see the outline before I proceed with the full presentation. Okay, service portfolio layout, this one, this one, sure, let's do some about this, that's fine. And so that these ones looks good. Okay, cool. I'll have it start. And then first, it basically outlines more details of the presentation, and then it starts building each of the slides in parallel. You can see some of them already finalized, others are being drafted. If I want, I can click on background, I can like while it works, I don't need to sit and wait for it as such. I can parallelize my work, but then I can come back later if I like. Then it's basically combining all the slides into a single presentation. And then when it's done, it should open up in a new view like this. I can then see the agenda, reflects the topics I chose before, and basically goes into each of them. I have used information from our library, it has used the icons that we use, try to pick different layouts that matches the content. And it has our thank you page at the end here. So that's the AI presentation feature. So just to wrap up the text-to-presentation AI feature, the idea is that it checks for existing presentations, it uses existing material knowledge bases, it allows you to pre-define the structure, and then it uses the fact that you can generate multiple slides in parallel to give you a faster experience. Another thing we have done this month is that we have much improved our API offering, especially to support the presentation generation aspect. So if you now go to the SlideHub documentation for the API, you'll see a new or an updated section within the Generate Presentation. And two of the things we have done specifically is that we now allow users to sort of specifically specify that a given slide should be... I really respect the payload really closely. That's what this should preserve does. So it allows the caller of the API to be very specific of what data goes into a slide. The other one is the Prioritize Existing. This is a way to tell the AI that for a given slide, you want to do everything possible to find an existing slide in the library on a given topic. So in this way, you get a lot more flexibility in the way you use the API to generate presentations. Okay. As part of all this text-to-slide and AI generation, we have done a lot of improvements to the underlying quality of the text-to-slide. Some of the things that's worth highlighting is that we spend quite a lot of time on improving the AI's ability to select and adjust layouts. We improved the title quality. We gave managers on the accounts more flexibility in terms of giving full access to all users on a given account. We also allow managers to disable certain parts of their company images or company icons. For example, if you don't want your headshots of all your people to be used by the AI or be misused somehow, you can turn those off. You're also now able to share the resulting AI-generated material with other users of Slido. And then we spend a lot of time improving the length and the consistency of the text that gets generated. So if you haven't used it in a while, try to give it a go and see whether you can also notice some of these improvements. Then, last but not least, my colleague Luke have put together a small video that gives you some tips and tricks for how to best use the text-to-slide feature with prompting suggestions and workflows and so on. Hey, this is Luke. I'm a customer success manager here at SlideHub. And today I'm going to give a short demonstration on how to use our AI text-to-slide feature and a couple of tips to get the best results out of it. So today we're of course in PowerPoint. This is where we start. And we're currently operating in a test environment, which is a dummy company called Acme Logistics, a supply chain and logistics company. And this is how it would look exactly the same for you in your account if you want to navigate to the AI text-to-slide feature. And the first thing that opens up when we press on text-to-slide is the prompt window. This is where we put in the information for the slide or slides that we want produced. And if I just kind of paste in what I had made previously as a user, I want a slide created on customer acquisition strategy. So I could stop here, right? I could just have create a slide on customer acquisition strategy and ask it to, leverage the information it finds in the library to create that. But best practice would be to have a finished input. Like in this case, I have bullet points summarized of what the customer acquisition strategy slide should have. What I want AI to do is to fit it to some layouts so that that design aspect of this process is off my table. But the content is stuff that I want specifically in the slide. So I would always recommend having robust content in there rather than something that's a bit more abstract, like just create a slide on X. If we click on the style button in the bottom left, we can choose which layouts will be leveraged in the creation. And in this case, we have just Acme Logistics company slides, company layout selected. But you can also use SlideHub's inspiration slides. We're going to keep it as just company slides because we want this to be on brand as much as possible, of course. In this case, icon styles are normal and, you know, these are just other stylistic attributes, essentially. So I can confirm style. And yeah, a final point on the input is that, you know, don't let the AI guess what should be on the slide if you already know what you want. So use this prompt box to input your finished content. I press continue. It analyzes the content that makes some recommendations based on the input, like firstly, target output. Should this information be on a single slide or on a full presentation or do I want to choose how many slides it should be on, like spread across? In this case, I think it should be on a single slide. And it's also recognized that it should be preserving the content rather than generating anything new. But you can make that choice at this stage. I press confirm and continue. Now it checks the compliant library of layouts for this company and recommends me bullet point layouts for four bullet points. And I can generate as many of these as I want, right? I'm not limited by just one output each time. And in this case, I can pick and choose some alternatives. But I also have agency as a human being. So I can also go against what the AI has said. And I could move from bullet points to flow and process, for example. Right. And I can see what my input would look like on these also. So we have four layouts selected. I can generate them and I can also just run this in the background. I know we're on an empty file right now, but I could continue working on my presentation. If there were slides in here and it just generates them in the background. We see these slides coming in on the left. They just populate into the deck as they're being produced. And if I can familiarize you with what's happened, the speaker notes contains the prompt. And I can cross check this against what is created on the slide. And then in the top right, there's this red box here, which just tells me it notifies me where any change is. Made on the input. In this case, there are no significant content changes. I can delete that and I can look at what was produced. It leverages the CVI based approved layout. The title in the correct company colors. It's using icons in the right places, titles and so on and so forth. And I can look at the alternatives as well. And essentially as a user, I mean, now it's just a design choice for me. Which one do I do I want? So I can remove alternatives. So yeah, that's the AI text to slide feature. The most important takeaway is writing a clear content based prompt. You can then choose your layout source, generate a few options and let your SlideHub library essentially handle the design and handle the tedious work. So yeah, thanks for watching and have a nice day. That's all for now. I hope you find this helpful and I look forward to giving you an update or another product update next month. Take care. Bye bye. Bye bye.