Presentation maker AI assistants can drive — ask in chat, present live

One address, one approval, no API key

You copy one address from Settings → Connections and paste it into your assistant as a custom connector. There is nothing to install and no API key to create — DeckSlide registers your client itself the first time it connects, so any field asking for a client secret is left empty. What follows is the part worth reading rather than clicking through: an approval screen naming the account the connection will act as, precisely what it will be able to do, and the host the access is going to. If that host is not the assistant you started from, press Cancel. Afterwards every connected client sits in Settings with its last-used time and a Disconnect button that bites immediately.

Real keyframes, not a tasteful fade

A lot of tools sell “AI animated presentations” and deliver a crossfade. Ask this one for motion and it writes actual keyframes: position, size and rotation over time, along a path you can curve, with the layer turning to face its direction of travel if that is what the shot needs. It will morph one shape into another as it moves, fade a layer through a gradient mask, and use the letters of a headline as the window a picture shows through — the poster trick people usually buy a motion designer for. Titles can take extruded depth, an outline or a block shadow in the same breath. And none of it is a black box: it is the studio’s own timeline, so you open the deck and drag the path, retime a key or change the easing yourself. The assistant cannot bring in an SVG file of your own as a layer; import that and it will animate it from there.

What it costs, precisely

Building, reading and editing decks is free, and so is everything to do with media you already own: listing your library, placing a picture or a track, importing one from a link, uploading a file from your machine. The single thing that costs is generated media — an image, a video clip or spoken narration made by AI — which spends your workspace’s token balance at the same rates as generating from the studio. The assistant can read that balance first and tell you what a request will cost, and “use my own images, generate nothing” is a constraint it will hold to. On the other side of the connection, your Claude or ChatGPT plan is billed by them under whatever you already pay.

The deck cannot leave — it is delivered live

One thing to know before you build your quarterly review here: nothing comes out as a file. No PowerPoint, no PDF, no MP4, no download, and no public link to the deck. The way a second person sees it is by joining your live session — they type an eight-character code or scan a QR, pick a display name and they are in, with no account and nothing installed. What they see is frozen at go-live, so a nervous edit mid-talk cannot change the slide under them. For an investor pitch or an all-hands that is a better shape than a file. For a leave-behind document it is the wrong tool, and we would rather you knew that on this page than after the work.