A slide deck maker AI assistants build in — you ask, DeckSlide builds

Connect once, with no API key

Setup is one address and one approval. In Settings → Connections you copy your MCP address and paste it into your assistant as a custom connector; DeckSlide registers the client itself the first time it connects, which is why there is no API key to create and no secret to paste anywhere. A browser window then shows you the approval screen: which account the connection will act as, exactly what it will be able to do, and which host the access is being sent to. That last line is the one that matters — an app can call itself anything, so check the host says what you started the connection from. Every client you approve is listed back in Settings with a Disconnect button that takes effect on the next request.

What the assistant actually builds

It gets a small, validated toolset rather than raw access to your account, and that toolset covers most of what a deck is: slides and layers, the words on them, images, real charts drawn from numbers you give it, audio, and even live audience polls and quizzes ready to launch mid-talk. Before it generates anything it can list the media you already own and place it by id, which is free and keeps you on brand; it can also import a picture, clip or track from a link you paste, or take a file straight off your machine through a one-time upload address. Each request lands as a single all-or-nothing batch under the same lock the studio uses, so you never end up looking at half of an idea. If you would rather stay in the editor, the same assistant lives there as a chat panel and you watch the deck being written slide by slide.

It animates for real — keyframes, not a crossfade

This is where most “AI animation” quietly means a fade. Ask for motion here and the assistant writes real keyframes: “bring the logo in from the left, grow it as it travels, and park it top right” becomes keys on the timeline, with a curved motion path if you want one and orient-to-path so an arrow points where it is going. It can morph one shape into another mid-flight, fade a layer out through a gradient mask, and use a headline’s own letters as the window a photo shows through. Titles get the poster treatments too — extruded depth, block shadow, outline, picture-filled letters. All of it lands as editable animation: you open the studio, drag the path, nudge a key, change the easing. The one thing it cannot do is bring in an SVG file of your own as a layer — import that yourself and it will animate it from there.

Free to build, and the deck stays here

Reading, creating and editing decks costs nothing. Using media you already have costs nothing, and so does importing from a link or uploading a file. Exactly one thing spends money: asking the AI to generate media — an image, a clip, spoken narration — which draws on your workspace token balance at studio rates, and the assistant can read that balance and tell you what something will cost before it starts. Then the part to know before you invest an afternoon: the deck never leaves. There is no PowerPoint, PDF or video export and no download. A shareable deck link does exist once you publish. What you get is a presentation you deliver live, with the audience joining by an eight-character code or a QR scan, no account and nothing to install. If you needed a file to email, this is the wrong tool and we would rather say so now.