Five slides. Ten minutes. One AI prompt.

Welcome to Prompt, Tinker, Innovate—my AI playground. Each week, I test a practical AI use case and turn it into a hands-on experiment you can try at work. This isn’t about theory. It’s about faster output, less friction, and clear wins.

This week’s playground: Skip the blank-slide panic

Why this matters

Slide decks burn hours, and most of that time goes into figuring out the story.

While AI won’t design the slides for you, it will give you the core content, structure, and language so you’re never starting from scratch. Instead of digging through old decks or staring at a blinking cursor, you get slide titles, speaker notes, visual ideas, and a clear arc from problem to solution.

Use case spotlight: Turning messy input into a deck

People are dropping meeting notes, brainstorms, or research dumps into AI—and walking away with a five-slide story that’s actually coherent. It’s not just about saving time. It’s about finding the signal faster.

Real use cases I’ve seen:

• Product leads prepping QBR updates

• Marketing teams turning launch plans into internal pitches

• Managers drafting skip-level recaps

• Execs sketching ideas before handing them to design

The result: fewer hours in PowerPoint purgatory and better decks, faster.

Your AI experiment: Try this prompt

👉 Time to tinker: Paste the prompt below (editing as appropriate for your content) into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini—along with your messy source material. That might be notes, quotes, reports, screenshots, or scribbled brainstorms.

📝 Prompt: “Here’s the raw content for [topic]: [attach or paste notes, data, quotes, and reports delimited by *** or your favorite delimiter]

Structure a five-slide presentation:

• Slide 1 – Hook (one-sentence problem statement)

• Slide 2 – Why it matters (three data points)

• Slide 3 – Proposed solution (diagram described in words)

• Slide 4 – Next steps (bullet list with owners & dates)

• Slide 5 – One metric we’ll watch and the target number

For each slide, give:

1. A punchy title (max 6 words)

2. 30-word speaker notes in plain English

3. A suggestion for a simple visual I can build fast (e.g., bar chart, timeline, sketch).

End with a five-word closing line that sticks in memory.”

💡 Pro tip: Want to push it further? Try these follow-ups:

• “Critique the story arc across slides.”

• “Rewrite for a skeptical CFO.”

• “Suggest 3 clarifying questions I should ask my team.”

• “Turn this into a one-pager instead.”

What did you discover?

Did the structure land? Did the visuals help or get in the way? Reply and share the deck you built—or just the killer closing line it gave you. I might feature it next time.