How to Create a Presentation with AI — Complete Guide [2026]

How to create a presentation with AI — where to start?

Putting together a good presentation is one of the most time-consuming tasks in the workplace, at university, and in school. Research shows that the average worker spends 3 to 8 hours creating a single presentation from scratch — from gathering materials, through writing content, to choosing colors, fonts, and slide layouts. Students face the same challenge: a thesis defense, a semester report, or a project presentation can easily consume an entire weekend.

The problem is that creating a presentation demands several different skills at once: subject-matter expertise, the ability to synthesize information, a feel for design, and proficiency with tools like PowerPoint or Google Slides. Very few people are strong in all these areas simultaneously. The result? Hours spent fighting a blank slide, random color choices, an inconsistent structure, and frustration.

In 2026, artificial intelligence is fundamentally changing this process. Large language models — such as GPT-4, Claude, and Gemini — can generate the structure, content, and even visual suggestions for a presentation in a matter of seconds. This is not a futuristic vision; it is an everyday tool used by millions of people worldwide. The question is no longer "should I use AI for presentations," but how to create a presentation with AI in a way that delivers truly great results.

In this article, I will show you exactly how to do it — from the manual method using ChatGPT, through a ready-to-use prompt template you can copy, to dedicated tools that automate the entire process. Whether you are a student, a corporate professional, or an entrepreneur, you will find practical, actionable advice here.

What is AI-powered presentation creation

AI-powered presentation creation is a process where artificial intelligence takes over part or all of the work involved in preparing slides. Instead of coming up with the structure yourself, writing the content, and designing the layout of each slide, you give AI a description of the topic and your expectations — and the algorithm generates the finished material.

In practice, AI can help at every stage of building a presentation:

• Planning the structure — AI analyzes the topic and suggests a logical breakdown into sections, determines the number of slides, and orders the content
• Generating content — headings, bullet points, descriptions, and even speaker notes are produced automatically
• Visual suggestions — color selection, element placement on the slide, and proposals for charts and data visualizations
• Adapting to the audience — AI can adjust the tone, language, and level of detail depending on whether you are presenting to executives, students, or clients
• Creating charts and visualizations — numerical data can be automatically transformed into clear charts

An important distinction: there are two main approaches to creating presentations with artificial intelligence. The first is the manual method — you use a general-purpose chatbot (e.g., ChatGPT) to generate content and then manually transfer it to PowerPoint. The second is the automated method — you use a dedicated generator that produces ready-made slides right away. Both approaches have their strengths and limitations, which we will cover later in this article.

Regardless of the method you choose, the key principle remains the same: AI is a tool, not a replacement for your knowledge. The best presentations are created when artificial intelligence handles the tedious work (structure, copywriting, design) while you bring subject-matter expertise, context, and personal experience.

When you need AI for presentations

Not every presentation requires AI assistance. If you have an entire week to prepare three slides and you know the topic inside out, doing it manually may be perfectly fine. But there are many situations where AI becomes an invaluable helper.

Time pressure. This is the most common reason people turn to artificial intelligence for presentations. A presentation due tomorrow, a last-minute request from your boss, a report that needs to be ready in an hour. In these situations, creating slides from scratch manually is simply unrealistic. AI lets you cut preparation time from several hours to just a few minutes.

Lack of design skills. Most people are not graphic designers. Choosing colors, fonts, and element layouts on a slide — these are skills nobody teaches us in school or at university. AI eliminates this problem by automatically generating aesthetically pleasing and visually consistent slides. You can learn more about choosing colors and fonts in our article on presentation colors and fonts.

High volume of presentations to prepare. Trainers, teachers, consultants, sales professionals — people who create presentations regularly can spend dozens of hours per month on them. AI automates the repetitive parts of the work so you can focus on what truly requires human thinking.

Creative block. A blank slide can be paralyzing. You do not know where to start, how to organize the content, or what structure to choose. AI breaks through this block — you generate an initial draft and then modify it. Editing existing material is psychologically much easier than creating from nothing.

Need for a professional look. A presentation for a client, a pitch for investors, a conference talk — in these situations the appearance of your slides has a real impact on how your message is received. AI generates presentations with a professional design that would be hard to achieve manually without graphic design experience.

How to create an AI presentation using ChatGPT

Let us start with a method that requires no additional tools — just access to ChatGPT (or any other general-purpose AI chatbot). This method is free and available to everyone, but it involves more manual work. Here is the exact step-by-step process.

Step 1: Define your topic and context

Before you open ChatGPT, write down answers to five key questions:

1. What is the topic of the presentation? — the more precise, the better the result (e.g., "content marketing strategies in e-commerce" instead of "marketing")
2. Who is the audience? — students, executives, clients, a teacher, investors?
3. What is the goal? — to inform, persuade, teach, or sell?
4. How much time do you have for the talk? — this determines the number of slides (rule of thumb: 1 to 2 minutes per slide)
5. What tone is appropriate? — formal, casual, academic, business?

These details will form the foundation of your prompt. The more context you provide to the AI, the more on-target the result will be.

Step 2: Ask for a slide structure

Open ChatGPT and write your first prompt. At this stage, do not ask for full content yet — start with the structure. Sample prompt:

"Prepare a structure for a presentation on [TOPIC]. The presentation is for [AUDIENCE], its goal is [GOAL]. The talk will last [X] minutes. Suggest a slide-by-slide breakdown — for each slide, provide a title and a brief description of what it should contain. Total of [Y] slides."

ChatGPT will suggest a list of slides with titles and descriptions. Review it critically: does the order make sense? Is anything missing? Is any slide unnecessary? At this stage it is easy to tweak the structure — simply write: "Swap slides 5 and 6" or "Add a slide about [topic]."

Step 3: Generate content for each slide

Once the structure is ready, ask ChatGPT to generate the content. You can do this in a single prompt for the whole deck or slide by slide (the latter approach yields better results but is slower). Example:

"Based on the structure above, generate content for each slide. For each slide provide: a heading (max 8 words), 4-5 bullet points (max 10 words each), and a short speaker note (2-3 sentences). Tone: [formal/casual]. Use specific data and examples."

Review the generated content. Check facts and statistics — AI can produce outdated or fabricated numbers. Fix passages that sound artificial or too generic. This is a critical moment: the quality of the final presentation largely depends on how much attention you devote to verifying the content.

Step 4: Transfer content to PowerPoint

Now comes the most tedious part. Open PowerPoint, Google Slides, or Keynote and manually transfer the content from ChatGPT onto slides. For each slide:

• Create a new slide with the appropriate layout (title + content, title + two columns, etc.)
• Paste the heading and bullet points from the generated text
• Add visuals where needed (charts, icons, images)
• Adjust fonts and colors to match your chosen template

This step typically takes 20 to 40 minutes, depending on the number of slides and the level of polish. This is the main downside of the manual method — even though AI generated the content, you still have to handle the design and layout yourself.

Step 5: Polish the design manually

The presentation now has content, but it probably looks quite raw. At this stage:

• Choose a consistent color scheme (3 to 5 colors max)
• Set two fonts — one for headings, one for body text
• Add a background and graphic elements to the title slide
• Align elements on slides (gridlines and guides in PowerPoint help)
• Add slide numbers and an optional logo

The entire process — from opening ChatGPT to a finished presentation — typically takes 45 to 90 minutes. That is significantly less than creating everything from scratch (3 to 8 hours), but it still requires substantial manual effort, especially on the visual side.

Common mistakes when creating AI presentations

Now that you know how to use AI for building presentations, it is equally important to know what to avoid. Here are the most common mistakes that hurt the quality of AI-assisted presentations:

1. Prompt too vague. "Make a presentation about business" is a recipe for a bland result. The more specific your prompt — with a precise topic, audience, goal, and constraints — the better the outcome. The difference is dramatic: a vague prompt produces generic content, while a detailed prompt yields specific and useful material.
2. Blind trust in AI. AI generates content that sounds convincing but may contain factual errors, made-up statistics, or outdated information. Always verify key facts and figures. This is especially important in academic and business presentations, where a single wrong fact can undermine your credibility.
3. No editing after generation. Treating the AI output as a finished product is asking for trouble. AI provides an excellent starting point, but the final result should bear your stamp: personal examples, data from your industry, and specific context that only you know.
4. Overloading slides with text. AI can generate a lot of text — but that does not mean all of it should go on the slides. The "less is more" principle applies regardless of whether the content was written by a human or an algorithm. Limit each slide to 4 to 6 short bullet points.
5. Ignoring visual consistency. If you use the manual method (ChatGPT + PowerPoint), it is easy to lose consistency in colors, fonts, and layout across slides. Establish a visual scheme at the start and stick to it throughout.
6. Too many topics in one presentation. AI will happily generate content on 30 topics at once — but your audience will not absorb that much information. It is better to create two focused presentations than one overloaded one. Rule of thumb: one presentation = one core message.
7. Skipping the rehearsal. No matter how well AI prepared the content, you are the one who has to deliver it. Practice the presentation out loud, with a timer, at least twice before the actual talk.

By avoiding these mistakes, you will get the most value out of AI. Remember: artificial intelligence is a powerful tool, but it requires a conscious and critical approach from the user.

Ready-to-use prompt template — copy and go

Below you will find a ready-to-use prompt template that works with any AI chatbot (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini). Simply fill in the fields in square brackets with your own details. This template is designed to generate a complete, professional presentation.

Universal prompt for generating presentations:

"Create a presentation on the topic: [ENTER A PRECISE TOPIC].

Context:

• Audience: [e.g., second-year management students / tech company executives / B2B clients]
• Goal: [e.g., presenting research findings / persuading investors / educating about X]
• Talk duration: [e.g., 15 minutes]
• Tone: [e.g., formal and factual / casual and engaging / academic]
• Number of slides: [e.g., 12]

Content requirements:

• Each slide should have: a heading (max 8 words), 4-5 short bullet points (max 12 words each)
• Include specific data, statistics, or examples wherever possible
• For each slide, add a speaker note (2-3 sentences expanding on the content)
• Include a title slide, agenda, main content section, conclusions, and a closing slide

Key topics to cover: [ENTER 3-5 TOPICS THAT MUST APPEAR IN THE PRESENTATION]"

Here is a sample slide structure that works for most presentations — both academic and business. You can pass it to the AI as a starting template:

1. Title slide — title, author, date, logo/institution
2. Agenda — 4-6 main sections you will cover
3. Context / problem — why this topic matters, what problem you are addressing
4. Presentation goal — one sentence, large font, clear message
5. Key point 1 — first argument, data, or thematic section
6. Key point 2 — second argument with a data visualization (chart, table)
7. Key point 3 — third argument with an example or case study
8. Data and visualization — a key statistic or chart
9. Comparison — table, diagram, or "before / after" layout
10. Conclusions — 3-4 key takeaways as short bullet points
11. Recommendations — specific next steps for the audience
12. Closing slide — thank you, contact information, invitation for questions

This template works regardless of whether you use ChatGPT, Claude, or another AI tool. The key is filling in the square-bracket fields with specific information — that is what determines the quality of the output. For more on how to prepare an effective presentation from a content standpoint, check out our article on how to make a good presentation.

How to speed things up with dedicated tools

The ChatGPT method works, but it has an obvious limitation: you have to manually transfer the content to PowerPoint and handle the design yourself. That still takes 45 to 90 minutes and requires some graphic design skills. If you need a faster solution, dedicated AI presentation generators are the answer.

Dedicated tools combine what the manual method requires in two separate steps (generating content + designing slides) into one automated process. You enter a topic — and the tool generates finished slides with content, layout, colors, and fonts. The result is ready in seconds instead of an hour.

Prezentacje AI is a generator designed exactly for this purpose. Unlike the ChatGPT method, here you do not have to:

• Manually transfer content to PowerPoint
• Choose colors, fonts, and layouts yourself
• Worry about visual consistency across slides
• Build charts and visualizations from scratch

The tool works in the browser, requires no installation or registration, and the generated presentation can be exported to PPTX format (PowerPoint) for further editing in any program. It is a natural acceleration of the process we described in the previous sections — the same principles (precise topic, clear goal, content verification), but carried out in a fraction of the time.

If you want to compare various available tools, check out our overview of free AI presentation generators.

How to use Prezentacje AI — step by step

Here are the exact instructions for using Prezentacje AI, from opening the page to a finished presentation:

1. Go to the website Prezentacje AI — you do not need to sign up or log in. The tool is ready to use immediately.
2. Describe your presentation topic in the chat field. Apply the principles you learned in this article: provide a precise topic, audience, goal, number of slides, and tone. The more details you give, the better the result. You can also simply type the topic in one sentence — the algorithm will suggest an appropriate structure on its own.
3. Wait for the presentation to be generated. The process takes 30 to 60 seconds. During this time, AI analyzes your description, creates the structure, generates content for each slide, and selects the design.
4. Review the result in the live preview. The generated slides appear directly in the browser. You can browse them one by one, checking the content and layout.
5. Edit and customize. If something needs to be changed — modify the text, rearrange slides, add your own data. You can also ask the AI for changes in the chat, e.g., "make the tone more formal" or "add a slide with a sales chart."
6. Export the presentation. Click the export button and download the presentation in PPTX format (for further editing in PowerPoint or Google Slides) or as a PDF. Done.

The entire process from describing the topic to downloading the finished presentation takes 5 to 15 minutes — including time for review and minor tweaks. That is a fundamental difference compared to the manual method. Instead of asking yourself "how to create a presentation with AI" and spending an hour copying content between tools, you have a finished result in just a few minutes.

Prezentacje AI works best when combined with the knowledge described in this article. By understanding the principles of a good prompt, common mistakes, and slide structure, you can consciously evaluate and refine the generated material. This combination of AI automation with human expertise delivers the best results.

Frequently asked questions

How can I create an AI presentation for free?

There are several ways to create an AI presentation at no cost. You can use the free version of ChatGPT to generate content and then manually transfer it to Google Slides or PowerPoint. A faster method is to use a dedicated generator like Prezentacje AI, which lets you create a complete presentation for free, without registration, directly in your browser.

Are AI-generated presentations good enough for university?

Yes, as long as you verify the content for accuracy and tailor it to your professor's requirements. AI produces solid structure and a professional look, but it may include outdated data or oversimplifications. Always fact-check, add academic sources, and adjust the language to an academic level. Treat AI as a starting point, not a finished product. You can find more tips in our article on how to make a university presentation.

How long does it take to generate a presentation with AI?

It depends on the method. If you use ChatGPT and manually transfer content to PowerPoint, the entire process typically takes 45 to 90 minutes. Dedicated AI presentation generators create ready-made slides in 30 to 60 seconds. Add 10 to 15 minutes for reviewing and adjusting the results, and you are done in 15 to 20 minutes instead of several hours of manual work.

What prompt should I write to get a good AI presentation?

A good prompt should include five elements: a precise topic, the target audience (e.g., executives, students, clients), the goal of the presentation (inform, persuade), the expected number of slides, and the desired tone (formal, casual, academic). The more context you provide, the better the result. Avoid vague requests like "make a presentation about marketing" — instead, specify which aspect of marketing and for whom. You will find a ready-to-use prompt template earlier in this article.

Can AI create a presentation in languages other than English?

Yes. ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini all support multiple languages and can generate presentation content in dozens of languages. Simply write your prompt in the language you need, and the AI will respond accordingly. Dedicated tools like Prezentacje AI are natively designed for Polish, which means higher linguistic quality and more natural phrasing for that language.

Can I edit a presentation generated by AI?

Absolutely — and you should. Every AI-generated presentation is a starting point that you should customize to fit your needs. You can edit the content directly in the AI tool or export the presentation to PPTX format and open it in PowerPoint or Google Slides, where you have full control over every element of each slide.

Will AI replace PowerPoint?

AI is not replacing PowerPoint — it complements it. AI tools automate content creation and slide structure generation, but PowerPoint and Google Slides remain the primary software for editing and delivering presentations. Think of AI as an intelligent assistant that prepares the draft, and traditional tools as the place for final refinements and delivery.

Summary

The question "how to create a presentation with AI" has a straightforward answer in 2026: choose the method that fits your needs and timeline. If you have an hour and like to control every detail, use ChatGPT to generate the content and manually transfer it to PowerPoint. If speed and professional design without manual work matter most, use a dedicated generator like Prezentacje AI.

Regardless of the method you choose, remember the key principles: write precise prompts, verify AI-generated content, do not overload slides with text, and always rehearse the presentation before delivering it. AI is a powerful tool, but it is you who brings expert value, personal experience, and a human connection with the audience to the presentation.

If you want to dive deeper into the topic, check out our related articles: how to make a good presentation (a complete guide from the ground up), how to create a presentation with ChatGPT (a detailed ChatGPT-specific guide), and storytelling in presentations (techniques for engaging your audience). And if you need a presentation right now — try Prezentacje AI and generate ready-made slides in less than a minute.