The AI deck generation pipeline in RixSlides turns a one-line brief into a finished, editable .pptx deck. Instead of handing you bullet-point text to lay out yourself, it does the whole job: you choose a style, the AI plans an outline, searches for images, writes a page script for each slide and places real content on real slides — with per-page progress you can watch. Use it whenever a blank slide feels heavier than the message: status reviews, pitch decks, training modules, course summaries.
Start a generated deck
- Open RixSlides and choose AI deck generation from the new-deck options.
- Choose a style — a template with defined fonts, colors and layouts. You can pick one you saved earlier.
- Describe the deck: topic, audience, length and any points that must be covered.
- Review the outline the AI proposes and adjust slide titles before anything is built.
- Start the build and watch the per-page progress: each slide goes through scripting, image search and placement in turn.
- When the deck lands, audit it, regenerate what misses, and fine-tune by hand.
What the AI does at each stage
The pipeline is worth understanding, because each stage is editable:
- Outline planning — the AI turns your brief into a slide-by-slide plan. A strong brief here (audience, tone, one goal) shapes everything downstream.
- Image search — relevant images are found and matched to slides, so decks do not ship as walls of text.
- HTML page script — each slide gets a written page script: what the title says, what the body explains, what the visual supports.
- Placement — content is laid onto slides using the chosen style, with text boxes, shapes and pictures positioned deliberately.
- Per-page progress — you see each slide finish in order, and the deck is usable even if you stop partway.
Because the result is a native .pptx, nothing is locked. Generated slides are ordinary slides: edit the text, swap an image, recolor a shape.
Choose a style before you generate
Style is the biggest lever on quality. A dense financial review wants a restrained style with tables; a sales pitch wants bold headlines and imagery. Pick the style that matches the room before you write the brief — regenerating into a different style later costs more time than choosing well at the start.
Save a style template and reuse it
If you settle on a look — your brand colors, your title layouts, your footer treatment — save it as a style template. Next time, deck generation starts from that template instead of a generic one, and every deck your team produces looks like it came from the same studio. The templates guide covers saving, organizing and applying styles in detail.
Audit and regenerate single slides
Generation is a first draft, not a verdict. Two tools close the gap:
- Regenerate slide rewrites and relayouts a single slide while leaving the rest of the deck untouched. Use it on any slide that feels thin, crowded or off-brief.
- The slide QC agent audits the finished deck for text overflow and misaligned elements, then fixes what it finds. Run it before every important presentation.
A practical loop: generate, run the QC agent, regenerate the two or three slides the agent flags or you dislike, then edit by hand. Most decks land in one pass of that loop.
Editing after generation
Post-generation editing is the same editing you would do on any deck. Titles and body text are text boxes; charts are native chart parts if the style uses them; images are real pictures you can crop, replace or remove backgrounds from. If the AI phrased something too generically, click the text and rewrite it — no re-generation required.
AI actions consume credits from your plan when you use the built-in Rix AI, or run against your own provider if you bring an API key or use Ollama. Deck generation is one of the higher-value uses of that budget, so a focused brief that lands on the first or second pass is the efficient way to spend it.
What to explore next
- Slide QC agent to audit and fix a generated deck automatically.
- Templates and styles to make generated decks match your brand.
- AI agents overview for how the agents behind the pipeline work.
- AI credits explained to understand what generation costs.