The slide QC agent is the deck reviewer inside RixSlides: it audits a presentation for the failure modes that actually embarrass you in a meeting — text overflowing its box or running off the slide, and elements sitting misaligned where a careful hand would have placed them — and then fixes what it finds. You use it after AI deck generation, but equally on any imported .pptx that arrived messy, and always in the last ten minutes before you present.
When to run the QC agent
Three moments earn their keep:
- Right after generation. The deck generation pipeline produces drafts; the QC agent is the second pair of eyes that catches the slide where a headline grew too long.
- After heavy editing. If you pasted content between decks, swapped images or merged two files, alignment drifts. An audit finds the drift.
- Before exporting or presenting. A deck that looks fine at editing zoom can still have a text box two pixels off the slide edge. The agent checks with presentation precision.
Run an audit
- Open the deck in RixSlides.
- Start the slide QC agent from the AI menu.
- Wait for the audit report. Issues are listed slide by slide, so you can jump straight to a problem.
- Apply fixes — accept individual corrections or run them across the deck in one pass.
- Re-run the agent to confirm the report comes back clean.
What the agent checks
The audit focuses on the mechanical quality issues that humans miss at speed:
- Text overflow — body text or titles that extend beyond their text box or off the slide, the single most common imported-deck defect.
- Misalignment — text boxes and shapes that sit off the grid the rest of the slide follows: uneven top edges, inconsistent left margins, elements drifting off-canvas.
- Spacing inconsistency — content that crowds one region of a slide while another sits empty.
Each finding is concrete: which slide, which element, what is wrong. You are never asked to trust a vague score.
How fixes are applied
Fixes are block-level edits, the same kind you would make by hand — resize a text box, nudge an element onto the alignment line, tighten spacing — executed by the agent with the layout context of the whole slide in view. That has two practical consequences:
- You stay in control. Apply one fix, ten fixes or all of them; each is an ordinary edit you can undo.
- The file stays native. A fixed slide is still a normal .pptx slide. Nothing is rasterized or restructured, so byte fidelity with the rest of the deck is preserved.
For slides where the content itself is wrong — not the layout but the wording — the agent is not the tool. Use regenerate slide from the deck generation pipeline to rewrite and relayout that one slide, or edit the text directly.
A pre-presentation routine that works
A reliable last-mile routine looks like this:
- Run the QC agent and accept the fixes.
- Flip through the deck in the thumbnail rail once, checking rhythm and sections.
- Press F5 and click through in SlideShowView, exactly as the audience will see it.
- Export the PDF handout if you need one — the export reflects the fixed layout.
The whole loop takes minutes and removes the classic failure of presenting a deck you last saw yesterday.
What to explore next
- AI deck generation for the pipeline the QC agent completes.
- Text and shapes editing to make the manual fine-tuning fast.
- Presenter view for the final rehearsal and live delivery.