Presentations: AI Features

Use AI to generate entire decks, refine individual slides, create backgrounds, and apply visual styles, all from natural language prompts.

AI Wizard: Generate a Deck

Create a new presentation project and choose Creator Mode. The AI wizard opens a multi-step flow:

  1. Topic: Describe what the presentation is about in natural language.
  2. Slide count: Choose the number of slides (or let AI decide).
  3. Visual style: Select a preset style or describe your own (e.g. "dark, corporate, blue accents").
  4. Generate: The AI creates all slides with titles, body text, speaker notes, and suggested layouts.
You can also trigger the wizard from an existing project by opening the AI Sidebar and choosing "Regenerate All Slides."

Per-Slide AI Prompt Bar

Each slide has a prompt bar at the bottom. Type a command to modify just that slide:

  • "Add a chart showing revenue growth"
  • "Make this slide more visual"
  • "Simplify the bullet points"
  • "Change the layout to two-column"

The AI analyzes the current slide content and applies targeted changes.

Global AI Sidebar

Open the AI sidebar from the toolbar for deck-wide operations:

  • Regenerate All Slides: rewrite the entire deck from a new prompt.
  • Add Slides: generate additional slides on a topic and insert them at the end.
  • Restyle: describe a visual style and the AI adjusts colors, fonts, and layouts across the deck.
  • Summarize: condense the deck into fewer slides.

Image Engines: Theo Imagine vs Theo Creative

Every deck ships with a per-deck image engine setting, controlled from the toolbar pill. Two engines are available:

  • Theo Imagine (default): the premium engine. Higher resolution, stronger photographic and typographic fidelity. Best for hero decks, marketing material, and anything where image quality matters.
  • Theo Creative: the fast engine. Lower credit cost per image and quicker turnaround. Best for early drafts, brainstorming, or large decks where speed beats fidelity.

Reliability: if Theo Imagine ever has a transient outage, your deck doesn't break — generation automatically falls back to Theo Creative for that one image and the editor surfaces a one-time toast so you know the swap happened. Switch back to Theo Imagine in the toolbar pill once the issue clears, or stay on Theo Creative if you prefer the faster engine.

Reliable framing: Theo Imagine slides are now generated with an explicit safe zone so titles and bullets always sit inside the visible 16:9 area. Slide images are also normalized to true 16:9 server-side, so the deck you see in the editor matches the file in your export pixel-for-pixel — no more text getting clipped at the top or bottom edge.

The engine setting also flows through the AI Image Generator modal (when you insert an image directly into a slide), so ad-hoc generations match the rest of the deck.

Style-driven Auto-rebuild

When you ask the Global AI Sidebar to rebuild the deck with a specific visual style, the AI locks every slide to that style instead of letting individual slides drift. Phrases like these are recognised automatically:

  • "Rebuild every slide with cinematic style"
  • "Make everything cyberpunk"
  • "Use a watercolour look across the deck"
  • "Switch to anime art on every slide"
  • "Give it a noir film feel"
  • "Vintage 80s VHS aesthetic"

The AI then rebuilds each slide one-by-one, applying the locked style to both copy and imagery so the whole deck stays consistent. Common synonyms — noir, neon, VHS, manga, cel-shaded, watercolour, DSLR, line art, geometric shapes, etc. — also map to the right canonical style.

Style picker apply-to-all: if you change the visual style from the picker and apply it to every slide, the editor offers to also rebuild the imagery so it matches the new style. Confirm to kick off the rebuild, or skip to keep your current images.

AI-Generated Backgrounds

In the slide background picker, click the AI sparkle button and describe the background you want. Examples:

  • "Abstract blue gradient with subtle geometric shapes"
  • "A blurred photograph of a city skyline at sunset"
  • "Minimalist pattern with thin gold lines on dark navy"

The AI returns an image that is automatically set as the slide background. You can regenerate or edit afterward.

Visual Style Presets

During the wizard flow (or via the AI sidebar), choose from curated visual style presets. Each preset influences layout choices, color usage, and content density:

ProfessionalCreativeMinimalBoldElegantPlayfulCorporateStartupAcademicMarketing

AI Audio (Music & Narration)

Two AI-powered audio features can be added during the wizard flow or afterward from the Audio panel (music icon in the toolbar):

  • Background Music: AI-generated by Theo Score with 4 style presets. Loops during playback.
  • AI Narration: Theo generates per-slide narration scripts from your content and speaker notes, then synthesizes natural voice audio for each slide. 8 voice personas available.

See Presenting & Rehearsal → Background Music for full details.

AI Credits

AI features consume credits from your plan's monthly allotment. The free plan includes 50,000 credits. Credit packs (250K, 500K, 1M) can be purchased separately.

Each operation costs a different amount of credits depending on the model and complexity. Check your usage in Settings → Billing.

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