Create a presentation outline
Choose the audience, decision, source material, and section order before full deck generation.
Lumen learning center
Learn the workflow before the room is waiting.
Use this curated path to plan a deck, manage source material, review evidence and brand consistency, edit the presentation, and prepare the exported handoff.
Recommended learning path
From source pack to presentation handoff.
Follow the sequence for a repeatable business-deck workflow, or jump to the stage where your current process breaks down.
Source-grounded presentations
Understand how source material and generation-time provenance stay attached to the deck workflow.
Citations in AI-generated presentations
Review how citations and source references support—not replace—human claim review.
Presentation governance for teams
Define ownership, source rules, brand controls, review thresholds, and release responsibilities.
Brand-consistent presentations
Apply a repeatable visual and narrative system while preserving the need for final review.
Editable PowerPoint export
Evaluate Lumen's hybrid export boundary before committing to a client or executive handoff.
Product and decision guides
Go directly to the question you need to answer.
Guided Lumen workflow
See real product UI from source material and outline review through editing, themes, present mode, and export evaluation.
Presentation editor
Learn the core slide editing, theme, media, presenter, and delivery workflow.
Briefing decks
Structure recurring briefing and executive-update presentations around decisions and evidence.
Gixo Lumen FAQ
Review product, workflow, editing, export, and plan questions in one place.
Prompt-to-deck vs source-to-deck
Understand when a fast topic start is enough and when source review should drive the deck.
Executive deck workflow
Plan a repeatable path for board, operating, and executive decision rooms.
Lumen by delivery context
Choose a real workflow fit for consulting, agency, startup, sales, finance, or internal strategy work.
Lumen pricing and trial
Review the 14-day Starter trial with clean hybrid exports, ungated post-trial download, and what paid Lumen actually adds.
The method in five moves
How do you make a presentation with AI, step by step?
Name the room and the decision, gather the source material, review the outline before any slide exists, edit the deck, then check the claims and export. An AI presentation maker compresses the drafting; the order below is what keeps the finished deck defensible. Every step maps to a guide in the path above.
Write the audience and the decision first
One line, before you open any presentation software: who is in the room, and what should they decide by the end. Deck length, evidence depth, and tone all fall out of that sentence. Skipping it is the most common reason a technically clean deck lands badly.
Bring the source material to the tool
Lumen creates from a topic, notes, briefs, articles, and uploaded reference material, and you can attach up to five reference files per deck. Uploading the memo, the spreadsheet, or the transcript is what separates a source-grounded deck from a plausible one.
Fix the argument while it is still an outline
Section order, headline claims, and missing evidence are cheapest to change before slides are generated. Lumen sets deck length and workflow explicitly at this stage instead of leaving them for the model to guess.
Edit text, not shapes
A slide generator that picks from 26 layouts and applies one of 33 active themes means the visual system holds while you rewrite the words. You still own the words.
Check the claims, then export the file
Decks can cite uploaded source material and approved web research, with a built-in citation, trust-check, and source-review surface for reviewers before handoff. Export as PPTX, PDF, HTML, and slide images when the deck is ready. Lumen's no-card 14-day trial includes AI generation and clean hybrid export. Downloads are not gated: a deck you generated stays yours to review, present, and export as PPTX, PDF, HTML, or slide images, unwatermarked, whether the trial is running, paid, or long over. Paid Lumen is what continues AI generation and AI editing, and adds publishing, sharing, collaboration, brand workflows, team controls, and higher capacity.
Someone still signs the numbers
Market figures, customer claims, financials, and legal statements need an accountable human reviewer whether or not a model wrote the sentence. Citations and source review exist to make that pass faster, not to remove it.
Match the deck to the room
Types of presentation, and which guide covers each one
“Presentation” covers documents with almost nothing in common. A pitch deck argues for capital it does not yet have; a board deck reports against a plan that already exists; a sales deck moves a buyer one stage. The sequence, the evidence burden, and the slide count all change with the type, which is why Lumen ships 7 workflow profiles across consulting, finance, startup, sales, executive, product, and general business decks rather than one template in different colours.
Pitch deck and investor presentation
Ten to fifteen core slides plus an appendix, ordered so each one reduces the next uncertainty: thesis, problem, solution, market, model, traction, competition, team, ask.
Board deck and executive update
Reports against a plan the audience already knows. Leads with the decision requested, then the variance and the evidence behind it.
Sales deck and buyer narrative
Built around the buyer's problem and the proof that you solve it, not around your product's feature list.
Consulting and agency decks
Recommendation-led, source-heavy, and judged on whether the client can open, review, and reuse the file after the meeting.
Common questions
Making a presentation with AI: what people ask first
How do you make a presentation with AI?
Decide the audience and the decision, attach the source material, review the generated outline before slides are built, edit the slides, verify every source-critical claim, then export the file. The AI compresses the drafting step; the deciding, reviewing, and verifying steps stay with you. Working in that order is what separates a deck that survives questions from one that only looks finished.
How long should a presentation be?
Follow the room, not a round number. A pitch deck is usually ten to fifteen core slides plus an appendix; a board update is shorter and leads with the decision; a training or client-strategy deck can run much longer because it is read as well as presented. In Lumen the deck length is an explicit choice at the outline stage rather than something the model settles on its own.
What are the main types of presentation?
In business the recurring ones are the pitch deck, the board or executive update, the sales or buyer-narrative deck, the client strategy or consulting deck, the internal training deck, and the project or QBR review. They differ in sequence and in how much evidence the audience will demand, which is why Lumen organises creation around workflow profiles rather than around a theme gallery.
Do I need design skills to use an AI presentation maker?
Not for layout. The planner picks a layout per slide from 26 options and the theme applies typography, colour, and spacing across the deck, so you edit text rather than positioning boxes. Design judgment still matters for the slides that carry the argument, and a designer will still beat a default on the moments that matter most.
Current public contract
Current Gixo Lumen implementation at a glance
These figures are derived from the implementation catalogs used by the live product.| Aspect | Current behavior | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| active themes | 33 | Derived from the active presentation-theme registry. |
| slide layouts | 26 | Derived from the implemented slide-layout guides. |
| workflow profiles | 7 | Consulting, finance, startup, sales, executive, product, and general business. |
| delivery formats | 4 | PPTX, PDF, HTML, and slide images |
From source material to presentation handoff
Build the deck, review it, and evaluate the exported handoff in one workspace.
Start a 14-day, no-card Starter trial to generate and review decks and evaluate clean hybrid PPTX and PDF exports. Existing decks remain reviewable after the trial; paid Lumen continues generation and unlocks the delivery paths shown in pricing.
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