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Workflow-specific products Content, decks, briefs, proposals, legal, and sales each have a clearer buying path.
Review before delivery Draft, edit, collaborate, approve, and export in the same workspace.
Security + procurement path Security policy, support, and Azure Marketplace buying are public.

Workflow-specific deck creation

Start with the room, the decision, and the handoff.

Lumen workflows shape the starting narrative around the job the deck must do. Choose the closest path, then review the outline and source material before delivery.

Choose by delivery context

A better starting structure for the work in front of you.

These paths lead to existing Lumen workflow pages with specific audience, source, review, and export guidance.

Primary consultant path

Client-handoff presentations

Turn notes, interviews, analysis, and source files into a reviewable client deliverable.

Open workflow

Agency delivery

Repeatable client deck production

Use a consistent process across client narratives while preserving room for brand and account context.

Open workflow

Executive room

Board and operating updates

Organize performance, context, risks, decisions, and next-quarter priorities for executive review.

Open workflow

Investor room

Fundraising and investor decks

Build a coherent problem, market, traction, business model, team, and ask narrative.

Open workflow

Commercial room

Sales and buyer narratives

Structure the buyer problem, differentiated proof, objection handling, and a concrete next step.

Open workflow

Internal decision

Strategy and transformation decks

Turn analysis into options, recommendations, a roadmap, and explicit ownership for internal review.

Open workflow

Founder workflow

Startup operating and pitch decks

Move from an early narrative to a structured deck that can be reviewed before it reaches stakeholders.

Open workflow

Name the deck before you name the tool

Which slide deck are you actually making?

“Presentation” covers a dozen different jobs. The workflow you pick above should match the deck type, because the sequence a room expects is not the same from one to the next.

Fundraising

Pitch deck and investor deck

An investor presentation is a short argument, not a product tour: problem, wedge, model, traction, team, ask. If you are building a pitch deck or an investor pitch deck, start from the fundraising workflow so the narrative order is already right, then replace the placeholders with your real numbers.

Open the pitch deck path

Governance

Board deck and executive slide deck

A board deck is a decision document. It opens with the state of the business, proves it with metrics against plan, names the risks, and reserves the back half for the asks. Keep the core presentation deck tight and push detail into an appendix.

Read the board deck structure

Client work

Consulting and sales presentation

A client readout leads with the recommendation and defends it; a sales deck leads with the buyer’s problem and closes on a next step. Both are handed over as a PowerPoint deck someone else will open and edit, which is why the export path matters as much as the generation step.

See how the PowerPoint handoff works

What a workflow does and does not do

A deck builder gives you the right starting sequence, not a finished argument.

Choosing a workflow decides which sections the AI slide deck generator drafts and in what order. It does not decide whether your evidence is any good. Review the structure, sources and slides before handoff; use outline-first when you want to approve section order before generation — and downloads of your own deck remain available after trial or plan access ends. AI generation and editing require active Lumen access.

When the audience will read a story rather than attend a presentation

Stanza uses the same Lumen access for a responsive web story. A visual storytelling workflow starts with the audience's question, source material and scene order, then moves through writing, design preview and source review. Use a story blueprint for a starting structure and the digital storytelling examples to inspect the result.

Write and arrange scenes, preview the design and check scene capacity. Ask Stanza proposes text changes for a scene or story for review before you apply them. Autosave, undo and saved story history support continued editing; resolve a save conflict before applying AI changes.

Choose HTML for the scrolling reading experience, PDF for a visual handoff, or one of the two PowerPoint modes according to the recipient's editing needs. A story-to-deck conversion creates a separate Lumen deck; it is not a continuously synchronized copy.

One workspace

Plan the outline, review the sources, edit the slides, then evaluate the handoff.

A workflow profile is a structured starting point, not a promise that the first generated pass is final. Keep reviewer judgment attached through editing and export.

Read Lumen workflow and review resources

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.

Lumen also includes Stanza, a responsive visual-story mode that turns the same sources into a scrolling web story instead of a slide deck. Start quickly, or plan first and approve the scene plan before generation. Stanza grounds sources through the same pre-authorized search path as Lumen decks, it ships under Lumen access, and a supported Lumen deck can be converted into a separate Stanza story. Review conversion warnings: the original theme and slide imagery are not copied automatically.

Stanza visual-story workspace with the heat-safety story open and its Download menu listing HTML, PDF, and two PowerPoint options
Stanza is included with Lumen: a scrolling web story from the same sources, with downloadable HTML, PDF, and PowerPoint.
Downloaded Stanza PDF scene with a generated picture of a woman and a child beside a fan, and the title and first sentence over it
A page from the Stanza PDF you download: a full-bleed picture and overlay copy in a 16:9 story file.