The other half of the new Claude office suite

Alongside Claude Docs, Anthropic also launched Claude Slides on 16 September — same idea, but for presentations. You describe what you need, and Claude builds actual slides you can keep editing, rather than a chat message describing what slides might look like.

Building a deck from scratch

Start a new Claude chat and ask for a presentation directly: "Build me an 8-slide deck summarising this report for the operations team." Paste or upload your source material — a report, a set of notes, an existing document — and Claude structures it into slides with headings, bullet points and a consistent visual style, rather than dumping a wall of text split across pages.

Editing without starting over

Once the first draft exists, work on it the way you'd want to work on any deck: "make slide 4 shorter", "add a slide comparing the two options", "change the colour scheme to something more neutral." Claude edits the deck in place instead of regenerating the whole thing, so the other seven slides you were already happy with stay untouched.

Getting it into PowerPoint

Claude Slides can be shared by link or downloaded — Anthropic lists PDF and PowerPoint (.pptx) as export options. Download and open the .pptx file before you present from it. A brand-new export feature is the most likely place for a formatting glitch to hide, and you want to find that on your own screen, not on the projector in front of the room.

Build a [X]-slide presentation for [audience] from the attached [document/notes]. Structure: - Slide 1: title and one-line summary - Slides 2 to [N-1]: [the main points, one per slide] - Final slide: recommended next steps Keep bullet points short enough to read aloud in 15-20 seconds per slide. Use a clean, professional layout — no stock-photo clutter.
💡 This week's action

Take a report or set of notes already sitting in a folder and turn it into a first-draft deck with Claude Slides, then time how long it takes to get from blank page to something presentable. Compare that against how long your usual PowerPoint-from-scratch process takes — that's the number that tells you whether this belongs in your workflow.

What to still do yourself

Claude doesn't know your company's brand guidelines, your usual slide template, or which numbers in a report your manager actually cares about. Use it to build the skeleton and a fast first draft, then spend your saved time on the parts that need judgement: what to cut, what to emphasise, and what the room in front of you actually needs to hear.

Who can access it

Same rollout as Docs — Pro and Max subscribers first, on web, desktop and mobile, with free and team tiers to come later on a timeline Anthropic hasn't confirmed yet.

A good first test

Try it on a deck that already exists rather than one you're about to present with no time to check it. Ask Claude to rebuild an old presentation from its source report, then compare the two side by side. You'll quickly see where it's strong — turning dense paragraphs into clean bullets — and where it needs a firmer brief, such as matching a specific template or keeping to an exact slide count.

Combine it with Claude Docs

Because Docs and Slides now live in the same interface, a natural workflow is to draft the written version of something in Docs first — getting the content and structure right — then ask Claude to turn that finished document into a deck. That tends to produce a tighter result than asking for slides from a rough brief in one step, because the thinking about what matters has already happened in the document.