Creating Professional Presentations with Beautiful AI | Humanitarians AI Fellows Guide
This guide walks through Beautiful AI from account setup to generating a full deck with a text prompt, then editing, adding slides, and presenting it.
Building a polished presentation from scratch usually means fighting with slide layouts and formatting before you even get to the content. This guide walks through Beautiful AI, a platform built to skip that friction by using AI to generate a structured, visually consistent deck directly from a text prompt, then letting you refine it from there.
What the platform offers
Beautiful AI is described as an intuitive platform designed to simplify the process of creating presentations by leveraging AI to produce professional, visually appealing slides. It's aimed at individuals, teams, and organizations who want to save time and effort while still delivering an impactful presentation. The core feature set includes AI-generated slides, customizable templates, data-driven charts and graphs, real-time collaboration with a team, and export options, all built around a responsive design that adapts across formats.
Getting started
Signing up starts with visiting the platform and creating an account, which leads to a page showing the available plans, including a 14-day free trial. Once an account and plan are selected, you land on the main dashboard, which is the hub for creating and managing presentations.
Four ways to start a deck
From the dashboard, clicking "create presentation" opens several starting options. You can start with a blank presentation if you want to build the structure yourself and apply AI polish later. You can generate a full slide deck using AI from a prompt. You can use a team template if you're collaborating with an organization that has its own house style. Or you can import an existing PowerPoint file and modify it using AI.
Generating a deck from a prompt
The demonstrated workflow uses the "generate with AI" option, starting from a prompt built around the topic "AI for personalized learning." The prompt specifies exactly which slides are needed: a title slide, an agenda slide, content slides covering key points, a slide on benefits for students, a slide on benefits for educators, real-world examples, ethical considerations, and a conclusion. Clicking "generate presentation" produces a full deck matching that structure: a title slide framing AI's potential to revolutionize personalized learning, an agenda slide covering introduction, key topics, methods, and recommendations, and detail slides on benefits for students and educators, real-world examples, ethical considerations, challenges, and impact on education.
Editing and expanding the deck
If the generated deck is missing something, individual slides can be added afterward using "add slide" and generating just that one slide with AI, rather than regenerating the entire deck. The walkthrough demonstrates this by adding a dedicated conclusion slide and a separate thank-you slide, each generated on demand. Within any individual slide, a range of editing options is available: changing the background, layout, icon colors, and header, as well as generating alternate content ideas for that slide, including switching between formats like bullet points, numbered lists, or agenda-style layouts. These options are contextual to whichever slide is currently selected, and each slide can be independently restyled without disturbing the rest of the deck.
Working from templates
Beyond prompt-based generation, the platform also supports starting from an existing template already available on the platform, then generating slide content on top of it using a prompt, for example asking for bullet points based on a specific topic. This approach separates deck structure (chosen from a template) from content generation (driven by AI), which is useful when you want a specific visual style but still want AI to fill in the substance.
Collaboration and presenting
The dashboard includes a "shared with me" section, where decks shared by other members of an organization appear for viewing and collaborative editing. A separate section tracks all presentations created by the user, keeping recent work easy to find. Once a deck is finished, it can be presented directly from the platform using the present button, which displays the full slide sequence and offers options for how the presentation is delivered.
Key takeaways
- Beautiful AI can generate a full, structured slide deck from a single text prompt that specifies the slides you need.
- Individual slides can be added or regenerated after the fact without disturbing the rest of the deck.
- Each slide has its own editing controls for background, layout, colors, and AI-generated content ideas like bullet points or agenda formats.
- Templates and AI generation can be combined: start from an existing template, then use a prompt to fill in the content.
- The platform supports real-time collaboration, tracks all of a user's presentations in one place, and includes a built-in presenter mode.
Try it yourself
This walkthrough is part of the Humanitarians AI Fellows Program guide series, and the full prompts and code referenced in the video are available in the program's GitHub repository. It's a good starting point for anyone who wants to try AI-generated presentations for corporate, educational, or creative use before deciding whether to build a workflow around the tool.
Full transcript(auto-generated, with timestamps)
[0:00]Hi guys, my name is Palat. Today we are going to be looking at the guide to beautiful AI. This guide is also present on GitHub. So you can find it easily under the class repository. Beautiful AI is an intuitive platform designed to simplify the process of creating presentations. So by leveraging AI, it offers a dynamic way to produce professional visually appealing slides. It is very user-friendly interface. So it is very suitable for individuals, teams and organizations looking to save some time or effort while delivering impactful presentations. There are different features to it. You can easily generate AI generated slides. You can customize templates. You can either um
[0:41]Use datadriven charts and graphs for the slides. You can collaborate in real time with your team for presentations ensuring a smoother workflow. You can you know export it easily. You can either create a responsive design. So there are different features to it. Getting started you can click on this link here and then you'll be led to the platform. After that you'll see a page like this and then you can click on sign up. After creating the account, then you are led to this page which offers you different plans accordingly and then you can select it um for trying for free. It gives you a trial for 14
[1:28]Days. After you create the account and select the plans or trial accordingly, you'll be led to the dash dashboard here. So, we'll quickly jump on to the dashboard. So here's the dashboard. After signing up, we have an option of creating presentation. After I click on this, I get different options here. So either you can choose blank presentation. So let's say if you want to create a slide by your own and then later on use AI for um optimizing the deck, you can use that. Apart from that, you can generate the slide deck using AI. You can use your team template. So when you collaborate with your team or
[2:17]Organization, you can use their own template or you can choose from a starter template or you can simply import your created PPT and then change it using AI. So let's start with this option that says generate with AI. So I'm going to quickly paste a prompt here. So this prompt is based on the topic AI for personalized learning. Here in this prompt I have mentioned that these are the slides that I need. Um so these are title slides, agenda slides, um content slides for key points based on the topic, benefits, benefits for students, educators, real world examples, ethical considerations, uh slides for conclusion etc. So after that I'm going to click on
[3:15]Generate presentation. So it would easily generate a deck for me. So these are the slides that it has generated. Yeah, as you can see this is the deck that I caught. So this is the fourth first slide. This is the title slide. It mentions AI has potential to revolutionize personalized learning and mentions the importance of it. This is the agenda, introduction, key topics, methods, recommendations. This is another detail about the topic, benefits for students, educators, real world examples, ethical considerations, challenges, impact of education. Right? So, let's say um I I find it, you know, I find the slides are limited, right? and I want to add more slides to
[4:18]It. So I can easily click on add slide and then I can generate one more slide with AI. So this is not the deck. This is just the slide that I need to add to my already generated deck. So I'll say create a conclusion slide. So here it creates the conclusions slide for the topic that we have chosen. Again we can create on generate with AI. I can say create a thank you slide as well.
[5:28]So it does create a thank you slide. You can change the content accordingly. You can change the background. You can change the layout of the slide. Here you can change the color of the icons. You can change the header. You can generate different ideas for the slide. So here are a few ideas that we can change. As you can see, if I click on bullets, it gives us the bullet points. If I click on numbers, if I click on agenda, it gives us Yeah, it gives us agenda item. So you can add in the agenda as well. So here are different features that we get for the slides. So it is
[6:19]Based on each and every slide. So let's say this is the slide that we are looking at. It would give you different features accordingly and then you can change in the features. So you can change in the color, the item colors, item frames, you can add the content, you can generate ideas based on the ideas that are given already, you can change the style. Right? So here we have a lot of options that we can work on. I already worked on this slide. So here I did not create create the deck on my own. I just opened a template that was already given on the platform and
[7:13]Then I generated the slides according to a prompt here. As you can see I mentioned that I need bullet points based on this topic. It had given me the bullet points. So you can easily generate the slides and the images based on your prompt. So yeah, I think we have covered creating slides here. There are different other options as well. It says shared with me. So if someone from your organization shares a slide with you, you can view here and then you can collaborate with your peers as well. These are the slides that are created by me. So all of your work would be saved here. These are the recent
[8:04]Presentations that I worked on. Yeah. So this is how the platform works and you can definitely try it and see if this is something that you'd be needing for your own personal use or the use of organization. And then lastly you can present the slide using this button. So if I click on this it presents the slide and then you see all the slides here. after clicking on this and then you can also change the way you present it. So yeah, I think that's it for this platform. See you next time. Thank you.
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