Make client decks, pitch decks, product visuals, social carousels and short clips with AI, and make them good enough to send: prompt for slides, fix the story at the outline, keep everything on-brand and check every number and every word before it goes out.
AI Presentations and Visual Content is a free, hands-on AI course for consultants, marketers, founders and office staff who make decks and social content without a designer: 9 short modules (about 1.5 hours in all) where you do each step yourself in a safe practice copy of Presentations.AI, Gamma, Slidebean, Runable and other tools, which checks your work. No coding, no cost, and you can start without signing up.
Who it’s for: Consultants, marketers, founders and office staff who make decks and social content without a designer. No design background needed.
AI tools can now make a deck, a product photo or a carousel in a minute. That is the easy part. What costs small firms is what comes out of a careless minute: a generic deck that sounds like everyone else's, colours that change every time, a growth number the AI got wrong, and a typo baked into an image in front of a client.
This course starts with the habits that work in every tool: a prompt with the audience, the one message, the real source and the shape; an outline you fix before the design; a brand kit; and a check of every number against your notes. Then you practice them in the tool that does each job best: Presentations.AI for a quarterly review, Gamma for a deck from rough notes, Slidebean for an investor pitch, Runable for a client proposal and a launch carousel, VisualGPT for product visuals, and Opus Clip to turn one video into social clips.
The payoff: decks and visuals in an afternoon instead of a week, that look like your brand and carry only numbers you can defend.
What you’ll build
Module 3: You help Dana Whitfield, the sales manager at Brightwell Office Supply, a made-up company, build her Q3 2026 sales review for leadership.
Module 5: You help Dana, co-founder of Ledgerly, a made-up bookkeeping startup. You paste her one-page plan into Slidebean’s Pitch deck with AI and get a 13-slide draft.
Module 8: You help Maya Chen make a 5-slide Instagram launch carousel for Harbor & Pine's three scents.
Module 9: You upload a video to Opus Clip, tell it which moments to find, pick Karaoke captions and 9:16, and get clips in one click.
Welcome to Stepthrough: you learn AI by doing it, on practice copies of real app screens, free and with no risk to your real accounts. Your first practice takes under two minutes.
AI slide tools make a deck in a minute. The trouble is what a careless minute produces: a generic deck that sounds like everyone else’s, colours that change every time, and numbers the AI rounded, mixed up or invented. One wrong figure in front of a client costs more trust than an ugly slide.
Every quarter a sales manager rebuilds the same review deck for leadership: revenue against target, top accounts, lost deals, next quarter's plan. The layout barely changes, but copying the numbers in by hand eats an afternoon.
A founder with a seed meeting next week usually has the plan on one page, but no deck. A designer takes a week and a few thousand dollars. A blank template takes a weekend.
A business case for a small agency: price what a slow proposal costs, then use Runable, an AI agent, to turn a messy client email into a finished six-slide proposal deck on the free plan. Check your credits, paste the brief, answer its questions, pick a template, review the numbers and fix the blanks by asking.
Turn one phone photo into a lifestyle product shot, a five-image Amazon listing set and three launch ads in VisualGPT's Commercial Studio, checking the plan and every claim along the way.
A launch needs people to know the product before they meet you. For Harbor & Pine (made up), that means three scent names, what they smell like and the price, in one Instagram carousel. A freelance designer charges $150 to $300 a carousel, and doing it yourself in a design app takes an afternoon.
Most small businesses already record good video, such as a webinar or a 5-minute tips video, but social feeds want short, captioned, vertical clips. Cutting them by hand takes hours.
For the practice: a web browser. Each module runs in a copy of the real tool’s screens, so you need no account and no sign-up to start module 1.
To do it for real: a Presentations.AI account, a Slidebean account, a Runable account and an Opus Clip account. Each module says which one it uses.
Time to complete
About 1.5 hours of hands-on practice across 9 modules (189 steps in all). Modules take 2 to 16 minutes each, so you can do one in a sitting and come back for the next.
The ideas behind each module
Each module teaches one idea you will use again and again. Here it is in plain words: what it is, why a business uses it, and a real example.
Prompting for slides, outlines, brand kits and number checks
What it is
Four habits work in any AI slide tool. Prompt with the audience, the one message, the pasted source and the shape. Fix the story at the outline. Set the look once in a brand kit. Check every number against your notes.
Why a business uses it
The tool decides how fast you get a deck. These habits decide whether you can show it to a client.
A real example
A consultant's Q3 deck: the recommendation moves after the results at the outline, the brand kit sets the colours, and the number check catches 18% that should be 12% and a retention figure the AI made up.
Yes. All 9 modules of AI Presentations and Visual Content are free, and you can start module 1 without signing up.
How long does AI Presentations and Visual Content take?
About 1.5 hours of hands-on practice across 9 modules, beginner to intermediate. Each module takes 2 to 16 minutes, so you can do one at a time.
Which tools will I practice in?
Presentations.AI, Gamma, Slidebean, Runable, VisualGPT and Opus Clip. You practice in a copy of each tool's real screens that checks every step, so nothing touches your real accounts, and no coding is needed.
Who is AI Presentations and Visual Content for?
Consultants, marketers, founders and office staff who make decks and social content without a designer. No design background needed.
Where do I start?
Start with module 1, Start Here: How Stepthrough Works. The modules are in order, so each one builds on the last.
What is the best AI tool for presentations?
It depends on the job. In this course: Presentations.AI for a deck from notes, Gamma for fast decks you edit by chatting, Slidebean for investor pitches and Runable for a proposal from a messy brief. The habits in module 2 work in all of them.
Can I trust the numbers in an AI-made deck?
Not without checking. AI tools can round, mix up or invent numbers, especially when they condense notes. Compare every figure with your source and remove any you cannot trace.
How do I keep AI slides on-brand?
Set up a brand kit or theme once, with your logo, exact hex colours and fonts, and pick it for every deck. Describing the brand in each prompt drifts.
What do I need before I start AI Presentations and Visual Content?
Only a web browser for the practice: it runs in a copy of each tool's screens, so you need no account and no sign-up to start module 1. To repeat a module in your own tools afterwards, the modules list a Presentations.AI account, a Slidebean account, a Runable account and an Opus Clip account.