Presenti Review: AI Presentation Builder on AppSumo

Why AI-Generated Presentations Matter

Presentations are everywhere in business — sales decks, training materials, educational content, client pitches. And yet, building them slide by slide remains one of the most mind-numbingly tedious tasks in any workflow. Ever since generative AI started gaining traction, one of the most obvious use cases has been automating presentation creation.

Presenti AI is a new tool that just landed on AppSumo, and it tackles this exact problem. You can start with as little as a single sentence prompt, or upload a detailed outline, and Presenti will generate a complete, styled presentation for you. After spending time with the platform, the results are genuinely impressive — though not entirely hands-free.

First Look at the Presenti Platform

Presenti is a surprisingly full-featured presentation platform. Right from the dashboard, you have several options for getting started: generate a presentation using AI, transform an existing file (Word, PowerPoint, or PDF), or build from one of their many templates.

The interface feels snappy and responsive — more like a desktop application than a typical web-based tool. Navigation is smooth, slides load quickly, and the overall editing experience is comfortable enough that you won't feel like you're fighting the tool to get things done.

Creating a Presentation from a Single Prompt

The headline feature is generating a full presentation from just a topic description. You type in your subject — something like "choosing software to run a modern physical goods e-commerce business" — and Presenti takes it from there. You can choose between three complexity levels (simple, standard, and complex) and select either GPT-4o or GPT-4o Mini as the underlying model.

Before any slides are created, Presenti generates an outline that you can review and edit. This is a smart design choice. You're not locked into whatever the AI produces — you get a chance to restructure, rename sections, and add or remove bullet points before committing to the full generation.

Editing the Outline and Mind Map

The outline editing experience goes beyond a simple text list. Presenti includes a mind map view where you can visually rearrange your presentation structure. You can zoom in, scroll around, double-click nodes to rename them, and use plus buttons to add new branches. The presentation hierarchy supports up to four layers deep: title, section, slide, and bullet points.

If the mind map isn't your style, there's also a full-screen list view with clear labels indicating what each level represents. One small suggestion: the mind map view could benefit from labeling the hierarchy levels directly, since it's not always obvious whether you're looking at a slide title or a bullet point. The list view handles this better. If the entire outline misses the mark, a "try another outline" button gives you a fresh take without starting over.

Template Selection and Slide Generation

Once you're happy with the outline, you pick a theme from Presenti's template library. There are roughly 50 to 60 templates available, ranging from clean and minimal to image-heavy designs. Some use stock photography from sources like Pexels and Pixabay — you'll recognize a few of the images if you've spent time around stock libraries — but many of the layouts are genuinely well-designed.

You also get to choose your illustration source: theme-based imagery or AI-generated images created on the fly. After making your selections, Presenti generates the entire slide deck in real time, right in front of you. Watching a 25-slide presentation materialize in seconds is genuinely impressive. Some slides had minor layout quirks — overlapping text, a button slightly out of place — but these are quick fixes compared to the hours you'd spend building this from scratch in PowerPoint.

Editing and Customizing Your Slides

The slide editor itself is capable and intuitive. You can click on any element to resize, reposition, or restyle it. Typography adjustments are straightforward — grab a text block, tweak the font size, and move on. Elements snap to alignment guides, making it easy to keep things looking professional without pixel-hunting.

Presenti also supports keyboard navigation, so you can use arrow keys to flip through slides quickly. For images, you can pull from built-in stock media libraries, upload your own assets, or access Presenti's Material Library (more on that below). The overall editing experience feels polished and responsive. When you're ready to present, there's a built-in presentation mode with options to play from the current slide, start from the beginning, or use a speaker mode with slide previews.

Converting Existing Files into Presentations

Already have an outline in a Word doc, PDF, or even just a Markdown file? Presenti can import it and turn it into a full presentation. The convert file option lets you either upload a document directly or paste in Markdown-formatted text.

After importing, you get options for how the AI should handle the content: keep it exactly as-is, regenerate it, extract the core points, or expand on the original material. This flexibility is useful — sometimes you want a faithful adaptation, other times you want the AI to flesh out a rough outline. In testing, a 20-slide presentation generated from a Claude-created outline came out with fewer layout issues than the prompt-based generation, likely because the structured input gave the AI more to work with.

Custom Fonts and Branding

For anyone working with brand guidelines, Presenti supports custom font uploads. You can bring in your own typography and apply it across an entire presentation with a single click, or selectively apply it to individual text elements.

The one limitation worth noting: Presenti currently only supports TTF font files. If your fonts are in OTF or WOFF format (common for web designers and Mac users), you'll need to convert them first. A free tool like CloudConvert handles this easily, but it's an extra step that would be nice to see eliminated in a future update. Once uploaded, your custom fonts appear in the font picker alongside the built-in options and can be applied globally or per-slide.

The Material Library: Your Built-In Asset Manager

Presenti includes what it calls a Material Library — essentially a built-in Dropbox-style asset manager for logos, images, and other files you reuse across presentations. Upload your assets once, tag them for easy searching, and pull them into any presentation without hunting through your hard drive.

The library supports PNG, JPEG, and SVG files, though there are a few rough edges. SVG previews don't render in the library view, and PNG previews can appear oddly cropped. The full preview loads correctly when you click through, but the thumbnail experience could use some polish. A tagging system helps organize files — tag your logo as "logo," your product screenshots as "product" — so you can filter through large asset libraries efficiently. Despite the preview quirks, having a centralized asset library built into the platform is a meaningful time-saver.

AI Beautify: Restyling Existing Presentations

One of Presenti's more interesting features is AI Beautify, which takes an existing presentation — imported from PowerPoint or Google Slides — and reskins it to match one of Presenti's templates. Upload your old deck, select a new theme, and the AI adapts your content to the new design while preserving all of your original text and data.

The results are solid but not flawless. Background elements with transparency may not import perfectly, and image cropping occasionally needs manual adjustment. But the core value proposition holds up: you can take a dated or poorly designed presentation and give it a professional facelift in minutes rather than hours. The built-in crop tool makes fixing any image issues quick and painless.

Creating Custom Templates for Your Brand

For teams and businesses that need consistent branding across all presentations, Presenti offers custom template creation. There are two approaches: build a template from scratch within Presenti, or import a PowerPoint file and teach the system your template's structure.

The import workflow is particularly clever. You upload your existing template, then walk through each slide type — title, table of contents, content, section divider, closing — and map which elements are titles, subtitles, body content, and so on. You're essentially training Presenti to understand your layout so that future AI-generated presentations automatically use your brand's design. This means your custom fonts, logos, and color schemes carry forward into every new deck without manual adjustment.

Pricing, Plans, and Final Verdict

Presenti is currently available on AppSumo starting at $59 for Tier 1, which includes a single seat. All features are included on every plan — the tiers only differ in the number of team seats, scaling up to 20 users. Each seat comes with 20,000 monthly AI credits, plus a bonus 2,000 credits on signup.

Credit consumption is surprisingly light. After creating multiple presentations — more than what was shown in a full review session — credit usage barely made a dent, dropping from 22,000 to just 21,521. That's reassuring for anyone worried about hitting limits during regular use.

The platform isn't perfect. You'll occasionally need to resize a font or adjust spacing manually, and the Material Library previews could be cleaner. But for $59, the value is hard to argue with. The editor feels great, the template selection is strong, and the AI generation is genuinely useful rather than gimmicky. Presenti earns a strong 8.4 out of 10 — one of the easiest recommendations in a long time.

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