How to use these prompts

The text to project and the text to say are two different things: on the slide go few words, in your mouth goes the natural speech. The mistake is filling slides with full sentences and then reading them. The prompts below separate the two levels: the outline for structure, the cues for the spoken part. What you say you put there in your own words, over the framework the AI gives you.

A note on method: always try the result out loud. A sentence that works written can stumble when spoken. If it trips you up in your mouth, rewrite it the way you speak, not the way you'd write.

The prompt library

Slide outline

Build me the outline of a presentation on this topic. For each
slide tell me: the single message of that slide (just one), the few
words or the figure to show, and what I'll say out loud over it (as
cues, not full sentences to read). Keep the slides essential, no
walls of text.

Topic, duration, and who I'm speaking to:

The opening that grabs

Give me three different ways to open this talk that make people look
up from their phones in the first fifteen seconds: one with a
surprising figure, one with a direct question to the audience, one with
a concrete scene. No "good morning everyone, today I'll talk to you about."

Topic and audience:

Thirty-second pitch

Help me build a thirty-second pitch: what I do, for whom, what
problem I solve, and why me. A single version, lean, that I can say
looking people in the eye without reading. No jargon, no superlatives.
Then give me the ten-second version for the elevator.

What I need to present:

The thread of the talk (a story, not a list)

Turn these points I want to make into a talk with a narrative
thread, not a list. There has to be a tension that opens at the
start and closes at the end, so the audience stays hooked.
Give me the structure in stages, I'll expand the cues for each stage.

The points I want to touch on:

Prepare for the tough questions

I'm about to present this. Ask me the six most uncomfortable questions
the audience could throw at me, the ones I hope don't come. For each,
give me an honest, short, non-defensive answer track. Include the
question of the most serious objection to my work.

What I'm presenting and to whom:

A real example

Davide has to present at a meeting the new management software he's proposing they adopt, in front of colleagues skeptical about changes. He starts off badly in his head: he wants to explain every feature. He uses the outline prompt, declaring "ten minutes, colleagues wary of change." The AI builds him a path that starts from the problem everyone lives with (the time wasted every Monday), not from the features.

Then he uses the opening prompt and picks the one with the concrete scene: "last Monday I spent two hours copying data from one sheet to another." Finally he prepares the tough questions: the AI anticipates "and what if the new system breaks?" and "who's going to train us?" Davide arrives with his answers ready and speaks off the cuff over the outline, without reading. The AI didn't write the presentation: it gave him the framework and asked him the uncomfortable questions before his colleagues could.

When it does NOT work (and how to fix it)

If the talk sounds read, not said

The sentences come out well-written but stiff in the mouth. Ask for the conversion: "rewrite these cues the way I'd say them talking to a colleague, with short sentences and simple words." And try them out loud: if you stumble, it's the text that's wrong, not your tongue.

If the slides are full of text

The AI tends to put full sentences on slides. Impose the rule: "on each slide at most six words or one figure, the rest I'll say out loud." A full slide is a slide the audience reads instead of listening to you. The words belong in your mouth, not on the screen.

If you don't know how to design the slides visually

This guide gives you the content and the structure, not the slide design: the visual look is yours to handle with the presentation tool you use. For the graphics, start from the clean content you've built and apply a sober, consistent template to it. A clear, ugly slide beats a beautiful, confusing one.

A tip from someone who actually uses it

Prepare more tough questions than slides. You control the presentation, the questions you don't: that's where your credibility is on the line. Have the AI anticipate the objections you fear and prepare your answers out loud, not written. Whoever handles uncomfortable questions well convinces more than whoever has perfect slides. The confidence in answering is what the audience remembers.

Frequently asked questions

Can the AI generate ready-made slides directly, graphics included?

Some tools generate slide drafts with a basic visual layout, but the result almost always needs revising: layout, visual consistency, and identity you sort out yourself. It's better to use the AI for content and structure, and to handle the look with your presentation tool. Solid content comes before the graphics.

How do I avoid reading the slides during the presentation?

By building them as support, not as a script. If the slide has six words on it, you can't read them: you're forced to speak. Keep the talk in your notes or in your head, and leave on the screen only the image or the figure the audience needs to see while you talk. Reading the slides is the surest way to lose the room.

Is a presentation prepared with AI less authentic?

It's less authentic only if you recite it without making it your own. If you use the AI for the framework but put in your examples, your voice, and your off-the-cuff words, it's as authentic as you are. Authenticity isn't about having written it all yourself: it's about believing what you say and saying it the way you talk. The tool prepares the ground; standing in front of the room, it's you.