slide-maker: turn a paper, a repo, a doc, or just a topic into a native PPTX you can present

The slide-maker that reads your actual work, never invents a number, ships fully-editable native PowerPoint, and won't hand it over until an independent critic signs off.

Chat with it in Codex or Claude Code. It isn't one prompt guessing at slides: a small team of specialized agents reads your paper / repo / doc (or researches the topic when you have none), plans the story, designs each slide around it, builds a real .pptx, and puts it through an independent review before you ever see it.

Most AI-PPT tools race to look pretty in seconds. slide-maker optimizes for the four things that actually matter when the deck is yours to defend:

• 🔍 Reads your source — doesn't invent it. Every number and figure traces back to your material; it won't make up a statistic to fill a slide. (The failure mode of every "expand a topic" tool — one popular assistant printed 43% growth where the real figure was 12%.)
• ✏️ A real PowerPoint, not a screenshot. Every text box, shape, native chart and equation is a click-to-edit object — nothing flattened to an image. (Many "export to PPTX" tools quietly turn a third of your slides into uneditable pictures.)
• 🧑‍⚖️ Reviewed before you see it. A non-negotiable actor–critic loop: a separate critic tries to break the deck — cramped layout, weak contrast, a number that doesn't match the source — and sends fixes back. Not the author model grading its own homework.
• 🎨 Designed around your content, in any language. Composed slide by slide — matching your template or designing a clean one — for a research talk, a thesis defense, or a product pitch. Not your text poured into a stock layout.

Native-editable PPTX is now table stakes (several tools do it). What's rare is editable and source-traced and critic-reviewed and bespoke — together, in one file you own. Honest limits: no zero-setup cloud, no share links, no animated web backgrounds — it makes a file, run locally, that opens and edits cleanly in real PowerPoint/Keynote. See what's different.

Template gallery

Eight directions, one set in English and one in Chinese. Each is a complete example deck with real content, not empty placeholders.

How to use the templates

The gallery lives in the slides_maker-site repo under templates/decks/, English under en/, Chinese under zh/. Grab it once:

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/addsumtech/slides_maker-site.git

Two ways to use a template:

Option 1: point at it (simplest). Put the template path in your request:

Use slide-maker. Follow the style of slides_maker-site/templates/decks/en/nvidia-overview/template.pptx
and build a product intro from my product.md.

It parses the template's layout and visual system, then applies them to your content.

Option 2: register it for repeated use. Copy a template you like into the local template registry, and slide-maker will list it as an option every time:

# Claude Code users
cp -r slides_maker-site/templates/decks/en/nvidia-overview ~/.claude/slide-templates/nvidia-overview

# Codex users
cp -r slides_maker-site/templates/decks/en/nvidia-overview ~/.codex/slide-templates/nvidia-overview

Use en/ templates for English decks and zh/ for Chinese ones. The layouts match; only the copy language differs.

What makes slide-maker different

AI presentation tools roughly fall into four categories. slide-maker only does the last one: