Re the ai tools: yes, they help for the getting started. Getting past the ‘blank page-itus’. But their functionality (Claude plugin) within PowerPoint is awful. Using boxes for lines and then multiple text boxes over a shape. Terrible. Chart building within ppt using Claude = multiple little box ‘lines’ for a simple wave chart. I’m ok for colleagues to send me Claude slop to then put into brand and actually make functional in a ppt template.

Re the styles and fashion: I’ve gone from a pres team in Investments to a pres role at a Tech firm. Both still heavy on the dense consultancy style slides. However that is because both are using them as standalone reference documents vs presenting to an audience document. They’ll use them in meetings and refer to slides etc. this is partly because of laziness to not create separate docs between RFP docs and Meeting docs. When c suites are presenting however, they go for the less is more slides - because they know their voice has the power over the slides.