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PowerPoint can be a huge time suck— that’s nothing new or groundbreaking. The traditional software simply lacks the smart, intuitive features that newer presentation software brings to the table. We’d be willing to bet that the majority of PowerPoint users have reached a point of frustration once or twice throughout the presentation design process.
Yet, people get stuck on the idea of change.
We get it, the thought of disrupting your workflow to onboard a new software can be overwhelming. That’s why many people will fight through the blockers often associated with older presentation tools to avoid learning something new. But change can be beautiful (see what we did there?).
Like with anything, there’s a learning curve before you reach scalability. Luckily, Beautiful.ai is intuitive and easy-to-use, making the switch a lot less intimidating.
If you’ve been on the fence, here’s the final nudge you’ve been looking for. These are five (of many) reasons to make the switch to Beautiful.ai today.
1. Smart designs
People are increasingly switching from PowerPoint to Beautiful.ai because it streamlines the presentation design process with AI-powered automation. Unlike PowerPoint, which requires manual adjustments for layouts, fonts, and alignments, Beautiful.ai handles the heavy lifting of design for you. The technology baked into our Smart Slides takes away some of those pain points that typically block people during the presentation design process.
With Smart Slides, there are design guardrails in place to help guide you through each step of your slide. As you add in your content, your slide will automatically adapt by resizing font, text boxes, and trays to preserve principles of good design. It’s almost impossible to make an ugly slide, regardless of your skill level. Can you say the same about PowerPoint?
2. Easy collaboration
Think about the last PowerPoint you created for your boss. To get sign-off, you would have to export the PPT file, send it as an email attachment and wait for a response. In traditional presentation software, you’re at the mercy of lengthy email chains and various versions of the same deck. When you work in the cloud in Beautiful.ai, versioning issues won't hold you back. You can get feedback and sign-off in real-time, and any updates are automatically pushed live to all versions of the deck. This removes a major bottleneck for individual contributors who want to collaborate on a deck with their colleagues, or need final approvals (fast) from upper management.
Teams can work on the same presentation simultaneously to cover more ground in less time. Our collaborative features like slide status, comments and notifications, and tagging unlock a more seamless way to create together, from anywhere. And because it’s in the cloud, everyone is always working in the most updated version of the deck for a more streamlined experience.
3. Intuitive AI
Beautiful.ai’s AI assistant can help expedite the presentation process by acting as your collaborative partner. Ask our AI to create a slide or deck from a single prompt, generate new text or rewrite existing copy, compile speaker notes based on the information on your slide, or make custom graphics or images unique to your story. While the AI likely won’t get you all the way to the finish line, the content generation acts as your brainstorming counterpart by giving you a working draft to iterate on in seconds. From there, you can leverage our Smart Slide templates to tailor your content and get your presentation to where you need it to be. The unique combination of our powerful AI and intentional Smart Slides is what sets us apart from other presentation software like PowerPoint.
4. Seamless integrations
We recognize a hefty tech-stack can be overwhelming. To help facilitate better productivity, we’ve done the work to integrate Beautiful.ai with your existing workflows so that you can continue to build and manage the best presentations alongside your other documents. With intuitive integrations like Webex, Monday.com, Slack, Salesforce, and PowerPoint you can work more efficiently, and present with confidence.
5. Consistent branding, every time
Having to manually choose fonts and colors for each individual slide is an efficiency killer. Instead, set it and forget it. Choose your theme for the presentation at the beginning and it will automatically be applied to every new slide you create from there on out. This means you aren’t adjusting the typography, font size, colors, or backgrounds on every single slide— but they’re still consistent throughout the entire presentation. This keeps the deck cohesive, and on brand, in a few simple clicks.
This applies to organizations, too. With Beautiful.ai it’s easy to lock in company branding across every touchpoint. The team lead, or admin, can create custom themes complete with company logos, branded colors and fonts, and pre-approved images, so that collaborators or individual contributors don’t have to guess which design will look best. Shared Themes give teammates guardrails to stay visually consistent from deck to deck. This eliminates mismatched slides and inconsistent design when colleagues are collaborating together on one presentation.
If you’re not quite ready to ditch PowerPoint and commit to Beautiful.ai, we have a great PowerPoint add-in that allows you to dip your toes in. You’ll have access to our extensive library of customizable Smart Slides, and all the other great features our customers know and love, right from within your PowerPoint software.
