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Rideful Slides

Quick Start Guide

Create your first deck in under 2 minutes — in the app, or from your own AI assistant.

In the App

  1. Sign in

    Go to rideful.io/slides. You can also type your request into the composer on the home page before you sign up — it follows you in.

  2. Describe the deck you want

    A chat composer sits above your deck grid, on Home and inside any folder:

    “A 6-slide investor pitch for a dog-walking startup.”
  3. Answer one short round of questions

    In practice that's just which of your own brand templates to build on, if you have any. The deck name comes from your request, it lands in the folder you're in, and 16:9 is assumed unless you say otherwise. Slide count, narrative, and visual style are left to the agent that builds the deck.

  4. The deck opens, building

    Rideful creates the deck and takes you into the editor. The chat panel is already open, with the agent planning and building from a brief of what you just agreed — nothing is asked twice. The run keeps going if you close the tab, and the panel rejoins it when you reopen the deck.

  5. Refine in the chat

    Describe a change and the agent updates that element — a headline, a color, the order of two slides — without regenerating the deck. You can also edit by hand in the editor at any time.

  6. Export to PowerPoint

    Click Export in the top bar, between the deck title and Present. The .pptx downloads when it's ready and looks identical in PowerPoint, Keynote, and Google Slides.

From an MCP Client

The same decks can be built from Claude, ChatGPT, Le Chat, or a coding agent like Claude Code.

Step by Step

  1. Connect your AI assistant to Rideful

    If you haven't already, connect your AI client to Rideful's MCP server. See the Connect via MCP guide for setup instructions.

  2. Ask your AI to create a presentation

    Use natural language — describe what you need and the AI handles the rest:

    “Create a 5-slide pitch deck about our Q4 results. Use a dark theme with blue tones.”
  3. The AI follows the recommended workflow

    Behind the scenes, your AI assistant will:

    • Check for brand templates (template_list)
    • Discover available fonts (util_list_fonts)
    • Present a design plan (colors, fonts, layout) for your approval
    • Create the entire deck in one call (slide_bulk_create)
  4. View and refine at rideful.io

    Your presentation appears in the visual editor in real-time. You can refine by hand — drag elements, adjust colors, edit text — or keep instructing the AI to make changes.

  5. Export to PowerPoint when ready

    Open the deck at rideful.io and click Export in the top bar. The .pptx looks identical in PowerPoint, Keynote, and Google Slides. Exporting is an editor action — there is no MCP tool for it, so your assistant cannot do this one for you.

What Happens Behind the Scenes

When you ask for a presentation, the AI translates your natural language into MCP tool calls. Here's what a slide_bulk_create call looks like for a 3-slide business review deck:

{
  "name": "Q4 Business Review",
  "aspectRatio": "16:9",
  "masterStyles": {
    "backgroundColor": "#1C2833",
    "titleStyle": {
      "textColor": "#FFFFFF",
      "fontSize": 40,
      "fontFamily": "Inter"
    },
    "bodyStyle": {
      "textColor": "#AAB7B8",
      "fontSize": 16,
      "fontFamily": "Inter"
    }
  },
  "slides": [
    {
      "title": "Q4 2025 Business Review",
      "subtitle": "Key metrics, wins, and roadmap",
      "titleStyle": { "fontSize": 44 },
      "subtitleStyle": { "textColor": "#AAB7B8", "fontSize": 20 }
    },
    {
      "title": "Revenue Highlights",
      "body": "- **$4.2M** total revenue (+32% YoY)\n- **1,200** new enterprise accounts\n- **94%** net retention rate\n- Expansion into EMEA drove 40% of growth",
      "backgroundColor": "#2E4053"
    },
    {
      "title": "2026 Roadmap",
      "body": "1. Launch enterprise SSO integration\n2. Expand template marketplace\n3. Add real-time collaboration analytics\n4. Open API for third-party integrations"
    }
  ]
}

This single call creates the deck with consistent styling (masterStyles), the starter template's layouts, and markdown-formatted content. The AI can then iterate — updating individual elements, adding slides, or adjusting colors — without regenerating the whole deck.

See It in Action

Want to see what a finished deck looks like? View a demo presentation created entirely through AI using Rideful's MCP tools.

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