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08 Dec 2025

PowerPoint Copilot December 2025 Update: Agent Mode Changes Everything

Last Updated: December 8, 2025 TL;DR:  PowerPoint Copilot December 2025 Update December 2025 brings Agent Mode to PowerPoint—the biggest shift in how we work with AI presentations since Copilot launched. Instead of one-shot prompts, you now have multi-turn conversations where Copilot creates, edits, and refines slides iteratively. I tested this on three client decks this […]

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07 Dec 2025

AI Prompt Templates for Every Executive Presentation Type

AI prompt templates are the difference between generic AI output and slides worth presenting to executives. Most people type vague requests like “create a presentation about Q3 results” and wonder why they get useless output. The AI isn’t broken — the prompt is. Without specific instructions, AI produces the average of everything it’s seen, which […]

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06 Dec 2025

Strategic Recommendation Slides: The McKinsey-Style Framework

Strategic recommendation slides separate the executives who get promoted from those who stay stuck. When leadership asks “what should we do?”, they’re testing more than your analysis. They’re testing whether you can synthesise complex information into a clear strategic recommendation — the skill that defines senior executives. After 25 years in corporate banking at JPMorgan […]

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05 Dec 2025

Why Your Investor Pitch Deck Isn’t Getting Meetings

Your investor pitch deck gets 30 seconds before an investor decides to keep reading or move on. That’s not a metaphor. VCs review hundreds of investor pitch decks monthly. They’ve developed pattern recognition that instantly identifies decks worth their time — and decks that aren’t. After helping clients raise over £250 million in funding, I’ve […]

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04 Dec 2025

PowerPoint Copilot: What It Actually Does Well (And What It Doesn’t)

PowerPoint Copilot is the most overhyped and underutilised tool in Microsoft 365. Overhyped because Microsoft’s marketing suggests it will create brilliant presentations from a single prompt. It won’t. Underutilised because most people give up after the first disappointing result, missing the things PowerPoint Copilot actually does brilliantly. I’ve tested PowerPoint Copilot on over 100 real […]

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