Why AI-Powered Templates are the Future of Presentation Design

AI has proven to be a strategic partner to teams across varying industries. The technology takes on the work they consider time-consuming and delivers it to them quickly, reducing bottlenecks within teams. As AI continues to evolve, we’ve seen a shift from it being an exploratory tool to an integral piece of the workplace. 

Our research found that 66% of managers are adopting AI tools to enhance worker productivity or improve efficiency, indicating that the use of AI-powered design software will only grow. 

What does that mean for the future of presentations?

Expediting work with automation

As AI becomes more mainstream, and widely adopted by teams, professionals will find new ways to use AI to fast-track their work. Leveraging AI to automate tedious and repetitive tasks unlocks a level of efficiency that gives teams time back for other projects. In 2025, we’ll see the rise of hyperautomation— using AI to automate and streamline as many processes across the organization as possible. This stretches from managing and maintaining workflows to automating the most tedious parts of presentation design. 

The future of AI presentations

It’s been two years since generative AI changed the way people create, and it didn’t take long for the technology to reach presentations. AI presentation makers— like Beautiful.ai— leverage artificial intelligence to help remove friction in the presentation process by automating design. AI can take on the burden of design by producing entire decks, or slides, from a single prompt. This gives everyone— regardless of design skills— the tools they need to go from idea to impact, faster. Generative AI gives you the foundation to get started with a fully baked first draft of your presentation so you’re not spinning your wheels staring at a blank slide. 

AI presentations are nothing new, but what can we expect to see in 2025 and beyond?

From 2023 to 2024 alone we’ve seen a 160% increase in AI presentations. As people tap into hyperautomation, that number will undoubtedly grow and extend to various phases of the presentation design process. From copy and graphics to AI-powered templates, teams can leverage the technology across each phase of design to streamline their workflow. 

AI-enhanced presentation design software like Beautiful.ai is setting new standards for design, making streamlined, on-brand work the new norm. As AI matures, its impact on presentation creation will only grow, driving further behavioral shifts in how we think about and create presentations. Embracing these tools not only greatly enhances productivity, but also ensures that businesses can effectively capture and maintain their audience's attention. This new direction reflects a broader shift in the use of presentations, which have gone from being “nice-to-haves” to becoming the primary public face for pitches, data presentations, and new business outreach.

Beautiful.ai’s AI-powered templates

Beautiful.ai’s AI assistant makes the presentation process more seamless by acting as your collaborative partner. Ask our AI to create you a slide or deck from a single prompt, generate new copy or rewrite existing text, compile speaker notes based on the information on your slide, or make custom graphics and images unique to your story.

Beautiful.ai’s AI assistant can also:

• Create AI presentations from a single prompt
• Produce AI-generated slides
• Write or iterate on copy
• Generate unique AI images
• Compile AI-powered presenter notes
• Transform placeholder notes into a fully designed slide
• Provide the framework for Smart Slides
• Fix spelling and grammatical errors

While the AI likely won’t get you all the way to the finish line, the content generation expedites brainstorming by giving you a working draft to iterate on in seconds. Once you have the blueprint to get started, our Smart Slides can take you the rest of the way. 

Smart Slide templates have the principles of good design baked into intentional guardrails so the layout automatically adapts as you add and edit your content. This helps maintain design integrity for non-designers without causing a snag in their workflow. 

Presenters can pair our AI technology with Smart Slides by generating content with our AI assistant, and leveraging the smart slide technology to tailor the slides to fit their needs. To further automate the presentation design process, you can copy any slide or deck created by AI to templatize it and use it in future presentations. 

What AI advancements are you hoping to see in presentations in 2025?