I Turned a Blog Post Into a Deck in Gamma and Presented It That Afternoon

A post I wrote got more reads than any deck I had made, so I fed the URL into Gamma with one instruction: make a ten-slide version a client could follow without having read the article. An hour later I presented it.

The first pass was too long and too proud of itself, full of section headers no human would say out loud. The fix was a second prompt: cut to the three decisions this drives. Gamma reshuffled and dropped the throat-clearing. That instruction, not the tool, is the actual skill.

Images were auto-suggested and mostly on point; I swapped two that missed. The export was clean enough for the meeting, though I would avoid relying on it for a board deck where every number is contested and someone will ask for the source.

It did not make me a better thinker. It made me a faster one. The post still needed me to decide what mattered; Gamma just stopped me from rebuilding the slide grid by hand.

Gamma (https://gamma.app)

Best for: Teams, Creators.

Key features: AI presentation and document generator; Very clean UI.

Free plan: a free tier covers light use; paid unlocks limits and features.

Pricing: freemium; paid plans add capacity and features.

Pros: Very clean UI.

Cons: Limited export options.