Why you should hire an AI-friendly design agency
From slide template design to pitch deck perfection, Presentation Studio is your AI-friendly design “Copilot”.
If you’re reading this, you’re probably interested in exploring the potential of AI to help your business thrive. Presentation Studio’s CEO Emma Bannister has written several thought leadership pieces about AI on LinkedIn, from productivity to Copilot Wave 2.
Investing in AI tools such as Copilot is great for your business, but without the right expertise and management to harness its capabilities and integrate it seamlessly into your existing operations, you won’t be getting the most out of it. At Presentation Studio, we empower our clients using AI to ensure they maximise the skills they need to reap the efficiencies that AI promises.
Working with us means more than receiving on-brand presentation assets and drop-dead gorgeous marketing collateral to seal your next deal: equipping your team with the know-how to create operational efficiencies in your internal design, content, and communications processes. And there is nothing more valuable than that.
Here are a few examples of how we’ve helped clients with the combined impact of design expertise and AI efficiency, creating cost-effective presentations:
Setting up Copilot Agents
Copilot Studio – create bots that are tailored to your needs.
In case you haven’t heard, these “custom agents” are the new AI assistants in Microsoft that can automatically execute business processes, working with or for the people on your team. Get more done and delegate reproducible tasks to your newest “assistant.”
Working with PS means your new Copilot agents are being trained by the best in the design game and continue to learn from user feedback to adapt their behaviour, so they can not just do more for you — but crucially, do more high-quality work for you based on your specific business needs and data. We’ve helped clients create Copilot agents for rote tasks that can otherwise be a massive pain. It is better to reduce your workload and focus on creative thinking and planning.
Getting the best out of Narrative Builder in PowerPoint.
Craft outlines with PowerPoint's new "Narrative builder" .
In case you missed it: Copilot in Microsoft PowerPoint is now equipped with “Narrative builder,” an intelligent tool that uses your prompt to build a presentation outline that can form the basis of a first draft of your presentation. How nifty is that?
At Presentation Studio, we’ve helped our clients refine their use of Narrative builder by showing them shortcuts and best practices for efficient prompting. We also take the “second pass” after generating Narrative builder’s draft outline, and strategically refine presentation structures and layouts to make sure everything is aligned with the goal of your slide deck.
Centralising your brand assets ensures consistent,
professional PowerPoint and Word Templates.
Manage your brand and assets with the Brand center.
Copilot can now leverage your company’s brand assets and templates so your presentations are enterprise-ready and on-brand. This is a huge step in efficiency for consistent brand management. So loading up Brand manager with the correct guidelines in the first place is key to take advantage of this.
By setting up Copilot Agents, we can ensure your assets are tagged and located in the correct folders in SharePoint, which enables Copilot to search and retrieve assets directly from these libraries. For example, when creating a presentation, you can prompt Copilot to add specific brand images or templates, ensuring consistency and adherence to brand guidelines.
This simplifies creating on-brand documents by providing quick access to company-approved assets.
Presentation Studio helps clients populate their Brand managers with the right assets, colour schemes, fonts, and guidelines so it can do the best job it can. It’s still prone to errors, so our design experts keep a close and watchful eye on all outputs so that there’s no risk of erroneous hierarchies and misplaced logos. Soon, Copilot will even be able to draw upon company-approved images from your SharePoint Asset Library.
Creating collaborative workflows using Copilot Pages.
Collaborate seamlessly with Copilot Pages - your AI-powered content canvas.
Copilot Pages is the new way to memorialise AI-generated content on a collaborative “canvas” that you and your team can collectively edit and refine. This means your internal teams and your client services manager at Presentation Studio can easily share, expand upon, and make progress on Copilot’s “first drafts” effortlessly and turn business-critical information into reusable business assets.
We’ve found that Copilot Pages is the perfect tool for tracking our collaborative work with our clients and ensuring nothing gets lost—especially not those collective glimmers of genius on our catch-up calls.
Microsoft 365 Copilot and Cost Effectiveness in Design
Microsoft 365 Copilot. Your AI assistant.
Put simply, Copilot is like a new junior team member. It adds capacity to your organisation, can be slowly taught the basics (and eventually improves to learn more complex things), and operates best with managerial oversight and in partnership with more experienced colleagues.
It’s amazing at getting you from a blank screen to a first draft more quickly, providing a starting point to tweak and refine so you can get it all up to scratch and in line with your brand messaging and guidelines before hitting send or pressing publish. The beauty of combining its capacity with design expertise from the likes of Presentation Studio is that it can accomplish more for you faster and at a lower cost.
If you think about it, hiring a design agency to help you create sharp, effective presentation materials WITHOUT using AI (Gemini, ChatGPT or Copilot, etc.) means you're probably paying more than you should.
Our transparent workflows incorporate the AI first draft that you DON'T have to pay extra for, and we deliver a final product with an expert's finish. It's the best of both worlds:
A lightning-fast turnaround and efficient use of your resources for a truly standout presentation designed to turn heads.
If you want to get the most out of the AI tools you’ve invested in and work with a design agency that gets AI and helps YOU get it, too, reach out to us today. We’d love to chat.