--- title: Can Claude Make Better Slides than McKinsey? | daily.dev description: A hands-on evaluation of Anthropic's Claude PowerPoint add-in, tested across multiple scenarios: creating slides from scratch, editing existing slides,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/can-claude-make-better-slides-than-mckinsey--jl4sh2tkf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Can Claude Make Better Slides than McKinsey? | daily.dev og:description: A hands-on evaluation of Anthropic's Claude PowerPoint add-in, tested across multiple scenarios: creating slides from scratch, editing existing slides,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/can-claude-make-better-slides-than-mckinsey--jl4sh2tkf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Jl4sh2tKF.png og:image:alt: Can Claude Make Better Slides than McKinsey? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Can Claude Make Better Slides than McKinsey? **[YouTube](https://daily.dev/sources/youtube)** · 9 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A hands-on evaluation of Anthropic's Claude PowerPoint add-in, tested across multiple scenarios: creating slides from scratch, editing existing slides, generating templates, building full presentations, and rebuilding a BCG consulting slide. Key findings include that Claude works best when given an existing template with defined layouts, struggles with template creation from scratch, and requires iterative prompting to get good results. The tool's ability to manipulate PowerPoint's underlying structure natively is highlighted as its biggest differentiator over other AI presentation tools. The author concludes that while AI slide generation is impressive, the last 10% of polish still requires significant human effort and patience. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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