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Templafy Talks: From AI hype to business-ready PowerPoints
How to keep AI-generated presentations on-brand, accurate, and consistent at scale
If your team relies on presentations, chances are they’re already using AI to build them (with or without IT’s sign-off).
The problem is, most AI presentation tools were designed for individuals, not organizations. They produce slides quickly, but speed without structure creates a different kind of problem: outputs that are off-brand, inaccurate, and impossible to trust at scale.
In this session of Templafy Talks, we revealed the easiest way to add governance and structure to AI to make it enterprise-safe.
We also gave a first-look live demo of Templafy’s new free AI presentation generator, a browser-based tool you can try right now.
Keep reading for the key insights, or catch the full webinar recording here.
About Templafy Talks
Templafy Talks is our ongoing webinar series on document automation, AI, and how enterprise teams can get real ROI. Each session brings together live demos, practical takeaways, and real-world success stories.
This session focused on a growing challenge: how to give AI the infrastructure it needs to produce business-ready presentations at scale.
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Speakers
- John Tiniakos, Senior Principal Customer Success Manager, Templafy
- Ed Nordby-Graves, Agentic Sales Manager, Templafy
AI-generated presentations look polished—but polished and accurate are not the same thing
Most AI tools can generate a deck in seconds. But the slides that come out use the wrong brand assets, pull from outdated information, or present revenue figures and pricing that nobody has verified. For enterprises, that’s a serious problem. It erodes trust in AI tools, creates compliance exposure, and wastes the valuable data that companies are already sitting on.
The root cause isn’t the AI model. It’s the lack of infrastructure around it. Most organizations have content and data scattered across SharePoint, Salesforce, Excel, and dozens of other systems, but none of it is connected to the AI tools meant to use it.
So when an employee asks AI to build a client proposal, it produces something that looks polished but is built on guesswork. Then comes hours (sometimes days) of rework and review to make sure the content is actually aligned and accurate before it can be sent. That’s not the efficiency gain anyone was promised.
“Today, an employee goes into their AI tool and gets an inconsistent output—not because the AI is bad, but because nobody has told it what to do with the information it has. The data’s there, the content’s there, but it’s not connected. And that leads to unpredictable output, a lot of rework, and a trust problem that stops people using the tool at all.”

Ed Nordby-Graves,
Agentic Sales Manager, Templafy
Giving AI the right context is the only way to get consistent results
From prompt to presentation
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Think about asking a brand-new employee to build a proposal for a client they know nothing about. They’ll give it their best shot, but the result will be generic at best and off-brand and non-compliant at worst.
Now give that same employee a folder with your brand guidelines, previous winning examples, the client’s background, and detailed notes from their last call. The output is completely different, because now they have what they need to do the job properly.
That’s the difference orchestration makes for AI. Orchestration means giving AI tools the right context, connected to the right systems, with the right instructions built in, so every output is accurate, on-brand, and compliant, regardless of who creates it or how well they prompt.
“It’s not just about plugging systems into an LLM. It’s about actually giving it some purpose—not just how a system should be used by an AI agent, but what it should be looking for, how it should use that data in a CRM for example, and how it can then bring that to the output on the other end. What do you get on the back of doing something like this? Predictable output, genuine efficiency, and adoption.”

Ed Nordby-Graves
Agentic Sales Manager, Templafy
The good news is that orchestration doesn’t require rebuilding your tech stack. It works with the systems your business already runs on:
- Workspace apps like PowerPoint and Outlook, which give AI the context it needs
- Customer data platforms like Salesforce and other CRMs, which give AI accurate, up-to-date information
- Content stores like SharePoint and Teams, where guardrails keep outputs consistent and compliant
- Operational data from tools like SAP or Excel, where explicit rules govern how AI uses sensitive information
Orchestration doesn’t just connect AI to the right tools, it tells AI how to use them.
Consistent, compliant presentations at scale require three layers of orchestration
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Templafy breaks orchestration down into three layers: content, knowledge, and data. Together, they ensure outputs are genuinely business-ready.
1. Content: the foundation every AI agent needs
Content is your slide layouts: dynamic templates with embedded instructions that tell the agent which slide to use and when. It’s placeholders that define exactly where information goes and in what form, right down to whether a field should be a sentence or a full paragraph. And it’s your approved visual assets, logos, images, and icons the agent draws from directly, without generating anything that hasn’t been signed off. Everything is centrally managed, so it’s on-brand and approved by default.
“We want to give all of that to the agent, and give you the ability to centrally manage it, so the agent’s doing the right thing and staying on brand.”

Ed Nordby-Graves
Agentic Sales Manager, Templafy
2. Knowledge: from generically plausible to genuinely informed
By connecting your AI tools to company context, project-specific information, and best-practice examples, you get output that reflects real knowledge rather than educated guesswork. A slide built this way reads like it was written by someone who actually knew the account.
“We can give the agent company context, or we can give it project-specific information, and we can also give it best-practice examples. It can go in and read those documents, look at the information, how it’s presented, and reflect that in the document it’s generating.”

Ed Nordby-Graves
Agentic Sales Manager, Templafy
3. Data: where precision and trust are won or lost
Data is the trickiest layer to get right, and the most consequential for enterprises. When AI handles sensitive figures without explicit guardrails, the risk isn’t just inaccuracy. It’s the kind that causes real business problems: a contract value with an extra zero, a pricing tier pulled from the wrong Salesforce record, a revenue figure from last quarter presented as current in a board-level proposal.
Templafy takes a deterministic approach to data. Specific figures are bound to specific placeholders, so they appear exactly as they exist in your source systems. No interpretation, no manual checking, no hallucination risk.
“A lot of the data we work with is very sensitive. We certainly don’t want AI taking pricing information and adding a zero on the end—that can cause serious problems. So we give the agent very specific instructions: this piece of data must not be changed, and must be placed here, in this placeholder. That’s what deterministic means—the information will be in the right place, without any change.”

Ed Nordby-Graves
Agentic Sales Manager, Templafy
How Templafy’s document agents make governance easy
Most AI tools put the burden on the user. Get the prompt right and you get a good output. Get it wrong and you get something generic—or worse, something that looks right but isn’t. Either way, someone has to check, fix, and reformat before the document is usable. That’s not efficiency. It’s just a different kind of manual work.
Templafy’s answer to this is document agents: AI-powered helpers that are pre-configured with your brand rules, content, and compliance workflows before a user ever opens them.
“Rather than spending time writing out the prompt and trying to become a prompt engineer extraordinaire, I can just let our technology do it. It generates this instruction document in the background, pulling the right data from the right systems, so the agent knows exactly what to build and where to put it.”

Ed Nordby-Graves
Agentic Sales Manager, Templafy
The result is that output quality no longer depends on individual skill.
Every user gets the same high standard, regardless of experience. Sales teams spend less time rebuilding decks and more time in front of customers. Brand teams stop firefighting off-brand output. IT teams get governed, connected workflows instead of uncontrolled shadow AI adoption. And because the tools reliably produce good results, employees keep coming back to them—which is ultimately what turns AI investment into AI ROI.
The more context you give your document agent, the more complete your output
You don’t need all three layers in place to get started. Connect just content and you eliminate the blank page problem, with on-brand slides ready to edit. Add knowledge and the output reflects the specifics of the account or project. Add data and you reach what Ed calls maximum completion: a document that reflects your brand, your numbers, and your context, every time.
“Either you can ship that document, or you can just give it a quick review and send it off. The more context you give your document agent, the more it can complete for you.”

Ed Nordby-Graves
Agentic Sales Manager, Templafy
AI orchestration isn’t one size fits all
Whether you need solid first drafts for everyone in the business, context-driven proposals for client-facing teams, or fully automated high-value documents with up to 100% completion, there’s a package designed to get you there.
Ready to try it for yourself?
The best way to understand what document agents can do is to see them in action.
Watch the full webinar recording here, including the live demo where Ed builds through all three layers in real time, starting from a single prompt and ending with a fully structured, data-accurate proposal.
Or start with a hands-on try yourself. Templafy’s free online PowerPoint generator is browser-based, requires no design skills, and outputs a real .pptx file ready to edit and send.
Want to dive even deeper? Join the Templafy team at Templafy Connect 2026, our in-person event across London, Copenhagen, Stockholm, and Zurich.