thinkcell Assist: 7 AI tools to improve your PowerPoint slides

thinkcell Assist was built around the acknowledgement that humans shouldn’t only be in the loop for AI-powered business slide creation, they should be the owners.

If you work in management consulting, financial analysis, strategy, or any type of knowledge work, you’ve accumulated experience that informs your human judgment about what makes a great slide great in your field. And you don’t need to burn through millions of tokens to know almost instantly when a slide is off.

So, our AI tools help you execute individual aspects of slide creation. thinkcell Assist can draft titles, write text, summarize slides, translate, generate charts. Then it’s your invaluable expertise, judgement, and spatial awareness that brings everything together into one great slide.

Here are seven ways thinkcell Assist supports your human expertise and the value it creates:

1. Brainstorm your narrative with AI chat in PowerPoint
2. Analyze data in Excel using natural language
3. Automate your chart creation with an AI chart generator
4. Create titles and summaries with a click
5. Localize your deck with the slide translator  
6. Find stats and financial data without leaving PowerPoint
7. Improve and organize text with our AI text editor

1. Brainstorm your narrative with AI chat in PowerPoint

thinkcell Assist lets you use natural language in a chat to perform AI-powered actions across one slide or the entire deck.

The chat opens in a side pane that’s inside PowerPoint and Excel, so you won’t be switching tabs or apps, and the conversation remains secure.

You can perform clear actions via the chat, like summarizing a block of text. But you can also work open-ended, using the chat as a conversation partner to sense-check an idea, brainstorm on your deck’s narrative, or search the web – all without leaving PowerPoint.

2. Analyze data in Excel using natural language

Often, a slide workflow doesn’t begin with a blank slide in PowerPoint, but a full datasheet in Excel.

So, thinkcell Assist also works in Excel, where you can read or analyze your datasets and generate new worksheets or data tables.

For example, thinkcell Assist can explain the key differences across several worksheets, convert currencies or create new rows that calculate asset depreciation.

All the outputs are formula-based, so you can trace the calculations back to the data and be certain that the generated results are as reliable as if you’d done the analysis yourself.

3. Automate your chart creation with an AI chart generator

Once you've finished your data work in Excel, you can take that AI-powered analysis or your existing data and automatically generate a thinkcell chart.

thinkcell Assist will shape the data into a chart you can add directly to your PowerPoint slide. Then you apply the final touches: adjusting colors, formatting series labels, or adding annotations or callouts. And if you want to check, update or extend the data, it’s still in your Excel where thinkcell Assist made it for you.

The chart is yours to refine for your presentation’s needs.

4. Create titles and summaries with a click

Some of the most critical additions to an effective slide deck are action titles and summary slides. These last mile additions can be time-consuming and, near the end of a marathon slide creation session, cognitively demanding to write. Yet, they can make or break a business slide deck.

With thinkcell Assist, you’re able to get three action title suggestions for your slide with a click. You choose the one that’s right for you, and it lands on the slide as a formatted, editable headline, so you can tweak it until it’s right.

You can also create summary slides based on a selection of slides. Like the titles, they’re inserted into your presentation with formatting that matches the rest of your deck. So, the output’s ready to refine, not reformat.

5. Localize your deck with the slide translator  

Translating your slides ensures they are accessible and prevents misunderstandings in business situations where decisions are being made from the slides being presented.

You can use thinkcell Assist to translate individual text boxes, whole slides, or even your entire presentation at the click of a button in 70+ languages.

Like everything else thinkcell Assist generates, the translation lands on the slide, preserving your formatting and slide design. It’s also editable, so you can send it for review and easily make final edits to the translated version.

6. Find stats and financial data without leaving PowerPoint

Reliable, trusted data is crucial for presentations in any business setting. But if your data is generated by an LLM, it might not be consistent. You can’t add data to a presentation if you can’t check its accuracy.

To own the data you’re presenting, you need to be able to trace where it’s come from and check any calculations. thinkcell Assist includes access to verified data sources like Statista, without an additional subscription.

You can search for data from within PowerPoint, import the KPIs you need and build a chart with a click. thinkcell Assist provides full transparency into data sources. It comes with a datasheet, so you can make additional calculations or combine it with other datasets to create a boardroom-ready slide you can own and your audience can trust.

7. Improve and organize text with our AI text editor

We all know a slide would be a strange thing without text. But making the text as clear, readable and effective as possible is no small feat for even the most experienced slide professionals.

With thinkcell Assist, you have access to several text improvement tools, including shorten or rewrite text. You can also break your text blocks into scannable bullets or apply parallel phrasing for clarity.

All along the way, thinkcell Assist edits existing shapes and text boxes on your slides with formatting and layout intact, so you can refine the text without copy-pasting or messing with fonts, serifs or sizes.

You own your slide with thinkcell Assist

Human expertise and judgement. Experience and inherent spatial reasoning. The value that humans bring to professional slide creation cannot be overstated. So, any role AI tools play will be to assist humans.

thinkcell Assist brings quality and precision to various aspects of a slide – drafting titles, building charts, translating, summarizing, while your expertise brings them all together.

No LLM can do what you can do. So, thinkcell Assist lets you do more of it, and helps you make your best slides even more effective.