The state of AI in business presentation creation 2026
This comprehensive report surveyed 1,200 professionals across 12 countries to gain insight into how they are using AI in business presentation creation in 2026.
Selected findings:
- 80% are already using AI in their presentation workflows, with ChatGPT the #1 tool used by 67% of professionals.
- 44% use AI for reviewing and refining content, and 43% for gathering and analyzing data.
- 77% expect to increase their usage of AI for presentations over the next 12 months.
AI adoption in business presentations in 2026
Frequent AI users are 91% more likely to be very satisfied with results than occasional users.
In the US, 89% of professionals use AI tools when making presentations.
44% of AI-adopters use it for reviewing and refining content.
Data, insights and analysis
Learn the strengths and limitations of AI to inform how you can effectively incorporate AI into your presentation workflows.
Storytelling comes before slide design. Top challenges in data communication are thinking challenges, not formatting challenges. The hardest part of creating slides is sourcing the right data, analyzing it properly, and shaping it into a clear story before design even begins.
You often hear that presentations are a legacy format waiting to be disrupted. But the reality is that they are (and will continue to be) the accepted format through which work gets communicated, challenged, and decided across every corner of the business world.
When AI is used the right way – to augment critical thinking and align work with presentation best practices more quickly – it can be of tremendous benefit to modern business professionals.