Short answer: Sam Nadler says he mostly uses Gamma for professional one pagers without a designer, getting 65 to 80% of the way there. Jordan Metzner says it can export to PDF, PowerPoint or Google Slides.
Watch this answer from Episode 10 (starts at 17:56) · Episode 10 notes and transcript
From Episode 10: Future in Focus: AI Tools & Big Tech, starting at 17:56.
Sam Nadler [17:56]: Yeah. Let's go line art. See what it comes up with. So the use case I've used this for is in the short time I've used it, is not for presentations, but more for one pagers. Just that's just what's popped up in the short amount of time, but it's been incredibly quick at designing really professional one pagers. I didn't have to tap into a graphic designer or anything. I mean, look at this. You know? I'd say it's overall with, what, five minutes of work, not so bad. Obviously, you'd wanna review the text. I haven't read it at all, but, maybe change the images. Like, you can actually click on that image, and I think you can if you click on the little yeah. Yeah. Ask AI, you can chat with AI and make it more realistic. There you go. So and then the different parts of the output, you can, change or tweak using AI as well. So overall, super cool tool. I think first and third slides look pretty nicely designed. But, yeah, what are your thoughts?
Jordan Metzner [19:05]: Yeah. I mean, as you saw, it just said make it more realistic, and it made this image, more realistic for what the image was. Here if you go to the theme, we can easily swap it out to something that might be kind of more on brand with this particular style of line art. And overall, I just find it to be, another tool in the arsenal. Obviously, previously worked at Amazon, which is a heavily writing culture, and so I, in general, don't do that many PowerPoint presentations. But, from everything from like pitch decks to, sales decks like this, it's a great tool. It's, it's probably not perfect yet, but, it does a bunch of things that you'd be surprised. I didn't tell it anything about Sam and Jordan from Ryz Labs. So it went out and surfaced the Internet, and it knew something about our podcast, and it brought that in automatically. And then I think it has some other fun tools, like I can present directly in here, or I can export this, into something like a PDF, a PowerPoint, Google Slides.
Sam Nadler [20:07]: Yeah. You can definitely get a skeleton going within seconds that is probably 65, 75, 80% of the way there. Export it to Google Slides or PowerPoint, wherever you want, finish it off. And what may have taken you hours to do, has been reduced to maybe an hour and a half. So just another tool to accelerate things that I feel like we all spent hours doing a couple years ago.
Jordan Metzner [20:34]: It's one of those things that it's surprising. I would say Google, even OpenAI, and Anthropic, haven't really done a good job of doing AI in slides. I mean, you would expect to be a better AI type Google slide experience or even a better kind of PowerPoint slide experience with AI. But, yeah, Gamma so far seems to be the market leader as far as kind of making presentations, at least quickly. But, hopefully soon, we'll see kinda more of these tools and just kinda more democratization of using AI within presentation slides in general.
