The AI Tool That Made Me Yell 'What the F***' at My Desk
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“Are you okay? What happened?!”
That was my wife checking on me after she heard me crying, "What the *f— Ik* ?!” from inside my home office.
Claude in PowerPoint happened.
Just two weeks ago, we covered Claude in Excel, saying, “Meanwhile, one of the highest-impact AI tools available right now is an add-in for software that’s been around since 1985.” It has since been upgraded, and now whole departments are in an existential crisis. PowerPoint, if possible, is even more impactful for marketers.
Let me show you, because it is magic.
As usual, I’ll be using data from my old company, Quadrant. Since it is defunct, there is no harm in using historical, but live data—it illustrates the point better than made-up numbers.
We used to spend some money on Meta to promote our mobile app, Geolancer. In my test, I asked Claude in PowerPoint to create a slide deck showing our monthly ad spending using the Meta ad dashboard export as input:
I started with an empty deck containing only our template. A few m…