You can tell an AI-made deck in a second: a gradient title slide, an emoji on every heading, an "Agenda" slide, and sentences that could sit in any company's deck. That comes from the prompt, not the tool. Give Claude a vague request and it fills the gaps with the average of every deck it has seen.
Claude Design is not made by webridgeAI. What it includes, what it exports and how its usage works were checked on claude.com/product/design and claude.com/pricing on 16 October 2026. Plans change, so check those pages before you rely on them.
1. What Free gets you
Claude's pricing page lists "Claude Design, Slides, Docs" on the Free plan, and the Claude Design page says all three are "included within every plan, including the Free plan". Two newer parts are not: Dashboards (beta) is on paid plans, and Motion (beta) is on Team and Enterprise.
Claude Design builds a first version from a description, then you refine it: in the chat, by commenting on any element, by editing text directly, or with the adjustment sliders Claude creates for spacing and colour. It exports to PowerPoint, PDF and HTML, and Canva is among its connectors.
The limit is usage. Every plan's usage resets on a rolling five-hour window, and Claude says a large request such as a full deck uses more of it than a normal message. On Free, that means one strong first prompt beats ten small fixes. The prompts below are written for that.
2. Before you start
Have three things ready before you open Claude:
- Your notes. Bullet points, a draft email, a document, the numbers. Rough is fine. Claude can only be specific if you are.
- Who will watch it. Your manager, a client, a class, the team.
- The one thing they should remember. Write it as one sentence. If you can't, the deck isn't ready, and no prompt will fix that.
Paste your notes into every prompt that asks for them. Square brackets in a prompt mark the part you replace.
3. Prompt 1: the brief
This does most of the work. It tells Claude who the deck is for, what it must say, and how much text a slide may carry.
Make a 6-slide deck from my notes below.
Audience: [who is watching, e.g. my manager / a client / the team].
The one thing they should remember: [one sentence].
Rules: one idea per slide, a title that states the point as a full sentence,
no more than 15 words of body text per slide, and only facts from my notes.
Notes:
[paste your notes]Why it works: a title that states the point ("Returns fell after the new checkout") reads as a person's argument. A title that names a topic ("Returns") reads as a template. The word limit stops Claude from filling space, and "only facts from my notes" stops it from inventing any.
4. Prompt 2: the style lock
Send this in the same message as the brief, so the first version already looks right and you don't spend usage restyling it.
Style for every slide: white background, one typeface, black text,
one accent colour [#hex or "dark blue"], left-aligned, lots of empty space.
No gradients, no emoji, no clip-art icons, no stock photos, no "Agenda" or "Thank you" slides.Each "no" removes one of the marks people use to spot an AI deck. If you have a brand colour, put its hex code in the brackets. If your team has a design system set up in Claude Design, use that instead of this prompt.
5. Prompt 3: cut the filler
Once the deck is built, send this. It is the step that makes the words sound like yours.
Go slide by slide. Delete any sentence that could appear in any company's deck.
Replace vague words (innovative, robust, powerful, leverage) with the specific
number, name or example from my notes. If there isn't one, tell me instead of inventing it.The last line matters most. When Claude says a slide has nothing specific behind it, that is a gap in your notes, and it is better to find it now than in the meeting.
6. Prompt 4: the number slide
Use this for any slide that carries data. One chart, one point.
Turn this data into one chart on one slide. The title is the takeaway, not the topic.
Label the bars directly, no legend, and grey out everything except the one number that matters.
Data: [paste]Direct labels save the eye a trip to a legend, and the grey makes the one number that matters the first thing anyone sees.
7. Prompt 5: the tough reviewer
Finish with this. It asks Claude to look at the deck the way a sceptical audience would.
Act as a sharp reviewer who has seen a thousand AI-made decks.
Name the 3 slides that look most generic and why, then fix them.Read the reasons before you accept the fixes. If a reason doesn't convince you, say so and keep the slide.
8. Fix the rest by hand
Small changes don't need a prompt, and doing them by hand saves usage:
- Comment on an element. Click a title, a chart or an image and say what to change.
- Edit text directly. Click into the text and type.
- Use the sliders. Claude adds adjustment sliders for things like spacing and colour.
- Move things. Drag, resize and align elements on the slide.
9. Export it
When it is done, download it as PowerPoint, PDF or HTML. PowerPoint is the one to choose if anyone else will edit the deck. To keep working on it in Canva, send it there with the Canva connector.
10. Make Free last
- Put the brief and the style lock in one message. Restyling a finished deck means redrawing every slide.
- Start small. Six slides is enough for most updates, and you can add one later.
- Batch your notes into one message ("on slide 2, … ; on slide 4, …") instead of sending them one at a time.
- If you hit the limit, usage resets on a rolling five-hour window, so the wait is hours, not a day.