Every quarter, someone spends a late night turning the business review document into a presentation: copying numbers into slides, re-cropping charts, and rewriting paragraphs as bullets. Sharper does that conversion in one prompt - and because it builds the deck from the document you provide, the numbers on the slides are the numbers in the report.
To show the workflow end to end, we gave Sharper an 11-page Q2 FY26 Quarterly Business Review PDF - a realistic report for a fictional software company, with six charts, KPI tables, risks, and guidance - and asked for a 10-slide leadership deck.
What can Sharper use for slides? Uploaded documents, knowledge bases, charts and figures extracted from PDFs, internet research with cited sources, and generated diagrams. The goal is not just prettier slides. It is slides grounded in the source material, enriched with the visuals that make the idea easier to understand.
Try it yourself. Download the sample Q2 report - an 11-page quarterly business review with six charts and full financials for a fictional company - then attach it to a new task in Sharper and run the same prompts from this post.
The setup: one report, one prompt
The request is intentionally direct. The user attaches the report and says what kind of deck to make and what to do with the visuals inside it.
The prompt: "Use the attached Q2 report to create a 10-slide business review deck for the leadership team. Reuse the charts and tables from the PDF, and add a final 'risks and next quarter priorities' slide."
One attachment, one prompt. The report is the knowledge base for the deck.
How Sharper works. Everything happens inside a task. You start a new task, bring in your source - an attached file like this report, or a knowledge base you built by uploading documents - and tell Sharper what to make. Because the deck is generated from that selected source, it stays grounded in your material instead of a generic template.
Step 1 - Sharper reads the report and extracts its charts
Sharper starts by loading its presentation and PDF skills, saving the attachment into the workspace, and reading the full report. Then it extracts the chart images from the PDF - the ARR trend, revenue by segment, retention, pipeline, and spend charts - so they can be placed directly onto slides.
Sharper shows its steps as it works: load the skills, read the PDF, extract the charts.
That grounding matters. The deck is not assembled from model memory or a generic "business review" template. Every number, chart, and risk on the slides traces back to the attached report.
Step 2 - A 10-slide deck, grounded in the report
A few minutes later the deck is ready: executive summary with the quarter's KPIs, financial performance with the report's own ARR chart, revenue by segment, retention, customer wins, go-to-market pipeline, product roadmap, operating spend, and the requested closing slide on risks and next-quarter priorities.
The financial performance slide reuses the report's ARR chart - $26.1M, up 42% year over year - exactly as published.
The numbers survive the trip: ARR $26.1M up 42%, net revenue retention at 118%, 412 customers, the $14.2M pipeline. When the source document is the single source of truth, the deck inherits that property.
Step 3 - Keep editing with prompts
The first deck is a draft, not a dead end. The two follow-ups below each took one sentence.
"The product slide needs a visual" - generate a diagram
The report describes the Q3 roadmap in text, but has no figure for it. So we asked:
"The product slide needs a visual - generate a simple diagram of the Q3 roadmap: audit trail API, analytics v2, EU data residency."
Sharper generates the roadmap diagram - then QA-checks its own output. It caught a timeline arrow clipping a card border and fixed it before placing the image.
Note the step after generation: Sharper visually inspects the diagram it just made. In this run it flagged that the timeline arrow passed through a card border, corrected it, and only then placed the visual on the product slide.
The finished product slide: report content on the left, generated roadmap diagram on the right.
"Add a market landscape slide" - research the web, cite the sources
The report says nothing about competitors. For that, Sharper can leave the document and research the market:
"Add a market landscape slide - research the top three workflow-automation competitors on the web and cite the sources."
Sharper runs targeted searches, reads comparison pages, and identifies the three relevant competitors.
The new slide comes with a per-competitor threat assessment - and the sources it used, cited and dated.
Positioning, pricing, and a company-specific risk call for each competitor - with source citations at the bottom of the slide.
The deck grew to 11 slides, the closing risks slide renumbered itself, and both new slides passed the same visual QA as the rest.
The result: an editable, exportable PowerPoint
The output is a real .pptx file. Download it, present it, or keep editing it in PowerPoint, Keynote, or Google Slides - the charts, tables, and text are all native slide objects, not screenshots of a chat.
For teams, this changes the starting point. Instead of spending hours converting a report, memo, or knowledge base into a draft deck, you start from a structured presentation and spend your time on judgment: what to cut, what to emphasize, and what the audience needs next.
Want to reproduce this session? Download the sample Q2 report, attach it to a new task, and use the three prompts from this post - the main deck request, the roadmap diagram, and the competitive landscape.
What makes Sharper different
- Grounded in your knowledge base. Sharper builds slides from the documents you provide, so the deck reflects the actual source material rather than a generic summary.
- It reuses the charts from your source files. Figures and tables inside PDFs are extracted and placed onto slides with surrounding explanation - the published chart, not a redrawn approximation.
- It generates visuals when the source has none. A roadmap, a funnel, an architecture sketch - described in one sentence, drawn, and QA-checked before placement.
- Internet research is available when needed. For content outside your documents - like a competitive landscape - Sharper searches the web and cites its sources on the slide.
- It checks its own work. Generated slides and diagrams go through visual QA; in this session Sharper caught and fixed a rendering defect in its own diagram without being asked.
- The result is portable. Export the
.pptxand keep editing wherever your team works.
FAQ
Can Sharper create slides from PDFs?
Yes. Upload a PDF, ask for a deck, and Sharper reads the source, extracts its charts and tables, and generates the slides from the provided material.
Does Sharper preserve figures from the source document?
Yes. When you ask it to reuse the document's visuals, Sharper extracts the actual chart images from the PDF and places them onto the slides - the numbers on the deck match the numbers in the report.
Can Sharper add visuals that are not in the source file?
Yes. Sharper can generate diagrams from a one-sentence description, search the internet for supporting material, or use assets from your knowledge base - and it visually QA-checks generated images before placing them.
Can I revise the deck after it is generated?
Yes. Follow-up prompts modify the existing deck: add a researched slide, generate a diagram, restyle for a board meeting, or rework a single slide. Slide numbering and structure update automatically.
Can I export and edit the final deck?
Yes. Sharper produces a real PowerPoint file, so you can download it, share it, or continue editing it in PowerPoint, Keynote, or Google Slides.