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Tool Categories/Functions
Google Slides design, chart generation, AI slide review
Description of the Tool
deck.support brings the PowerPoint productivity tools consultants are trained on (Efficient Elements and Think-Cell) into Google Slides. Built by ex-BCG co-founders Chris Freeberg and Dimitri Limberopoulos, it installs as an extension from the Google Workspace Marketplace and lives in a sidebar inside Google Slides, providing formatting shortcuts, alignment tools, consulting-grade layouts, objects, a template library covering roughly 90% of the standard slide designs used in consulting projects, board-quality editable charts, and an AI review. It is deliberately not an AI slide generator: instead of automating whole decks (with the hallucination risk that brings), it keeps the consultant in the driver’s seat and augments their expertise.
Ideal User
Anyone who works in Google Slides for client or collaboration reasons but requires the tooling of PowerPoint. Enterprise rollouts add custom templates, centralized brand enforcement, and priority support.
Pricing conventions:
deck.support is currently free to install from the Google Workspace Marketplace, with paid tiers planned as features mature:
- Core version (including export): about $50 per year.
- Efficient-elements-style alignment tools: about $100 per year.
- Charts: offered as an additional paid feature, in the range of $150 to $300 per year.
Enterprise pricing (custom templates, brand enforcement, priority support) is by contact with the founders.
Detailed description of each function of deck.support:
1. Alignment and formatting shortcuts
Quickly align images, columns, and objects, distribute and snap them, and automatically resize elements for clean layouts.
2. Layouts
Consulting-grade slide structures: pick a layout, drop content in.
3. Objects and templates
Objects are text and graphical elements inserted onto a page, such as three-step or four-step process wheels. Templates are more elaborate: table of contents, detailed agenda, context, findings, matrix, call-outs, box prioritization, traffic lights, Harvey Balls, timelines, customer funnels, and more, replicating the visual language of MBB-style slides.
4. Charts
Editable, board-quality charts, bringing Think-Cell-level precision to Google Slides, with a roadmap of 10 chart types to start.
5. AI review and finishing touches
An OpenAI integration reads the current slide and adds finishing touches rather than generating content wholesale: suggestions appear at the bottom of the slide, including a more action-oriented or informative headline, and specific notes are added to the speaker notes. A Review capability audits fonts, spacing, and consistency across the whole deck.
Data and security: The tool cannot see how users work or what buttons they press; the only data transmitted is the slide being viewed when the AI feature is invoked, sent to OpenAI under terms that prevent training on it, plus the user’s identity and account for licensing. Because it is built on Google Apps Script, it runs inside the Google Workspace sandbox and inherits Google’s SOC 2-compliant infrastructure rather than requiring its own certification.
Date of demo: April 21, 2025
