Present Mode is the fastest way to turn a piece of Spekit content into a polished, branded slide deck — no exporting to PowerPoint, no rebuilding anything from scratch. This article covers how to build content meant to become slides, how to present it, and what's changing soon.
1. What Present Mode does
Present Mode instantly transforms any structured Spek into a professional, interactive slide deck. Instead of writing content once for Spekit and then rebuilding it a second time as a deck, you build it once as a Spek — and Present Mode handles turning it into something you can present, branded automatically to match your company's look.
This is especially useful for content you know you'll eventually present out loud: an executive summary for a stakeholder review, a Mutual Action Plan walkthrough, a QBR. Build it as a Spek, and it's ready to present the moment you need it — no separate deck to maintain.
2. Prompting for a section that looks like a slide
A structural tip: since Present Mode reads your sections as slide breaks, keep each section focused on one idea. A Spek with five long sections becomes five dense slides; a Spek with twelve short, focused sections becomes twelve scannable ones. Present Mode works with whatever structure you give it, so a little intentional organization up front makes a real difference in how the deck reads.
Since Present Mode reads each section as a slide, the way you prompt the AI Content Builder to build that section matters more than it would for a regular Spek. A section written like a paragraph of body text will present like a paragraph of body text. A section prompted with slide language will actually look like one.
Describe it as a slide, not as a paragraph. Be explicit that you want a single, focused idea per section — not a wall of text.
"Turn this into a section that reads like a title slide: one bold headline, one short supporting line underneath, generous whitespace, minimal text."
"Create a section styled like a comparison slide — two cards side by side, each with a short header and 3 bullet points max."
"Make this section look like a stat/callout slide: one large number as the headline, a single sentence of context below it."
Name the layout you want. The AI Content Builder responds well to concrete visual structure and examples— cards, columns, numbered steps, a big number with a caption — rather than vague instructions like "make it look nice."
Cap the text explicitly. If a draft comes back too dense, say so directly:
"Cut this down to one sentence per bullet, no more than 4 bullets. This needs to work as a single slide, not a document."
Iterate section by section. If you're building a multi-slide Spek, reference each section by name when refining it — "make the second section punchier" is far more reliable than a single prompt trying to fix the whole deck at once.
4. For best results: draft in Claude or another LLM and push via MCP
The single best way to get clean, slide-ready sections is to draft the content in Claude (or another connected LLM) first, then push it into Spekit as a Spek using MCP, rather than prompting entirely inside the Spekit editor.
Why this works better:
- More room to iterate. A conversation in Claude gives you space to go back and forth on structure, tone, and slide-by-slide pacing before anything lands in Spekit — you're refining a draft, not fighting the editor in real time.
- Conversion is easy: converting an existing slide deck you already have into an editable Spek takes a prompt and lands in Spekit ready for Present Mode.
- Cleaner section breaks from the start. Because you can describe the entire deck's structure in one detailed prompt to Claude — "give me 6 sections, each a standalone slide, covering X, Y, Z" — you get a Spek with well-defined slide-sized sections already in place, instead of building it section-by-section inside the editor.
A prompt to Claude for this might look like:
"Draft a 6-section proposal deck for [Company]'s Deal Room based on this call transcript: [paste transcript]. Structure each section as a standalone slide — one headline idea per section, minimal text, no dense paragraphs. Then push it to Spekit as a Spek in the [Company] deal room."
Review the draft Claude returns before confirming the push — same as any other MCP write action, you'll get a chance to check it over before it's created in Spekit.
5. Presenting: entering and navigating Present Mode
- Open the Spek you want to present.
- Click into Present Mode.
- Navigate through the deck using the arrow keys — left/right moves you between slides.
- Press Esc to exit Present Mode and return to the regular editing view at any time.
Because you're presenting the live Spek rather than an exported file, any edit you make afterward updates the same content the next time you present it — you're never stuck maintaining two versions of the same deck.
6. A better deck experience is coming soon
Present Mode today is useful today, but it's not the final version of Spekit's slide experience. Spekit's product team has explicitly called out "Slide/Presentation" content support as an active area of investment, alongside broader improvements to the AI Content Builder's reliability and output quality.
What that means for you right now: keep using Present Mode for decks you need today — it works, and it's faster than building a separate deck by hand. Just don't be surprised if the experience gets meaningfully better in the near future; this is an area Spekit knows needs more polish and is actively building toward, not a finished feature.