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Listen can generate presentations using your own PowerPoint template, so every auto-generated presentation matches your company’s fonts, colors, and slide layouts. Upload a template once at the workspace level and all future presentations will be built on top of it.

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How It Works

When you provide a .pptx template, Listen’s presentation agent analyzes your deck: its theme, slide layouts, fonts, colors, and imagery. When generating a presentation, it decides for each slide whether to reuse one of your existing layouts or build a new slide from your theme, then fills in findings, quotes, charts, concept images, and highlight reels from your study. The agent reviews its own output and iterates until the deck matches your formatting.

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Choosing a Template

Any .pptx file can work as a template, but some make better starting points than others:
  • Your company’s branded template works best: the kind of deck your design team shares internally, with title slides, section dividers, content layouts, and theme colors already defined.
  • A past report or share-out deck also works well. If your research team has a standard format for presenting findings, that deck is a great template. You don’t need to remove the content; the agent uses it to understand your style.
Templates that are very bare (a single blank slide) or unusually complex can produce weaker output. That’s why we recommend testing before you configure one for your whole workspace.

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Test Your Template First

Before setting a template at the workspace level, test it on a single study. Once configured, the template applies to all future presentations in your workspace, so it’s worth confirming the output looks right first.
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Open the chat in a past study

Pick a previously completed study (or one of our Demo studies) and open the Chat tab.
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Attach your template and ask for a presentation

Upload your .pptx file to the chat and ask for something like: “Generate a presentation summarizing this study, based on the attached template.”
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Wait for generation

Presentation generation generally takes 15 to 20 minutes, but can take up to an hour for more complex studies and presentations. Feel free to close the tab and come back.
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Review the output

Check that fonts, colors, layouts, and charts match your branding. If something looks off, adjust your template (see tips below) and test again, or reach out to us and we’ll help troubleshoot.

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Configure Your Workspace Template

Once you’re happy with the test output:
  1. Go to your Workspace settings.
  2. Find the Presentation template section.
  3. Upload your .pptx file.
That’s it. You can replace or delete the template from the same place at any time. Note that only workspace admins can manage the template.

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When the Template Applies

The workspace template applies to presentations generated from the Presentations view, but not to decks generated through chat. Chat always requires attaching the template file directly.

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Tips for Better Results

  • Include a variety of layouts. Title slides, section dividers, content slides with different arrangements, and slides with charts or imagery all give the agent more to work with.
  • Make sure your theme is set up. Fonts and colors defined in the PowerPoint theme (rather than applied ad hoc to individual text boxes) carry over most reliably.
  • Keep brand assets in the deck. Logos, icons, and imagery included in the template can be reused in generated slides.
If a generated deck doesn’t look right, the fastest fix is usually the template itself: add a few more example layouts or clean up the theme, then re-test through chat before updating your workspace template.
Questions about Presentation Templates? Email support@listenlabs.ai.