Decks

Decks take the analysis you already have and turn it into something you can stand up and present, without anyone rebuilding it slide by slide in PowerPoint. Every figure on a slide traces back to the data behind it, so the deck holds up in the room where someone questions a number. A deck (.sdeck) is a presentation Addison builds from your data: board updates, quarterly business reviews, launch plans, metric deep dives. Each slide combines a written takeaway with charts, tables, and data views, and decks download as real, editable PowerPoint. Decks are an artifact and live inside a project.

​

Create a deck

There are several ways to start a deck. Each hands Addison a prompt and generates the slides in the background. From the Decks page, click Create deck (top-right), then describe the deck. Suggestion chips get you started: Board update, Quarterly review, Launch plan, Metric deep dive. You can also run a playbook that produces a deck on every run. Two more ways: from a project’s Create → Deck (see Create artifacts from project), or by asking Addison in a chat (see Creating artifacts). Branding. Addison builds against a Summation template by default, or against your own branded template. You can also attach an existing PowerPoint or PDF and ask Addison to match its look. It keeps the source’s layouts, colors, and logo while filling in new data.

​

Find and open decks

The Decks page lists your decks across all projects, with columns for Name, Project, Created by, and Last modified, plus search. Click one to open it; ⌘-click (Ctrl-click) opens it in a new tab. Decks also appear as .sdeck folders in their project’s file browser. While a deck is still generating, its row shows progress and flips to Deck ready (or Failed / Cancelled) when the run finishes.

​

Rename, duplicate, and delete

Each deck row on the Decks page has a trailing ⋯ menu with Rename, Duplicate, and Delete, and right-clicking the row does the same. Inside an open deck, the same actions live in the toolbar ⋯ menu: Rename edits the title in place, and Duplicate opens the copy. Duplicate is available once the deck is ready. Deleting can’t be undone.

​

Verify a deck

Click the verification badge (shield) in the toolbar to open the Verification Hub, then refresh verification to run it. See Verification for how the Hub works and what each status means. Decks also carry visual checks: element containment, overlapping elements, chart and table legibility, font consistency, theme fidelity, slide order, cover and pagination, and empty slides. These run only when the deck can be rendered for inspection and skip cleanly otherwise, so they won’t always appear in the Hub. Verification is available once a deck is ready. Citations in action. Every figure Addison cites on a slide is recorded against its source. Click the N Citations button below the slide to give citation-carrying regions a dotted highlight, then click one to open a Value trace showing the source data behind it.

​

Ask and edit with Addison

Slides are not typed into directly. Instead, click any region of a slide (a text block, chart, table, or image) to get a floating toolbar with two actions:

• Ask: ask Addison a question about that region. The answer streams in the chat pane.
• Edit with AI: describe a change to that region.

Toggle Edit with AI in the toolbar to edit anywhere in the deck. Every region you describe a change for is queued as a pending edit, marked on the slide, and a bar below the deck tracks the count. Review the queue, remove any edit you don’t want, then apply them. Addison regenerates the affected slides and streams progress in the chat pane. You can stop a run in progress, or discard the whole queue.

​

Slides and speaker notes

The slide rail on the right lists every slide as a thumbnail. Click one to open it, or use the arrow keys; Home and End jump to the first or last slide. Collapse the rail with the chevron at its top to give the slide more room. Delete a slide by right-clicking its thumbnail → Delete slide. This can’t be undone, and the last remaining slide can’t be deleted. Adding and reordering slides is done by asking Addison in chat. Speaker notes live in the dock below the slide, one set per slide. Type directly into it (notes autosave) and drag the dock’s top edge to make it taller.

​

Present

Click Presentation mode (the play icon) in the toolbar to present fullscreen: one slide at a time on a black backdrop, with no toolbars or overlays. A Slide N of M indicator sits at the bottom. Presentation mode is available once the deck is ready.

​

Version history

Every regeneration is saved as a version. Open Version History from the toolbar ⋯ menu to see the timeline and open an earlier version. While you’re viewing a pinned earlier version, a banner marks it as history, and the actions that would change the live deck (Edit with AI, Rename, Duplicate, Share, Delete) are disabled until you return to the latest. Some workspaces see a Versions submenu in the ⋯ menu instead. It holds the same history as a simple list of versions with their timestamps, without the side panel.

​

Share and publish

Open a deck’s ⋯ menu → Share, then Publish to create a view-only link for your organization. Viewers sign in or create an account to open it. The read-only viewer shows the slides, the slide rail, and citations, with editing turned off. Unpublish at any time.

​

Download

Open a deck’s ⋯ menu → Download and choose a format. Downloads are also available from each row’s ⋯ menu on the Decks page.