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ChatGPT presentation outline prompts: plan slides around audience, message, and flow
A practical ChatGPT presentation outline prompt guide for defining audience, objective, slide count, key message, visual notes, speaker notes, and next action before building a deck.
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ChatGPT can help summarize decks, plan an outline, draft slide copy, add speaker notes, and review an existing presentation. But a vague request like “make a presentation” often produces a generic deck because the audience, decision, and desired next step are still unclear.
OpenAI’s prompting guidance recommends putting clear instructions first, separating context, and specifying the outcome, length, format, tone, and constraints. OpenAI’s presentation use case also shows a workflow where an outline becomes a 10-slide deck and is refined through follow-up questions.
Presentation outline guides repeatedly point to the same planning layer: purpose, audience, success criteria, structure, and timing. A Japanese business guide from Money Forward also separates outline creation from later automation such as VBA. Saving this outline prompt in BananaNL lets you reuse the same briefing pattern and change only the topic each time.
Five inputs to define before writing slide copy
- Write the audience and objective in one sentence. Executives, customers, beginners, and internal teammates need different levels of proof and detail.
- Define the action you want at the end: approval, a follow-up meeting, a purchase conversation, shared understanding, or a decision to test an idea.
- Choose the structure. Tell ChatGPT whether you want a problem-solution deck, comparison, chronological story, proposal, or decision memo.
- Add slide count and presentation length. An eight-slide 10-minute deck needs a different information density than a 12-slide 30-minute deck.
- Set a one-message-per-slide rule. Ask for a heading, key message, three bullets, visual idea, and speaker note separately so the slide does not become a wall of text.
Prepare these four inputs first
Presentation tasks this prompt pattern fits
| Sales proposal | When you need to connect the customer problem, value, expected change, and next sales step. |
|---|---|
| Internal approval deck | When you need background, options, recommendation, cost, risks, and the exact approval request in a clear order. |
| Training session | When beginners need context, examples, practice, and takeaways in a manageable sequence. |
| Pitch deck | When the problem, solution, market, traction, and ask need to become a memorable story. |
Copy-ready ChatGPT presentation outline prompts
Create a 10-slide outline
Create a presentation outline for this topic: “Why our team should start managing AI prompts.” The audience is department heads and team leads. The presentation length is 15 minutes. The goal is to align the decision criteria for adoption. Keep it under 10 slides. For each slide, include: slide title, one key message, up to three bullets, a suggested visual, and a speaker note. End with a clear next action.
Audience, timing, goal, and output format are all defined, so the answer is less likely to become a pile of generic slide titles.
Shorten an existing outline
Shorten the following slide outline for a 10-minute presentation. The audience is new to this topic. Make each slide carry only one message. Separate duplicated content, details that can be removed, and points that should move into speaker notes. Briefly explain why you cut each item.
The prompt gives ChatGPT a clear pruning rule, so the deck can become shorter without losing the story.
Add speaker notes
Add 30- to 45-second speaker notes for each slide in this outline. Do not simply read the slide text. Add context, examples, and transitions to the next slide. Explain technical terms briefly. Mark numbers or claims that need verification as “verify.”
Separating slide text from spoken explanation helps keep the deck readable while preserving the presenter’s logic.
Save presentation outline prompts by use case in BananaNL
Presentation prompts change slightly across sales proposals, approval decks, training, pitches, and events. Saving the reusable structure means you do not have to rethink how to ask ChatGPT every time.
BananaNL is a Chrome extension that inserts saved prompts into AI Chat input fields such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok. It does not auto-submit, so you can review company names, customer names, and unpublished numbers before sending. NotebookLM use starts free, while AI Chat integrations are paid features.
FAQ
Can ChatGPT create the PowerPoint file for me?
Capabilities depend on your plan and workflow. This guide focuses on stabilizing the outline first. File generation or VBA automation is safer after you approve the story and slide order.
How do I stop slides from becoming text-heavy?
Specify one message per slide, no more than three bullets, a separate visual idea, and speaker notes for details that should be spoken instead of shown.
Can I upload an existing deck for improvement?
Yes, but be careful with confidential data, personal information, and unpublished numbers. Important figures, quotes, and contractual terms should be checked by a person.
If searching for prompts is the hard part, use BananaNL
Prompts become useful when they are close to the input field. Use BananaNL to carry them there, then adjust before sending.