This is my first time using ChatGPT’s new agent feature. I’ve been experimenting with different ways to offload the basic stuff I do every day—like making infographics and visually compelling slides to communicate ideas or present (see last week’s video). This time, I wanted to see if this agent feature allowed me to take it a step further and generate a full PowerPoint deck using just a one-liner prompt and the files already sitting in my Google Drive.
I recorded the whole thing without rehearsing and the result is above.
At 6:13 p.m., I gave the agent access to my Drive and asked it to generate a brief presentation summarizing the RevelAi platform—based on internal documents I already had there.
The request was very basic :
“Please look inside of my Google Drive for RevelAI Health. Find the user manual information, and create a pleasant, brief PowerPoint presentation that captures the essential elements of the RevelAI platform in a way that is easy for the average clinical user to understand.”
Honestly, not an awesomely structured prompt, but I wanted to do this on the fly and see the outcome. The agent immediately started pulling documents, analyzing them, and building slides. There were a few hiccups early on (which I actually liked—it showed me what it was doing step-by-step), and the whole thing took about 45 minutes.
What I got back was a solid draft. The branding was not great. The visuals weren’t polished. But the structure and content were correct—and drawn directly from the source material. I could hand this off to a designer or a virtual assistant, or drop it into my next internal meeting with light edits.
And the key is: I didn’t touch a single bullet point—I think as a first draft to kickstart it did a good job.
A few takeaways from using the agent:
It’s not always faster than doing it yourself.
But it’s faster than starting from scratch.
And it’s way better than letting something sit on your to-do list for two weeks.
A few use cases this unlocks (with example prompts + workflows):
1. Quick onboarding decks
Turn existing materials into usable slideware for new hires or stakeholders
💬 Prompt:
“Read our onboarding guide in Google Drive and make a 5-slide intro deck covering the most important policies and tools.”
🔁 Workflow:
Agent fetches the document → summarizes key sections → generates a branded draft → you tweak visuals → done.
2. Meeting prep packs
Synthesize past notes, briefs, or recordings into a pre-read deck
💬 Prompt:
“Pull my last 4 weekly updates and create a 3-slide summary of what to review before tomorrow’s strategy sync.”
🔁 Workflow:
Agent fetches notes by date or tag → summarizes key trends or blockers → assembles slides with bullets + visuals → you review and send.
3. One-pagers or client briefs
Auto-generate quick-reference materials from long-form docs
💬 Prompt:
“Make a one-slide summary of our value proposition based on the BD primer and sales playbook in Drive.”
🔁 Workflow:
Agent compares the two docs → pulls recurring phrases and benefits → formats into a clean, readable layout → you copy into email or deck.
The Techy Surgeon Take
Could I have done this faster manually? Maybe.
But would I have done it at all without blocking out time? Probably not.
In the case above, I used a tool connection to my Google Drive, but you can let the agent take action in Canva, Gmail, and a lot of other applications. So a more complex multi-step workflow may have gotten me a more impressive result, and I'm excited to try these other workflows out. I think the take home is that these ChatGPT agent workflows feel like giving your future self a head start. These AI agent use cases are The output is not meant to be perfect (ye). It’s meant to get you to “good enough to iterate” in one step. And that’s where the leverage comes in.
