One update. Every slide, document and PDF stays current

A number or an approved line rarely lives in one place. It sits in a dozen decks, a Word document and the PDF someone exported last quarter. When it changes, somebody opens every file by hand, and the copies nobody knew about keep reaching customers.

That problem ran through our Q3 deep dive. In twenty minutes, Anders Thomsen, our CEO and co-founder, showed five releases that each take one version of it off your plate, and gave a first look at three more coming in Q4. The full recording is at the top of this post.

Update Excel. Every linked chart follows

From: charts and tables are copied from Excel by hand. Every update means re-pasting into every deck, and one typo can reach a client.

To: the charts and tables on your slides are linked to an Excel file hosted on SlideHub. Change a number in the sheet, and every linked slide follows. Quarter-end updates take one refresh, and every deck shows the same, current figure.

The PDF updates when the source does

From: a PDF is exported once and forwarded for months. When the source deck changes, the old PDF keeps circulating.

To: the PDF is linked to the presentation or Word document it came from. When the source changes, the PDF regenerates as a new version. Nobody re-exports anything, and no outdated claim goes out in the copy that travels furthest.

Profiles stay current. Team slides follow

From: CVs and team slides go stale as people change roles, and someone has to chase every colleague for updates.

To: each person keeps their own profile current, and CV and team slides fill from that data.

This builds on data tables, a centrally managed set of text, numbers, images and icons that feeds slide templates. Fill one with past deals and you get tombstone slides. Fill it with people and you get team slides, picked per pitch. What's new is that a data table can be linked to the users on your account, so each person updates their own row from their profile in SlideHub. Nobody collects bios by email, and the team slide is current the moment someone inserts it.

Off-template slides, fixed in bulk

From: slides built on old masters keep circulating, and nobody has time to fix them one by one.

To: SlideHub links your slide masters to the slides that use them. It checks every new slide as it comes in and offers to apply the right master when it doesn't match. Update a template, and every slide associated with it gets the new master in a few clicks, so old masters stop circulating.

The August product update covers these first three releases step by step.

The most important content, seen first

From: the most important assets get buried among thousands of slides. New hires don't know where to start, and others keep using the old pitch.

To: the library owner pins the content people should reach for first. Presentations, documents, PDFs and sheets sit together in one view, and it is the first thing everyone sees when they open SlideHub. AI search works across all of them from the same view.

Key assets also connects straight to shared links. Pick a follow-up deck and a few cases from your key assets, fill in what they share, like client name and logo, once, and send them all as one tailored link without opening PowerPoint.

All five deep dives are also on the watch a demo page.

Coming in Q4

AI presentation builder

From: sales wants to type a prompt and get a client-ready deck. Marketing wants every deck built from approved slides and rules. Today, one side loses.

To: marketing sets the boundaries: which content can go in, in what order, and rules such as "for clients in this industry, use these slides". The salesperson describes the client in a few lines, and SlideHub builds within that setup, asking a clarifying question when something is missing. The ease of AI, the compliance of a builder.

Library insights

From: the dashboard shows what happened, but not what to do about it, and nobody can see which slides actually go out to clients.

To: the library dashboard points at what to fix: duplicate slides, searches that return nothing, slides nobody uses. Slide-level insight shows which slides salespeople send, which were changed before they went out, and which were sent but never came from SlideHub at all.

Watermarks

From: in regulated industries a deck often has to carry its classification. That is left to each person, slide by slide, so some decks go out unmarked.

To: managers define watermarks and apply them automatically to all or selected slides, Word documents and PDFs. They decide whether users can adjust the text before downloading. The watermark itself can't be removed.

From the Q&A

Are CRM integrations coming? Yes, planned for later in Q4, starting with Salesforce, HubSpot and Attio. The aim is to feed engagement from shared links back into the CRM, so sellers can act on what is happening in each deal.

How is the AI presentation builder different from the presentation builder we have today? The existing feature builds free-form slides from a prompt: any outline, any content, reusing your library's slides where it can. The AI presentation builder works the other way round. It can only use what marketing has approved, arranged by marketing's rules. End users get less freedom, and marketing gets full control over what reaches a client. They fit different needs, and we don't expect most accounts to switch on both.

Can I share files that aren't in SlideHub through a shared link? Yes. Add files from your computer, SharePoint or anywhere else alongside library content, and SlideHub prepares them for sharing in the same link.

Want to go deeper?

Existing customers can ask their CSM for a walkthrough of anything above, or write to [email protected]. If you're new to SlideHub, schedule a demo.

The next quarterly deep dive will be announced on the webinars page.