Blog
How decks get built, exported and defended.
Engineering notes on the export path, the trust model behind grounded mode, and the craft of cutting a deck down to the argument that carries it.
Trust
Guardrails beat disclaimers: how grounded mode decides what to cut
Telling users to check the numbers is not a safety feature. We built a mode that refuses to put anything on a slide it cannot trace back to a span in your source.
Deck craft
The 40-slide problem: cutting a deck without losing the argument
Long decks are not thorough. They are undecided. A method for getting from everything you know to the six slides that carry the case.
Product
Why restyling a whole deck takes one click
Nothing in our slide model stores a literal color. That single design decision is what makes instant rebranding possible, and it is the same decision that makes the PowerPoint export work.
Product
Presenting with no network: the single-file HTML export
Conference wifi is a known hazard. Every deck also exports as one self-contained HTML file with the fonts and images inlined.
Deck craft
Your company template is a contract, not a suggestion
Generated decks that ignore the corporate master create work for someone downstream. Reading .potx properly turned out to be most of the job.
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