🪄 Presentation from AI Insights

A saved insight can be turned into a presentation: The AI plans slides with statements, figures and questions for the discussion. If you prefer to work without AI, use the quick view, which places each widget on its own slide. This article explains how to start a presentation, how it is structured and how to customise its appearance.

Please note

The presentation is part of AI Insights and is only available if AI is enabled in the workspace. A presentation with AI uses credits (see How AI credits work). The quick view does not use AI.

Starting a presentation

Open a saved insight under Insights in the project.
Click the presentation icon in the header (Drill down – show insight as presentation).
If no presentation exists for the insight yet, the Drill down dialogue opens with two options:
- Create presentation with AI: Slides with statements and questions based on the insight's figures, then saved.
- Quick view without AI: Each widget on one slide, with the insights as a conclusion.

When you select Create presentation with AI, a message (“smenso AI is planning the slides …”) indicates that the slides are being created. The presentation then opens. Once it has been created, the same icon opens the saved presentation directly the next time.

Dialog Dive in with the options Create presentation with AI and Quick view without AI

How the presentation is structured

Title slide: The title of the insight, followed by the project and date, and optionally the From line. The example had 5 slides in total.
Content slides: The heading states the slide's message, for example “Costs are 20% above plan – project traffic light is under observation”. The relevant widgets and bullet points with the key figures are shown alongside it.
Conclusion slide: Under In summary, it summarises the most important points and, under We should follow up on this, lists questions for the discussion.

Every figure in the texts comes from the calculated values of the insight. The AI does not mention people's names; people appear anonymously. At the bottom of each slide, the title, a progress bar and the slide number are displayed.

Content slide with heading, Mission Control and four bullet points

Conclusion slide with the columns In short and Worth looking into

Note

The slides themselves cannot yet be edited, and there is no separate prompt for the presentation. If something should look different, adjust the insight and create the presentation again.

Navigating through the presentation

The control bar is displayed at the bottom. It disappears after a short time and reappears as soon as you move the mouse. From left to right, it contains:

Previous slide and Next slide with an indication of the current slide, for example “1 / 5”
Create again with AI
Customise appearance (slider icon)
Print slides
Fullscreen (F)
Close (Esc)

Customising the appearance

Use Customise appearance to specify what the slides display. The selection takes effect immediately, remains saved and also applies when printing. It does not require AI and does not use any credits.

Title slide

Company logo: displays the workspace logo. If no logo is stored, the option is greyed out (“No logo is stored in the workspace.”).
Project logo: displays the project logo.
from …: displays a From line with your name.
Date: displays the date below the title.

Slides

Logos on all slides: repeats the logo on every slide. The option can only be selected once a logo has been chosen for the title slide (“First choose a logo for the title slide.”).
Slide numbers: shows or hides the number at the bottom right.
Bullet points: shows or hides the bullet points next to the widgets.
Questions in conclusion: shows or hides the questions on the conclusion slide. If both Bullet points and Questions in conclusion are turned off, the conclusion slide is omitted.
Highlight changed figures: marks figures that have changed since the presentation was created.

If the insight changes

If the insight changes after the presentation is created, the presentation displays the message “The insight has changed since this presentation was created.” at the top. Click Create again to have the AI create the presentation again; the message can be hidden using the ×. You can also create the presentation again at any time using Create again with AI in the control bar. smenso then asks for confirmation (“Create presentation again with AI? The current one will be replaced.”). Creating it again uses credits once more.

Notice that the insight has changed since this presentation, with the button Create anew

FAQ

Can I edit individual slides?

No, the slides cannot yet be edited. However, you can customise the appearance or change the insight and create the presentation again.

Why can't I select the company logo?

No logo is stored in the workspace. The option becomes available as soon as one is stored.

Does the quick view use AI?

No. It places each widget on one slide and uses the existing insights as the conclusion, without sending a request to the AI.

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