Presentations
How many slides your presentation gets
One control decides more about the finished deck than the theme does. Slide count is not a suggestion to the writer, it is a target it is instructed to hit exactly, so choosing it badly produces a deck that is padded or crushed rather than one that is simply longer or shorter.
Three to twenty, defaulting to three
The slider sits under the prompt box between Language and Theme. Its floor is three and its ceiling is twenty, and it opens on three, which surprises people who expected a fuller deck. Move it before you generate. The number you leave it on is passed to the planner as a target slide count with an instruction to hit it exactly and flex by one only if the narrative strictly demands it.
The free plan stops at six
A free account can only set the slider as far as six. The rest of the track is drawn greyed out with a small padlock at the six mark, so you can see what you are missing rather than wondering why the handle stopped. A Starter plan or higher unlocks the full twenty. The limit is enforced on the server too, so it is not a cosmetic cap.
What six slides buys you
A cover, three or four substantive slides and a close. There is no room for an agenda, a divider or a section recap, so the deck is one continuous argument. This is the right length for a stand up update or a single ask, and the wrong length for anything a stranger has to follow without you narrating it.
Ten is where the furniture appears
At ten the planner can afford a cover, an agenda, six or seven content slides and a close, which is the shape most business decks actually are. Section dividers start showing up, and content slides begin to differentiate: one carrying metrics, one carrying a comparison, one carrying a timeline, rather than six variations on a bullet list.
Eighteen changes the density, not just the count
The planner is instructed to vary how many points sit on each slide deliberately, terse in one place and dense in another, and not to use the same count three slides in a row. That instruction has somewhere to go at eighteen and nowhere to go at six. A long deck also gets more section structure, so the audience gets told where they are more often.
How it works, in three steps
Step 1
Move the slider before generating
It opens on three. The hint beside it names the current value, or the cap plus an upgrade link when you are at the ceiling.
Step 2
Pick the count from the room, not the topic
Roughly a minute a slide when you are talking. A fifteen minute slot is not a twenty slide deck.
Step 3
Add or delete afterwards
The slider only sets the first pass. Slides can be added from the library or deleted from the rail at any point.
The full walkthrough with screenshots is in the guide Make a pitch presentation with AI.
Limits worth knowing
- The slider range is 3 to 20. There is no way to request more from the wizard.
- A free account is capped at 6 and the server rejects more, so the cap is not just a UI limit.
- The default is 3, which is lower than most people want. It has to be changed every time.
- The count is a target with a tolerance of one slide, not a guarantee.
See it on a finished piece
Questions people ask
Why did my deck come back with only three slides?
Because the slider defaults to three and was not moved. It is the first thing to change after you finish typing the topic.
Can I go past twenty slides?
Not from the wizard. Generate twenty, then add more from the layout library in the builder, which has no cap.
What happens if I ask for fewer slides than my content needs?
It compresses rather than cuts. Points get merged onto shared slides, which is usually worse than dropping a topic outright, so trim the brief instead.
Does a longer deck cost more?
Yes. Generation draws on your monthly credit allowance, and a longer deck writes more slides. The free allowance covers roughly three projects a month.
Make your own presentation
The button opens the generator with this use case already described. Change the wording to match yours, generate, then edit anything you like.
Create a presentation with OneCraftRelated pages
How to structure a presentation
Structure is the order of the slides and nothing else. Get it right and average writing survives; get it wrong and good writing does not. Five patterns cover most business decks, and each one is written here as a sequence of slide kinds you can build directly.
Types of slides in a presentation
Every slide in this builder is one of twenty six kinds, and the kind is chosen before any words exist. Learning the list is worth ten minutes, because most weak decks are not badly written, they are slides doing a job they were not built for.
Timeline slides
Time on a slide has more than one honest shape. A run of milestones wants a rail. A set of phases with detail under each wants columns. A history with unequal gaps wants a vertical list. Twenty layouts cover those cases, and choosing badly is what makes a timeline unreadable.
More finished work of this kind is on the presentation examples hub.