OpenClaw for Presentations: How to Automate Slide Creation with AI Skills

OpenClaw is the hottest personal AI assistant of 2026—and SlideSpeak's official OpenClaw skill lets you create professional presentations from any chat app. Message your lobster 🦞 on WhatsApp, Telegram, or Discord, and get polished slide decks in minutes. No more switching between apps or manually building presentations. Just chat and create.

OpenClaw (formerly known as Clawdbot) is a personal AI assistant that runs on your own machine and can be accessed from virtually any chat application—WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack, Signal, or even iMessage.

Unlike cloud-only AI assistants, OpenClaw runs locally on your computer. Your data stays private, it remembers everything you tell it, and it can actually do things on your machine—browse the web, manage files, run scripts, and extend its capabilities through a growing skills ecosystem.

Why OpenClaw is Trending

OpenClaw has exploded in popularity since its launch, with developers and power users praising it as "what Siri should have been." Here's why:

• Runs Locally: Your data never leaves your machine unless you explicitly send it to an API
• Works Everywhere: WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack, Signal, iMessage—use whatever chat app you prefer
• Persistent Memory: It remembers your preferences, context, and past interactions
• Skills Ecosystem: Extend capabilities with community skills or build your own
• Self-Improving: OpenClaw can even write its own skills to solve new problems
• Open Source: Fully hackable and customizable

As one user put it: "2026 is already the year of personal agents."

Skills are plugins that extend what OpenClaw can do. Think of them as superpowers you can add to your personal AI assistant.

What Skills Enable

• Connect to external services and APIs
• Perform specialized tasks (like creating presentations)
• Integrate with your existing tools and workflows
• Automate repetitive processes

The skills ecosystem is community-driven, with developers building and sharing skills for everything from flight check-ins to smart home control to—you guessed it—presentation creation.

Available Skill Categories

• Productivity: Gmail, Calendar, GitHub, Obsidian
• Communication: Email composition, meeting scheduling
• Smart Home: Philips Hue, Spotify, home automation
• Development: Code review, PR management, testing
• Content Creation: Writing, design, presentations

SlideSpeak offers an official OpenClaw skill that brings AI presentation generation to any chat app you use.

GitHub Repository: github.com/SlideSpeak/skills

What the SlideSpeak Skill Enables

With the SlideSpeak skill installed, you can:

• Generate presentations from natural language via any chat app
• Create slides from documents (upload PDFs, Word docs, or URLs)
• Edit existing PowerPoint files through conversation
• Apply custom templates to maintain brand consistency
• Export to multiple formats (PPTX, PDF, Google Slides)

All of this happens through simple chat messages—no need to open a browser, log into a platform, or switch between apps.

Example Conversation

Here's what using SlideSpeak through OpenClaw looks like:

You (via Telegram): "Create a 10-slide pitch deck about sustainable energy for my investor meeting tomorrow. Use a professional dark theme and include market size data."

OpenClaw: "I'll create that pitch deck for you using SlideSpeak. Let me research the topic and generate the slides..."

OpenClaw (2 minutes later): "Done! Here's your sustainable energy pitch deck. I've included market size and growth projections, key industry trends, competitive landscape, and investment opportunity summary. Download link: [slidespeak.co/download/...] Want me to adjust any slides or add more detail to specific sections?"

The power is in the iteration. You can refine, edit, and perfect your presentation through ongoing conversation—all from your phone.

Quick Pitch Decks

Command: "Create a pitch deck for my startup idea about AI-powered tutoring for K-12 students"

Output: 10-15 slide investor-ready deck with market analysis, problem statement, solution overview, business model, and team slide placeholders.

Document-to-Slides Conversion

Command: "Turn this PDF research paper into a presentation" (attach PDF)

Output: Summary slides extracting key findings, methodology overview, and conclusions from the uploaded document.

Weekly Reports

Command: "Generate my weekly sales report slides. Revenue was $45K, we closed 3 new deals, and pipeline is at $200K"

Output: Data-driven slides with charts, KPIs, and visual representations of your metrics.

Meeting Preparation

Command: "Create talking points slides for my 2pm client call about our enterprise pricing"

Output: Agenda slide plus key discussion points, pricing tiers, and value proposition slides.

Training Materials

Command: "Build an onboarding presentation for new software engineers joining our team"

Output: Multi-section training deck covering company overview, tech stack, development processes, and team structure.

Scheduled Presentations

OpenClaw supports cron jobs and scheduled tasks. You can set up recurring presentation generation:

"Every Monday at 8am, generate a weekly team update presentation from my Notion workspace"

Multi-Step Workflows

Combine SlideSpeak with other skills for powerful automation:

"Research the latest AI trends from the past week, then create a presentation summarizing the top 5 developments"

OpenClaw will use its browser capabilities to research, then hand off to SlideSpeak for presentation creation.

Template Persistence

Once you've defined your preferred templates and styles, OpenClaw remembers:

"Use my standard company template for all future presentations"

From then on, all generated presentations will use your brand guidelines.

How does OpenClaw compare to other ways of automating presentations?

Why OpenClaw Wins for Presentations

• Accessibility: Create presentations from your phone via WhatsApp or Telegram—no desktop required
• Privacy: Your data stays on your machine, not in someone else's cloud
• Memory: OpenClaw remembers your preferences across sessions
• Flexibility: Works with any chat app you already use
• Extensibility: Combine presentation creation with any other OpenClaw skill

Be Specific in Your Requests

The more context you provide, the better your presentations will be:

Less effective: "Make a presentation about our product"

More effective: "Create a 12-slide sales presentation about our CRM software for mid-market B2B companies. Focus on ease of use and integration capabilities. Use our blue brand colors."

Iterate Through Conversation

Don't try to get everything perfect in one message. Use follow-ups:

• Generate initial presentation
• "Add more detail to slide 3"
• "Change the title of slide 7 to..."
• "Add a chart showing growth metrics on slide 5"

Leverage Document Uploads

For data-heavy presentations, upload source documents:

"Create a quarterly review presentation from this Excel file" (attach file)

Set Default Preferences

Train OpenClaw on your preferences once:

"Remember: I always want presentations in 16:9 format, with minimal text per slide, and a professional dark theme"

OpenClaw represents the future of personal AI—private, powerful, and accessible from anywhere. With SlideSpeak's official skill integration, presentation creation becomes as simple as sending a text message.

Whether you're a consultant preparing client decks, a startup founder crafting pitch presentations, or a team lead building weekly reports, the combination of OpenClaw and SlideSpeak eliminates the friction between idea and finished presentation.

Get Started Today

• Install OpenClaw from openclaw.ai
• Add the SlideSpeak skill from github.com/SlideSpeak/skills
• Start creating presentations from WhatsApp, Telegram, or Discord

The future of presentation creation is here—and it fits in your pocket. 🦞