Presentation Decks
A presentation deck is one of the two kinds of deliverable an ORQO workflow can produce. Where a document artifact is a paginated report, brief, or memo, a deck is a set of 16:9 slides -- the kind of presentation a founder would actually stand up and present.
Decks are produced by the same artifact-capable agents that produce documents. An agent with the Can Create Artifacts capability decides, based on its task, whether the deliverable should be a document or a deck -- you simply ask for "a presentation" or "a slide deck" in the task directive.
Decks are a rich, strong-model capability. Composing a polished, on-brand presentation end-to-end works best with a high-capability model on the deck-producing assignment. See Model Picker.
What the agent composes
You give the agent a topic -- or let it work from the workflow's own findings -- and it composes the whole presentation end-to-end. A finished deck can combine any of these slide ideas:
| Slide idea | What it looks like |
|---|---|
| Full-bleed image cover | An edge-to-edge image with the title set over it -- the opening or section-break slide |
| Golden-ratio split | A major focal area beside a narrower supporting column, balanced on the golden ratio |
| Comparison / competitor matrix | A dense comparison table with checkmarks running down your column -- "us vs. them" at a glance |
| Data chart | A bar, line, or area chart rendered crisply on the slide |
| Hero number | A single large statistic that carries the slide |
| Bullet list | A focused set of points, one idea at a time |
| Pull quote | A highlighted quotation -- testimonial, vision statement, or key takeaway |
| Headline + intro framing | A large headline (with one word accented in your brand color) and a single framing sentence above the slide's content |
The agent chooses the layout and content for each slide. You describe the goal and the key points; it decides how to lay them out.
One idea per slide -- by design
By default, decks follow one-idea-per-slide discipline: each slide makes a single point cleanly. The agent deliberately uses a dense slide -- a full comparison matrix or a data chart -- only when the content genuinely calls for it. The result reads like a deck built by a designer, not a wall of text.
On-brand color schemes
Every deck renders in a selectable color scheme that carries your corporate identity:
| Scheme | Feel |
|---|---|
| Midnight | Dark, high-contrast -- bold and modern |
| Ivory | Light, editorial -- clean and approachable |
| Noir | Monochrome -- understated and premium |
The same slides render in any scheme, so you can switch the look of an entire deck without rebuilding it. The agent selects a scheme that fits your brand; you can request a specific one in the task directive.
Your brand colors
The schemes carry your organization's identity because you define the brand palette once, in Settings → Branding (organization admins only). You set four brand colors -- Background, Title, Body, and Accent -- for dark decks and, separately, for light decks, using a dark/light toggle with a color picker for each. ORQO derives the rest of each palette (surfaces, muted text, borders) automatically so every deck stays coherent and on-brand. Your heading and body fonts are set in the same place.
When a deck renders in a dark scheme it draws from your dark brand colors; in a light scheme, your light ones. This is what lets a single deck switch schemes and still look like it belongs to you.
You can also set a type scale in the same place -- a Title and a Body percentage that make headlines and body text larger or smaller. This is font-only: it changes how loud or how tight the type reads without altering the layout, so you can move a deck from a bold, pitch-style look toward a more compact, business-report feel. It applies to every deck the organization produces, in any format.
Any workflow can override the organization palette with its own brand colors -- and its own type scale: open the workflow's settings and expand the Branding Override section. This is useful when one workflow produces decks for a different brand or client. Individual artifacts can also be fine-tuned live in the artifact's Theme editor.
The agent verifies its own work
Just like document artifacts, a deck-producing agent can visually preview its work before finishing. It renders the deck, looks at it, and fixes problems -- a misaligned chart, an awkward split, a slide that's too crowded -- before completing the stage. The agent can also zoom in on a single slide to check it at full detail.
This self-review is what makes decks presentation-grade rather than rough drafts. You can encourage it in your task directive:
"After building the deck, preview it slide by slide and fix any slide where the layout looks crowded or a chart doesn't render cleanly."
Viewing and sharing a deck
A finished deck appears on the workflow run page under the Artifacts tab, and you can work with it in several ways:
| Action | What happens |
|---|---|
| View as a lightbox of slides | The whole deck is laid out as a grid of slide thumbnails -- you can take in the entire presentation at a glance |
| Click a slide to enlarge | Clicking a thumbnail opens that slide large over a dimmed backdrop; step through with the arrow keys, close with Escape |
| Download PDF | Export the deck as a 16:9 PDF, one slide per page -- ready to present or send |
| Publish a share link | Generate a public link anyone can open in a browser, no account required; unpublish to revoke it instantly |
Published decks render with full formatting -- images, charts, matrices, and your color scheme intact -- on a clean standalone page with no platform chrome.
Decks vs. documents
| Document | Presentation deck | |
|---|---|---|
| Shape | Paginated pages | 16:9 slides |
| Best for | Reports, briefs, memos, dashboards | Pitches, summaries, comparison decks, board updates |
| Built by | An artifact-capable agent | The same artifact-capable agent |
| How you request it | "Write a report / brief..." | "Build a presentation / slide deck..." |
| View | Interactive HTML page | Lightbox grid of slides |
| Download | Paginated PDF | 16:9 slide PDF |
| Share link | Yes | Yes |
| On-brand | Corporate identity colors & fonts | Selectable color scheme carrying your identity |
Both are produced by the same capability and share the same publish, download, and save-to-library options. See Artifacts for the document side and the shared lifecycle (publishing, PDF export, saving to your document library).