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Features

Create, present and share with Deckyard.

Find the tools for editing, house styles, AI, collaboration, presenting and publishing. Each section links to the documentation for the next step.

Create a deck

Turn your material into slides

Choose slide types for your content, edit their fields and reuse material from your libraries.

Editing documentation
The Deckyard editor with a metrics slide on the canvas, slide thumbnails on the left and layout controls on the right.

  • Types for different content

    Use a timeline for events, a chart for figures or a quote for someone's words. Each type offers its own fields.

  • Edit and preview

    Edit content in the form or directly on the slide where supported. The preview shows the result in your selected theme.

  • Reuse slides

    Save slides in a personal library or a library shared across your organisation. Insert a copy into another deck and adapt it for that presentation.

  • Reuse images

    Find and reuse uploaded images in the image library, with descriptions to help you choose the right image.

Use your brand

Give your decks a shared house style

Themes bring colours, fonts and logos together. Choose a theme for the deck, then check how your content looks in it.

Theme documentation

  • Choose a theme

    Apply a theme to a new or existing deck. Check the slides after switching, because layout and available options can differ.

  • Maintain your house style

    Configure your organisation's colours, typography and logos in a theme. Themes can also be stored as JSON files.

  • Use your own fonts

    Add font files through font management. Use fonts whose licence allows the way you distribute and publish your presentations.

Work with AI

Get a draft you can work on

When AI is configured on your instance, use it to organise material and help with translations. Review its suggestions before sharing the result.

AI setup documentation
The translation preview: each declared field of the slide listed by name, with the source text and the model’s suggested translation side by side.

  • Start from notes

    Turn notes or source text into a first draft of a deck. Edit the resulting slides and check them against your source.

  • Translate content

    Request translations for a field, a slide or a deck. Review the proposed text before applying it.

  • Suggest image descriptions

    Generate draft alt text for images and edit it for the context. This feature currently requires an OpenAI configuration.

  • Connect your own agent

    Use MCP to let an agent inspect slide types and edit presentations within its access permissions.

Work together

Edit and review a deck together

Give colleagues access to the deck, discuss slides in comments and use version history when you need to revisit earlier work.

Collaboration documentation
The comments panel open next to the slide preview, with one open thread and one resolved thread.

  • Set access permissions

    Choose who can view, comment on or edit a deck. Match access to the role each colleague has in the work.

  • Discuss a slide

    Leave comments on a slide and reply in the thread. Owners and administrators can resolve a discussion when it has been addressed.

  • Edit at the same time

    Live co-editing is off by default and must be enabled on the instance. When enabled, colleagues can work in the same deck; coordinate changes to the same field.

  • Revisit an earlier version

    Inspect saved versions and restore an earlier version when needed.

Present

Present and involve your audience

Use the presenter view to keep track of your talk. Add interactive slides when you want the audience to take part.

Presenter documentation
Presenter view: the current slide, a clock with a 20-minute target, the next slide as a thumbnail, and the speaker notes for this slide.

  • Notes and the next slide

    Keep speaker notes and a preview of the next slide in the presenter view while the audience sees the presentation.

  • Poll the room

    Add polls and rating questions. Participants answer on their own devices during the live session.

  • Collect questions

    Let participants submit questions. During the session, moderators can remove questions or turn a question into a slide.

  • Let people follow along

    Share the live session's code or link so participants can follow the presentation on their own device. Live interaction needs a connection.

Publish and export

Share the result in a suitable format

Publish a deck, create an access-controlled share link or export a file. Choose the route that fits your audience and how they will use it.

Publishing documentation
The share dialog for a link: permission, access, expiry and password set, with the resulting invite-only link listed below.

  • Publish and embed

    Publish a deck for access through a public link, or embed the published presentation in a web page.

  • Share with access rules

    Create a share link with permissions and options such as a password or expiry date. Manage these separately from public publication.

  • Export an HTML presentation

    Download an HTML viewer. Check external assets before offline use; live interaction still needs the server.

  • Export for other uses

    Export PDF, PowerPoint, PNG or JSON. PowerPoint exports mainly contain slide images; do not expect every element to remain editable.

Choose where to run Deckyard

Install Deckyard on your own server, or discuss managed hosting. The hosting page explains the pilot offer and the arrangements to make before starting.

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