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Slides that are designed, not just corrected

The HiloIntelligence pane opens inside PowerPoint and works on the open deck: it reads one slide or all of them, designs complete slides that respect your theme, rewrites existing text and writes the speaker notes.

What it does

An assistant that genuinely composes the deck

The pane reads the presentation, then produces slides whose text stays editable in PowerPoint.

  • Read the presentation

    A deck overview, one slide and all its shapes, every slide, the current selection, the speaker notes — and the deck's theme, accent colours and fonts included.

  • Design a slide

    The assistant composes the slide and has it rendered: it lands in your deck as native editable text over the designed background, not as a flat image.

  • Rewrite and restyle

    Rewrite a shape's text, change colours, fonts, sizes, alignment and position, alter the background, or revise an already-designed slide through targeted edits.

  • Diagrams and charts

    Insert diagrams (process, timeline, key figures, matrix) and real PowerPoint charts — column, bar, line, pie, doughnut, area — that stay editable.

  • Speaker notes

    Read every slide's notes and rewrite them, so the spoken text follows what the slide actually shows.

  • Structure and export

    Add, duplicate, move or delete slides, group shapes, and export the deck to PDF.

Where and how

Deployed by your administrators

The add-in is deployed by manifest URL from the Microsoft 365 admin center, then assigned to a group.

  1. 01

    PowerPoint on Windows, Mac and the web

    The manifest declares the desktop form factor. Some functions need a recent Office build: on an older one, that tool is simply not offered, without errors.

  2. 02

    One admin-center deployment

    Your administrators paste the manifest URL into Integrated apps, then assign it to a group rather than to everyone. Allow 24 to 72 hours for Microsoft-side propagation.

  3. 03

    The same app registration as Outlook

    Each add-in deploys separately, but they all reuse the Entra registration already in place for the Outlook add-in. One addition is needed: the PowerPoint taskpane's redirect URI, without which single sign-on fails in PowerPoint on the web.

  4. 04

    Access stays yours

    Sign-in uses the person's Microsoft single sign-on, and your administrators decide which groups may use the module.

Limits, stated plainly

What the add-in does not do

Assisted design has precise edges, and it is better to know them before the meeting.

  • Replacing an existing slide with a designed one clears that slide's speaker notes.
  • The design engine uses a fixed font set; a font outside that set is silently substituted.
  • At most two generated images per designed slide, and stored visuals expire after 90 days: past that, regenerating gives a different image.
  • PDF export and design rendering depend on rendering services. If design rendering is unavailable the assistant says so and falls back to a simpler composition; PDF export has no fallback and fails with an error.
  • Visually checking its own slide requires a recent Office build and a model that can see images.
  • By default edits apply immediately; turn off auto-apply to confirm each change.
Deployment

Getting the PowerPoint add-in to your teams

Four steps, done once by your Microsoft 365 administrators. Nothing to install on anyone's machine.

  1. 1

    Copy the manifest URL

    It is shown inside your instance under Admin → Settings, with a copy button. It ends in /powerpoint/manifest.xml.

  2. 2

    Open Integrated apps

    In the Microsoft 365 admin center: Settings → Integrated apps → Upload custom apps, then “Provide a URL for the manifest”.

  3. 3

    Assign to a group

    Rather than to everyone — that is what lets you open the add-in to a pilot team before widening it.

  4. 4

    Let Microsoft propagate

    Allow 24 to 72 hours before the button appears in everyone's ribbon. The delay is Microsoft's, not the platform's.

Each add-in deploys separately. For use in PowerPoint on the web, a redirect URI must also be added to your Entra app registration — without it single sign-on fails in the browser while the desktop works. Our team supplies it with the manifest.

Try it on your own files

Create your workspace and deploy the add-in from the Microsoft 365 admin center. Your administrators choose who gets access.