Getting a deck
Ask for one the way you'd brief a teammate. In any agent chat, describe the content and say you want it as a deck — for example, "Summarize Q3 paid social performance as a slide deck for the client call." Agents that produce reports can generally deliver them in deck form, and slides render as polished visuals rather than plain text on a page.
Finished decks land in Files, where the preview shows the actual slides. From there you can download the file, share it, or push it to the Workbench for review before it goes to a client.
Tip: When you run an agent solo from its detail page, there's a format box where you can type a plain-words ask like "as a deck" — no special syntax needed.
The three slide styles
Slide generation has a style setting that controls the trade-off between design polish and editability:
Hybrid — AI backgrounds + editable text. Designed backgrounds with real, editable text on top. The recommended middle ground: slides look finished, and you can still fix a number or reword a headline in your slide editor.
Full AI — baked text. The most visually designed option — each slide is generated as a complete visual, text included. Striking, but edits mean regenerating the slide rather than clicking into a text box.
Template — fully editable. Built from a standard template. The plainest look, but every element is editable, which suits decks you expect to rework heavily.
Setting your default
Open Settings from your profile menu.
Switch to the My preferences page.
Under Iris defaults, set Default slide style. This is used whenever a deck gets built for you.
While you're there, you can also set your Default deliverable format — the output format every new request starts from unless you steer it.
These are personal defaults — they follow your account and don't change anything for teammates.
Revising a deck
You don't need to regenerate from scratch when a deck is almost right:
Open the deck in Files.
Use the composer at the bottom of the page — "add a slide on retention trends," "swap slide 4's chart for the MoM view."
The agent regenerates the file as a new version; the previous version stays in history.
Note: For client-facing decks, do a final pass in your slide editor after downloading — check numbers, client naming, and brand details before sending. The Workbench review ladder is the safety net for exactly this step.