A few days back, I met a management consultant. He works with firms like McKinsey & Company.
Sharp guy. Clear thinker.
He told me something I didn’t expect.
“I used to spend more time on slides… than on thinking.”
And honestly, that hit.
Because if you’ve ever made presentations, you know this feeling.
He walked me through his old workflow.
For years, he used PowerPoint. Then switched to Canva.
PowerPoint:
Powerful
But painfully manual
Canva:
Beautiful
But still template-dependent
“Different tools,” he said,
“same problem.”
The real issue wasn’t design. It was time.
He already knew what he wanted to say.
But:
Structuring slides
Writing content
Aligning everything
Took hours.Sometimes entire nights.
Then recently, he switched to Gamma AI.
And the way he explained it…
It completely changed how I see presentations.
The moment everything changed
He said: “Earlier, I used to start with slides.”
“Now, I start with a sentence.”
Something like:
“Create a market entry strategy deck for an EV startup in India.”
And Gamma does the rest.
It:
Structures the story
Builds the flow
Writes the content
Designs the slides
“In seconds,” he said.
That’s when he realized something important:
He wasn’t spending time thinking.
He was spending time formatting.
Gamma vs PowerPoint vs Canva
PowerPoint = control
Canva = design
Gamma = thinking + execution
Why Gamma works better
No blank slide problem
No template dependency
No formatting loops
Idea → structured deck instantly
But then he added something most people ignore:
“If your thinking is weak… Gamma will expose it.”
Because AI doesn’t fix thinking.
It amplifies it.
How he actually uses Gamma (his workflow)
This part was gold.
He didn’t just “use” Gamma.
He changed his entire workflow.
Step 1: Dump raw thinking
→ Problem, data, insights (messy)
Step 2: Prompt Gamma
→ “Create a structured consulting deck with clear storyline”
Step 3: Generate
→ No editing yet
Step 4: Refine thinking
→ Fix logic, not design
Step 5: Final output
“Hours of work reduced to minutes,” he said.
The Gamma Playbook (what he follows)
He broke it down into a system:
Start with intent
Pitch / strategy / report
Add context
Industry, audience, goal
Let Gamma structure
Don’t control too early
Edit for clarity
Not aesthetics
Iterate fast
Try multiple versions
“Most people use AI like a tool,” he told me.
“I use it like a junior consultant.”
This isn’t just for consultants
Then he said something bigger.
“This applies to almost everyone.”
Founders
Pitch decks in minutes
Faster fundraising
Sales teams
Custom client decks
Better conversions
Marketing teams
Campaign storytelling
Strategy presentations
Students
Assignments
Better structured work
Same tool.
Different leverage.
If you want to try it (simple steps)
Here’s exactly what he showed me:
Open Gamma
Click “Create new”
Select “Generate with AI”
Write one clear sentence
Choose style
Generate
Refine content
Present
That’s it.
What changed for him
Before Gamma:
He was spending nights fixing slides.
After Gamma:
He spends time thinking.
And in consulting…
That’s everything.
More time for:
Better insights
Faster delivery
Clear thinking
His work didn’t just get faster.
It got better.
The realization
The biggest thing he said stayed with me:
“AI didn’t replace my job.”
“It removed the part of my job that didn’t matter.”
PowerPoint wasn’t the problem.
Manual work was.
And if you’re still spending hours on slides…
You’re not working harder.
You’re working outdated.