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Research, comparisons, and practical notes on building and editing PowerPoint with AI.

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Building a better PowerPoint API for the AI era

How agents edit PowerPoint today, why it keeps breaking, and the engine we built instead.

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editide Pls Fix Bench

GPT-5.6 Luna outperforms Opus writing code at 96% lower cost

We tested eleven AI models on 195 targeted PowerPoint edits with editide and code generation.

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What's in a PowerPoint file?

An accessible peek under the hood of the world's most popular presentation format.

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Claude for PowerPoint vs. editide

Side-by-side comparison of both PowerPoint add-ins. Same model, same task, different results.

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