# Presentations are now researched before they are written

> Since Tesseract 0.11.27, a presentation starts with research. Sourced notes are saved inside it, the plan is built on that evidence, each slide gets a chart or diagram that fits its point, and the speaker notes are written to be spoken.

By The Tesseract team · published 2026-10-04 · updated 2026-10-16 · Presentations, Research, Release
Source: https://tesseract.dev/blog/presentations-researched-before-they-are-written/

Tesseract 0.11.27 changes the order in which a presentation is made. After you answer its questions, Tesseract first looks into the topic and saves what it finds as notes inside the presentation, every fact with where it comes from. The plan and the slides are then written from those notes, so you can see what each slide rests on before you stand up and present it.

## Research first, saved as notes

The **Make a presentation** card on Home still starts with a short conversation: what it is about, who will watch and which look you like. What happens after your answers is new.

Tesseract looks into the topic with the conversation's own framework, whether that is Claude Code, [Codex or Gemini CLI](/agentic-ide/), on the web where it can. Every fact it keeps goes into the presentation's notes with where it comes from and how far it can be trusted. The notes appear beside the chat as they are saved, and stay one click away afterwards.

You can steer the research while it runs:

- Type something, and it is looked into too.
- Say that's enough, and it plans from what it has.
- Attach your own material, and it is read first. What you attach outranks anything found elsewhere.

A pitch, a sales deck, a proposal or an update is your own case, and it is now made that way. The research reads your own material first: the project you are working in, your earlier presentations and what you attach. The plan and the slides then speak in your voice ("we", "our") instead of reading like someone else's report on you.

![The cover slide of a bakery's investor pitch, written in the bakery's own voice: "Opening our second bakery in Riverside, spring 2027".](https://tesseract.dev/images/site/res-deck.webp)

## A plan built on evidence

The plan now starts from the one point the whole presentation makes. Every slide gets a title that says its own point, and you can see how many facts each slide rests on. What the notes could not prove is looked into once more before you see the plan. What only you know, such as your own figures, names and dates, is listed for you to add.

There is also a better question about length. Instead of a number of slides, you say how you will use it: present it for 5, 10, 20 or 30 minutes, at about a slide a minute, or send it to be read. A talk gets slides to glance at and notes to speak from. A presentation that is read gets fuller pages that stand on their own. Long talks get section slides, and a plan can now hold up to forty slides. The minutes you give are held to, also after you add slides to the plan.

![A plan for an eight-slide bakery pitch, made for a 7-minute talk: each slide title states its point, and every slide has an Add facts pill.](https://tesseract.dev/images/site/step-plan.webp)

## Slides that show their point, and notes you can speak from

Each content slide now carries one visual that fits what it says: bars, a ranking, a trend, a share, a few key figures, a funnel, a small table, a comparison, a timeline, steps, a cycle, a pyramid, a matrix and more. There are twenty-one in all, drawn in the presentation's own look. Numbers come from the research, are written the way your language writes them, and the slide says where they come from.

Each slide's speaker notes are now what to say:

- the point, in one sentence
- what the audience is looking at
- something that is not on the slide
- a line that leads to the next slide
- a fact kept in reserve for the question that will come

The opening and the close are written as an opening and a close.

When the slides are written, the whole presentation is read once more for a point made twice, figures that disagree and a claim its slide does not back, and those slides are rewritten. Slides whose figures have no source are marked for you to check. The plan, the slides and this read-through all use the model your conversation runs on, not its smaller fast model.

## How to make a researched presentation

1. On Home, press **Make a presentation** and say what it is about. Attach a Word file, a PowerPoint, a PDF or your notes if you have them.
2. Answer who will watch, how you will use it and which look you like. Tap an answer, type it in your own words, or press **Decide for me**.
3. Watch the research notes fill in beside the chat. Type anything else you want looked into, or say that's enough.
4. Read the plan, and add the figures, names and dates it asks you for. Open **Read and edit** under the plan to see the notes: press **Edit** on a note to change it in place, add a note of your own with what you know, or remove one.
5. Build it. **Facts** under the open slide shows what that slide is written from. Take out a fact that is wrong, add one of your own, and say in your own words what else the slide should say or show. **Rewrite this slide** writes just that slide again and leaves the rest as it is.

Later, the notes are also under **Research notes** in the presentation's menu.

**When the notes change, the slides can follow.** Ask in the chat for more information, such as "look this up" or "ground it in my project", and the assistant adds it to the notes. Tesseract then tells you what changed and offers to update the presentation. It plans it again from the notes and shows you the plan first. Nothing in your slides changes until you build it, and **Leave my slides as they are** puts everything back. What you asked the assistant to change on a slide is kept when the presentation is built again.

A web page, PDF or PowerPoint made from a presentation carries its slides, never its research notes. In a PowerPoint file, figures that count up on screen are now written in at once, so the number in the file is always the number.

## Try it

Tesseract 0.11.27 is out now, and the app updates itself. [Download it at tesseract.dev](https://tesseract.dev), press **Make a presentation** and pick a topic you know well, so you can check what the research found.