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Users find that AI tools struggle with extracting structure from messy documents and suggest that Gamma improve its capabilities in summarizing and structuring content more effectively.
We process a lot of client content. Reports become executive summaries. Research becomes slides. Long-form becomes short-form. Here's the workflow we've landed on after months of iteration. Step one: don't paste the entire document into an AI tool. It generates garbage if the input is messy. Spend 10 minutes pulling out the key points manually first. Step two: structure those points as an outline. Not full sentences. Just bullets in logical order. Step three: feed the outline to Gamma or similar. Let it generate visual structure. Step four: edit aggressively. The AI output is a starting point. Maybe 50% of slides need significant changes. Step five: replace any stock imagery with actual screenshots, data visualizations, or nothing. Total time: about 45 minutes for a 15-slide deck from a 10-page document. Down from 3+ hours manually. The key insight: AI tools are terrible at extracting structure from messy documents. But they're good at visualizing structure you've already extracted. Use them for the second part, not the first.