Canva Presentation Pro

Canva Presentation Pro turns a rough outline into a complete, build-ready deck: per-slide copy, a layout recommendation, the right chart type for each data point, image art direction, and speaker notes — all consistent with your brand. It's aimed at founders writing investor pitches, AEs assembling sales decks, and anyone producing webinar, course, or all-hands slides who wants structured slide specs instead of a blank canvas.

When to use it

• You have bullet points or a Google Doc outline and need a 10–15 slide narrative arc.
• A seed/Series A pitch where slide order (problem → solution → traction → ask) matters.
• Recurring decks (weekly sales reviews, monthly all-hands) you want kept on-brand.
• You need speaker notes that match what's on screen, not improvised talking points.

What it does

The skill produces a structured slide plan, then hands it to Canva through the Connect API. For each slide it returns: a layout choice, headline + body copy trimmed to fit, a chart selection (bar for comparisons, line for trends, donut for share-of-whole) with the data mapped in, image direction, and presenter notes.

When you connect a Canva account, it uses generate-design / generate-design-structured to create the deck, applies your brand via list-brand-kits and brand templates (search-brand-templates, create-design-from-brand-template), writes notes with the presenter-notes endpoint, and exports through export-design (PPTX, PDF, or PNG). Existing decks can be revised with start-editing-transaction → perform-editing-operations → commit-editing-transaction.

Usage example

curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o ~/.claude/skills/canva-presentation-pro/SKILL.md https://claudeskil.com/skills/canva-presentation-pro/SKILL.md

> Build a 12-slide seed pitch from this outline. Brand kit "Acme 2026".
> Outline: problem, our wedge, demo, $40k MRR + 18% MoM, GTM, $1.5M ask.

# Returns slide-by-slide spec, then on confirmation:
#   - creates the Canva design via generate-design-structured
#   - charts the MRR/MoM growth as a line chart
#   - exports PPTX + shareable Canva link

Tips & gotchas

• Brand kits require a Canva Pro/Teams plan; on free accounts the skill falls back to a neutral theme and flags it.
• Charts are populated from data you provide inline — paste real numbers in the outline, or it leaves placeholder values you'll have to fill.
• Edits to an existing deck must be wrapped in an editing transaction; an uncommitted transaction will appear to "do nothing."
• Exports are async — the skill polls the export job, so large decks take a few seconds to return a download URL.

FAQ

Can it edit a deck I already started in Canva? Yes — give it the design ID or share link and it resolves it (resolve-shortlink), then edits in place rather than regenerating.

What formats can I get out? PPTX, PDF, PNG, or a live Canva link. PPTX preserves editable text and speaker notes.

Does it need my Canva login? Generating or exporting requires an authorized Canva Connect connection. Without it, you still get the full text/layout/chart spec to build manually.