Refining with AI chat without wrecking the deck

Good instructions

• "Shorten slide 4 to two bullets, keep the revenue number."
• "Rewrite titles only — more direct, same order."
• "Add a risks slide after priorities with three bullets from my brief."

Bad instructions

• "Make it more professional."
• "Fix the whole deck."
• "Make it like Apple."

When to edit by hand

Numbers, legal wording, and proper nouns — always manual. AI paraphrase is how $1.2M becomes $1.2B in a deck that still looks polished.

Order of operations

1. Fix structure on the filmstrip.
2. Fix copy slide by slide.
3. Use chat for repetitive rewrites.
4. Notes pass last.