01 · Fonts
Exact fonts, by hierarchy
Heading 1 in corporate serif, heading 2 in condensed sans-serif, body in humanist sans-serif — each family has its role. No automatic substitution tolerated.
Generate presentations that truly respect your corporate template.
Replaced fonts, hijacked colors, displaced logos: 9 out of 10 AI tools break the brand guidelines your marketing team spent months building. Paul approaches the problem differently.
Why mainstream AI tools break your brand
Consumer AI generators (Gamma, Tome, Beautiful.ai, Canva AI) are designed to produce fast and visually appealing — not to respect the precision of enterprise brand guidelines. Here's what happens in practice when you use them on B2B presentations:
- Fonts replaced without warning.Your corporate font 'Suisse Int'l Mono' becomes Inter or Arial at PowerPoint export. Visual consistency is gone.
- Colors approximated.Your brand blue #1685D6 becomes #2196F3 or a random gradient. The exact shades of your palette are overwritten.
- PowerPoint masters ignored.Tools generate slides from scratch instead of reusing the native slide layouts your marketing team built into the master.
- Logos moved or resized.The corporate footer disappears. The watermark is in the wrong corner. The logo aspect ratio is broken.
- Degraded PPTX export.The exported file contains no real PowerPoint objects — just flattened images. Your team can't edit anything afterwards.
The result: your marketing team spends 2-4 hours 'fixing' every deck to restore brand compliance. The time savings promised by AI evaporate.
What 'respecting a template' actually means
A corporate PowerPoint template is not just a color theme. It's a system of four interconnected elements, each strictly defined:
02 · Colors
Brand palette, precise hex codes
Not 'approximate blue'. Your #0B1220 (ink), #1685D6 (paul-blue), and #F7F3EA (cream) are contractual specifications with your marketing team. Any deviation is rejected.
03 · Masters
Native PowerPoint slide layouts
A template defines 8-30 masters (cover, agenda, section title, 1-column content, 2-column content, quote, table, etc.). A proper AI reuses these layouts instead of reinventing the page design.
04 · Logos & footer
Fixed elements and their placement
Logo in the top-right corner, confidential notice in the footer, slide number in the bottom-left. Position, size, and opacity are contractual.
How Paul ingests and reuses your .pptx
Unlike AI tools that start from a blank page, Paul begins by reading your existing template. Here's the four-step workflow:
- Step 1
You upload your .pptx template
A single PowerPoint file: your official brand guidelines, or your latest corporate deck. Paul analyzes the structure, extracts fonts, RGB colors, masters, and fixed element positions.
- Step 2
Paul maps your template
An internal representation of the template is built: extracted palette, identified typographic hierarchy, inventoried masters. You see the map before generating.
- Step 3
You describe your presentation
Free brief, structured content (Word, Markdown), KPI spreadsheets, source PDFs — Paul accepts multiple input formats. The AI builds the outline in strict compliance with your template.
- Step 4
Editable PPTX export, brand intact
The output is a real .pptx PowerPoint, with native masters preserved, original fonts retained, palette respected. Your team can edit freely afterwards.
Your first Paul presentation from your template
Here's what onboarding looks like — and the time savings observed after a few weeks of use:
- Day 1 · 15 minutesYou upload your official template. Paul confirms the mapping: 4 fonts identified, 7 colors extracted, 12 masters inventoried, logo in top-right detected.
- Day 1 · first generationYou generate a first deck (for example, a board meeting from a KPI spreadsheet). Paul produces 18 slides in your template, in about 3 minutes.
- Week 1Your marketing team validates the output is 95% compliant. The remaining 5% adjustments are editorial fine-tuning (wording), not brand corrections.
- Month 1The team has generated 30-50 decks (reporting, board meetings, sales pitches, training materials). Production time drops from 4 hours to 30 minutes per deck on average.
Concrete answers
- What if my template changes?
- You re-upload the new version. Paul re-extracts the palette, typography, and masters. All future presentations immediately follow the new brand. Existing ones remain in their original version, exportable as-is.
- Which fonts does Paul actually respect?
- All fonts embedded in your PowerPoint template (.pptx). If a font is embedded in the file, it's preserved on export. For proprietary fonts not embedded, we document the integration procedure together.
- Multiple templates per organization?
- Yes. A parent brand with subsidiaries, or a corporate template and a commercial template — you manage multiple templates in your Paul organization and choose which to apply at generation time.
- Does collaborative editing also respect the brand?
- Yes. Real-time collaborative editing uses the same template compliance engine. Changes made by your collaborators remain constrained by the ingested brand — no silent visual drift possible.
- What if I don't have a clean template yet?
- Paul can generate presentations in free mode, without an imposed template. But ideally, you should start from an existing template — that's where Paul delivers its full advantage over a standard AI generator.
Let's see Paul at work on your own template
Book a 30-minute demo. Bring your corporate template, and we'll generate a first presentation together in your exact brand.