Everyone can generate a deck now. That is exactly the problem. The room has seen a hundred AI decks, and they all have the same look: the gradient, the stock art, the fonts nobody chose.

In the reel I built my pitch deck in Gamma 5 with my own brand assets, and this is the full walkthrough: what Gamma 5 actually is, why the new version is worth your attention, and the exact prompts to get a deck that looks like your company made it.

1. What Gamma 5 actually is

Gamma 5 launched October 6, and Gamma calls it the biggest overhaul in the company's history. Their own words for the reason: everyone is sick of generic AI, including them. After 100 million people used Gamma, every AI deck started looking the same, so they rebuilt the whole product around one idea, work that looks like you and your brand. The frame is literally the title: your story, your style, your tools.

What is actually in it:

  • A far wider range of visual styles. Most AI tools have one look, and you can tell. Gamma 5 goes from bold and playful to dark and moody to mid-century modern, shaped around your brand or your story.
  • An agent that develops the idea with you. A real back-and-forth: it asks questions and helps you sharpen the story before anything gets designed, and it keeps context through every edit so you are not re-explaining your goals each round.
  • Edit any way you want. Prompt the agent when you want speed, then take over on a fully freeform canvas and move individual elements exactly where you want them.
  • Your context, pulled in directly. A Slack thread can become a presentation. A call transcript can feed a customer pitch. Connectors bring in the material you already have, so the result reflects your actual thinking.
  • Import and export that respect your design. Bring in PowerPoint, PDFs, even complex infographics with the design preserved and every element editable. Your existing decks become raw material, not rebuilds.
  • Not just decks. The same engine does docs, social assets, and graphics, with frontier text and image models under the hood.

And the availability line, straight from the announcement: Gamma 5 is live now for every user, on every plan, at gamma.app. One thing they named as coming next, not here yet: memory, where your brand guidelines and preferences carry from project to project on their own.

Try Gamma 5

Free to start, on every plan. The agent-led version launched in October.

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2. Gather this before you open anything

Ten minutes of gathering saves ten rounds of "no, not like that." You need:

  • Your audience and your goal. Who is in the room, and the one thing you want them to do after.
  • Rough notes. Your facts, your numbers, your story beats. The AI should never be the source of your numbers.
  • Brand assets. Logo file, exact hex colors, your headline and body fonts, with the font files if they are custom.
  • Visual references. Two or three decks, sites, or posts that already look the way you want to look.

3. Set up Gamma, and know the plan situation

Gamma 5 itself is available across plans, so you can start where you are. One thing to know before you fall in love with a feature: AI-generated animations need the Ultra plan. The preset slide transitions are a separate, simpler thing. I am telling you now so slide 6 does not break your heart later.

Start a new presentation and upload your materials first: the notes, the logo, the font files, the references. Gamma takes prompts, pasted outlines, documents, and URLs, and the imports keep their design, so your old deck can come along as raw material.

4. Write a prompt that earns a good deck

Give it four things: the audience, the outcome you want, where the facts come from, and the visual direction. And make it ask before it builds.

Create a 10-slide pitch deck for [company]. Audience: [who is in the room]. Goal: [what you want them to do after seeing it]. Use the notes and files I uploaded for all facts and numbers, and do not invent any. Visual direction: use my logo, my colors [hex codes], and my fonts [names], minimal layouts, lots of white space, photography over illustration. Ask me clarifying questions about the story before you build anything.

5. Get the story right before the slides exist

Gamma 5 will come back with questions and a plan. Do not rush this part. Answer honestly, argue with the outline, cut the slides you would skip in the room anyway. Fixing the story at the outline stage costs one sentence. Fixing it after generation costs an afternoon.

Remember: if you already have the wording you love, use Express mode, which keeps your words and your notes instead of rewriting them.

6. Make it look like your brand, not like AI

Once the slides exist, do a dedicated brand pass. Apply a theme close to your look, then push it the rest of the way with specific prompts:

Apply my brand across every slide: [font] for headlines, [font] for body, [hex] as the only accent color. Replace anything that looks like stock art with [your image style]. Keep layouts consistent from slide to slide.
BEFORE default fonts, gray stock blocks, crowded AFTER One idea, said well your fonts, your one accent color, room to breathe
The brand pass is its own step. Same slide, same content, different company.
Slide [number] is too crowded. Keep the headline and the [key element], move everything else to speaker notes.

This is the part Gamma 5 was rebuilt for. The whole overhaul is aimed at work that looks distinctly yours, not distinctly generated, and the brand pass is where that happens. Open Gamma 5 and do this pass once, and you will feel the difference in the room.

7. Add animations, the honest version

There are two different things called animation here. Preset presentation transitions are the simple slide-to-slide motion, available without drama. AI-generated animated visuals, the moving charts and living backgrounds, are the Ultra-plan feature.

One honest label before the prompts: these are suggested starting points, not the exact lines from my reel. They are written the way I write mine, specific about what moves, how fast, and what stays still:

Animate the chart on slide [number] so the bars rise in sequence when the slide opens. Subtle, under two seconds.
Add a slow looping background to the title slide in my brand colors. Soft gradient movement only, nothing that competes with the headline.

8. Polish and share without surprises

  • Check every fact. The deck reads confident whether or not the numbers are right. Yours are the source of truth, not the AI.
  • Simplify the crowded slides. If a slide needs a paragraph, it wanted to be two slides or a speaker note.
  • Preview the motion in present mode, start to finish, before anyone else sees it.
  • Test the export you will actually send. PDF is static by nature, and motion does not automatically survive the trip into PowerPoint, so open the exported file and check before you promise anyone an animated deck.

What to notice:

  • The assignment is on-brand, not just fast. Fast is table stakes now. Looking like your company is the work.
  • Fix the story at the outline. One sentence there beats an afternoon of slide surgery.
  • The brand pass is its own step. Theme first, then specific prompts until it stops looking like AI.
  • Know your plan before you fall for a feature. Gamma 5 is on every plan, the AI animations are Ultra.
Anyone can generate a deck now. The decks that win still look like somebody in particular made them.

Try Gamma 5

Free to start, on every plan. The agent-led version launched in October.

Open Gamma 5

Same philosophy as the editing guide: the tool does the work, your taste does the deciding, and the setup where you teach it your taste is the part most people skip.