Write speaker notes for a Beautiful.ai deck with AI

1. Open the presentation in the Beautiful.ai editor and click the Notes tab at the far bottom right of the editor.
2. Type the notes for that slide in the Speaker Notes box; Beautiful.ai saves them automatically.
3. Move to the next slide in the slide navigator on the left and repeat for every slide in the deck.
4. Check the result in Presenter View: click Present, hover to bring up the control box and choose Presenter View, which shows the notes on the right.
5. Each slide is a separate box with no overview of which slides still lack notes, so a gap shows up only while rehearsing.

Write speaker notes for each slide of the investor update: about 40 seconds per slide, plain spoken English, and keep the notes I already wrote.

1. 01

   Ask how the talk runs

   Before writing, the agent asks for the audience, the total time and who presents which part. With 12 slides in 8 minutes it plans about 40 seconds of spoken text per slide, and fewer words for title and section slides.

2. 02

   Read the whole deck first

   get_slides gives the agent every slide's text, layout and current notes. It reads the deck end to end so slide 7 can refer back to the number on slide 3 instead of repeating it.

3. 03

   Keep what you wrote

   Slides that already have notes are left as they are, unless you ask the agent to tighten them. Skipped slides get no notes by default, since they do not appear when you present.

4. 04

   Write notes that add to the slide

   Each note covers what the slide does not show: the point to land, the transition to the next slide and the likely question. For a chart slide the agent writes the takeaway, not a list of the plotted values.

5. 05

   Save, then flag what needs you

   set_speaker_notes writes one slide at a time. Facts the agent cannot back from the deck, like a customer name or a target date, are marked [check] inside the note instead of being invented.

Investor update, 12 slides, 8 minutes planned.
Notes written on 9 slides, about 90 words each.
Kept your notes on slides 1 and 6.
Slide 10 is skipped, so it got no notes.
Slide 4: [check] the churn figure, the slide says 3.1% and your outline said 2.9%.
Rehearsal time at a normal pace: about 7 minutes 40 seconds.

• Beautiful.ai saves speaker notes automatically as you type in the Speaker Notes box; there is no separate save step.
• Beautiful.ai Presenter View shows the speaker notes on the right, the current slide on the left, a filmstrip of upcoming slides and a timer for the current slide.
• Both Beautiful.ai PowerPoint exports, editable PowerPoint and PowerPoint images, carry the speaker notes into the PPT file.
• Beautiful.ai has no print button for notes; its help center says to export to PowerPoint, set up the Notes Master and print Notes Pages from PowerPoint.
• Editable PowerPoint export in Beautiful.ai needs a Pro, Team or Enterprise plan.

set_speaker_notes changes only your own Beautiful.ai data and reach no one else, so it runs without asking first.

Sources: Beautiful.ai: How do I add Speaker Notes? · Beautiful.ai: Presenter View · Beautiful.ai: Exporting your slides and presentations · Beautiful.ai: Print Notes

curl https://cotlet.dev/api/v1/beautiful-ai/set_speaker_notes \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $COTLET_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"presentation_id":"pres_2q7w1x5c","slide_number":2,"notes":"Open with the churn drop. Pause for questions before the pricing slide."}'

{
  "presentation_id": "pres_2q7w1x5c",
  "slide_number": 2,
  "speaker_notes": "Open with the churn drop. Pause for questions before the pricing slide."
}

MCP: add https://cotlet.dev/mcp/v1 with the same key; the tool is beautiful-ai_set_speaker_notes. Example data.

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