Turn your slide textinto a diagram

Product specs and review decks are full of processes trapped in bullet lists. Khint's PowerPoint companion reads the text you select and drafts an editable diagram: real PowerPoint shapes you drop straight into your deck, not a flat picture.

For product owners and business analysts on macOS. Counts as one of your daily AI actions, no separate charge.

A numbered list
isn't a diagram

You wrote the flow perfectly the first time: “user submits the form, the system validates, it routes to review, then it ships.” But a stakeholder deck wants boxes and arrows, so you open PowerPoint and start dragging shapes, aligning them, connecting them, re-typing every label you already wrote. It's twenty minutes of box-pushing for something you'd described in one sentence. Khint does the first draft: it reads the words you selected and lays out the diagram, so you spend your time refining a picture instead of building one from scratch. It's one of the three pillars (Agents, Capture, and Memory) wired behind a single palette.

From selected text to editable shapes

Five steps, one keyboard shortcut, no blank canvas.

  1. Turn on the PowerPoint companion

    On the MCP page, flip on the PowerPoint card (it shows on macOS). From then on the palette carries a Transform to diagramrow: no separate app, no window to manage. It stays hidden until you enable it, so the palette isn't cluttered for people who don't make slides.

  2. Select the text you want as a picture

    You've already written the flow as words: a numbered process in the spec, a bulleted sequence on a slide, a “then it goes to…” paragraph in the ticket. Highlight it wherever it lives. Khint reads the exact text you selected and nothing else; the rest of the document stays private.

  3. Run Transform to diagram

    Open the palette with Cmd+Shift+K and pick Transform to diagram. Khint sends the selected text to Claude, which drafts the structure: boxes and arrows, laid out as rounded rectangles, rectangles, ellipses, or diamonds, up to twelve boxes. It reads the words you already wrote and proposes the shape, so you skip the blank-canvas part. How Actions work →

  4. Recolor and regenerate in the preview

    A preview window opens with the diagram rendered. Pick a color palette (one of the eight presets) and it re-skins instantly, with no extra AI call, so matching your deck's theme is free. If the layout misread the flow, hit Regenerate for a fresh take.

  5. Save an editable .pptx and drop it into your deck

    Click Save .pptxand Khint builds native PowerPoint shapes, not a screenshot. Open the file, copy the shapes into your slide, and they're still fully editable: nudge a box, relabel an arrow, restyle to the house template. Just need an image? Export a transparent PNG, or copy it straight to the clipboard. Write the spec around it →

Why not just use SmartArt?

SmartArt makes you pick a template first, then re-type each label into its slots: you're fitting your idea to a shape instead of the other way round. Khint starts from the words you already wrote and proposes the structure, so the diagram matches your flow rather than a stock layout. And because Save .pptx emits native PowerPoint objects, the result isn't a locked image: you can move a box, rewrite an arrow, or restyle to the brand template right inside the deck. Recoloring in the preview doesn't cost an action either. Only re-drafting the layout does. As with every Khint Action, only the text you selected is sent for the draft; the rest of your document stays on your Mac.

Common questions

Does Khint edit my open PowerPoint slide directly?

No. Khint reads the text you have selected and produces a separate, editable .pptx file that you open and copy the shapes from into your own deck, or you export a transparent PNG instead. Your original slide is never changed automatically, so there is no risk of it rewriting a deck you are mid-way through.

What kinds of diagrams can it make?

Node-and-arrow diagrams: rounded rectangles, rectangles, ellipses, and diamonds, up to twelve boxes and thirty connectors. That covers the shapes a product owner or business analyst reaches for most: a process flow, a decision path, a request-to-release handoff, a simple stakeholder map. It is not built for a hundred-box architecture map or a detailed org chart.

Can I recolor the diagram without spending another action?

Yes. When the preview opens you get a palette picker (pick one of the eight presets) and the whole diagram re-skins instantly, with no new AI call. Only Regenerate, which re-drafts the layout from your text, counts as another action.

Is it on Windows, and does it cost extra?

The diagram companion is macOS only today. Turn it on from the MCP page, and a Transform to diagram row appears in the palette. It counts as one of your daily AI actions (the free tier includes ten a day) rather than a separate charge, and the shapes it builds are native PowerPoint objects, not a flattened image.

Draw the next diagram from words

Free with 10 AI actions and 5 captures per day. No credit card. Enable the PowerPoint companion and turn any bullet list into editable shapes.