Turn stakeholder notesinto a 2x2 matrix
You already know who signs, who blocks, and who just wants the monthly email. Khint reads the stakeholder notes you select and drafts the power and interest grid as an editable PowerPoint slide: axes, quadrants, and a card per person, not a flat picture.
The grid everyone asks for,
nobody enjoys drawing
Every project methodology wants a stakeholder analysis, and every template gives you the same answer: a 2x2 with influence on one axis and interest on the other. The analysis itself takes you ten minutes, because you already know the room. The slide takes far longer: draw the axes, size four quadrants, place a box per person, keep the labels from overlapping, and redo half of it when a sponsor changes. Khint flips the order of work. You write the judgement as plain lines of text, and it drafts the grid: a first pass you refine instead of a blank canvas you dread. It's built on the same three pillars as the rest of the app (Agents, Capture, and Memory) behind a single palette shortcut.
From a list of names to a quadrant slide
Five steps, one keyboard shortcut, no box-pushing.
Pull together what you know about each stakeholder
The raw material already exists: kickoff notes, the intro emails, the org chart your sponsor walked you through, the escalation that told you who really signs. Write one line per person with your read of their influence and their interest. A saved Khint Actioncan do the tidying: select your messy notes, run a “Stakeholder scan” prompt you wrote once, and get back a clean one-line-per-person list. With a Memory session active, the action can also draw on what you captured in earlier meetings, if you opted the action into session context.
Turn on the PowerPoint companion
On the MCP page, flip on the PowerPoint card (it shows on macOS). The palette then carries a Transform to diagram row. It stays hidden until you enable it, so people who never make slides never see it.
Select the list and run Transform to diagram
Highlight your stakeholder lines, open the palette with Cmd+Shift+K, and pick Transform to diagram. Khint sends only the selected text to Claude, which reads the content and drafts the framework that fits: a list of people rated on two dimensions reads as a 2x2 matrix, with labeled axes, a card per stakeholder placed in its quadrant, and quadrant headers. If the model drafts a different shape instead, the preview's framework selector lets you force the 2x2, which redraws from your text and counts as one more action.
Restyle the grid without spending anything
The preview window shows layout Variations as live thumbnails of your own matrix: pick the one that fits the deck. Then pick one of the preset color palettes and the whole grid re-skins instantly. Both are client-side, no new AI call, so tuning the look is free; only Regenerate, which re-drafts from the text, costs an action.
Save native shapes, then land the write-up
Save .pptx emits real PowerPoint objects: open the file, copy the grid into your steering deck, and every card and axis stays editable. Need an image instead? Export a transparent PNG or copy it to the clipboard. The text version of the analysis can go to your wiki from the same palette: append it to a Confluence page so the map lives next to the project doc it belongs to.
A map that keeps up with the project
Stakeholder maps go stale the week after you present them: a reorg moves your sponsor, a quiet director starts caring. When the map is a hand-drawn slide, updating it means finding the file and nudging boxes again, so most people don't. When the map is a paragraph of notes, updating it means editing two lines and re-running the draft. Because the saved .pptx is native shapes, small fixes don't even need a re-run: drag the card yourself. And as with every Khint Action, only the text you selected is sent for the draft; the rest of your notes stays on your Mac. The same companion drafts process flows, timelines, comparison tables, and more from the same shortcut: see the full diagram generator →
Common questions
What does the stakeholder matrix actually contain?
A titled 2x2 grid: two labeled axes with arrowheads (typically influence and interest), up to twelve stakeholder cards placed low or high on each axis, and optional labels on the four quadrants, the classic manage closely, keep satisfied, keep informed, monitor. When you click Save .pptx, every part of it is a native PowerPoint object, so you can move a card, rename an axis, or restyle the grid to your deck template afterwards.
How does Khint know a stakeholder's power and interest?
It only reads the text you selected, so the judgement stays yours: write it into the notes. A line like 'CFO: high influence, low day-to-day interest, cares about the licence cost' is enough for the model to place the card in the right quadrant. If a placement looks wrong, fix the wording and Regenerate, or just drag the shape once the .pptx is open, it is an editable object, not a picture.
Is this a separate stakeholder-mapping app?
No. It is one row in the Khint palette. Khint is a menu-bar app for macOS and Windows built around AI text actions, screen capture, and work-session memory; the PowerPoint diagram companion that draws this matrix is a macOS feature you switch on from the MCP page. You highlight the notes wherever they live, press Cmd+Shift+K, and pick Transform to diagram, there is no canvas app to learn.
What does a matrix cost on the free plan?
Each AI draft counts as one of your daily AI actions: the first generation, a Regenerate, or forcing a different framework from the preview's selector. The free plan includes 10 AI actions and 5 captures per day. Recoloring with the preset palettes and switching between the matrix layout variations are client-side and free, so making the grid match your deck costs nothing extra.
Map the room before the next steering call
Free with 10 AI actions and 5 captures per day. No credit card. Write the stakeholder lines once and let Khint draw the grid.