Steering committee on Thursday?Build the deck from work you already did
The deck for the steering committee is due, and the material for it is scattered: Jira, meeting notes, three weeks of memory. Khint closes the gap from the other side: the period is already recorded in a work session as you go, an AI action turns it into the status narrative, and the diagram companion draws the timeline and risk slides as native, editable PowerPoint shapes.
The deck isn't the work,
it's the retelling of it
Every governance cycle ends the same way: an evening spent reconstructing the month from the Jira board and half-finished notes, then another hour fighting PowerPoint into a milestone timeline. Khint splits the job across the tools built for each part. A Memory session holds the period as it happens, fed by the Jira and Confluence pulls; a saved Action writes the narrative with that record in view; and the PowerPoint companion turns the text you select into framework slides, so the evening before the committee is assembly, not archaeology.
From a month of work to a deck, in five moves
Every step runs from the same palette shortcut.
Let the reporting period record itself
Start a Memorysession when the cycle starts (“Q3: payments replatform”) and work normally. Every AI action you run lands in it as an entry, and the Jira integration feeds it on demand: Active sprint pulls the board's current state, Pull issue brings in the tickets that turned into talking points. By deck week, the period is already documented in one place, on your machine, instead of scattered across tools.
Draft the narrative with the whole period in view
Save an Actionshaped like your committee's expectations (progress, decisions needed, asks) and switch on its option to read the active session's context. Select your raw end-of-cycle notes, hit Cmd+Shift+K, run it: the draft is written with the compacted record of the whole period in view, not just the paragraph you selected. It's the same mechanism behind the AI status report, pointed at the meeting instead of the inbox.
Turn the milestone list into a timeline slide
The slide sponsors squint at first is the timeline, and it is the one SmartArt fights you on. Select your milestone bullets (dates, names, what's shipped versus pending) and run Transform to diagramfrom the palette. Khint's timeline framework lays 3 to 8 milestones on a date axis: delivered ones as filled diamonds, upcoming ones as outlines, with a dashed “today” line marking where the committee meeting catches the project.
Give the risk slide its paired shape
Select the risk section of your notes and the risks framework draws each risk as a card with an arrow to its mitigation, up to five pairs per slide, so the committee reads “handled” instead of a wall of bullets. A scope change fits the before/after layout (current state versus target, with the shift labelled); an options decision fits the comparison table. If the AI classifies your text differently than you intended, a selector in the preview switches the framework.
Recolor, pick a variation, save native shapes
In the preview, eight curated color palettes re-skin the slide instantly and a filmstrip of layout variations shows the same content in alternative arrangements, live, with no extra AI call. Then Save .pptx writes native PowerPoint shapes, not a screenshot: open the file, copy the shapes into your master deck, and keep nudging boxes and rewording labels in PowerPoint like you would with anything you drew yourself. A transparent PNG export is there when you just need an image.
In the room,
the session answers the follow-ups
Committees drill down, and the drill-down rarely matches the slide. Before the meeting, one click on Copy recapturns the whole session, summary and entries, into paste-ready markdown: your appendix, your speaker notes, your answer to “when exactly did that slip?”. What the meeting produces flows back the same way: new risks belong in the RAID log, decisions become tickets, and next cycle starts with the Action and the session mechanics already in place. If you mostly want the slide-drawing side, the PowerPoint diagram generator page covers it on its own; consultants running the same ritual for clients have their own toolkit.
Common questions
Does Khint assemble the whole deck for me?
No, and that is deliberate. The deck stays yours, in your template, in your PowerPoint. Khint contributes the pieces that eat your evening: the written narrative (generated with your period's real context in view) and the diagram slides, each produced from a block of text you select and saved as a separate .pptx whose shapes you copy into your deck. Nothing ever edits your open presentation behind your back.
How is this different from the AI status report?
Same raw material, different deliverable. A status report is the asynchronous text update stakeholders read between meetings; Khint has a dedicated flow for that too. A steering deck is the artifact for the meeting itself, and its hardest parts are visual: the milestone timeline, the risk slide, the before/after of a scope change. This flow uses the same Memory session as your status report, then adds the diagram companion for the slides a text generator cannot make.
Which slide formats can it actually draw?
Ten framework layouts: a milestone timeline, paired risk-and-mitigation cards, a before/after comparison, an option-comparison table, a 2×2 matrix, a pyramid, a step-by-step process, a waterfall chart, a two-sided trade-off, and a free-form flow diagram. The AI classifies your text and picks one; a selector in the preview lets you override the choice, and layout variations plus eight color palettes re-render instantly without another AI call.
What does it cost, and does it work on Windows?
Each diagram generation and each narrative draft counts as one daily AI action; the free tier includes ten actions and five captures a day, no credit card. Memory sessions, saved Actions, and the Jira and Confluence pulls work on both macOS and Windows; the PowerPoint diagram companion is macOS-only today. Your sessions live in a local database on your machine, and only the text you select is sent to generate a slide.
Walk in with the deck already done
Free with 10 AI actions and 5 captures per day. No credit card. Jira and Confluence connect with your own credentials, kept in your keychain.