When you ask
First draft deck from a Google Doc
Give the agent a brief or case study in Google Docs and it builds a first draft deck, one slide per section, with speaker notes.
Google Slides integration: an AI agent for your decks
Letaido's Google Slides integration hands an AI agent your recurring decks: new slides, fresh figures and speaker notes from 64 other apps.
Best Google Slides integration jobs to start with
Report slides, draft decks and speaker notes, each checked step by step. Open one to watch it run.
On the 1st of every month
Monthly SEO slide in your report deck
Each month, the agent copies the template slide in your report deck and fills in Ahrefs traffic, keywords, Domain Rating and referring domains.
When you ask
Speaker notes for every slide
The agent reads your deck and writes speaker notes for each slide that has none, in plain talking points, without changing the slides.
On the 1st of every month
Customer wins from Slack in your all-hands deck
Once a month, the agent picks the best customer wins posted in #wins and adds a slide for each to your all-hands deck.
When you ask
Campaign plan deck from Airtable
Ask for next quarter's plan and the agent builds a Google Slides deck from your Airtable campaigns, one slide per campaign.
When you ask
Competitor SEO benchmark slide
The agent compares your site with your competitors in Ahrefs and adds a benchmark table slide to your deck, with a one line takeaway.
Google Slides integration options, compared
Six routes for putting figures and drafts on slides.
| Option | Set up by asking | Uses other apps' data | Runs on its own | No code | Connects thousands of apps |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Letaido AI agent | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Slides add-ons and Apps Script | No | Partly | Partly | Partly | Partly |
| Zapier and similar | No | Yes | Yes | Partly | Yes |
| Google Slides API | No | Partly | Partly | No | Partly |
| Gemini in Slides | Yes | Partly | No | Yes | No |
| Google's Slides MCP server | Partly | Partly | Partly | Partly | Partly |
Read the full comparison
| Option | How it works | Best for | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Letaido AI agent | Say which slide you need. The agent pulls figures from 64 other apps and builds slides, tables and speaker notes, monthly or on demand. | Recurring report slides and first cut presentations. | 65 apps, not thousands. Your Cloud OAuth client is required. Visual polish stays with you. |
| Slides add-ons and Apps Script | Marketplace add-ons open in a side panel of the deck to insert diagrams, icons or data. Apps Script lets you code your own. | Extra design tools inside the editor. | Each add-on asks for its own access. Custom ones take scripting. |
| Zapier and similar | A Zap fires on a new presentation, or copies a template presentation and swaps its placeholder text. | Certificates, quotes and other one-template decks. | The template and every field mapping are fixed when you build the Zap. |
| Google Slides API | Engineers send batches of slide, shape and table requests to build decks from a program. | A product that generates decks for its users. | Engineering time, plus per-minute request quotas, with expensive reads counted apart. |
| Gemini in Slides | Ask Gemini in the side panel to generate a slide or an image, or to summarize the presentation. | A quick new slide while you edit the deck. | Needs an eligible Workspace or Google AI plan, and the presentation open. |
| Google's Slides MCP server | A remote server from Google that hands an AI app like Claude tools to read layouts and change slides. | Reshaping a presentation by chatting with your assistant. | For members of Google's Workspace Developer Preview, set up in a Cloud project. |
How the Google Slides integration works
Connect Google Slides once. After that, you describe each job in plain English.
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1Connect Google Slides with your OAuth client
- 2Ask for a job in a chat, or start from an example above
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3Approve the first run
Allow all read operations once per app; approve each kind of write once.
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4Watch the first run in the chat
Save it to run every month.
How a Google Slides job starts
A schedule starts the job, or you do by asking.
- On a scheduleOn the 1st of the month, like the SEO slide in your report deck.
- When you askType the job in a chat, like a draft deck from a Doc, and it runs once.
Setup details
Connect Google Slides with your OAuth client
Enable the Slides API in your Cloud console, then add an OAuth client of type Web application.
Grant the presentations scope
Sign in as the deck owner in the OAuth Playground and exchange the code for a refresh token. Jobs with linked Sheets charts also need spreadsheets.readonly. Give Letaido all three values.
Keep the token alive
Pick Internal if your Cloud project sits in your Workspace, otherwise publish the External app. While it stays in Testing, Google revokes the token on day 7.
Watch the first run
Allow all read operations once per app; approve each kind of write once. Then save it to repeat.
Every Google Slides action the agent can take
54 actions across 10 groups, from slides and text to tables and charts.
ReadsWrites
Best apps to combine with Google Slides
AhrefsSEO
AirtableProductivity
GmailCommunication
GongMeetings
Google DocsProductivity
HubSpotCRM
MozSEO
SemrushSEO
SlackCommunication
X (Twitter)Content/CMS
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Frequently asked
How do I connect Google Slides to Letaido? +
With an OAuth client from your own Cloud project: enable the Slides API, make a Web application client and get a refresh token for presentations as the person who owns the decks. Paste client ID, secret and token into Letaido. Publish the app or make it Internal; on Testing, Google kills the token after a week.
Can it update my monthly report deck without breaking the template? +
Yes. The agent copies your template slide and fills in the placeholders on the copy only, so the template stays ready for next month. It can also move the new slide where you want it.
Will it match my deck's design? +
New slides use the deck's own layouts, so they pick up its fonts and colours. A brand new deck starts in the default theme, so apply your theme afterwards.
Can editing a presentation kick off a job? +
No, Letaido has no Slides trigger. Schedule the job, for example monthly on the 1st, or start it from chat.
Is there a Google Slides MCP server? +
Yes, Google offers one to Workspace Developer Preview members, configured in a Cloud project, so assistants like Claude can edit presentations while you chat. Letaido is not an MCP server. Its own Slides connector runs complete jobs, such as filling the monthly SEO slide from Ahrefs.
Should I use Gemini in Slides or Letaido? +
Gemini drafts a slide while the presentation is open, if your plan includes it. Letaido pulls numbers and posts from Ahrefs, Slack or Airtable and builds the slides with nobody in the editor, every month or when asked.
Which steps need my approval? +
Allow all read operations once per app; approve each kind of write once.
Let an AI agent build the slides you redo every month
Connect Google Slides, then ask for a job like "Build a first draft deck from a Google Doc". Leta gets it done on your schedule, or the moment you ask.
Get LetaidoRead presentation structure3
Read a deck's slides, text, notes and object IDs without changing anything.
- Get presentation
- Read text
- Find text
Render and preview slides2
Generate a PNG thumbnail of any slide or pull the full detail of a single page.
- Get page
- Get page thumbnail
Create and manage presentations7
Create a new presentation or add, reorder, duplicate, and delete slides within an existing deck.
- Create presentation
- Create slide
- Move slides
- Duplicate object
- Delete object
- Update slide properties
- Update page properties
Add and edit text7
Insert, replace, delete, and style text inside shapes, table cells, and speaker-notes boxes across a presentation.
- Insert text
- Delete text
- Replace all text
- Update text style
- Update paragraph style
- Create paragraph bullets
- Delete paragraph bullets
Add and format shapes and lines6
Draw shapes, lines, and connectors on slides and control their colour, size, fill, routing, and arrowheads.
- Create shape
- Update shape properties
- Create line
- Update line properties
- Update line category
- Reroute line
Place and update images and video6
Embed images and videos on slides from URLs or Drive, swap existing images, trim video playback, and set visual properties.
- Create image
- Replace image
- Update image properties
- Create video
- Update video properties
- Replace all shapes with image
Add and edit charts from Google Sheets3
Place a linked Sheets chart onto a slide, refresh it with current data, or replace placeholder shapes with a chart.
- Create sheets chart
- Refresh sheets chart
- Replace all shapes with sheets chart
Build and format tables13
Create tables, add or delete rows and columns, merge and split cells, write cell content, and style borders, backgrounds, and dimensions.
- Create table
- Read table
- Write table cells
- Insert table rows
- Insert table columns
- Delete table row
- Delete table column
- Merge table cells
- Unmerge table cells
- Update table cell properties
- Update table border properties
- Update table column properties
- Update table row properties
Arrange and layer elements5
Move, resize, rotate, group, ungroup, reorder overlapping elements, and set alt text for accessibility.
- Group objects
- Ungroup objects
- Update page element transform
- Update page elements z order
- Update page element alt text
Admin and advanced2
Make many edits in one step, or send any edit the other actions don't cover.
- Batch edits
- Batch update raw