Summary
Claude in PowerPoint | Sami Miettinen | Neuvottelija + Anthropic’s Claude Code Max does office work, carrying out both a brand refresh and a Claude PowerPoint workflow.
Sami Miettinen demos Neuvottelija’s visuals and analyzes his 10,000-person LinkedIn network live with Claude. The software refreshed the thumbnail images, commercial partnership packages and workflows using Claude in PowerPoint, Claude Cowork and Claude Code. The video shows how graphics are added to PowerPoint and how the brand look is refreshed step by step.
Transcript
English transcript derived from validated English subtitles (WebVTT · SRT). Timestamps link to the original video.
00:01 Alright, hey there. This introduction to Anthropic’s Claude family continues. I have here this Claude PowerPoint, so the good old Microsoft workhorse now gets this kind of currently world’s best AI interface. Here you can have it do these Microsoft’s OpenAI gadgets too. So, um, let’s put here for example this summary in the background and you can prompt it. But this is a bit of that OpenAI-style thinking, that this isn’t very strong. This whole Neuvottelija deck is actually made, updated, from my old visual material from a commercial partnership, and indeed at the same time I did this whole, like, visual identity change, and there, actually, is my, um, thumbnail image, so it’s still the old color scheme. That’ll probably need updating too then. So if you’re now not completely in love with it, then I’ll maybe keep it. And this was, I did
01:04 this in the final stage of the demo, so I asked this AI to make me new thumbnails for these, for YouTube, and also then, like, on these fancier channels it’s always been on too, so Spotify, these little square ones too. And this took a while. Then I asked the AI to actually run this Claude in PowerPoint, even though you could run this in plain Claude Code or from wherever else, this network analysis, that I have about 10,000 LinkedIn followers and 7,835 first-degree contacts. And I was a bit surprised. I actually have the most CTOs, that is, check officers CEOs there are almost as many too, 1,976, board chairs 335, and CFTA only 177, though there now the finance directors aren’t included, so that would, like, spread out from there, and likewise the strategy directors and then there are already other nice people in there too, HR bosses, and then there’s general
02:05 professional board members, of which I surely have hundreds and so on, but this I did, um, with plain PowerPoint. Claude’s PowerPoint. Then this episode world here, this used to be my kind of, like, episode carousel, that is, these thumbnails, but this then PowerPoint — in Claude’s PowerPoint’s opinion something like this would be, like, more stylish textually. Then here’s this commercial partner Kanatu, a marvel topic pricier than diamond, and a bit like how those were carried out. So, in practice, so in about three weeks, maybe even two, weeks you can get from the decision to do this kind of long commercial partnership with me out the door. And then the other one is Fortum, this was really fun, this in-between thing there, with whom I then also went, like, as a private individual, over to Omaha to watch Warren Buffett. Then here’s this general slide, it hasn’t changed that much, but why people usually order these commercial partnerships and so on, well of course
03:08 you get really good visibility in Finland and on really many platforms. And then these key figures, that is, 40,000 subscribers, on Tube and podcast, and 7 million now across all platforms at least this stuff has been watched. Then, um, the partnership, this — this was actually funny, this kind of, um, kind of like a starter package, that is, basic, that is this kind of ad. There’s actually an error, by the way, should be to- 500 grand. Let’s fix that then, there. And then indeed there this premium package is this, this, um, then commercial partnership in a long episode and strategic partnership. These now aren’t there yet, but, um, I could very well do them. Yes. Then here it is like this. This should be changed into logos. Here, by the way, I noticed that this isn’t very good at handling logos or images. So it likes for them to be, like,
04:08 dropped in there yourself, at least at this stage, so you have to, like, look into some kind of system, since these could, like, for example into a separate folder drop these logos with some script and then do it. But this is a pretty snappy revamp. Right, right, so let’s go and show how this was carried out. Yeah, so here’s my old visual identity, which I think is pretty nice, but here you can, like, see this typical old-guy kind of thing. Now I put in the prompt here, that is, make this better and modern, and then, um, I didn’t give much context on in what way better, and then there earlier you saw that this Claude Cowork, which is now, um, the workhorse here, so I had to choose, um, one file folder for it, where it’s allowed to save these intermediate files, and quite messy stuff. And now cut from this a bit of time, so it has created these first pages, and it cheated a little in that, it picked out, um, pages that needed images. And
05:13 here we’ll see later why, because in this version of Claude PowerPoint the image handling is a bit weak. So you have to separately over there go do it in Claude Code or Claude Cowork instead, but a pretty nice basic layout. Then let’s go over to the, um, Claude Code side, and here actually Claude made with chat this kind of so-called MD file, Markdown file, in which I asked it to think a bit more deeply about what kind of this Sami Miettinen Neuvottelija brand could be, and what it’s then like for example this visual identity, these shades of purple that I’ve now here used over the years. And then it kind of, um, thought, thought then about this what kind of setup there is, and went through all those episodes of mine. Here I’ve done this one with Hoxhunt’s Markus Hav, when we talked about AI. Top-level, there is of these, my old layout. And then I noticed that, well, these should
06:13 actually be given as color codes, hex codes, these colors of mine, and I asked it to then dig them out from my samiettinenskills.md, where I’ve defined these color palettes, and from there it then digs them out and then recommends this kind of, um, a certain kind of, um, scripting for how I could make these images. And now we get to this, um, deck, that was made there earlier, so now I asked it to change these color tones to that, like, official one, and then, um, then I asked it to download from that, um, files, and I also attached them. And here you then notice that this isn’t acceptable to Claude PowerPoint at this stage. So it — it doesn’t like them being put into that chat. And then here I approve, adding slides, and dangerously always allow — so this is exactly the kind of thing you shouldn’t do as, like, a beginner. So then if it were to ask later whether to add slides, then
07:16 it wouldn’t ask me for any permissions. Well, this isn’t very dangerous, this kind of adding a slide. It now adds to this, without me asking, thumbnails from these last three episodes, and then I also dropped this LinkedIn data in there, that is, um, 7,800 first-degree connections, and then I have 10,000 of these followers. And now then, um, these images at this stage have to, like, be dropped in here, like, to be used in this PowerPoint space, so then it can make them. I, like, thought that I could myself, like, embed them into this myself, but it didn’t go like that, even though it kind of hints at that. Don’t do it like this. I just noticed that I can, like, drop these images here on top, like, and say, put them in there yourself. And from this now a bit of credit is due, because it had to, um, check which image goes where and put it in the right place. So here, um, here on the left side of the screen are these YouTube icons, and then there’s the Spotify icons. These kind of
08:20 squares, which I then decided, let’s start making those too since, like, big channels, because earlier I couldn’t be bothered to add them manually, but they get created there, like, semi-automatically. And indeed now this LinkedIn contact list of mine has also been analyzed, and excitingly I have the most CTOs, that is, Chief Technology Officers, 1,024, in this first-degree network of mine. Then I noticed that, well, I can here edit — edit it myself at the same time as this Claude PowerPoint is working, so of course you can do other stuff in the meantime too, like walk the dog or something, but, um, this doesn’t like, break as such, if you edit it yourself at the same time. Of course you can like, be doing the same thing that this Claude PowerPoint is doing, then it might get in the way. Right. Well but now then there came about, it first misunderstood, that this Martin Paasi episode was the newest, so then I had to, um, then tell it, that I read the new titles and stuff off the images, and then, um, the episode
09:24 numbers and texts the same way — indeed I myself manually move them over there like, lower down, I think it looks a bit nicer, that left edge, and like this this then came about, and then this does these kind of, like, green checkmarks so that what — what succeeded and whether it went, went, like, into the goal. Pretty nice, nice I think. Um, and then indeed when you look at this, I’m quite satisfied with this — this basically took, like, only a day. There the logos are missing from the last page, and indeed those should then, like, be pasted in separately here, or otherwise put programmatically into some folder and pushed in from there. Maybe I’ll do that then um, as a finger exercise, um, later. Quite a nice, um, system. Yeah. So I think, um, we can, like, wrap up here. So I think I’m
10:25 a pretty savvy user of this kind of AI. All these Office tools from Anthropic, that is, Claude Cowork, runs nicely on Mac with certain databases. Claude PowerPoint, which I’ve been demoing here, and Claude Excel, and then of course Claude Code and Perplexity and Antigravity from Google, and all the, like, possible, um, coding platforms are already getting pretty well under control. And indeed I here at Translink Corporate Finance am an investment banker, so there if you’re, like, interested in selling a company especially, my colleagues handle that, um, process-wise, but through me you can definitely get in touch with them. Awesome that you’ve spent time watching this or listening. Send feedback, my contact info is right there. I like WhatsApp messages, and then yeah, it’ll help if you subscribe to this rebranded Neuvottelija channel.
11:25 So google Sami Miettinen, or Neuvottelija, and you’ll find the hundreds of episodes there. Thanks, and feel free to send in suggestions on what else you’d like to learn about the AI world or anything else really. Thanks. Bye