You know the drill when it comes to creating presentations. The afternoons spent creating a deck from scratch – aligning text boxes, copy and pasting images, moving the slides around to find the right flow, the list goes on and on. The problem isn’t that the story isn’t there. It’s that getting the story out onto slides takes way more time than it should.

That’s where Confluence slides comes in. It’s the fastest way to transform existing knowledge into a presentation-ready deck in seconds — no blank slide, no copy-paste, no app-switching. Simply describe what you want and watch Rovo generate context-rich presentations in real-time.

The pain of building decks the old way

Creating a deck shouldn’t be hard. But for most teams, it is. The manual effort of building decks the old way is painful, and the numbers are hard to ignore:

  • 37% of total time spent in PowerPoint goes to formatting — adjusting colors, fonts, and layouts instead of refining the actual message (Source: Nielsen)
  • 42% of that time is wasted searching for the right templates, icons, or past slides (Source: Nielsen)
  • Corporate professionals spend roughly 7 hours per week on slide tasks, costing an estimated $25,500 per year per employee in lost productivity (Source: Nielsen)

Teams don’t lack ideas or content. They lack a better, faster way to turn what they already know into a story they can easily share. The result is that every deck starts from scratch, even when the content already exists somewhere.

Say hello to Confluence Slides

With Confluence slides, teams now have a new way of creating slides with Rovo, slides that are context-rich and generated with AI in seconds. Rovo pulls context from across Atlassian and connected third-party apps like Slack and Google Drive to create impactful, visual presentations grounded in your team’s work. Simply ask Rovo to create or edit your slides and it’ll determine slides structure, create content, and even build visualizations like charts and graphs — all from a single prompt. You’ll be able to collaborate and present your slides directly in Confluence, without breaking the flow of work and having to switch apps.

A few ways teams can use Confluence slides:

  • Project kickoffs — Generate a presentation-ready kickoff deck from your project brief, complete with visuals like a timeline chart to get stakeholders bought in from day one.
  • Campaign analysis readouts — Turn campaign performance data and retrospective notes into a visual deck, with bar charts and funnel charts generated from data already in Atlassian.
  • Customer pitches — Spin up a tailored customer pitch deck from existing account notes, case studies, and competitive intel in Confluence.

A closer look at Confluence slides

Your team’s knowledge already lives in Confluence — now it can be turned into a polished deck in seconds with Confluence slides. Start with a prompt, refine with Rovo, and present your new visual presentation with confidence, all without leaving Confluence.

Create from context, not from scratch

Today, your team’s knowledge is scattered across docs, projects, and meeting notes, so every deck starts from a blank slide. Figuring out what to include and how to structure the story takes as long as making the deck itself. Confluence slides fixes that.

  • Powered by the Teamwork Graph: Rovo pulls context from across Atlassian and connected third-party sources like Slack, Google Docs, Microsoft Excel so your deck is grounded in real team knowledge.
  • Narrative structure built for you: Rovo determines what to include, how to sequence it, and how to frame the story.
  • No blank slate: Creation always starts from existing content or a simple prompt, so you’re never stuck staring at a blank slide.

From first draft to final story — fast

Getting from a first draft to something presentation-ready takes longer than it should — every small change means more manual work. Confluence slides keeps the momentum going, with Rovo doing the heavy lifting for you.

  • Impactful visuals to tell your story: Automatically generates charts, timelines, bar graphs, and images directly within a slide — so your deck is polished and presentation-ready from the first draft.
  • Rovo-powered editing: Use Rovo to make edits inline, such as restructuring, rewriting, or improving your slides.
  • Quick manual edits: Put the finishing touches directly on the slide yourself, such as editing text or reorganizing slides from the filmstrip.

Collaborate and present, all in Confluence

When your deck lives in a different tool from your knowledge, things drift. Teams end up maintaining two separate artifacts — the doc in Confluence, the deck somewhere else — and it’s rarely clear which is current. With Confluence slides, that split disappears. Your slides live where your knowledge lives, so you can create, share, collaborate, and present your work in one place.

  • Real-time collaboration: Invite teammates to collaborate on a deck, with inline comments to gather feedback and align stakeholders.
  • Present directly from Confluence: Hit presentation mode and go — no exporting, no app-switching, no friction between finishing and presenting.
  • Respects Confluence permissions: Slides live in the Confluence content tree, inheriting existing space and page permissions so access is always controlled.

Tips to get the most out of Confluence slides

Can’t wait to get started? Getting to a great deck is faster when you give Rovo the right starting point. Here are a few tips:

1. Provide your sources upfront
Link to the exact pages, Jira projects, or 3rd party connector you want used. You can also have Rovo follow a specific slide template by linking to it.

“Create slides based on [this project poster] and [this Q3 retro]. Use the data from the retro as the primary source. Use this deck as the template — match its slide layouts: [link].”

2. Set your brand colors Hex codes work best, but Rovo can also interpret color descriptions, vibes, or links to a company website.

“Use our brand colors: 0052CC and FF5630.” / “Match the palette from atlassian.com — blues and neutrals.”

3. Define the narrative and structure Tell Rovo what to include, exclude, or reorder. If you have a story arc, spell it out.

“Start with a bold problem statement; end with a clear call to action.” / “Include these slides in order: intro, problem, solution, timeline, budget, next steps.”

4. Specify audience and tone Say who it’s for and how it should sound.

“C-suite budget review — concise, confident, data-driven. Max three bullets per slide.”

5. Control visuals Note preferences for imagery, icons, charts, or layout style.

“Include a timeline graphic for the roadmap slide.”

Your next presentation is already in Confluence

The knowledge your team needs to build a great presentation already exists — in your Confluence pages, your meeting notes, your project plans. Confluence slides gives you a faster way to turn all of that into a story you can actually share, without spending the afternoon doing it manually.

No blank slate. No tool-switching. No reformatting. Just go from doc to deck in seconds, and present with confidence, all within Confluence.

If you’re already a Confluence user, create slides now. Not yet using Confluence? Try it for free and discover how you can create and share knowledge across teams.