Storyboard overview
The document type for step-by-step narrated presentations — slides, narration, captions, speaker personas, and full-screen playback.
A storyboard is one of VizChat's two document types, alongside the dashboard. You pick the type when you create the document and it stays that way — the two use different layout semantics, so a storyboard is never converted into a dashboard or back.
Its canvas is a fixed stage at the document's aspect ratio rather than an infinite surface, and the widgets on it change from slide to slide: each slide's operations bring widgets in, move them, highlight them, and take them away again.
Why Storyboard
- Charts stay live: what you present is the same interactive widget the AI built, not a screenshot pasted into Keynote / PPT.
- Automated narration: every slide carries a Cue script; TTS reads it out sentence by sentence and inline markers trigger the slide's sub-steps at the right moment.
Components
| Module | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Outline | Slide thumbnails; drag to reorder, with a dependency check on moves that would break widget reuse |
| Cues | Captions, narration, step-by-step reveals per slide |
| Persona | Narrator character for live present-mode conversation (professional / humorous / story / executive / enthusiastic) |
| Annotations | Script-driven callouts that box data items and hang an explanation card off them |
| Fullscreen | Immersive playback with Omni-Realtime live Q&A |
Quick start
- Create a storyboard document.
- In chat, describe what you want to present — the AI writes the slides, the widgets on them, and the narration.
- Reorder in the Outline, and edit the narration and its markers in the Cue editor.
- Pick a persona, then hit play or press
Ffor fullscreen.
Next step
Custom widgets
How to get a widget that doesn't exist yet — have the agent build one for your library, or contribute a built-in widget to VizChat.
Building a storyboard
Describe the story to the AI, then refine the slides it generates — reorder in the Outline, adjust in the Property panel, tweak widgets on canvas.