Building a storyboard

A storyboard is generated by the AI, not assembled by hand. You describe the story you want to tell; the AI writes the slides, the widgets that appear on each one, and the narration that drives them. An untouched storyboard document shows "AI has not generated storyboard content yet" until you ask for something.

How slides come to be

Each slide is a list of operations. Playing the slide runs them in order: create this chart here, move that one, annotate this bar, fade the rest. There is no separate canvas document that slides point at — the widgets you see are what the slide's operations built.

A later slide can reuse a widget an earlier slide created, so a chart can persist across several slides instead of being rebuilt each time. That dependency is also why reordering is not always free: if a move would put a slide before the one that creates the widget it reuses, the move is rejected with a dialog explaining which slides depend on which.

What you can adjust

Recommended workflow

1. Describe the story: tell the AI what you want to present and what data it should draw on.
2. Read the outline: check that the slide order matches the argument you want to make; drag to reorder where it doesn't.
3. Refine in place: fix wording, data, and layout on the widgets themselves; use the Property panel for slide-level settings like background and pinned elements.
4. Run it once: play through the whole flow to catch missing pieces.

Editing and presenting

A storyboard is edited and presented on the same canvas — present mode is where it is played back:

• In create mode, modify widget content directly;
• Switch to present mode and Storyboard panel becomes the main viewport;
• Press F to enter Fullscreen playback.

Next step

• Captions & narration cues
• Speaker persona