Helena Liu shows how to create McKinsey-style charts in seconds using ChatGPT and Napkin AI. She expands bullet points into paragraphs with ChatGPT, then feeds the text to Napkin AI, which generates quadrant charts, diagrams, and graphs instantly. The whole process replaces hours of manual design work that consulting firms charge thousands for.
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So I'm giving a speech next week at a conference and I need some graphics to go along with my presentation. And today I'm going to show you how I'm going to use AI to make these graphics within seconds. Now, I went to business school and I remember back in the days my classmates were getting paid 6 figures from consulting firms like BCG or McKinsey to create these type of graphics. And it's just mind-blowing now that you can add these pretty graphics and diagrams to spice up your presentations as well as your reports within seconds. Using AI. And let me show you how you can do this today. So there are 2 sections of my presentation that I need graphics for. And I'm going to show you how I made them using only AI today. So the first portion of my presentation is highlighting the benefits of building software using AI. And I came up with these 3 main benefits: using software as a lead magnet, using AI as additional sources of revenue, or using it for internal tools like streamlining SOPs, or getting all of your staff to write in the same brand voice. So I'm going to first use ChatGPT to expand on these 3 benefits into paragraphs, because, you know, I'm lazy, so I don't want to write it all myself. And then we're going to use AI to turn them into graphics. So I went to ChatGPT, and I put in this prompt, here are the 3 main benefits of building software using AI, these 3 benefits, please expand on to it. And boom, it gave me the 3 paragraphs. And that is an expansion of this. So I'm going to now now copy this and use a new tool called Napkin AI. So Napkin AI is a new tool that has just launched, I think about a month ago, and it allows you to turn any text into graphics within seconds. And it works really well. Most text-to-image generation tools doesn't get the words correct, but Napkin AI does. So let me show you how this works. So once you sign up for a new account, you'll be taken to a document that just looks like this. So it looks a new Word document, and then you can give it a title and then just paste in your text. It's as easy as that. So I'm going to paste in the text that we just have, and I'll call this Benefits of Building Software Using AI. Perfect. And this is all I need to do. So once I hover over the entire text block, I'll see this lightning symbol. So as soon as I press on that, AI is going to go to work and try to create all sorts of visualizations based on this text. And as you can see, it's been like, what, 2-3 seconds, and it's come out with all of these various different visualizations for the text above. So I can have these 4-quadrant kind of style, I can have this staggered step style, I can have circular diagrams. I mean, the visualizations here are just amazing. You get like 20 different options within a matter of seconds that you can choose from. Yeah, I get this tree diagram here. I really like this one, so I'm going to choose this one. And if you wanted to change anything on it, it's totally customizable. So for example, if interactive tools doesn't really make sense under lead magnets, I can go in here and change the text. I can also click on the specific text I want to change, and I can change the color here. So once this base template is made for you, you can go in, modify the text, modify the font style, modify the color, make any modifications that you want. Now let's suppose I just want visualization for first paragraph here. And it's as easy as just highlighting that portion of text, and then pressing on the lightning symbol again. And then AI will go to work and make about a dozen different visualizations for you just on that specific piece of text, which is pretty, pretty amazing and incredible. I mean, I wish I had this when I was going through business school. So and then you can just scroll through them to see which ones you like. And if you like this style, for example, but you don't like the graphic style, you can click into it and you'll be able to see that when you scroll through these, you can also choose the graphic style that best suits your presentation. I mean, adding these graphics and diagrams to your presentations will really spice things up, make it much more visually appealing, and make it easier for your visual learners to grasp what you're saying in the text. And now it's easier than ever to add in these graphics into your presentation. Now I wanted to create another visualization for the second portion of my presentation, as I told you earlier, and that was on a video that I did recently, and it was called the $100 Million AI Business Plan. If you haven't watched that, I'll link it above top, so make sure you watch that one as well. So actually, when I was creating this video, I really wanted a graphic to go along with it, but just for the life of me, I couldn't think of how to visualize the text that I was saying. And I was looking through Microsoft Graphics and Google Graphics, and None of the premade graphics was really hitting the point for me. So now I'm going to try using Napkin AI to create this graphic that matches what I'm saying in terms of the 3 stages of AI implementation here. So the first thing I'm going to do is just to copy the entire transcript of this video, and then I'm going to go into ChatGPT and have ChatGPT summarize the 3 stages of AI implementation for me. So summarize the 3 stages of AI implementation from this YouTube transcript. All right, and then I'm gonna paste in my YouTube transcript, and boom, ChatGPT has come through for me again, and it has summarized the 3 stages of AI implementation for me. So I'm going to copy this text and go back to Napkin AI, paste it in, and click on the blue lightning symbol to have the 3 stages of AI implementation visualized for me. And as you can see, it already did the job. So I can have it in this circular kind of graph, half circle, the steps. I think this steps one will work really well. And when I click into it, if I don't like the purple, I can scroll through to see the specific type of style that would match my presentation. And if I like this one, then I can click on it. But let's say I wanted to turn this one a deeper yellow than what's here, then I can just click on this, click on the color button, and then I can turn it into whichever color that my heart really desires. Again, I can just highlight that specific section and create a visualization for that as well. So just like that, my presentation was finished within minutes rather than hours. So when you're ready to export this pretty diagram into your presentations, reports, wherever you want to put it, just highlight the entire graphic and you can press the button here at the top, choose the type of file that you want to download it in, whether it's an image, SVG file, or a PDF, and then you can just press the download button and boom, you've got it now in your folders. So if I pull it up, you can see I now have it in a PNG. This used to be work that, you know, the top consulting firms like famous McKinsey, BCG paid people $100,000 a year to do, and now AI can do it within seconds. So if you have an upcoming presentation report that you're writing, please give Napkin AI a tool. This video is not sponsored. I just think this was one of the coolest tools I've seen in a while. So, and I'm actually going to be using this to create the graphics for my upcoming talk. All right, thank you so much for joining me for today's video. 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