Studio import and templates

Import a file

1. Step 101

   Drop the file on the Studio home

   Drag it onto the drop zone, choose a file, pick one from your Library, or open the Microsoft picker for a file in SharePoint or OneDrive. Nothing is uploaded until you confirm.
2. Step 202

   Watch the slides arrive

   The import page shows how many slides have been read and marks each one ready as it finishes. Slides open for editing as soon as the file is done.
3. Step 303

   Read the report, then edit

   The report sits above the editor for an imported deck. Fix what it flags, re-theme if you like, and carry on with Remix or the editor.

Files are checked by their byte signature, not only their extension, so a renamed file is refused with a clear message. The limit is 50 MB per file and 20 imports an hour. Hidden slides are left out and the report says how many.

The import report

For a PowerPoint deck the report shows:

• Rendered original — how many slides are shown as a picture of the original page, made by the renderer.
• Editable reconstruction — the share of slides Studio could rebuild as editable text and shapes. It measures editability, not looks.
• Measured similarity — the structural similarity of the rendered pages against a PowerPoint reference; 1.00 is identical.
• Fonts — each font the deck uses, whether it is available, which fallback stands in, and which fonts were embedded in the file (listed but not used for rendering).
• Theme — the palette and fonts extracted from the file, applied as the deck's theme.
• Notes — anything else to know, and what the rendered original cannot promise: gradients and effects may be flattened, SmartArt without a fallback picture may differ, and a proprietary font without an open metric twin may change line breaks.

A Penpot import reports pages, artboards and layers, the fonts that fell back, and the features it could not bring across (masks, inner shadows, blend modes, stroke alignment, raw SVG layers, library color and text styles). Linked libraries are not imported; their components arrive as local copies. Older exports must be re-exported from Penpot 2.

The template gallery

Templates in the Studio navigation lists everything from Akili, your workspace and the public catalog, with filters by format (presentation, document, webpage, social), intent (pitch and fundraising, reviews and reporting, launches, events, education, sales) and publisher, and sort orders trending, best, new and A to Z. Collections are curated by Akili and your workspace's reviewers.

Use a template

Open a template for its structure, publisher, format, intent, version and use count. Use this template opens the create page with it chosen; you may leave the brief empty and let the template drive the outline. Try with my content drafts it privately from the knowledge bases you pick, with an optional note such as focus on Q3 net revenue retention; it costs a normal generation and is never published. Like a template to help it trend.

My templates

Open any finished piece and choose Save as template; Studio infers its structure and slots, keeps its look and saves it privately. The gallery also offers one-click templates from a finished deck (Make template) and from a brand kit. My templates lists what you saved and lets you change who sees each one:

• Only me — the default; it appears under My templates.
• My workspace — visible to teammates now, no review.
• Everyone on Akili — the public catalog, after a review that usually takes one to three business days. You can withdraw a submission, read the reviewer's note, fix and resubmit.

Saving the same piece again creates a new version of the template.

Good to know

• Imported decks and Publish. An imported deck is a normal deck: export it, share it, or schedule its slides as social cards from Publish.
• Importing from a flow. There is no import node; a studio.create step generates from a brief instead.
• Mobile. The app lists templates and creates from one; importing stays on the web.
• Import is a deployment switch. An operator can turn it off; the drop zone then disappears. The same goes for Penpot, which follows the pro design editor.