🌟 This month's highlights

🧩 Content v2 — a flexible new content slide with a layout library, free-form elements, and AI, so your slides can finally look as polished as the deck software you grew up with.

🗂️ AhaSlides Survey — new question types, AI generation, exports, and a redesigned creation flow turn Survey into a complete way to collect and read feedback.

🧩 Content v2: Slides that finally keep up with PowerPoint

For years, our content slide did the basics and not much more. Content v2 changes that. It is a real design canvas, so the polished, layout-driven slides you used to build in PowerPoint or Google Slides are now something you can make right inside AhaSlides.

What it feels like: Pick a ready-made layout and you have a clean, professional slide in seconds. Ignore the layouts and you get a blank canvas to drop elements exactly where you want them.

What's new:

• A layout library with curated designs (Business Plan, Big Stat, Feature Matrix, Content Overview, and more), plus a full gallery when you want to browse everything.
• Free-form elements: add text, callouts, visuals, media, and now audio (background music, voiceovers, or sound effects) straight onto the canvas, then resize and reposition anything.
• Built-in AI: describe what you need and the Slide Agent builds a Content v2 slide for you.
  

📖 Help Centre article: Using the Content v2 slide

🗂️ AhaSlides Survey: A full toolkit for collecting feedback

Survey had its biggest month yet. There are new ways to ask questions, new ways to read the answers, and AI to help you build the whole thing in seconds.

What it feels like: Less like bolting a few questions together, more like having a proper survey builder, with AI doing the heavy lifting whenever you want it to.

What's new:

• New question types: Matrix for structured grids (single or multi-select per row), plus Date and Rating (5-star) for more precise answers.
• AI Survey Agent: open the ✨ panel inside the editor, describe what you need or point it at an existing presentation, and it drafts and applies questions without you leaving the page.
• Richer blocks and templates: attach an inline image to any block (with size presets and alt text) and browse a cleaner, redesigned template library.
• Clearer CSAT results: for satisfaction (CSAT) questions, you can now see how responses are spread across each score, in every place your results show up: the dashboard, the survey editor, the share page, and the preview.
• Export your data: download a survey's results to Excel or CSV in one click, straight from the results page.
• Custom share links: edit your survey's URL slug to something memorable, with the QR code staying in sync (Pro plan).

📖 Help Centre article: How to create and run surveys

🔌 Running AhaSlides in PowerPoint: No more "Click to start

If you run AhaSlides inside PowerPoint through our add-in, your interactive slides now go live the moment you reach them.

What's new: We removed the extra "Click to Start" screen that used to appear before every interactive slide. Your poll, quiz, or word cloud appears straight away, with no interim screen and no extra click to get it on the board.

Why it matters: One less step between you and your audience. Your interactive moments land instantly, so your presentation keeps flowing the way PowerPoint users expect.

🙈 Hide presenting control: a cleaner screen while you present

When you are presenting, on-screen controls can sit right on top of your content. This release gives you a tidy way to clear them out of the way.

What's new: Turn on Auto hide and show controls on the presenter's screen and every control fades away when your mouse goes idle: the control bar, the status bar, the instruction bar, and the join URL at the top. Move your mouse and everything slides back into view, so nothing is ever truly gone, then it tidies itself away again once your mouse sits still.

Why it matters: You get a clean, distraction-free view for your audience without losing quick access to your controls. It works on every plan, and if you want even more separation between what you see and what the room sees, Backstage is still there for full control.

✨ Follow-up suggestions in the Slides and Survey agents

The Slides Agent and Survey Agent now suggest what to do next after each response. Once the agent generates something, it offers two or three relevant next steps you can act on with a single click, no typing needed. After building a presentation, the Slides Agent may even suggest adding a feedback survey as a natural next step. Less time deciding what to ask for, more time building.

🧭 A refreshed editor header and navigation

The presentation editor has a new top bar and clearer navigation, so getting around your deck while you build is a little smoother and easier on the eye.

👥 Team management that bends to your team, not the other way around

Managing a team plan used to be rigid: fifty members meant fifty licences, full stop. Now you are in control.

What's new: Assign licences only to the people who need them, revoke them on the fly, and use bulk actions to update many members at once. You choose whether to assign a licence when you invite someone, and teams can grow to any size regardless of how many licences are purchased.

Why it matters: You stop paying for seats nobody uses, and resellers can manage multiple clients without licensing headaches.

📖 Help Centre article: Managing your team members

🔍 Faster, more relevant template search

Template search has moved to a new engine, and the public templates site has moved with it. Expect quicker, more relevant results, with fresher templates surfacing nearer the top.

Have questions or feedback about anything above? Drop a comment below or reach out to our support team at hi@ahaslides.com. We are always happy to help.