Every 30 minutes
Turn topics in your content sheet into carousel slides
Each new topic you add to your content sheet becomes a 6-slide carousel written by AI in a copy of your Slides template, with the link written back.
- Runs
- Every 30 minutes
- Apps
- Google Sheets, Google Slides
- AI
- Yes, uses the built-in AI allowance
- Access
- Sheets read+write; Slides write
Send this to your assistant
Create a ClickRuntime automation: every 30 minutes, when I add a topic to my Content sheet, write a 6-slide carousel with AI into a copy of my Slides template and put the link and status in the sheet.
First time? Adding ClickRuntime to your assistant takes about two minutes.
Why use it
Why teams use this automation
Carousel posts perform well on LinkedIn and Instagram, but each one means writing six punchy slides and laying them out in the brand template. A small marketing team manages one a week when they'd like three.
Writing the first draft and filling the template as soon as a topic is added means the team edits and exports instead of starting from a blank slide.
What you get out of it
More posts from the same team
First drafts appear automatically, so the team can publish more often.
Always in brand style
Every carousel uses your template's fonts, colours and layout.
A content pipeline in a sheet
Topics, status and deck links sit together in one list.
Easy to export
Each slide can be downloaded as an image from Slides for posting.
How it works
What happens, step by step
Every 30 minutes, ClickRuntime reads your Content sheet.
It picks out topics that don't have a status yet.
AI writes text for six slides on each topic.
It copies your Slides template and fills in each slide.
It writes the deck link and the status Drafted back to the row.
Before it runs live
- Connect your Google Sheets account and pick the spreadsheets it may use
- Connect Google Slides
What you get
Build your own
Need it to work differently?
Your own rules
Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.
Any number of apps
One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.
AI where it helps
Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.
On a schedule or on each event
Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.
Changes you can ask for
- Act only on the items that match your own rules, and skip the rest
- Change what the AI looks for, or how it writes the result
- Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
- Combine it with other Google Sheets and Google Slides steps into one automation
Under the hood
The code that runs this automation
from google.oauth2.credentials import Credentials
from googleapiclient.discovery import build
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http, ai, report_fetched
SHEET_ID, TEMPLATE_ID = "your-spreadsheet-id", "carousel-template-id"
VOICE = "Plain, practical, friendly. Short sentences. No hashtags."
@on_trigger
def run(event):
sheets = build("sheets", "v4", credentials=Credentials(credentials.connection("google", "work")), cache_discovery=False).spreadsheets()
rows = sheets.values().get(spreadsheetId=SHEET_ID, range="Content!A2:C").execute().get("values", [])
todo = [(i, r[0]) for i, r in enumerate(rows, start=2) if r and r[0] and len(r) < 2]
report_fetched(len(todo))
if not todo:
return {"summary": "Nothing new"}
drive, slides = build("drive", "v3", credentials=Credentials(credentials.connection("google", "work")), cache_discovery=False), build("slides", "v1", credentials=Credentials(credentials.connection("google", "work")), cache_discovery=False).presentations()
for i, topic in todo:
texts = ai.generate(f"Write a 6-slide carousel on '{topic}'. Voice: {VOICE} Slide 1 is a hook, slide 6 a call to action. Max 25 words each.",
json_schema={"type": "object", "properties": {"slides": {"type": "array", "items": {"type": "string"}}}}, max_output_tokens=500).json["slides"]
deck = drive.files().copy(fileId=TEMPLATE_ID, body={"name": f"Carousel – {topic}"}).execute()["id"]
slides.batchUpdate(presentationId=deck, body={"requests": [{"replaceAllText": {"containsText": {"text": f"{{{{s{n}}}}}"}, "replaceText": t}}
for n, t in enumerate(texts[:6], 1)]}).execute()
sheets.values().update(spreadsheetId=SHEET_ID, range=f"Content!B{i}:C{i}", valueInputOption="RAW",
body={"values": [["Drafted", f"https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/{deck}"]]}).execute()
return {"carousels": len(todo)}FAQ
Common questions
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