Every 15 minutes
Make a personalised deck for every new row in your sheet
Each prospect or client row without a deck link gets its own copy of your Slides template with their details filled in, and the link is written back to the sheet.
- Runs
- Every 15 minutes
- Apps
- Google Sheets, Google Slides
- AI
- Optional
- Access
- Sheets read+write; Slides/Drive write (template shared with service account)
Send this to your assistant
Create a ClickRuntime automation: every 15 minutes, for every row in my Prospects sheet without a deck link, copy my Slides template, replace {{name}}, {{company}} and the other placeholders with that row's values, and write the link back.
First time? Adding ClickRuntime to your assistant takes about two minutes.
Why use it
Why teams use this automation
Sales and account teams keep prospect lists in Google Sheets. Personalised decks get better responses, but making one per row means copying, renaming and editing slides by hand.
Building a deck for each new row and writing the link back next to it makes personalised decks part of the list itself, created as soon as a prospect is added.
What you get out of it
Decks appear as you add prospects
Add a row and a personalised deck is ready within 15 minutes.
Links live with the data
The deck link sits next to each prospect, easy to share or track.
Any column, any placeholder
Every column header can fill a matching {{placeholder}} in the template.
Never duplicated
Rows that already have a link are skipped.
How it works
What happens, step by step
Every 15 minutes, ClickRuntime reads your Prospects sheet.
It picks out rows that don't have a deck link yet.
For each row, it copies your Slides template and replaces each placeholder with the row's values.
If AI is available, it writes a short tailored pitch from the row's notes.
It writes the new deck's link back into 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, FOLDER = "your-spreadsheet-id", "your-template-id", "decks-folder-id"
@on_trigger
def run(event):
sheets = build("sheets", "v4", credentials=Credentials(credentials.connection("google", "work")), cache_discovery=False).spreadsheets()
header, *rows = sheets.values().get(spreadsheetId=SHEET_ID, range="Prospects!A1:Z").execute()["values"]
link_col = header.index("deck_link")
todo = [(i, dict(zip(header, r))) for i, r in enumerate(rows, start=2) if not dict(zip(header, r)).get("deck_link")]
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, row in todo:
try:
row["pitch"] = ai.generate(f"Write a 2-sentence tailored pitch for {row.get('company')} from: {row.get('notes', '')}", max_output_tokens=100).text
except ai.AIError:
row["pitch"] = ""
deck = drive.files().copy(fileId=TEMPLATE_ID, body={"name": f"Northwind for {row.get('company')}", "parents": [FOLDER]}).execute()["id"]
slides.batchUpdate(presentationId=deck, body={"requests": [{"replaceAllText": {"containsText": {"text": "{{" + k + "}}"}, "replaceText": v}}
for k, v in row.items() if k != "deck_link"]}).execute()
sheets.values().update(spreadsheetId=SHEET_ID, range=f"Prospects!{chr(65 + link_col)}{i}", valueInputOption="RAW",
body={"values": [[f"https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/{deck}"]]}).execute()
return {"decks": len(todo)}FAQ
Common questions
How do column names match placeholders?
Can AI write part of the deck?
Who owns the new decks?
What permissions does it need?
Does it need AI?
How many runs does it use?
Can I change how it works?
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