Presentations: numbers that don’t lie

Presentations makes slide decks from your governed data. You lay out slides as you would in any slide editor, but every number on them — a KPI tile, a chart, a table, a figure in a sentence — is bound to a metric, a model measure, a saved query or a dashboard card. The deck keeps the binding, never the figure: each time someone opens, presents or exports the deck, DataSquares computes the figures for that person, with their own data access.

Open Presentations in the sidebar to see your decks, or start one from a dashboard you already trust.

What it promises

A deck in DataSquares keeps seven promises, and the product is built so it can’t quietly break them:

Promise	What you see
Every number traces to its computation	Hover a figure, or click it while presenting, for its source: the metric and its definition version, the period, the filters and where the data lives. A figure typed by hand is marked †.
Every number says how current and how complete it is	Data through 23 Oct 2026, the load time, and provisional while a period is not finished or not yet settled.
Every comparison is like for like, or says how it is not	A partial month is never compared with a whole one without saying so; a change between two rates is written in points.
Every chart encodes values in proportion	Bars start at zero; a line chart whose axis does not says where it starts; a log scale is labeled.
Every claim tied to a number stays true	A claim word such as grew follows its figure: it never stands beside a fall.
Every viewer sees only their numbers, and knows when they are narrowed	Each person’s figures are computed under their row security; a narrowed figure says so (EMEA only, your access), and a figure they may not see is a dash with the reason.
What was shown stays provable	Publishing, presenting to a meeting and exporting each write a record of the values shown that nothing can change afterwards.

How it works

1. Make a deck — blank, from a template with data slots, from a dashboard (each page or each visual becomes a slide, still live), from a story or from a PowerPoint file, or have the AI draft it from your data, every figure still live. See Make a deck, Import a PowerPoint file and Draft from data.
2. Bind numbers — drag a metric onto a slide for a KPI tile, break it down for a chart or a table, or put a live number in a sentence. Choose its period, what it is compared with and how it is calculated. See Bind numbers to data.
3. Check as you go — a quiet mark on each slide that has a finding, and the Checks panel with each finding, its fixes and a way to its slide. See How the checks work.
4. Publish — the checks run again on the saved draft; anything that Must fix holds publishing back. Each publish makes a version and records the values shown. See Publish and versions.
5. Present — name the meeting or rehearse, present full screen or in a window, with a presenter window beside it. See Present.
6. Share and export — share the deck with people in your workspace, each of whom sees their own figures, and export a PDF, a picture of a slide or a PowerPoint file, or send it on a schedule, each person’s copy read with their own access. See Share and comment, Export a PDF, a picture or a PowerPoint file and Schedule a deck.

Live by default

A deck is live: its figures are computed when someone reads it, so a monthly review deck shows this month’s numbers without anyone pasting them in again. Presenting reads each slide’s values when the slide first opens and keeps them for the session, so going back to a slide shows the same numbers. What was shown is kept in the deck’s records.

What is not in this release

State of the first release, so nothing here reads as a promise:

• A PowerPoint file comes in with its look, text and pictures, but its numbers and charts are bound again: a typed number is flagged until you bind it, and a chart comes in as a slot to bind. See Import a PowerPoint file.
• Decks are shared with people in your workspace, through links and embedding, and on a schedule. The Android app reads them too: see On your phone.
• The AI writes words only, never a figure: Draft from data, and a slide’s headline and speaker notes. It does not change a slide’s layout, charts or bindings.
• New claim words, period words and figures typed by hand are not inserted in the slide editor yet: they arrive with slides made from a story, and slides show them as Stories do. See Bind numbers to data.

Who can do what

Presentations has the same roles as Stories. Everyone sees the figures their own access allows.

	Viewer	Commenter	Contributor	Editor	Owner
Open and present the published version	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Comment on a slide or an element		✓	✓	✓	✓
Read speaker notes; add slides and edit the slides they added or were given			✓	✓	✓
Present the draft			✓	✓	✓
Edit any slide, publish, restore a version, export, schedule				✓	✓
Read the values a record holds				✓	✓
Share and change roles					✓

Workspace admins act as owners. The presenter of a meeting also reads the values that meeting’s record holds. See Share and comment.

Related

• Make a deck
• Checks reference
• Stories — documents with the same live numbers
• Governed metrics