NATALIA QUINTERO & NITYESH AGARWAL (Every Consulting) - AI consulting workflows

=== NATALIA QUINTERO & NITYESH AGARWAL (Every Consulting) - AI consulting workflows ===

(02:00:01): uh,

(02:00:01): some internal,

(02:00:02): every people who are going to show you some of the coolest workflows that I have

(02:00:06): seen recently.

(02:00:07): Um,

(02:00:07): so I'm going to add Natalia and Austin to the stage,

(02:00:11): sorry,

(02:00:11): Nitesh and then Austin,

(02:00:13): Austin's first of all,

(02:00:14): Austin's our producer.

(02:00:15): He's also our head of growth.

(02:00:16): He put together this whole thing.

(02:00:19): Everyone just give him a little bit of a round of applause for how well this is going.

(02:00:22): Like, Austin, you're doing amazing.

(02:00:25): Do you want to be on here or should we just leave it to Natalia and Natasha?

(02:00:31): I'll stay on just in case for your little 30 minute break.

(02:00:34): Maybe go outside, touch some grass, drink some water.

(02:00:36): Sweet.

(02:00:37): Okay.

(02:00:38): I'm off for 30 minutes.

(02:00:40): Everybody enjoy these.

(02:00:42): Natalia and Natasha are going to show you some insane stuff and I'll be back in 30 minutes.

(02:00:47): Thanks, Dan.

(02:00:48): All right.

(02:00:48): Natalia and Natasha, it's your show now.

(02:00:51): I'm stoked for this.

(02:00:52): Why don't you both introduce yourselves and then let's get right into the demo.

(02:00:56): Awesome.

(02:00:57): Hey everyone.

(02:00:58): So we are popping in for about 15 minutes just to share some of the stuff that

(02:01:02): we've been working on over the past week.

(02:01:04): I'm Natalia Quintero.

(02:01:05): I run consulting here at Every and

(02:01:09): So Nitesh and I,

(02:01:11): I'll let Nitesh introduce himself in a second,

(02:01:14): but Nitesh and I have been waking up like three and a half hours early every day

(02:01:19): for the past week just to like work on this stuff that we're so excited about.

(02:01:25): And Nitesh is actually going to share one of the skills that he built and then

(02:01:31): we'll take it from there.

(02:01:32): So Nitesh, over to you.

(02:01:35): Thanks, Natalia.

(02:01:36): Hey, everyone.

(02:01:37): I'm an Applied Data Engineer.

(02:01:39): I help Natalia with everything consulting and automating the day-to-day work.

(02:01:46): So that work is, you would put that in a non-technical bucket.

(02:01:52): So I've been using

(02:01:55): tools like lot code and other wide coding tools to wide code different parts of our

(02:02:02): workflow,

(02:02:04): one of which involves creating presentations.

(02:02:07): So every,

(02:02:09): as you can imagine,

(02:02:10): with all the aesthetic that we've been going on here,

(02:02:12): every has a very distinct aesthetic.

(02:02:16): which translates into all the presentations that we're doing.

(02:02:18): So traditionally,

(02:02:20): we use Figma as our presentation building tool,

(02:02:25): but that takes quite a bit of time.

(02:02:27): So I just write coded a plugin that helps us use Cloud Core to make presentations.

(02:02:35): Let me show you what it does.

(02:02:49): One second.

(02:02:50): Let me just show my screen.

(02:02:52): You're good.

(02:02:58): There we go.

(02:02:59): OK.

(02:03:00): All good.

(02:03:01): Let it rip.

(02:03:02): OK.

(02:03:05): Great.

(02:03:06): OK, so this is a presentation.

(02:03:09): And what I built is called the EveryPPDX plugin.

(02:03:12): So if you're like a Claude code nerd,

(02:03:15): then you probably know that Claude has a PPPDX plugin,

(02:03:19): which allows Claude to create presentations and PowerPoints just using the power of

(02:03:27): code.

(02:03:28): But if you've used it,

(02:03:29): you'll know that that creates a very generic-looking presentation,

(02:03:33): not something that looks like this.

(02:03:36): So I created this, like, forked this plugin.

(02:03:40): I created every version of that plugin so that it can generate presentations that

(02:03:45): look like this straightaway.

(02:03:48): And I created this deck to be the demo.

(02:03:51): So this presentation,

(02:03:53): all the backgrounds,

(02:03:55): the colors,

(02:03:56): the font placements,

(02:03:58): everything,

(02:03:59): including the actual flow of slides and the whole plan of how we're going to

(02:04:05): discuss this was generated by Claude in Claude code.

(02:04:12): And this is huge because what this is basically,

(02:04:19): it means that I am using AI to turn producing not worth a task into trivial ones.

(02:04:24): So like this deck is the example of that.

(02:04:27): Like I just generated this deck to show you what this plugin does.

(02:04:32): I could have just screen shared and showed you the actual code and, you know,

(02:04:38): It took you through the cursor and explored the files, but that would have been boring.

(02:04:43): So instead we have this nice looking deck.

(02:04:47): There's a question in the chat,

(02:04:48): which I have to actually is like,

(02:04:50): are you using this just to make like a nice looking deck from a design perspective?

(02:04:55): Or are you also having kind of like not very clean copy or like kind of

(02:05:00): disorganized thoughts and asking it to organize really good copy for the deck as

(02:05:05): well at the same time?

(02:05:06): That's a great question.

(02:05:08): So let me show you.

(02:05:09): So I am doing everything inside Cloud Core, including the copy.

(02:05:13): And not just the copy, but actually taking me from a raw idea.

(02:05:18): So this is the chat.

(02:05:19): I hope you can still see my screen, right?

(02:05:21): Yeah, you're good.

(02:05:23): OK, so you can see my Claude desktop app.

(02:05:27): And I actually just started a new chat here in code mode where I started discussing

(02:05:34): the plugin that I created.

(02:05:36): And then I gave it this idea that I had, a very rough idea of what I wanted to do.

(02:05:43): And then in the chat, I just built this framework of what we want to build here.

(02:05:51): And then there's a generate blueprint command included in this plugin,

(02:05:56): which actually uses whatever we discussed above.

(02:06:01): to generate a rough markdown file which discusses the entire Blueprint.

(02:06:06): So this is only markdown,

(02:06:08): and this is a slide-by-slide description of what will be in the deck,

(02:06:12): along with the visual direction that we will be taking,

(02:06:17): along with the speaker notes that are going to be here.

(02:06:20): So this deck, if I share the presenter view, you'll be able to see

(02:06:26): speaker notes here.

(02:06:27): So every slide has a speaker notes, which are to be used by the speaker.

(02:06:32): And then like the plugin,

(02:06:35): what it allows me to do is once I have this,

(02:06:38): this is essentially a plan for the presentation.

(02:06:41): So I work on the plan, like give it feedback and make any edits that I need.

(02:06:46): And then there's another command called visual direction.

(02:06:49): Now,

(02:06:51): This is where the magic happens because this is where we use Claude to basically

(02:07:02): give a detailed slide-by-side description of how we will generate each side.

(02:07:08): And this includes a command or a slide for any illustration that we want to add.

(02:07:17): So you see this illustration?

(02:07:20): This was generated by AI while creating this deck.

(02:07:24): And how was Flora able to do that?

(02:07:26): Flora is able to do that because inside Cloud Code,

(02:07:30): I have given it access to my Gemini API keys,

(02:07:36): which it is using to call the Nano Banana API and send it like prompts to generate

(02:07:44): images.

(02:07:45): And those images are generated on the fly to add to this presentation.

(02:07:52): All the visuals that you see here,

(02:07:54): so these things along with any visual that you see here,

(02:08:00): most of them have been generated on the fly with AI.

(02:08:05): And in order to do this,

(02:08:09): what I have to customize here is in the every PBDX present skill,

(02:08:14): I basically gave it every visual style document and told it to use this to

(02:08:22): essentially understand how we think about design.

(02:08:26): Now, getting this 600-line style guide

(02:08:31): the majority of the time getting it right uh it was a lot of back and forth and

(02:08:34): iterations but um but now that uh that work is done we uh it's it's like creating a

(02:08:42): presentation is as easy as just starting a chat inside cloud code um and i'm even

(02:08:48): doing it in the desktop app so there's no um terminal business here uh a lot of

(02:08:54): people want to know if this is a public skill they can use

(02:08:58): Uh, it's not public yet, but, um, I think we can, we, we may be able to do that soon.

(02:09:03): So, um, we'll, uh, we'll follow up with that.

(02:09:05): So people can potentially use this.

(02:09:07): Natalia, I'm curious, like, um, you run the consulting business.

(02:09:11): Uh,

(02:09:11): and I think you've also recently gotten deeply pilled on by coding and cloud code

(02:09:16): in a bigger way.

(02:09:17): Um, how are y'all using this and how is it like, uh, changing how you approach the business?

(02:09:23): Yeah,

(02:09:23): I mean,

(02:09:23): for anyone who's ever had a job where part of their job was making decks,

(02:09:29): you'll be very familiar with just how time consuming it is to format a deck,

(02:09:34): to think about how you lay out the information in a way that is really compelling.

(02:09:39): I think it's why so many of us were so excited about Gamma.

(02:09:42): and still are so excited about Gamma as a product because you have this information

(02:09:46): that you're trying to convey.

(02:09:47): And for us, we're working with tech companies, private equity funds, hedge funds.

(02:09:54): And the way that they digest information really varies quite a bit depending on

(02:09:59): what their strategy is or what their business goals are.

(02:10:02): And instead of us spending so many hours of our day just formatting decks so that

(02:10:06): we can be sharing the information that we want to be sharing,

(02:10:09): we can just have a conversation with our clients understand what their ai sort of

(02:10:14): needs and enablement they need and then we have a conversation with Claude that

(02:10:18): automatically can kind of like lay out this v1 of the decks um we have an

(02:10:23): incredibly talented design team so these version of the slides are not the final

(02:10:28): version that our clients would get but it makes it so that between the time that we

(02:10:33): would usually go

(02:10:34): have those conversations and have it be one of a deck,

(02:10:37): which might be a few days to a week because it's so time intensive.

(02:10:40): Now that time is like a few hours, which is really, really transformative and so impactful.

(02:10:47): So it saves us so much time.

(02:10:49): It makes it so that it works in the way that we hope AI works really well,

(02:10:53): which is that it just makes it so that we have more time to be really responsive to

(02:10:57): the needs

(02:10:58): of our clients.

(02:10:59): And yes, I see the chance of public, public, public.

(02:11:03): We'll see if there's a version of this that we can get out that can be useful to other people.

(02:11:08): But I mean,

(02:11:09): Natasha is just,

(02:11:10): he's so creative in the way that he thinks about the possibilities of how we could

(02:11:14): be using AI.

(02:11:16): And this is just one example, just making our lives easier.

(02:11:20): So are you all at the point yet that you are pretty close to one-shotting this of

(02:11:27): we meet with the client,

(02:11:28): we do our meeting,

(02:11:29): we debrief,

(02:11:31): we have meeting notes,

(02:11:32): we drop it into the plugin,

(02:11:33): and then the thing that comes out is a thing you would email to the client.

(02:11:38): Is there one rev?

(02:11:39): How close is the one-shotting to being completely done here?

(02:11:44): that's a good question i think like we're uh there's a few sort of like pieces here

(02:11:49): right there's like the content piece and i feel like we're pretty close to

(02:11:52): one-shotting like the content that is most relevant to clients which is maybe the

(02:11:57): most valuable part of this um i think the design piece where like you know all of

(02:12:01): this is iterative right like uh when you vibe code something like you think it's

(02:12:05): the final version of course it's not it's just like a thing that you're sort of

(02:12:07): like continuing to improve over time i think the next version of this for us is

(02:12:11): like how do we

(02:12:12): um integrate our workflow with our design team's workflow so that this there's like

(02:12:16): a more beautiful version of this that we can create so that we're not um going back

(02:12:20): to them to like make edits over and over so uh so on the design piece i think

(02:12:26): there's like some more work for us to do but on the content piece i think we're

(02:12:29): like almost there what do you think that's awesome

(02:12:33): Absolutely, yeah.

(02:12:34): This version was generated like the presentation that I showed you.

(02:12:38): I timed it.

(02:12:39): It was generated in under 15 minutes,

(02:12:41): all the way from idea to the version that I just showed you.

(02:12:46): And we are working with our design team to further improve the instructions and the

(02:12:49): design style that we created.

(02:12:51): So it's only going to get better from here.

(02:12:55): My favorite version of this that I've found that works because I'm a terrible

(02:13:00): designer and our designers are very good is that since they work in Figma,

(02:13:04): I'm very Figma make pilled because it can reference those Figma designs directly.

(02:13:08): And I'm very excited to see like as you keep pushing this,

(02:13:11): like how custom you can get different plugins to like take the work our designers

(02:13:16): do.

(02:13:17): and make it so that we don't have to use their bandwidth on just recreating the

(02:13:20): same templates over and over again for the work that like our other teams are

(02:13:24): trying to use.

(02:13:27): Totally.

(02:13:28): Yeah, we're so there with you.

(02:13:29): And I saw a comment from Edgar, some of the best designers I know are coding for us now.

(02:13:34): I mean, I think that's how I think of our design team, right?

(02:13:37): They're almost like engineers with like an incredible curatorial eye.

(02:13:41): And,

(02:13:41): uh,

(02:13:42): I think the challenge for us here and something I'm excited for us to think about

(02:13:44): is like,

(02:13:45): how do we,

(02:13:45): how do we build that vision and that curation,

(02:13:47): uh,

(02:13:48): to the work that we're doing on consulting?