Turn research into a slideshow

Ask for a topic and the deck in one go: research it, pull a picture for each point, and assemble a presentable slideshow. Vancetope does the whole chain — web research, an image per item, and a real slides document you can open and present — from a single request.

Here: the most important sporting events of 2000–2025. The agent shortlists them, fetches a representative image for each from the web, and builds a slides document, linked back into the chat.

Table of contents

1. From a question to a deck
2. What happened under the hood
3. Where to go next

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From a question to a deck

One request — “research the key sporting events 2000–2025, then build a slideshow with an image and a short explanation for each.” The agent runs the research, proposes a shortlist, and (after a quick confirm) assembles the deck.

Research → slideshow — 3 steps

Step 1The agent researches the web and returns a shortlist — eight iconic moments, each with its year — then builds the deck (you can watch research_search / web_fetch / doc_write run).

Step 2The result is a real slides document, linked in the chat. The ↗ opens it in Cortex — a proper deck with a page counter (1 / 9) and a Present mode.

Step 3Each event is its own slide: a picture the agent fetched from the web plus a short written explanation. (The photo is blurred here — the real deck carries the fetched image.)

What happened under the hood

• Research, then assets. The agent first searched the web for the events, then made a separate image lookup per item — a multi-step job it planned and ran itself.
• A real deck, not a chat message. The output is a kind: slides document in the project (decks/…), openable, editable and presentable — not a block that scrolls away.
• Linked back. When it’s done, the agent hands you a card with an ↗ to open the deck directly in Cortex.

Fetched images are whatever the web returns — mind the licensing before you reuse them. Ask the agent to swap in generated images (see Images) when you need a deck that’s yours to publish.

Where to go next

• Generate the pictures instead of fetching them: Images.
• The research stack behind the lookups: Zarniwoop spec.
• What a slides document is: slides kind.