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IdeaFORGE Helps Teams Review Their Slide Decks Before They Share Them

Review slide decks built from your stories before they go out.

TL;DR

The August 26, 2026 IdeaFORGE release adds a list of slides worth a second look when a deck build completes, available to API and integration users. IdeaFORGE is a service where content, marketing and learning teams turn stories into slide decks, video and other media with AI.

Teams that build slide decks through the API or an integration can have a person check the flagged slides before they share the deck. The list marks slides for a person to check and does not change a slide or stop a build.

Release facts
ProductIdeaFORGE
Release date
PlatformWeb, hosted
Previous releaseNone (earliest listed release)
Latest releaseOctober 13, 2026Latest
Product pageiternal.ai/ideaforge

What's new in IdeaFORGE (August 2026)?

  1. Get a list of slides worth a second look in the build result and webhook
  2. Help data-heavy slides carry figures, dates and amounts from your notes
  3. Check slide copy figures against your story and research text
  4. Help catch tables and timelines with missing values before slides are drawn

IdeaFORGE release details

Get a list of slides worth a second look in the build result and webhook

Reviewers can start with the slides flagged for a person to check. The build result, the completion webhook (when a webhook is set) and agent tools that return the result carry the list, by slide number in on-screen order, with a cover or closing slide counted when the build includes one. A build with nothing to flag carries no list. The list is not shown in the web console.

Help data-heavy slides carry figures, dates and amounts from your notes

Teams get help carrying the figures, dates and amounts from their notes onto data-heavy slides. Timelines and scorecards built from notes with many values can carry those values in slideshow and video slideshow decks, in the web console and API. Dollar amounts, dates written with a month name, quarters, short durations and larger counts written with commas in your notes are recognized and checked, and when a slide's image instructions leave out a value the slide states, they are sent back for another attempt before the image is drawn. A slide that still falls short is flagged in the review list, and scores written over a scale, such as 2.7/5.0, are read whole.

Check slide copy figures against your story and research text

Slides whose figures the story text does not support are reviewed and, where a precise fix is available, corrected, and otherwise flagged for review. After slide copy is written, figures such as percentages, dollar amounts, dates, quarters, durations and ratios are compared with your story text and with research findings when they are used. This applies to slide-deck builds that write slide copy, and flagged slides appear in the review list for API and integration users.

Help catch tables and timelines with missing values before slides are drawn

Teams get help catching tables and timelines whose copy supplies fewer values than the layout calls for. When a slide's layout names a count of data lines, such as a timeline with a stated number of entries, that count is compared with the values the slide copy states, and when the copy supplies fewer, the image instructions are sent back for another attempt before the image is drawn. This applies to slideshow and video slideshow decks, through the console and API, and the check counts lines of values rather than a full grid.

Is this the latest IdeaFORGE release?

No. One newer IdeaFORGE release followed this one. The latest is dated October 13, 2026: IdeaFORGE Turns One Source Story into Podcasts, Slideshows and Videos.

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