An AI tool suite for automating document and presentation styling

Frontend Development, Product Strategy, Branding, Design System, AI Tooling • AI Ops • Digizoo • 3 months

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A tool suite that automates the styling of documents and slide decks, cutting the time the sales team needs to send a Digizoo-branded SoW.

This technical details of this project have been omitted to comply with NDA as Digizoo’s Intellectual Property.

My Role
Project Overview
Output examples
- Generated slide deck example
- Generated document example
Impact
The Problem
Goals and Objectives
The Solution

My Role

I was the sole designer and developer of the Monotreme tool suite in Digizoo, which includes:

Echidna: an automatic document styler and generator
Platypus: a branded slide deck presentation generator To create these tools, I utilised Claude Code for the development process.

As the Monotreme suite began to mature, I worked with my colleagues in integrating the tool suite, and developing our internal AI platform, Keeper, which serves as a central knowledge base for our wider organisation.

Project Overview

The project started off as a series of Claude Code experiments to automate tedious aspects of design, where speed and brand consistency is paramount (namely for policy documents, SOWs, pitch decks and playbacks).

The tool suite was created to be highly designed and customisable, with theming support for different brands. Unlike generic AI design solutions on the market, the Monotreme suite provides designers full control and customisation of layouts through a block and layout system.

Monotreme was designed to be AI-first, usable by AI agents and non-technical audiences through Claude Cowork (or other AI harnesses) as a plugin and a MCP server.

Diagram of how the Monotreme tools and skills reach the end user, via the Keeper MCP server and Claude Cowork.

Output examples

Here are some output examples of a deck and text doc which were generated from scratch using the Monotreme tool suite.

Generated slide deck example

A deck generated from scratch by the Platypus tool, shown in its own viewer. Open in a new tab

Generated document example

Echidna-styled documents are often used for policy documents, Statement of Work (SoW) documents or Business Requirements Documents (BRD).

A document generated from scratch by the Echidna tool, shown in its own viewer. Open in a new tab

Impact

Time reduced for the styling of documents, policies and SOWs by over 1200% (from 1 hour per document to ~5 minutes, where documents can be styled in parallel through sub-agents)
Increased consistency between documents and slide decks, contributing to a cohesive brand experience
Free my time up to do more impactful and meaningful work

The Problem

Being in a small organisation, our design capacity is limited.

When our time is divided on client sites, where we focus on working with people to solve problems, trying to style Word documents or PowerPoint decks to be brand coherent becomes a tedious but necessary chore.

Even with the creation of document and slide templates, the artifacts produced by colleagues from non-design backgrounds often miss the mark in style consistency, deteriorating brand trust.

Additionally, most AI design tools on the market often lack refinement in the finer details, leading to results that are easily recognisable as AI-generated and cheap.

Goals and Objectives

Automate the document and deck styling process, allowing users to feed information or existing documents for a branded output
Create a heavily themeable tooling that can be customised by designers to the finest detail
Enforce Word as an collaborative authoring tool and not a publishing tool
Remove the need to use Powerpoint at all for an AI-native experience