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AI Alone Won’t Build Your Pitch. Here’s What Will.

AI assistants like Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot are transforming how financial services teams build key documents. Firms are at different stages of adoption today, but within 12 months, most will have embedded at least one for every employee. The benefits are real for financial services. Faster drafts, deeper analysis, less time orchestrating information and more […]

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How to Convert PDF to Excel: A Guide for Finance Professionals

You’ve just received the client’s statutory accounts. All 15 entities. All in PDF. Your financial model is half-built, the deadline is tomorrow, and you need those numbers in Excel immediately. While the phrase “convert PDF to Excel” might sound like a five-second task, anyone who works with complex financial documents knows the reality is messier. […]

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UpSlide: From AI Drafts to Client-Ready Documents in Financial Services

The AI-powered stack for financial services is starting to take shape. AI is already changing how teams build presentations, reports, and models. What used to take hours can now take minutes. A first draft can be produced more quickly and developed with far less friction than before. That shift is real, and it matters. But […]

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The Ultimate Guide to the Best AI Solutions for Financial Services

Artificial intelligence has moved from experimentation to expectation across financial services. Teams in investment banking, advisory, private equity, and asset management are under pressure to deliver more, faster, with fewer mistakes. Meanwhile, regulators, clients, and internal leadership expect airtight accuracy and clear audit trails in every interaction. This shift is driving firms to invest in […]

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Best AI Document Review Tools for Financial Services: Choosing the Right Solution in 2026

Financial services teams live in a world of perpetual document production. Whether it’s pitch decks for investor meetings, quarterly reports for stakeholders, or investment memos for decision-makers, the volume is relentless. These documents don’t just need to be created – they evolve rapidly, often going through dozens of iterations as deals progress, numbers update, and […]

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New Feature Round-Up: Edition #14

Welcome to the 2025 Q3 feature round-up. We’re thrilled to share our latest product updates with you. From two new features that will transform the way you work in Excel to the improved Logo Finder and updated Smart Track, your Q4 just got a whole lot more productive. New Features Instantly Generate a Complete, Organized […]

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UpSlide AI: Ending the Reviewing Bottleneck in Microsoft 365

Since ChatGPT’s launch, financial and professional services firms have been embracing AI to accelerate research, modelling, and drafting of pitchbooks, due diligence reports, investment memos, and more. Financial regulators are reporting a 29% increase in AI adoption since 2022, with 75% of firms now using it and another 10% planning to within three years. But here’s […]

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How to Track Changes in PowerPoint: Introducing UpSlide Track Changes

If you’ve ever asked, “Can you track changes in PowerPoint?”, you’re not alone. Unlike Word, PowerPoint lacks any true “track changes” functionality. That’s a significant efficiency and collaboration challenge, especially for high-stakes teams in investment banking, private equity, or professional services. Review cycles are time-consuming, versions get lost, and comments pile up. That’s without even […]

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Growing Pains in Accounting and Advisory: Challenges and Solutions Across the Sector

Accounting and Advisory firms face a number of challenges today: fiercer competition on deals, quicker turnarounds expected on RFPs, and higher expectations on document quality. Strategic growth fuelled by mergers is reshaping the landscape, and as a result, the Big Four (EY, KPMG, Deloitte, and PwC) are moving aggressively into the middle market, meaning smaller […]

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PowerPoint Automation: The Ultimate Guide to Building Better Presentations

Spending too much time aligning slide elements and applying corporate branding to shapes and text in PowerPoint? Discover how PowerPoint automation – from external automation software to writing commands in Microsoft VBA – can help you save time and build better documents faster. The Basics of PowerPoint Automation Let’s start with the basics – what […]

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AI Alone Won’t Build Your Pitch. Here’s What Will.