Alai is an AI presentation-design tool founded in 2023 by Anmol Sood and Krishna Gupta, two San Francisco-based engineers who previously worked at Meta and Replicant AI; the company went through Y Combinator's Winter 2024 batch and has raised $500K to date.
Rather than generating one slide layout per prompt, Alai produces four distinct design options for each slide so users pick a starting point instead of regenerating from scratch, then edit through a canvas that mixes AI prompting with manual control over built-in design blocks. The tool also converts existing PDFs into editable slide decks and integrates with NotebookLM for research-to-slide workflows.
Alai is built for professionals and teams who need presentation-ready decks without hiring a designer or working from scratch in PowerPoint. There's a free-forever plan, and the Pro plan costs $30 a month for unlimited presentations, 1,000 monthly AI credits, watermark-free exports, and PowerPoint export.
