Customer story
How Mai Cut Presentation Design Time by 94% Using Slidely AI
- 3i Holding Company
- Consultancy
- Government & Institutional Projects
- Egypt
“I’m really grateful, and I feel lucky that I came across your tool.”
Mai Elghamry
Business Consultant · 3i Holding Company · Egypt
TL;DR: Mai Elghamry, a business consultant working through 3i Holding Company, reduced a presentation-design task that previously took a full working day to just 30 minutes with Slidely. It is the first AI presentation tool she has found that preserves the font sizes, proportions, and layout of Arabic text.
- 94%
- Less time to design five polished slides—eight hours reduced to 30 minutes
- 350
- Slides in a single client project that Slidely can support
- Arabic
- The AI presentation tool that preserved her fonts, sizes, and layout
Mai Elghamry is a business consultant working through 3i Holding Company on international-development projects. She has consulted for the European Union and GIZ and currently supports Saudi Arabian government bodies and universities. Her work covers social investment, curriculum development, and other institutional programmes. Some engagements involve as many as 350 slides, often in Arabic and always within the client’s specific template and formatting standards.
The challenge
Before using Slidely, Mai subscribed to and tested a long list of AI and design tools, including Beautiful.ai, Canva, and Claude, while searching for a solution that could keep up with her workload. None fully met her needs.
General design tools either required extensive manual guidance or were not built for her requirements: an exact corporate template, precise page dimensions, and reliable support for Arabic-language text.
“Most of the tools are more compatible with English. It’s very rare to find one that’s actually compatible with Arabic.”
Mai handles hundreds of slides each month, with individual projects reaching 350 slides. Any tool that fails to preserve Arabic formatting or the client’s template creates hours of manual correction on top of the AI-generated output.
The solution
A model that no longer requires constant supervision
“It’s far smarter than Claude; that’s what I told our designer. She looked at what it made and said, ‘Oh my god, it’s so rich with icons.’ But it’s not only the design; it understands what I’m asking very fast, so I don’t have to do so many edits.”
Mai had tried Slidely four to five months earlier. When she returned, she found it significantly faster, more creative, and capable of producing usable results with far less detailed instruction.
The first AI tool Mai found that preserved Arabic formatting
“I gave it a specific dimension of A4, and it just worked. I didn’t expect that.”
Slidely retained Mai’s exact Arabic fonts, sizes, and layout—something she had not found in other presentation tools. The same fidelity applied to less common requirements such as custom page dimensions.
Sufficient throughput to support real production volume
Mai uploads 3i Holding Company’s client templates and creates decks every week for government and university projects. Some contain hundreds of slides. Slidely can handle that production volume without forcing her to rebuild the formatting from scratch for every engagement.
The impact
A full day of design work condensed into 30 minutes
“I can do five well-designed slides myself in about eight hours. Slidely creates the same five slides, edits included, in about half an hour, and even after my eight hours, it still wouldn’t look as polished as what Slidely produces.”
Mai previously spent around eight hours creating five well-designed slides that she felt confident sending to a client. With Slidely, she completes the same five slides—including edits—in approximately half an hour.
Institutional-grade decks without a design team
“Your tool is so unique, not comparable to anything else in the market. I’m really grateful, and I feel lucky that I came across it.”
Mai works without a dedicated in-house design team, but 3i Holding Company’s government and university clients still expect polished, on-brand materials. Slidely bridges that gap.
A warm advocate, already opening doors
Mai is ready to introduce Slidely to two consulting colleagues. Those referrals reflect her confidence in the product’s value and her willingness to advocate for it based on her own experience.
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