Ask for a deck, spreadsheet, document or PDF
The four downloadable formats your Talent can render, how your company branding gets applied, and what to do when a format is missing.
Your Talent can turn an artifact into a real Office file. Four formats ship today:
| You ask for | You get | Shows in the list as |
|---|---|---|
| a deck or slides | PPTX | Deck · PPTX |
| a spreadsheet or workbook | XLSX | Spreadsheet · XLSX |
| a Word document | DOCX | Doc · DOCX |
| a PDF |
There is a fifth kind that is not a file: a web app, a single self-contained page your Talent builds and runs inside a sealed preview. Use it for a dashboard or a one page site you want to look at rather than email.
Ask for a format
Name the format in the request. "Build me an eight slide deck on Q3 pipeline from the HubSpot data and render it as PPTX." You can also add a format to an artifact you already have.
- Open the artifact from the Artifacts page or from its chat card.
- Open the Download menu in the header.
- Choose a format under Render as....
- Watch the status above the preview. It reports queued, running, or failed with a Retry.
Render as... only appears for the owner, and only on the current saved version. That is the only version a render can run from. If you want an older version as a file, restore it first, then render.
Download it
The Download menu lists every completed format for the version you are looking at, primary format first, with Markdown source (.md) always last. A queued or failed render is never offered, and neither is a render that belongs to a different version, so what the menu says you can download is what you actually get.
The preview you see on screen is the file itself, not an approximation. A PDF renders as a PDF, a spreadsheet as a read only grid with real formula results, a deck as its slides in order.
Branding
If an admin has set a company brand, rendered files pick it up automatically: your colors, your heading and body fonts, your table and chart styling, and an approved logo. You do not choose a template.
Two honest limits worth knowing:
- Fonts come from a fixed list. Inter and Source Sans 3 ship today. A brand that names something else fails validation instead of quietly substituting a different face.
- The brand is frozen at the moment the render starts. If your admin changes the company default afterwards, files already rendered keep the look they were built with. Re render to pick up the new one.
A worked example
You have a campaign results artifact with the final numbers and commentary. Open it, render the current version as XLSX for the operations team and PPTX for the review meeting, then download both from the same version. Check the version number before sending so the spreadsheet and deck tell the same story.
What to check
- The format you want is not in the menu. It has not been rendered yet. Use Render as... to start it.
- The render fails repeatedly. File rendering runs on a background worker. If that worker is unhealthy, a format can be temporarily unavailable for everyone. Wait a few minutes and retry; if it keeps failing, contact support.
- A deck says its slides cannot be laid out. That version's source text is not deck source. The PPTX download still works; the on screen slide view does not.
- Preview says the file cannot be verified. The stored file no longer matches what the run committed. Nothing was deleted and nothing was unshared. Re render the version to get a clean file.
- Double clicking a format did nothing extra. Two clicks collapse into one queued job on purpose. You are not being charged twice.
Turn a chat answer into a real file
Ask your Talent to save its work as an artifact, then open the finished document, deck, spreadsheet or PDF from chat or the Artifacts page.
Find an artifact and go back a version
Search the Artifacts page, open an exact version, restore an earlier one, and understand the difference between archiving and deleting.