All Hands On Deck(s).

Go from Brain-Storm to Show-Stopper in moments with Composer for Keynote: an Automation Engine designed to take the grunt-work out of pitch-work.

Composer is currently in Limited Beta

During the initial Limited Beta, we're staggering access by Theme as each system moves from Composer-Compatible to full Composer-Enhanced status. If you'd like to get in early, Join the Waitlist and we'll do our best to accomodate – you'll otherwise receive a Notification once one of the themes in Your Library is updated for full Targeting support.

First Things First

Because it has to be said these days: Composer isn't generative AI.

Composer is an Automation Engine that takes Plain Text descriptions of Objects, Slides, or entire Presentations & generates AppleScript routines to automate their production in Keynote for MacOS. It's predictable, repeatable, and fully transparent.

01

Focus on Your Story

Write your shows using Plain Text – as native Markdown in apps like Obsidian or Ulysses, or visually through Composer's Scaffold Editor.

## My Slide Title

- A List: item 1.
- The second item. 

---
02

Compose a Build Script

Pass your show to Composer to get down to work: Composer uses Latent Intent to map your script to the appropriate standard layouts, and writes the routines required to build the show in Keynote.

image of the Compose from Markdown button
03

Examine & Build

Composer generates open, native AppleScript files for MacOS Script Editor: so you can examine every command or make your own edits before runtime.

preview of AppleScript in Script Editor
 

Build Anywhere

Composer is designed from the ground up to be Theme Agnostic.

Composer is right at home in any theme following standard Keynote naming conventions, with full support for Apple's built-in themes in all standard Language Localizations included in Keynote 14. If the Standard routes don't cover it, you can target specific Layouts by Name in any Target Theme using Named Route tags.

Global Standard Routes

Composer is designed around the native Keynote topology. Simply describe the contents of your slide: basic combinations of Titles, Body matter, or Photographs will auto-map to one of Keynote's Standard Layouts without any additional instructions, in any lanuage Keynote supports.

A Title + a Bullet List will produce a Title & Bullets slide (or its localised equivalent). Add a Photo to route to Title, Bullets & Photo instead. Or just a simple sentence to make a bold Statement.

Was that List actually today's Agenda? No problem: add a Target Layout tag and Composer will change course to wherever you point.

Composer Engine Global Standard Routes
 

Engineered for Pros

In a Composer-Enhanced Theme, Composer becomes a finely tuned machine.

In Composer-Enhanced themes like Chicago, you can get even more detailed – with precise Object-Level and Sub-Element Targeting allowing you to define even the most complex layouts.

Target by Object

In a Composer-Enhanced theme, you can target scripted changes to any individual placeholder on the layout.

Composer Engine Global Standard Routes
Composer Engine Global Standard Routes

Target by Sub-Element

And on Layouts that include complex, multi-element placeholder text, you can target by Sub-Element Text to dial in with precision.