Napkin.ai Inc., a firm focused on visual artificial intelligence, announced the release of a new tool that turns text-based materials like newsletters, pitch decks, and business plans into images that more effectively convey the intricate concepts they include.
The startup stated that it is working to improve people’s ability to communicate and articulate their thoughts more clearly, emphasizing the importance of doing so in the era of “peak information overload.” To achieve this, it is allegedly developing a novel form of artificial intelligence called “visual generative AI,” which empowers people to communicate more effectively using images.
Its technology tries to make graphic creation more approachable, so users don’t have to spend hours crafting the perfect images to go along with the documents that describe their ideas.
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To get started, users copy and paste their current document into the text box on Napkin.ai. Then, they click the spark button on any text, and the selected text is transformed into a list of suggested graphics. For example, the user can upload a business plan that lists the different revenue streams for their proposed company, and it will convert this into an eye-catching graphic that summarizes the company’s revenue streams.
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According to Pramod Sharma, co-founder of Napkin.ai, Apple Inc. made it easy for anyone to shoot stunning pictures with the iPhone, and his business wants to do the same for graphics. “We designed Napkin so that anyone can easily communicate their ideas through beautiful imagery because we believe that visuals are powerful,” he stated.
After choosing a suggested graphic from among the many options Napkin.ai generates, the user can modify features like the font, colors, shapes, design, and more to make the images more consistent with their branding and style guidelines.
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Additionally, Napkin.ai interfaces with some widely used enterprise content platforms, including X, LinkedIn, Instagram, Slack, Notion, Microsoft Word and PowerPoint, Substack, Medium, and Slack.
According to the company, the application may be used for almost any type of situation where a person who works with documents has to generate a graphic, such as blog posts, pitch decks, presentations, social media material, newsletters, data, and research reports, customer communications, and more.
More than 30 different graphic types are already available, according to Napkin.ai, including mind maps, flow charts, Venn diagrams, bar charts, pie charts, and more. The team intends to regularly upgrade the platform in the future to provide more potent customizations and image formats.
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As someone without natural design talents, Jason Miller, the chief operating officer of the autonomous AI agent startup SproutsAI Inc., said he has grown to admire Napkin.ai’s incredibly simple and practical features.
“Napkin creates precisely what I need in seconds, whether I need a quick diagram for a blog post or a chart for a presentation,” the man stated. “Without Napkin, we would have had limited access to certain types of graphics, but now we have a designer at our disposal who can help us tell our business story even more effectively through images.”
