About Flato

Core Definition

Technically, Flato is a Native Canvas Runtime for AI Design.

Product-wise, Flato is an AI Presentation Canvas for creating and refining structured presentation projects with AI agents and human editors.

A Flato project can contain pages, blocks, text, images, video, shapes, layouts, styles, themes, animation definitions, interaction behaviors, and project-level state. This structure lets AI agents inspect an existing design, make targeted edits, and continue work without flattening the result into a disconnected file.

Flato is presentation-centered, but not presentation-only. Presentations are the primary scenario because they combine narrative, layout, text, visual hierarchy, brand consistency, business context, and repeated iteration.

Product Philosophy

Product Forms

Flato has three connected product experiences:

• Flato MCP connects external agent clients such as Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, and other MCP-capable hosts to the Flato canvas runtime.
• Flato Copilot is the built-in AI assistant inside the Flato editor.
• Flato Editor is the browser-based workspace where human editors review, edit, animate, present, export, and share the same project.

Together, these experiences make Flato a persistent presentation canvas rather than a one-shot deck generator.

How Flato Works

In a typical Flato workflow:

• A user or AI agent starts from a brief, an existing project, an editor URL, or a share link.
• Flato creates or opens a persistent editable canvas project.
• The AI agent reads the current canvas state and project structure.
• The agent creates or edits specific pages and blocks instead of regenerating the whole design blindly.
• Human editors review, adjust, rewrite, restyle, animate, present, export, and share from the same project.
• The project can continue across multiple rounds of AI and human editing.

What Flato Can Create

Flato supports presentation-centered visual work that needs to stay editable after generation.

Flato can be used for:

• Investor pitch decks.
• Sales decks.
• Business proposals.
• Consulting and strategy presentations.
• Company profiles and corporate overview decks.
• Product presentations and launch decks.
• Education and training decks.
• Workshop, webinar, and conference presentations.
• Interactive slides and visual storytelling.
• Video slides and online presentation experiences.
• Code-based animation slides.
• Brand, marketing, and campaign presentation systems.

Flato can also extend into related business visual formats such as social visuals, posters, infographics, brand assets, motion graphics, and video-oriented content, but the primary wedge is high-quality editable presentations.

Who Flato Is For

Flato is for people and teams who need presentation work to be polished, editable, and commercially useful.

It is especially useful for:

• Founders and operators preparing investor, sales, and proposal decks.
• Marketing, advertising, and PR teams producing campaign narratives and client-ready presentations.
• Designers creating proposal decks, visual systems, and presentation concepts for stakeholders.
• Consultants and agencies turning research, strategy, and recommendations into polished client deliverables.
• Educators and training teams building lessons, onboarding decks, courseware, and interactive teaching materials.
• Product and growth teams preparing launches, demos, explainers, and internal alignment decks.

Agent Capabilities

Through Flato MCP, an AI agent can:

• Create a new editable Flato project.
• Take over an existing editor URL.
• Work from a supported share link.
• Inspect the current canvas context.
• Edit pages, blocks, text, media, layout, and styles.
• Add or adjust charts, animations, and interactions where appropriate.
• Prepare or export deliverables from the same canvas.
• Continue improving the same project over multiple turns.

Human Editing Capabilities

In the browser editor, human users can:

• Review AI-generated work.
• Edit text and layout manually.
• Move, resize, crop, and arrange content.
• Insert text, images, video, and other visual elements.
• Adjust canvas and style settings.
• Export and share the project.
• Continue collaborating with AI on the same canvas.

Built-In Creative and Rendering Infrastructure

Flato includes creative resources and rendering capabilities directly inside the runtime:

• Fonts and multilingual typography resources, including curated CJK support.
• Stock image search across providers such as Unsplash, Pexels, and Google.
• Image generation and editing through supported models such as GPT-Image-2, Gemini, Seedream, and Ideogram.
• Editable charts and data visualizations.
• Animation powered by GSAP.
• Interactive behaviors for slides and visual experiences.
• PNG image export.
• PDF export.
• MP4/MPEG-4 video export.
• Image-based PPTX export.
• Online shareable presentation outputs.

Current PPTX export is image-based rather than fully editable PowerPoint content.

Boundaries

Flato is not a one-shot image generator.

Flato is not a presentation-only tool, but presentations are its primary current workflow.

Flato is not a backend development environment.

Flato is not a webpage builder, app UI builder, or production website design system.

Flato does not replace professional video editing timelines or high-end VFX tools.

Flato does not currently output fully editable native PowerPoint files. It can export image-based PPTX where supported.

Flato should be understood as a native-canvas design runtime focused first on high-quality editable presentations for AI agents and human editors.