Tome shut down its presentation tool. Here's an honest guide to what's next (2026)

What happened, in one paragraph: In March 2025, Tome — one of the earliest AI presentation startups — announced it was sunsetting its slides product; by April 30, 2025 it was gone, and the company pivoted to AI sales software (now Lightfield). Decks that weren't exported were lost. If you're here, you're probably picking a replacement. The honest answer is that "replacing Tome" is two different shopping trips, depending on which half of the job you cared about.

Trip #1: you need the deck built (what Tome actually did)

Tome generated presentations from prompts. That job now belongs to:

• Gamma — the closest heir. Prompt-to-deck, strong design, free tier to start. (Our detailed take: Presango vs Gamma.)
• Canva Magic Design — best if you already live in Canva and want the full design suite around the deck.
• Beautiful.ai — best if your problem is layout discipline more than content generation.

We genuinely recommend all three for deck creation — Presango doesn't build decks, and we're not going to pretend otherwise.

Trip #2: you need the deck delivered (what no deck tool ever did — including Tome)

Here's the part of the workflow Tome never touched: the meeting. Every deck tool, Tome included, hands you a finished deck and leaves you to present it yourself, again and again.

Presango is an AI presenter. You drop in your existing deck (built anywhere), and Hannah presents it live inside Zoom, Microsoft Teams, or Google Meet — she joins the call, delivers the material, and takes audience questions — asked out loud in the meeting or typed in the meeting chat — and answers them from the material mid-flow. You can take over at any point, and every session gets a shareable replay page.

If Tome's promise for you was "AI does the presentation work so I don't have to," this is the missing half of that promise.

The takeaway from Tome's pivot (worth 30 seconds)

Tome's founders said publicly they couldn't find a sustainable path in AI slide generation — the category got crowded fast. Deck-building became a feature; every tool above does it well and cheaply. The unsolved, uncrowded problem is delivery: humans still spend hours every week presenting material an AI could deliver. That's the bet Presango is making — a new category ("AI presenter"), not another entrant in the one Tome left.

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FAQ

Is Tome coming back?

No indication of it. The company now builds Lightfield, an AI-native CRM. Unrelated products currently use the "Tome" name.

Can I import my old Tome decks into Presango?

Presango presents decks in standard formats — if you exported your Tome decks as PowerPoint (.pptx) or PDF before the shutdown, they can be presented as-is. If you didn't export before April 30, 2025, Tome's servers no longer have them — no tool can recover those.

Is there a free way to try the "AI presents it" workflow?

Yes — Presango's free tier includes 30 speaking-minutes of live AI presenting each month (with a "Presented by Presango" badge), no card required → start free.