I am an MLE at a mid-stage company. I do feature work, model training, evaluation, the
standard. The part of the job that has historically been a mess is the quarterly research findings
presentation to the broader org.
The deck is supposed to be 15 slides. It is always 25. The audience is half engineers and half
product. I have to translate evaluation metrics into something a PM can act on without lying
about the model's actual behavior.
This used to take me a full Saturday and produce something I was 60% happy with.
This quarter I tried a different workflow:
I drafted the findings narrative in Notion first. Just bullets, no slides. What we tested, what
surprised us, what changed in the data, what the recommendation is. About 90 minutes of
focused writing.
Then I ran the bullets through Claude with a prompt that asked it to flag anywhere I was
overclaiming. It found two places. I rewrote them.
Then I dropped the cleaned bullets into Gamma and let the AI presentation tool generate a first
draft. About 12 minutes. It was 70% there. The auto-layouts handled most of the visual work
that used to eat my evening.
I rebuilt three slides from scratch in the Gamma editor (the ones with eval-curve charts, because
no AI tool understands what those should look like yet) and exported.
Total: about three hours. Down from a full Saturday.
The thing I want to flag is that the time saved went somewhere good. I had two extra hours to
actually rehearse the talk and think about the questions a hostile principal might ask. The
presentation went better than my last three. I think the rehearsal is what made it better, not the
slides themselves.
Posting because there are like four other women MLEs in this sub I see in the comments and I
am curious what your workflow looks like for this specific kind of presentation.