Professionals spend an average of 100 hours a year working with PowerPoint. For teams in life sciences and technology—where data is dense, terminology is specialized, and reporting needs to be precise—those hours often reflect a deeper issue: communication workflows that haven’t kept pace with the complexity of the work itself. Rajat Mishra, CEO and Co-Founder of Prezent, saw that pattern across his time at McKinsey and Cisco, where talented teams struggled to translate analysis into clear, audience-ready narratives at scale.
That insight shaped Prezent. At its core is Astrid, a multi-agent presentation AI built on industry-based Specialized Presentation Models that encode the terminology, structures, and visual conventions of life sciences and technology teams. Astrid reviews files and prompts, assembles storylines, tailors content to the intended audience, and generates fully brand-aligned decks through dedicated agents for narrative, layout, and compliance. A structured workspace supports teams who prefer more control, while presentation engineers with scientific and technical expertise handle complex material and continually refine Astrid’s models.
Mishra sees this forming a new category: business communication AI, built for operational outcomes such as faster clinical reporting, clearer internal alignment, and more coherent customer conversations. In the episode, he breaks down how that category is taking shape and what will determine its scale.