Quick Overview:
One-liner: Tome is an AI-generated presentation platform creating the new storytelling format for work and important ideas.
Founders: Keith Peiris (Product Lead at Instagram and EIR at Greylock), Henri Liriani (Head of Product at Facebook)
Latest Funding: $32.3M in funding from Greylock and Coatue, along with angel investors including the CEO and co-founders of Zoom, the CEO of Airtable, and the CPO of Adobe.
Stage: Publicly launched in March 2022
Website: https://tome.app/
Founded: 2020; Location: SF; # of employees: 39
Overview:
About Tome:
Tome, out of stealth in March 2022, is a presentation software that leverages AI to perfect the art of storytelling. Through Tome, you can embed anything into your presentation, ranging from Figma prototypes to 3D models that update automatically. Further, Tome utilizes OpenAI’s DALL-E into its interactive slides, enabling generative storytelling. In other words, a user can input a text prompt and Tome will auto-generate an entire presentation from scratch with titles, outlines, pagination, page layouts, and page content, all supported by GPT-3 and AI-generated images.
The value proposition behind Tome is quite compelling – instead of wasting time trying to perfect a design for a presentation, Tome enables you to focus on the story behind the presentation and automates the rest. Of course, a degree of user intervention is still required to create a presentation that completely matches a users’ needs, but Tome significantly reduces the time spent designing. Tome is also collaborative-first. Users can add team members and collaborate on presentations in real-time.
The biggest challenge for Tome will be simulating an experience that is similar to the ease-of-use and familiarity of both Google Slides and Powerpoint. While Tome’s AI integration is superior to anything available, fine-tuning the blend between AI-generated content and human intervention will continue to be something that all generative AI companies will need to perfect. Further, it will be interesting to see how Microsoft implements AI into powerpoint, and how dependent Tome’s future success is on their current integration with OpenAI’s DALL-E. Overall, Tome’s focus on storytelling makes presentation creation feel like art, and unlike legacy software, Tome is purpose-built for crafting a narrative and sharing a story through a presentation.