Mavericks Adds Consulting, BPO and SIer Sample Slides to NoLang Slide Generation

Mavericks, Inc., the Japanese company behind the AI video generation service NoLang, has added a new set of sample slides for consulting firms, BPO providers and systems integrators (SIer) to the Slide Generation feature of NoLang. Five templates cover the document work that comes up most often on these teams: client proposals, operation manuals for system rollouts, and redesigned training materials. Users upload an existing Word or PDF file as source material, and NoLang automatically produces well-organized slides or a video from it. That cuts the hours spent building proposal, manual and training documents, so consultants can put those hours back into client work and problem analysis.

Proposals, manuals and training decks: the document load on consulting teams

Consulting firms, BPO providers and systems integrators (SIer) all run on document work: client proposals, operational support materials, training content and manuals are produced every day. The market keeps growing, but three pressures now converge on these teams — the sheer frequency of client proposals, the cost of rebuilding manuals and training materials, and resource limits caused by a shortage of mid-level staff. Document capacity can no longer keep up.

The proposal and sales-material load is the most severe. A 2021 survey of 400 sales and sales-planning professionals in Japan found that “creating documents” was the single most time-consuming task at 30.5%, more than 10 points ahead of second-place “travel” at 19.3%.¹ More than half of the salespeople surveyed said they spend over 50% of their working hours on documents, which the report puts at 619 hours per person per year, or roughly 1.67 million yen in labor cost.¹ In the sales phase at consulting firms and systems integrators, the load is heavier still, because solution proposals, quotes, schedules and RFP responses are built from scratch for each engagement.

Consulting firms are also visibly short of mid-level and management staff. A recent industry survey reports that while new-graduate hiring has grown beyond plan, mid-level and management consultants have been leaving for startups and operating companies, producing a lopsided structure: too many junior consultants, and not enough mid-level people who can lead an engagement.² With a thin manager layer, more consultants now handle everything from client interviews to delivery on their own, which leaves too little time for proposal work and makes polished documents hard to prepare.

In the BPO and SIer sectors, manuals for system rollouts and training materials are a heavy burden of their own. A study commissioned by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry on encouraging SIer participation in manufacturing notes how demanding it is to understand an industry’s business processes and then prepare the documentation and operating procedures that go with them.³ One reported case put a single round of in-house SIer training at about 400 hours.⁴ BPO providers face the same pattern: manuals have to be written and kept current against each client’s own rules and approval flows, and making business processes visible and standardized remains an open challenge.⁵

Revised training programs and rising reskilling demand add another reason to rebuild training materials from the ground up. In a survey on reskilling, the most common obstacle was “securing learning time for employees” at 40%, followed by “insufficient budget” at 34% — a clear picture of how hard it is to prepare training content with limited resources.⁶ In call center and BPO training, dense text-based material has to be rebuilt as visual, easy-to-follow slides, and that redesign work falls on the same teams.

While this proposal, manual and training workload accumulates, the wider IT sector is short of the people who drive digital transformation. According to the IPA report “DX Trends 2024,” 62.1% of companies said they were “significantly short” of DX talent — the first time the figure has passed half since the survey began.⁷ As DX projects pile up for systems integrators and consulting firms, concentrating scarce people on core work matters more than ever, and making peripheral work such as document creation efficient has become a central operational question.

New sample slides for consulting, BPO and SIer firms

The Slide Generation feature in NoLang builds slides with diagrams, charts and headings from source material such as text or a PDF, and then exports the same slides as a narrated video. Everything from slide creation to video output happens in one service, replacing a workflow that used to require a separate document tool and video tool, each with its own learning curve.

Mavericks has now added sample slides for consulting firms, BPO providers and systems integrators to this feature. Selecting a sample slide as a template starts a new deck with a design and structure that already fit the intended use. To build an explanatory manual for a system rollout, for example, a user picks the matching sample slide and uploads the Word version of the manual; NoLang generates slides with the key points organized. No specialist design skill is required to produce quality slides or videos, which lightens the document load around proposals, manuals and training.

Four examples for the work that comes up most often

Here are four representative use cases from the new sample slides for consulting, BPO and SIer firms. Each one answers a document need that comes up frequently at these companies.

The first is the operation manual slide deck. This sample converts an existing 40- to 50-page Word or PDF manual into slides with the key points organized. It answers a familiar problem: every system rollout needs manual material for end users, and production never keeps up. Uploading the Word or PDF manual as source material is enough to produce slides ready for training or a walkthrough session. That reduces the documentation work in the startup phase of a rollout project and speeds up end-user training.

The second is the training slide redesign. This sample turns dense, text-heavy training material into visual, approachable slides. Uploading existing training text or a PDF as source material is enough to rebuild it as clear, visual slides for call center and BPO trainees. It improves comprehension and engagement while sharply cutting the redesign hours for the training team.

The third is the client proposal deck. This sample generates a proposal that covers problem definition, the solution, the schedule and the quote. When one consultant runs everything from interviews to delivery, there is rarely enough time to prepare a polished proposal; here, uploading interview notes or an analysis report in PDF form is enough to assemble a proposal for the engagement in a short time. Less time on proposal preparation means more time for the client conversations and problem analysis that consultants should be focused on.

The fourth is the RFP response deck. This sample generates a proposal for a bid or competitive pitch, structured along the requirement items written in the RFP. It answers the case where several RFPs land at once, proposal resources run out, and meeting the deadline without losing quality becomes difficult. Using the RFP document PDF and past proposals as source material, a proposal that covers every requirement can be produced quickly. Fewer bids are abandoned for lack of proposal capacity, which widens the opportunity to win work.

What comes next

The new sample slides for consulting, BPO and SIer firms were selected from interviews with consulting firms, BPO providers and systems integrators, and match the use cases those teams described. Mavericks will keep reflecting that feedback and expanding the range of sample slides.

NoLang will continue to strengthen features that reduce the burden of document and video production and make everyday work such as proposals, training and manual maintenance more efficient.