GenPPT
GenPPT is an AI presentation generator, a program that writes and designs slides from a short request. The user gives a topic, notes, a PDF, a Word file, a spreadsheet, a YouTube link or a web page. GenPPT drafts a slide-by-slide outline, the user approves it and a visual concept, and then AI models generate every slide as one designed image that the user can change by chat and export to PowerPoint (.pptx), PDF or PNG. The models are bought through OpenRouter, a service that sells access to many AI models through one programming interface, and from Google Gemini. There is no free plan. A paid trial, a short first period that the customer pays a small amount for, costs US$1 for three days with a card and then becomes US$25 a month or US$99 a year unless the user cancels.
The site was online by 25 May 2024, the date of its first copy in the Wayback Machine, a public archive of web pages. Ilias Ism, who also runs the link-building software LinkDR, the tracker AI SEO Tracker and MagicSpace, an SEO agency (search engine optimization: the work of making pages rank high in Google), wrote on 1 August 2026 that he bought GenPPT a year earlier and rewrote the whole app. TrustMRR, a site that reads revenue directly from a company's payment accounts, shows US$110,559 of revenue in the 12 months to 15 October 2026 and US$7,997 of MRR, monthly recurring revenue, the subscription money that repeats every month, from 543 active subscriptions. The best month was January 2026, at US$20,330. By his account, a listicle, an article written as a ranked list, on another company's blog ranked on Google at that time and sent about 18,000 visitors. Since September 2026 he calls GenPPT 'entirely touchless': a daily routine with the coding agent Codex reviews user chats and slides and deploys fixes.
The revenue figures are grade A: TrustMRR reads them from GenPPT's Stripe and Lemon Squeezy accounts with an API key, a password that lets one program read another program's data. Everything else on this page, including the purchase, the costs and the traffic sources, is the owner's own statement, grade C. Revenue was about US$9,500 a month from February to July 2026 and about US$7,100 in August and September, 26% lower. He paused Google Ads on 16 September 2026 after paying US$4 to US$7 a click, and on 30 September wrote 'Just SEO from now on'. The business has been listed for sale on TrustMRR since 19 February 2026, at US$125,000 in October 2026, and the seller's note gives no reason.
The numbers, graded
Each row shows the evidence grade and the source numbers from the list at the end of this page. The grades are explained in How Aiolum verifies.
| Fact | Value | Grade | How we know | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue in the 12 months to 15 October 2026 | US$110,559 | A | TrustMRR, read from the Stripe and Lemon Squeezy accounts by API key, last synced 15 October 2026. | [1] |
| Monthly recurring revenue, October 2026 | US$7,997 from 543 active subscriptions | A | TrustMRR snapshot. MRR fell 8.6% over the last 30 days. | [1] |
| MRR per active subscription | about US$14.73 a month | calc | Calculated: US$7,997 divided by 543. It lies between the yearly plan (US$8.25 a month) and the monthly plan (US$25). | [1, 10] |
| MRR times 12 | US$95,964 a year | calc | Calculated from the October 2026 MRR. | [1] |
| Revenue per month, February to July 2026 | US$9,165 to US$9,754, average US$9,540 | A | TrustMRR monthly timeline. The average is calculated on this page. | [1] |
| Revenue in August and September 2026 | US$6,976 and US$7,215 | A | TrustMRR monthly timeline. Their average, US$7,096, is 25.6% below the February to July average (calculated). October 2026 up to the 15th: US$2,883. | [1] |
| Best month | January 2026, US$20,330 | A | TrustMRR monthly timeline. 2.13 times the February to July average (calculated). The owner wrote that his best revenue month came mostly from one listicle on another company's blog (see below). | [1, 9] |
| Revenue since the first recorded sale | US$175,247 | A | TrustMRR all-time figure. US$64,688 of it came before mid-October 2025 (calculated: all time minus the last 12 months). That earlier period includes months before the current owner bought GenPPT, and no source splits it between the owners. | [1] |
| Visitors sent by one StoryChief listicle | about 18,000, converting at 11.9% | C | Owner's blog, updated 10 June 2026. The listicle 'Best AI Presentation Makers' was published in December and ranked on Google through January and February. His own Google visitors converted at 4.7% and direct visitors at 1.9%. When the listicle left the first page of Google, referrals fell 95%. He had rewritten that article himself earlier. | [9] |
| Visitors in the last 30 days | 17,089, with US$0.41 of revenue per visitor | A | TrustMRR snapshot from DataFast analytics, connected by API key. | [1] |
| Google Ads spend | US$8,900 in June 2026, US$3,100 in July and in August, paused on 16 September 2026 | C | Owner's monthly spending posts. The June ads equal 94% of June revenue, US$9,498 (calculated). He wrote that he paid US$4 to US$7 a click against Gamma, Beautiful.ai and ChatGPT. | [6, 5, 4, 7] |
| GenPPT costs in July and in September 2026 | US$4,900 in each month | C | Owner's posts. July: Google Ads US$3,100, AI APIs and tokens US$1,400, software and hosting US$400. September: no ads, videos by paid creators US$2,500, AI APIs and tokens US$1,500 through OpenRouter, software and hosting US$900. The costs equal 51% of July revenue and 68% of September revenue (calculated). | [5, 3] |
| GenPPT costs in August 2026 | US$28,900, of which US$20,000 for a 'new acquisition (30DR+)' | C | Owner's post. DR is Domain Rating, the 0 to 100 score that the SEO tool Ahrefs gives a site for the strength of the links pointing to it. The post does not say what was bought. AI APIs and tokens were US$5,300 that month. | [4] |
| Profit margin, last 30 days | 80% | C | TrustMRR snapshot; the profile does not say where the cost figures come from. The owner's own September costs, US$4,900 against US$7,215 of revenue, give about 32% (calculated). | [1, 3] |
| Return on the purchase | '3x ROI from the acquisition so far' | C | Owner, 30 September 2026. ROI is return on investment. He has not published the purchase price, so the figure cannot be checked. | [3] |
| Users | 100,000 | C | Owner's post of 2 June 2026; the site says 'Trusted by 100,000+ professionals'. A user is not a payer: TrustMRR shows 543 active subscriptions. | [8, 11, 1] |
| Revenue of the owner's other products, in a blog post updated 10 June 2026 | LinkDR 'low five figures' a month, AI SEO Tracker about US$200 a month | C | Owner's blog, which gives GenPPT as about US$10,000 a month at the same time. Low five figures means at least US$10,000. Eleven of the twelve months in the GenPPT profile are below US$10,000, so LinkDR's sales are not inside it. | [9, 1] |
| Payment accounts behind the revenue | Stripe and Lemon Squeezy, both GenPPT's | B | TrustMRR reads both by API key. The archived home page of 10 September 2025 loads Lemon Squeezy's scripts with the store name 'genppt'. The terms of 2 October 2026 say subscriptions are processed by Stripe. On 31 July 2026 the owner linked the TrustMRR profile as 'GenPPT revenue'. | [1, 16, 13, 5] |
| Operating company | Superleuk, LLC d/b/a GenPPT | C | About page and terms. d/b/a means 'doing business as'. The terms choose the laws of Switzerland; TrustMRR lists the country as US. | [12, 13, 1] |
| People | the owner alone; one developer hired during his first year | C | Owner's posts of 1 August and 30 September 2026. No investor appears in any source. | [2, 3] |
| Asking price | US$125,000, listed since 19 February 2026, 12 offers received | C | TrustMRR listing, written by the seller. US$125,000 is 1.13 times the last 12 months of revenue and 1.49 times 12 months of the last-30-day revenue (calculated); TrustMRR shows 1.5x. | [1] |
| Time from the first archived page to the October 2026 figure | 29 months | calc | Calculated: May 2024 to October 2026. About 14 months under the current owner, counting from August 2025 (calculated). | [15, 2, 1] |
How to read this table: a grade A value comes from GenPPT's Stripe and Lemon Squeezy accounts, or from its DataFast analytics, which TrustMRR reads by API key. A grade B value is supported by archived page source. A grade C value is a statement by the owner on X, on his blog or on GenPPT's pages, or a value that the seller typed into TrustMRR. A grade X value was computed on this page from the values its note names.
| Plan | Per month, billed yearly (US$) | Per month, billed monthly (US$) | Limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trial, 3 days | 1 one-time | card required; the chosen plan starts after 3 days unless cancelled | |
| Paid plan | 8.25 | 25 | 20 full-slide image decks a month; unlimited slide edits in chat; export to PowerPoint and PDF without watermark |
There is one paid plan and no free plan. A new user pays US$1 for a 3-day trial with a card; if the user does not cancel, the plan price is charged. The page shows the yearly price as US$8 a month; US$99 divided by 12 is US$8.25. The page says the yearly plan saves US$201, or 67%, against 12 monthly payments.
The timeline
From a template tool archived in May 2024 to a product that one owner bought, rebuilt and listed for sale. Each entry carries its grade.
- 25 May 2024CFirst copy of genppt.com in the Wayback Machine. TrustMRR gives 1 June 2024 as the founding date. [15, 1]
- 3 July 2024CThe home page offers PowerPoint generation from themed templates, an upgrade called GenPPT+ with unlimited PowerPoints and a 500-character input, and says '506 creators present faster'. [15]
- About August 2025CIlias Ism buys GenPPT; on 1 August 2026 he dated the purchase 'a year ago'. In the following year he hires a developer and rewrites the app three times while fighting churn, the loss of paying users. [2]
- 10 September 2025BThe archived home page loads Lemon Squeezy's scripts, including its affiliate script, for the store 'genppt', and offers a 3-day trial. [16]
- November 2025 to July 2026AVerified revenue of US$7,019 to US$9,754 in every month except January 2026. [1]
- December 2025 to February 2026CA StoryChief listicle, 'Best AI Presentation Makers', ranks on Google and sends about 18,000 visitors. January 2026 is the best verified month, at US$20,330. [9, 1]
- 19 February 2026CListed for sale on TrustMRR. [1]
- 2 June 2026CHe posts 'GenPPT → 100k users'. [8]
- By 10 June 2026CIn a blog post updated on 10 June he writes that GenPPT revenue was down 16% and traces most of the fall to the listicle leaving the first page of Google. [9]
- June 2026CUS$8,900 spent on Google Ads for GenPPT, against US$9,498 of verified revenue. [6, 1]
- 1 August 2026CAfter watching 'a painful user session' he deletes the rewritten app again and writes that he will rebuild it until it is the best product on the market. [2]
- 4 August 2026CNew website and a slide engine rebuilt from scratch: full-slide visual designs, LinkedIn and Instagram carousels, pitch-deck templates, automatic web research with screenshots. [8]
- August 2026CGenPPT costs US$28,900, including US$20,000 for a 'new acquisition (30DR+)' that the post does not describe. Verified revenue falls to US$6,976. [4, 1]
- 16 September 2026CAll Google Ads paused. He writes that any keyword with 'AI' in it has become too expensive. [7]
- 30 September 2026CHe writes that GenPPT is 'entirely touchless', with a daily Codex routine that reviews chats and slides and deploys fixes; '3x ROI from the acquisition so far, but still hard to grow MRR'; marketing is SEO only from now on. [3]
- 15 October 2026ATrustMRR: US$110,559 in 12 months, MRR US$7,997, 543 active subscriptions, asking price US$125,000. [1]
Why it worked
Four causes, in the order they mattered. Each one is a reusable lesson.
Search, including pages that others own
The owner is a search marketer, and the site is built for Google: comparison pages such as 'Gamma alternative' and 'Tome alternative', free generator pages, and a blog. TrustMRR lists blog, content marketing, SEO and Google Ads as its channels and gives the domain a Domain Rating of 50. Its best month came from a listicle on another company's blog that ranked on Google; those visitors converted at 11.9%, against 4.7% for GenPPT's own Google visitors.
A US$1 trial with a card
There is no free plan. A visitor pays US$1 for three days, and the plan starts unless the visitor cancels. The terms explain why refunds are rare: AI generation uses compute as soon as it runs, so payments are generally not refunded once paid features have been used.
Buy a product, then rebuild it
He did not start GenPPT; he bought it, with users and revenue, in about August 2025. The first year went into fighting churn with a hired developer and three rewrites, and August 2026 into a new slide engine that generates each slide as one designed image.
AI keeps it running
By September 2026 he describes GenPPT as 'entirely touchless': a daily routine with the Codex coding agent reviews user chats and generated slides, fixes problems and deploys the fixes. AI APIs and tokens cost US$1,400 to US$5,300 a month between July and September 2026.
How it was built
These details come from the owner's posts and GenPPT's own pages. They are grade C, except the payment providers, which TrustMRR confirms. [1, 14, 8, 11, 12, 3, 5, 4, 13, 16]
- A Next.js web app. The seller's note on TrustMRR says 'Good high-quality nextjs code'.
- AI text, research and image generation through OpenRouter and Google Gemini, by the privacy policy of 26 September 2026. On 9 September 2026 he tested two new OpenAI image models against gpt-image-2 on 11 slide cases inside GenPPT; no source says which model runs for customers.
- The user approves an outline and a visual concept first. Then each slide is generated as a full image, edited by chat, and exported to .pptx, PDF or PNG in 16:9, 1:1 or 9:16.
- Hetzner servers and database in Finland, Cloudflare for delivery and R2 file storage, Resend for email, PostHog for product analytics and Sentry for errors, by the privacy policy. Vercel and Supabase were in his July and August cost lists; on 30 September 2026 he wrote that he cut them.
- In August 2026 he deleted 88,000 lines of custom chat-workflow code and replaced it with tools from Vercel and a second vendor that the post names only by its X account.
- Payments went through Lemon Squeezy in 2025 and through Stripe in the terms of October 2026; TrustMRR reads both accounts.
- Code is written with Cursor, which is in his GenPPT cost lists for July and August 2026, and since September 2026 a daily Codex routine checks the product and deploys fixes.
Tools named in the sources
Each one opens its page in the Tools tab, with every story that uses it.
The dead that came before
Three companies in the Loot Drop database offered a better way to make presentations or to find things, and ended when a larger company offered the same thing itself. The values below are from that database and are not independently verified.
LiveLoop
The promisePowerPoint with real-time collaboration on one shared deck.
Why it diedMicrosoft bought it in 2015 and built the same features into Office.
Qwiki
The promiseSearch results turned into automatically generated multimedia stories.
Why it diedHigh costs, user resistance and a sale to Yahoo; it lost out to Google and the large mobile video services.
Hipmunk
The promiseTravel search that sorted flights by inconvenience instead of price alone.
Why it diedGoogle's own travel search took its users, and COVID-19 hit the travel industry.
What changed
Each of the three offered a better way to make or find something, and a larger company then offered the same thing itself: Microsoft built LiveLoop's features into Office, and Google's own travel search took Hipmunk's users. GenPPT faces both moves at once. Copilot in PowerPoint, the Gemini app with export to Google Slides, and Canva's Magic Design all make designs or slides from a prompt, and GenPPT finds its buyers through Google search, the channel that Hipmunk lost.
Two things differ. The AI models are sold to anyone through an API, so one person can produce a deck of the same kind as the large companies without building a model, and pays only for each use. And GenPPT does not need the whole market: 543 subscriptions at about US$15 a month on average make about US$8,000 of MRR. The risk that remains is that a funded company competes for the same searches: Gamma, with US$100 million of annual recurring revenue by its chief executive's account, bids on the same Google keywords.
Can one person copy it now?
Partly: the purchase can be copied, the growth is not shown.
Buying a small AI product that already has paying users, then running it alone with AI coding tools, is a method that anyone with some capital can repeat. What brought the revenue here was search traffic, and this owner also runs a link-building business and an SEO agency. The record shows the limits as well: six months near US$9,500 a month, then about US$7,100 after the best referral page left Google and the paid ads stopped.
Where it is still open: Narrow AI tools that produce a finished file, such as a deck, a carousel or a report, for buyers who search for that file by name.
- 1Buy a product whose revenue a payment provider confirms, and find out where its buyers come from before you change it.
- 2Track the pages on other sites that send you buyers, such as listicles and comparisons, not only your own rankings.
- 3When every use costs you model fees, charge a small paid trial with a card instead of offering a free plan.
- 4Compare ad spend with revenue every month; in June 2026 the ads here cost 94% of revenue.
- 5Give routine maintenance to a daily AI coding routine so that the product does not need staff.
What to watch
The risks are the mirror image of the causes above.
Revenue is falling
Verified revenue fell from about US$9,500 a month (February to July 2026) to about US$7,100 (August and September), 26% lower, and MRR fell 8.6% in the last 30 days. On 30 September 2026 the owner wrote that MRR is still hard to grow despite marketing experiments.
For sale, with no reason given
GenPPT has been listed on TrustMRR since 19 February 2026, at US$125,000 in October 2026, about 1.1 times its last 12 months of revenue, with 12 offers received. The seller's note says only 'Good high-quality nextjs code'. The listing does not say whether the daily Codex routine and the owner's search work continue after a sale.
Microsoft, Google and Canva offer the same feature
Microsoft announced on 16 March 2023 that Copilot in PowerPoint creates presentations from a simple prompt. Google added slide generation to the Gemini app on 28 October 2025, with export to Google Slides. Canva's Magic Design, announced on 4 October 2023, makes designs from a written prompt. These features come inside office and design tools that people already have.
Gamma has money for the same keywords
TechCrunch reported on 10 November 2025 that Gamma raised a US$68 million Series B at a US$2.1 billion valuation, led by Andreessen Horowitz; its chief executive said it had US$100 million of annual recurring revenue and 70 million users with about 50 employees. The owner paused Google Ads in September 2026 after paying US$4 to US$7 a click against Gamma, Beautiful.ai and ChatGPT, and on 14 October 2026 he estimated with Ahrefs that Gamma gets 3.7 million organic visits a month.
Search traffic on pages it does not own
The best month came mostly from one listicle on StoryChief's blog. When it fell off the first page of Google, referrals fell 95%, and the owner wrote that none of his own tracking tools had seen it. In the same post he found a Google AI Overview, the AI answer above Google results, citing his competitors. Rankings and AI answers can change without notice.
The models belong to others
Every deck is made with models bought through OpenRouter and Google Gemini, at US$1,400 to US$5,300 a month for AI APIs between July and September 2026. A provider's price change goes straight into GenPPT's costs, and the same models are open to every competitor.
The same field as MagicSlides
MagicSlides, another AI presentation maker on this site, shows US$181,975 in the 12 months to 12 October 2026 on TrustMRR, 1.65 times GenPPT's US$110,559.
The founding story is unclear
GenPPT's About page says 'Founded by Ilias Ism', but he wrote on 1 August 2026 that he bought it a year earlier, and the site was online from May 2024. No source names the first owner or the purchase price, so the US$64,688 earned before mid-October 2025 cannot be split between the two owners.
The profit figures disagree
TrustMRR shows an 80% profit margin for the last 30 days but does not say where the costs come from. The owner's own September 2026 costs give about 32%.
Sources
The grade next to each source is the best grade that the source can support. "Read in full" means that the text of the page was downloaded and the numbers were checked in it.
- A TrustMRR profile of GenPPT, revenue read from Stripe and Lemon Squeezy by API keyRead the markdown profile on 15 October 2026 (revenue last synced 15 October 2026 at 09:30 UTC). Revenue, MRR, subscriptions and the monthly timeline come from the Stripe and Lemon Squeezy accounts; visitors come from DataFast. The founding date, tech stack, channels, user estimate and sale listing are written by the seller and are grade C. The profile does not say where the profit-margin costs come from.
- C Ilias Ism on X, 1 August 2026: I bought GenPPT a year ago and rewrote the whole appRead in full through the fxtwitter API. Source for the purchase about a year earlier, the hired developer and the three rewrites.
- C Ilias Ism on X, 30 September 2026: I spent US$27,581 in September 2026Read in full through the fxtwitter API. Source for the September costs, the end of Google Ads, Vercel and Supabase, the daily Codex routine and the '3x ROI' statement.
- C Ilias Ism on X, 31 August 2026: I spent US$72,480 in August 2026Read in full through the fxtwitter API. Source for the August costs, including US$20,000 for an acquisition.
- C Ilias Ism on X, 31 July 2026: I spent US$51,123 in July 2026Read in full through the fxtwitter API, with his reply of the same day that links the TrustMRR profile as 'GenPPT revenue'. Source for the July costs.
- C Ilias Ism on X, 30 June 2026: I spent about US$55,081 in June 2026Read in full through the fxtwitter API. Source for the June Google Ads spend.
- C Ilias Ism on X, 16 September 2026: Just paused all Google Ads on GenPPTRead in full through the fxtwitter API. Source for the pause and the cost per click.
- C Ilias Ism's posts on X, 22 May to 15 October 2026Read all 343 posts that the fxtwitter timeline API returned; earlier posts were not available. Source for the 100,000 users post (2 June), the rebuild (4 August), the chat-code replacement (17 August), the image-model test (9 September) and the Gamma traffic estimate (14 October).
- C Ilias Ism's blog: Outputmaxxing, your AI tool should ship outputs, not reports (updated 10 June 2026)Read in full. Source for the StoryChief listicle, the conversion rates, the 16% fall and the revenue of his other products.
- C GenPPT pricing pageRead in full on 15 October 2026.
- C GenPPT home pageRead in full on 15 October 2026. Source for the inputs, the exports, the comparison pages and the user claim.
- C GenPPT About pageRead in full. Names the company, Superleuk, LLC d/b/a GenPPT, and says 'Founded by Ilias Ism'.
- C GenPPT Terms of Service, updated 2 October 2026Read the sections on payments, refunds and governing law.
- C GenPPT Privacy Policy, updated 26 September 2026Read the sections on analytics and service providers. Source for the AI, hosting, email and analytics providers.
- C Wayback Machine copy of genppt.com, 3 July 2024, and the list of captures for 2024 and 2025Read this copy in full and the capture list, whose first capture is 25 May 2024.
- B Wayback Machine copy of genppt.com, 10 September 2025Read in full, including the page source, which loads Lemon Squeezy's scripts for the store 'genppt'.
- C TechCrunch, 10 November 2025: AI PowerPoint-killer Gamma hits $2.1B valuation, $100M ARR, founder saysRead in full. A journalist's report of the funding round; the revenue, user and employee numbers are the chief executive's statements.
- C Google Workspace Updates, 28 October 2025: Generate presentations in the Gemini appRead in full. Google's own announcement.
- C Microsoft, 16 March 2023: Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot, your copilot for workRead the section on the Microsoft 365 apps. Microsoft's own announcement.
- C Canva Newsroom, 4 October 2023: Magic StudioRead the section on Magic Design. Canva's own announcement, dated 4 October 2023 in the page data.
- A TrustMRR profile of MagicSlides.appRead the copy cached in this pipeline (revenue last synced 12 October 2026); not fetched again. Source for the one-line comparison.
- C Loot Drop database export, failed startupsLocal export. AI-written summaries, not independently verified. Source for the failed predecessors.