Every presentation generator has a plan. It decides how many slides you get, what each one is about, and in what order. Almost none of them show it to you. You type a prompt, a progress bar runs, and a finished deck appears — at which point the plan is no longer a plan. It is forty slides you now have to disagree with one at a time.
The cost of a hidden plan
Reordering an argument should be trivial. When the plan is hidden until the deck exists, it stops being trivial: moving your evidence ahead of your proposal means moving slides, re-cutting text to fit new layouts, and hoping nothing referenced the old order. The structural change is small. The work is not.
Making the outline a required step
In Bildory the outline is not an optional preview you can skip past. It is where you land. Every beat is editable in place, rows drag into a new order, beats duplicate or delete, and any single slide can be improved on its own without touching the rest. Change the slide count and the draft refits to the new length rather than truncating.
One setting, one source of truth
Density lives here too — Minimal, Concise, Detailed or Extensive — and it is applied consistently at draft time, at redraft time, and when improving a single slide. The setting and the outline in front of you never disagree, which sounds like a small thing until you have used a tool where they do.
Templates skip the step, on purpose
If you start from a template, Bildory does not ask you to outline it. A template already knows its structure, so the product only asks the questions that are still open. Answering a question you have already answered is its own kind of friction.