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A Creator Cut LinkedIn Carousel Time From 2.5 Hours to Under 5 Minutes

After two approaches failed, a newsletter writer built a Claude Skill that turns a newsletter section into an on-brand 6–10 slide LinkedIn carousel in under five minutes; making one by hand took about 2.5 hours of writing and Canva work.

Who this is about: Newsletter writer and LinkedIn creator (AI Maker)

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ContentAdded Oct 15, 2026Source: aimaker.substack.com

What it takes

Cost: Free planClaude: Free plan. Pro is $20 a month billed monthly ($17 a month billed yearly), and Max starts at $100 a month. Team seats are $25 a month billed monthly.Price checked Oct 24, 2026 on claude.com. Prices change; check before you buy.
Setup time: Under an hourOur estimate from the source, for one business.
Skill needed: Some tech skillsComfortable installing an app, pasting an API key or running a command.

Explain it simply

A carousel is a post made of several slides people swipe through, and each one used to take this newsletter writer about two and a half hours. The writer made a Claude Skill, a saved set of instructions Claude can reuse, that remembers the brand's colors, fonts, logo and photo and builds the slides from a piece of the newsletter. Now a carousel takes under five minutes and looks the same every time.

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What was done

Carousels took about an hour to write, an hour in Canva and 30 minutes fixing alignment, so the writer, Wyndo, kept avoiding them. A PowerPoint skill was fast but looked plain. AI image generation looked great but could not keep slides consistent or reproduce the writer's face in the footer.

The approach that worked is a Claude Skill that stores the brand settings once (colors, fonts, logo, real photo, positioning) and generates the carousel as HTML and CSS, which renders the same way every time.

How it went

Wyndo now gets 6–10 slides in under 5 minutes with one instruction, still in the same voice and on brand, and has posted on LinkedIn five times a week for three months.

Limits: getting there took two failed approaches and weeks of iteration. Exporting is still manual (download slides, convert to PDF, upload). The packaged skill is for paid members, but the post includes a free manual version that takes 15–30 minutes the first time.

Prompt

PromptAdapted from the source

Step 1, once:
"I make LinkedIn carousels as HTML and CSS slides. Save these as my carousel brand rules: main color [hex], second color [hex], heading font [font, size], body font [font, size], logo [attach], my photo for the footer [attach]."

Step 2, for each carousel:
"Using my carousel brand rules, turn this text into a [6]-slide carousel: [paste a newsletter section]. Slide 1 is the hook, each middle slide carries one idea, and the last slide asks people to [follow / subscribe]. Give me HTML and CSS files I can export as images or a PDF."

Adapted from the free manual version in the article. The packaged skill is for paid members.

Business fit

Who this helps, and how:

Content creators: turn every newsletter or blog section into a carousel without a designer.
Creators
Independent contractors (barbers, bartenders, consultants): consultants and coaches can post visual tips weekly using their own brand kit.
Agencies
Medical and health professional business owners: turn patient-education points into consistent branded slides, reviewed for accuracy.
Local & service
Agencies and freelancers: set up a brand file per client and produce carousels in minutes each.
Agencies
Retail store owners: make on-brand carousels for product roundups or seasonal guides.
Local & service

Similar tools

Other tools for this job, and how they differ. Chosen by our editors, never paid for.

Canva
Design carousels by hand with templates and brand kits.
Gamma
Turns text into slide decks quickly.
Taplio
A LinkedIn tool with a carousel maker.

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