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Pekto turns a topic, an article, a post or a PDF into an editable presentation or a carousel of up to 30 slides, with every slide in a layout that fits what it says. The API and the MCP server give your code and your AI tools the same abilities the Pekto app has.

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What you can do

  • generate a finished, editable presentation (3–20 slides) or LinkedIn/Instagram carousel (3–30 slides) from source text
  • pick one of 32 carousel themes, or let Pekto choose
  • list, read, edit, duplicate and delete your projects
  • browse templates and brand kits, and create or delete brand kits
  • check your credits
  • schedule LinkedIn posts and manage unpublished ones
  • Ask Claude or ChatGPT for a carousel and get a link to an editable Pekto project
  • Turn every new blog post into a LinkedIn carousel from your CMS or a Zapier/n8n workflow
  • Build weekly report decks from your own data
  • Let an AI agent draft a deck, then finish it by hand in the Pekto editor
  • A content team pastes a newsletter into Claude: “Make a 10-slide LinkedIn carousel from this.” Claude calls Pekto and replies with the editor link.
  • A CMS webhook sends each published article to POST /presentations with format: "carousel", then schedules the result with POST /scheduled-posts.
  • An agency script creates one carousel per client every Monday, each in the client’s chosen theme.

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API or MCP?

Use the API for

Backends, scripts, CMS hooks and automation tools. You send JSON over HTTPS with an API key and get JSON back.

Use MCP for

Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor and other AI tools. People sign in with Pekto once and then just ask for what they want.
MCP is the conversational layer. Every MCP tool calls the same API underneath, with the same permissions and limits.

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How it works

  1. Authenticate. Use an API key, or sign in with Pekto from your AI tool.
  2. Send the source. A topic, the full text of a post or article, or both, plus the audience, objective and tone if you know them.
  3. Pekto plans it. It decides what each slide is for (the hook, the tips, the steps, the stats, the takeaway) and gives every slide a layout made for that job.
  4. Get the link. The response has the saved project’s project_id and an editor_url that opens it in Pekto.
  5. Keep going. Read or edit the project, schedule it, or open it in the editor and finish it yourself.
Generation runs in a single request that returns once the project is saved, so give your HTTP client a generous timeout (at least 3 minutes). It costs 2.5 credits; if it fails before the project is saved, the credits are refunded.

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Core concepts

Every presentation or carousel you create is a project. Projects are always private to their owner and fully editable in Pekto.
Generation uses credits from your Pekto plan. GET /account (or the get_account_status tool) shows your balance and the cost.
API keys carry only the permissions you give them, such as projects:read or presentations:create. See Authentication.
Every generation is recorded as a job you can read back with GET /jobs/{job_id}. Send an Idempotency-Key so a retry never creates or charges for a second deck.

Quickstart

Your first carousel in three requests.

MCP setup

Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Codex or Cursor.

API reference

Every endpoint, with a playground.

Troubleshooting

Fixes for the common problems.