Let Copilot grill your presentation before the budget committee does.

PowerPoint’s Clarify my thinking skill offers questions and feedback. Give it an argument to examine, not just slides to polish.

Your slides look great. Unfortunately, the idea on slide seven still makes no sense. A nicer font won't fix that.

Microsoft is adding Clarify my thinking to Copilot in desktop PowerPoint. Previously called “GrillMe,” the built-in skill uses questions and feedback to help sharpen a presentation before you share it. Honestly, GrillMe was a pretty good name. At least you knew what you were signing up for.

Microsoft's ModernWork Korea post, updated October 9, describes the change. The public reproduction of notice MC1492161 says worldwide rollout began October 8, 2026. That is a start date, not a promise that everybody has it. Existing Microsoft 365 Copilot licensing and administrator controls still apply.

Give it something worth questioning

Here's an exercise to try when the skill appears. Imagine your operations department is asking for funding to automate part of customer onboarding. The deck says it will “improve efficiency.” Wonderful. So would cancelling half the meetings. What does this particular project actually change?

Use the skill to examine the proposal, with a request like this:

Help me sharpen this presentation for a budget discussion. Ask me one question at a time about the problem, the evidence, the expected benefit and the assumptions. Point out claims the slides don't support. Don't invent numbers or rewrite the deck yet.

This is an illustrative exercise, not a tested result or a claim that the skill follows this exact sequence. Check its feedback against the actual proposal. If it asks a useful question, fix the argument. If it invents a problem, challenge that too.

Let the machine find the awkward question before somebody asks it in a room full of people who control your budget.