Draw a structure from a description
A first-draft structure slide drawn from a plain-language description, refined by follow-up instructions.
Screenshots are taken from the app on every release. Updated 2 November 2026.
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The client has sent their group chart: a slide from last year's board pack, or a page in a PDF. You need a chart you can change, not a picture to redraw.
Open Import, click PowerPoint and drop in the file. The shapes and connectors are read straight from the slide.
The chart lands on your slide. Where a shape matches none of your firm's elements, you choose the element it should be.
A PDF or a scan is only a picture, so the AI reads the chart off it. Tick the chart to rebuild, and tell the builder what to watch for.
No chart at all? Click JuristIQ and describe the structure: each entity, who owns whom, and with what percentage.
The entities appear on the slide as they are drawn, and the chat shows each stage while it works. Then check every percentage and every line.
The client's chart, rebuilt in your firm's style and ready to change.
On a call, the partner talks through the proposed structure: the fund, the holding companies, the bidder, the lender and a co-investor coming in at the top. You want a first draft on the screen before the call ends, so everyone can point at the same boxes. The structure chat draws it from your description, and you refine it by asking for changes.
Two things decide how good the first draft is: how precisely you name the entities, and whether you say who owns what, and how much.
Describe the structure
Open the structure and go to the slide you want to draw on, preferably an empty one: the chat draws on the slide you are looking at. Click JuristIQ in the controls at the bottom of the canvas. The chat opens beside the slide.
Describe the structure in plain words: each entity and its country, who owns whom and with what percentage, and the parties around it such as lenders and co-investors. For example: "Sigma Capital Fund I owns 50% and Sigma Capital Fund II owns 35% of Sigma TopCo S.à r.l. Gamma Partners co-invests and holds the other 15% of TopCo. TopCo owns 100% of Sigma MidCo ApS, which owns 100% of Sigma BidCo ApS. BidCo acquires 100% of Beta Holding A/S. Delta Bank lends to BidCo."
Send the message. Click the step count above the answer to see the actions it took, such as Added to the structure, with a row count where there is one. Click an action row to see what it ran, then Show output to read the returned lines. If JuristIQ creates a new slide, the canvas moves to it as it arrives.
If JuristIQ is greyed out, you do not have access to the AI tools. Ask your organisation admin.
Change what it drew
Select the boxes or lines you want changed, then tell the chat what to do: "make the selected lines dashed", "make the selected ones blue". What you select goes with the message, so the chat changes exactly those elements.
If the chat asks for clarification, answer the question before it carries on. Check the changed boxes and lines against your request afterwards.
To take changes back, ask the chat to "undo the last two changes". It steps back through the open slide's history, your own edits included, and tells you what it undid. Ask it to redo them the same way. The history covers the slide you have open and starts again when you switch slides or reload the page.
Lay the slide out again
When the slide has grown by hand and the lines cross, open Settings in the toolbar and click AI layout. The boxes and lines are laid out again from what is on the slide, and a message tells you how many boxes moved. If you preferred it as it was, click Undo once to put everything back.
Tips from practice
- Use the names that will be on the final slide. "Sigma BidCo ApS" rather than "the bidder" saves renaming every box later, and keeps the step plan and any text drawn from the chart consistent.
- Check every percentage and every line. The chat draws what it understood from the description. Before the slide goes to the client, check each holding against the term sheet or the register.
- Draft in one message, correct in many. Give the whole structure in the first message, then make small, selected changes. A short instruction on a selection is easier to check than a new description.
Next, tidy up the chart before it goes out, or have JuristIQ build the step paper for the reorganisation. If the client has sent a drawing or an old chart, turn the client's existing chart into a structure instead.