LinkedIn carousel outline generator
Type a topic and get a slide-by-slide outline: a cover hook, one idea per slide with a concrete detail, a recap, and a soft CTA. The words come first — design your slides after they're worth designing.
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What should the carousel teach or argue? A sentence or two works; specifics (numbers, mistakes, steps) work better.
How to use it
- Type what the carousel should teach or argue. Add the audience if you have one in mind — it sharpens every slide.
- Hit Generate outline. You get 8-10 slides: cover hook, one point per slide with a concrete detail, a recap, and a soft CTA.
- Edit the text until every slide earns the swipe — then open your design tool, lay the slides out, and export as PDF.
Carousels are PDFs — and that changes how you write them
There is no carousel button on LinkedIn. A "carousel" is a PDF uploaded as a document post: LinkedIn renders each page as a swipeable slide. That mechanic sets the rules. Every slide is a full-screen page a reader flips through on a phone, mid-scroll, giving each one roughly two seconds. So the unit of writing isn't the paragraph — it's the slide, and each slide gets one idea in under 25 words.
That constraint is the whole craft. A slide with two ideas gets neither read. A slide with a vague idea ("consistency matters") gets swiped past without registering. A slide with one idea and one concrete detail — a number, a named mistake, the sentence a customer actually said — gets read, and buys you the next swipe.
The structure this generator uses
- Cover (slide 1). A hook, not a title. "6 pricing mistakes that cost me $40k" beats "Pricing tips for founders". The cover competes in the feed like any post opening does.
- Body (slides 2-8). One point per slide, each anchored to a concrete detail. The detail is what separates a carousel people save from one they skim.
- Recap (second-to-last). All the points on one slide. This is the screenshot slide — the one people save and share, so it has to stand alone.
- Soft CTA (last). An invitation, not a pitch: "Which of these have you hit? Comments are open." Hard sells on the last slide read as bait and cost you the comment.
Eight to ten slides total. Fewer than six and a plain post would have done the job; many more than twelve and readers bail before the recap.
Why the outline comes before the design
Most carousel advice starts with templates. That's backwards. When you write into a template, the boxes were drawn before your ideas existed, so the ideas get stretched or amputated to fit. When you outline first, you find out early whether the topic actually sustains eight slides — and if it doesn't, you've lost five minutes instead of an evening in Canva.
The design step is genuinely easy once the text is right: big type, one idea per page, generous margins, consistent colors, export as PDF. Any clean template works when every slide already earns its swipe. That's why this tool outputs an outline, not a design — the outline is where carousels are won or lost. (Sizing your cover image or companion visuals? The LinkedIn image size guide has every dimension.)
Using Claude Code, Cursor, or another coding agent? Install the skill version and your agent outlines carousels locally — same slide structure, same one-idea-per-slide discipline:
npx skills add liftli-ai/skills --skill linkedin-carousel-outlinePart of the liftli-ai/skills collection — browse all 28 skills, one per tool on this site. For the full pipeline (voice extraction, strategy memory, publishing), connect the Liftli MCP.