Turn A Blog Post Into A Carousel, Then Schedule It

The slides on this page came from an article I published on Substack, I Asked Claude to Handle Our Customer Support. It Started Delegating the Work. Its saved SEO title, How I Used Claude AI for Customer Support, became the cover headline without me typing anything.

Narrareach picked the other four headlines from the body of the piece: The Pain Points in Customer Support, Specializing Support Tasks, Ensuring Effective Problem Resolution and The Future of Automated Support. Each one is a section of the original argument, cut down to a line and two or three sentences. I used the Illustrated style with no art direction and did not edit the slides shown here.

The sentences on slide three, about splitting support into connection, publishing and engineering specialists, follow what the article says almost line for line. That is the behaviour you want. The carousel is a summary of your piece, not a new piece.

Every carousel has exactly five slides. Slide one is the hook and uses your chosen headline. Slides two to four are three separate takeaways from the article. Slide five is a closing takeaway, not a sales pitch. When a point is really a list, it is laid out as a short list on the slide, and otherwise it stays as a sentence or two.

The writing model is told to use only what is in your article. No new statistics, quotes, named people or promises get added unless they were in the source. I care about this one a lot. A carousel that says something you never wrote is worse than no carousel.

The words are set in real type by Narrareach, not drawn by an image model, so spelling stays exact. Your name, handle and profile photo from the connected Instagram or LinkedIn account appear on the slides when they are available, and every slide gets alt text that matches the words on it.

Illustrated is the default. Your text stays typeset and each slide gets a picture with no words in it, drawn in one shared style. The first slide's picture is used as the reference for the rest, so the set looks like it belongs together. You can add art direction, such as soft watercolour in your brand blues, and it only changes the pictures. Any picture that comes back with text in it is thrown away and the slide renders without art.

Editorial uses a serif headline and a quieter layout. Minimal is plain type with simple geometric accents and no illustrations. Both are good when the argument is the point and pictures would only get in the way.

The Instagram / TikTok Carousel is five portrait images. You can schedule it to Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn, where it goes out as a post with several images. A TikTok post needs one more step: you tick a box confirming you reviewed the photos and the caption, and if you edit the caption afterwards you confirm again.

The LinkedIn Carousel is the same five slides delivered as a PDF document post, the format LinkedIn shows as a swipeable document. It is posted to your personal LinkedIn profile, and the article link is added to the end of the caption because a slide inside a document cannot be clicked. You can also download the PDF or any single slide image.

You can pick several platforms at once and set one date and time in your own time zone. Scheduled carousels sit in Notes, under Scheduled, next to everything else in your content scheduler. If you already make Notes from the same piece with turn Substack articles into Notes, the carousel goes in the same queue.

Recent generations stay in a Reuse a recent visual list in the same window. Pick one and schedule it to a platform you skipped the first time. Nothing is generated again, so no images are used.

This is how I would use it across a week: the carousel on Instagram on Tuesday, the same slides on LinkedIn on Thursday, and the article itself sent as a text post when you cross-post to LinkedIn. One piece of writing, three formats, and none of it written from scratch. The same idea sits behind AI content repurposing in general: start from work that already exists.