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A pitch deck a partner can read in four minutes.
Paste your metrics and last board update. You get the slides investors expect, in the order they expect them, and a .pptx your co-founder can edit on the train.
A partner gives a deck four minutes on a phone between meetings. That is the entire brief. Everything else about pitch deck advice follows from it.
The order is not a matter of taste either. Investors read a lot of these and they look for the same things in the same places, so a deck that rearranges the sequence spends its first minute making the reader find their footing.
Attach the last board update and the deck starts from evidence rather than from adjectives. With grounded mode on, a number reaches a slide only if it appeared in what you attached.
What a good one contains
Six slides that earn their place, and what belongs on each.
The one-line thesis
What you do, for whom, and why now, in a sentence a partner can repeat to their colleagues.
If this slide needs explaining out loud, it isn't finished.
The problem, quantified The cost of the status quo, with a number attached. Not a description of an industry.
Investors discount adjectives. They don't discount arithmetic.
The product in one screen A single screenshot and three labels. Resist the tour.
Real product beats an abstract diagram every time.
Traction Revenue, growth rate and retention on one chart, drawn as editable shapes you can adjust in PowerPoint.
Show the shape of the curve, not a table of months.
Why you win The specific thing you have that a well-funded competitor would need a year to copy.
'Better UX' is not a moat. Distribution and data are.
The ask Amount, runway it buys, and the three milestones it pays for.
Vague asks read as an unfinished plan.
How it goes
The last board update
It already contains the metrics, the commentary and the things that went wrong.
Audience: Investors
A different register from a customer deck, and a different tolerance for detail.
Keep the numbers honest
Grounded mode strips any figure it cannot trace back to your document, and tells you which.
A .pptx your co-founder can edit
Text boxes stay text boxes, so the 11pm change does not need the original tool.
Before and after
Same content. One was written at 1am in a text editor.
Traction
- Revenue up
- Lots of new logos this quarter
- Churn is improving vs last year
- Team grew a lot
Four claims, no numbers, no shape. The partner has to do the work.
ARR tripled while churn halved
Twelve months to March 2026
One claim, three numbers that support it, and a headline that survives being skim-read.
Questions
Will the deck use my company's colors and logo?
Not yet. Brand kit creation is not built. There are five built-in themes, Northwind, Mono, Cobalt, Midnight and Slate, and a deck can be restyled between them in one action. The export is a normal .pptx, so applying your own template in PowerPoint afterwards works the way it always has.
Are the charts editable?
They are drawn as editable shapes, so you can move, recolor and adjust them in PowerPoint. They are not native chart objects that PowerPoint can re-plot from a linked data table, and we would rather say so than let you discover it in front of a partner.
What should I attach?
The last board update. It already holds the metrics, the commentary and the things that went wrong, which is a much better starting point than a blank prompt and a good memory.
Can a co-founder edit it without an account?
Yes. The exported .pptx opens in PowerPoint 2016 and later, Keynote and Google Slides, with every text box editable. PDF export is on every plan, and a share link works in a browser.