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Pitch Deck Design
The deck you bring into the most important room of your year. Built around your story, your audience, and the specific ask that needs to land.
Who is behind this
I have raised money on a deck I built myself. Every agency you are comparing me to quotes what their clients raised. The $110,000 below is mine, and I remember exactly which slide the room stopped on.
- Raised $110,000
- For my own company, on my own deck
- Oracle Quota Club
- Four years running, carrying $10M+
- SPIN Selling
- Huthwaite certified
Most pitch decks fail before the first slide, because they're built as inventories (team, product, market, traction) instead of arguments. Investors don't fund inventories. They fund a story about why this, why now, and why you, told by someone who clearly understands the room they're walking into.
That's where I start: not in PowerPoint, but with your narrative. Who's across the table, what they believe before you speak, which objections are already forming, and what needs to be true when you finish. Then the deck gets designed around that argument, structure first, design second. Always.
The result is a deck that works twice: on the wall while you present, and alone in the follow-up email when partners who missed the meeting flip through it at midnight. Both readings are designed for, deliberately.
Deliverables
- Narrative architecture
- Slide design (10–30 slides)
- Speaker notes
- PDF + editable file
Process, 1–2 weeks
- 01, Intake callContext, investor profile, and the specific ask
- 02, Narrative mapArgument structure, objections addressed, slide outline
- 03, DesignVisual concepts, data visualization, brand expression
- 04, Two revision roundsOne structural, one polish
- 05, HandoffFinal files and coaching notes for presenting
Questions, answered
We're three weeks out from a Series A. Is that enough time?
Usually yes. A focused rebuild runs 1–2 weeks, and three weeks leaves room for a round of investor feedback before the real meetings. What I need on day one is the ask, the traction you can actually evidence, and the two objections you already know are coming. If you are inside ten days, say so in the first message and I will tell you honestly what is achievable.
Can you work from what we already have?
Yes, and it is usually faster that way. Send the previous deck, the financial model, and the last couple of investor updates. Founders often have all of that collected in a data room for diligence; whatever form yours is in, that is fine. The argument is almost always already written down somewhere in there, just not in the order that makes it land. NDAs are signed before anything is shared.
We're raising a bridge round, not a priced round. Does that change anything?
It changes the argument, not the process. A bridge has to explain why the extra runway produces a materially different company at the next raise, which is a harder story than a straight growth narrative and the one most decks skip. That is the slide I would spend the most time on.
How much does professional pitch deck design cost?
Engagements start at $5,000. Beyond that it depends on scope: a focused redesign of an existing narrative costs less than a full strategic build from scratch. After a 30-minute intake call you get a fixed quote, not an hourly meter. No surprises mid-project.
How long does a pitch deck take?
One to two weeks for most raises, from intake call to final files. Rush timelines are possible with a surcharge, mention your deadline in the first message.
Do you work on the story, or just make slides look better?
Story first, always. Roughly half of every engagement is narrative work: the argument, the objection sequence, the one sentence investors repeat to their partners. Design that decorates a broken story is money wasted. I don't sell it.
What stage founders do you work with?
Pre-seed through Series C, plus M&A and internal funding decks. The mechanics differ by stage (a seed deck sells belief, a B deck sells evidence) and the design reflects that.
Ready when you are.
A 30-minute intake call. No forms, no auto-responders, the project, the stakes, and whether there's a fit.
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