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Pitch deck template

A pitch deck outline your agent fills in under a minute — then you share one link your co-founder, advisor, or investor comments on inline. No more 'which version did you review?'

What it is
A pitch deck is a 10–12 slide document that tells the story of your company to investors: the problem, your solution, the market, how you make money, your traction, your team, and what you're asking for.

The structure is settled. Every investor has seen the Sequoia template. What kills most decks isn't format — it's the version chaos that starts the moment you collect feedback. Your advisor comments on v4, your co-founder edits v5, the investor you emailed last week is reading v3. Draft it with your agent, share the Drafty link, and all the reactions land on the exact slide they're about.

Generate it with your agent

Paste this into Claude, Cursor, or any agent:

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Draft a pitch deck outline for {company}. Structure it as 10 slides: 1) Problem — one sentence, who has it, and the evidence it's real, 2) Solution — what you built and why it works, 3) Why now — the market timing or technical unlock, 4) Market size — TAM/SAM/SOM with a source, 5) Product — how it works in plain language, 6) Business model — how you make money, 7) Traction — the one number that proves momentum, 8) Competition — an honest 2x2 that names where you lose, 9) Team — who we are and why us, 10) Ask — the amount, the structure (SAFE/equity), and what you'll use it for. Then publish it to Drafty so I can share a link and collect inline comments — no account needed to reply.▌

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What goes in each slide

Ten slides. Investors at seed scan a deck in 20–40 seconds on first pass — every slide earns its presence or it doesn't.

  1. Problem — one sentence, stated plainly. The best problem slides name the person ("a CFO at a 50-person company") and the specific friction, not a vague market trend. Investors bounce within ten seconds if this doesn't land.
  2. Solution — what you built and why it works. Not a feature list. One sentence on the mechanism: "we do X so that Y can stop doing Z."
  3. Why now — the timing unlock. Regulation change, new infrastructure, a behavioral shift. Without it, the implicit question is "why didn't someone build this five years ago?"
  4. Market size — TAM, SAM, SOM with a named source. A bottom-up calculation beats a Gartner quote; it shows you understand the business.
  5. Product — how it works. A screenshot beats a paragraph. One happy-path flow; don't list every feature.
  6. Business model — how you make money, at what price, per whom. Unit economics or the shape of them.
  7. Traction — the one number that matters now. Revenue, active users, LOIs — pick the metric that proves momentum is real.
  8. Competition — an honest 2×2. Name the tools people use today, including "spreadsheets" or "nothing." The slide that concedes where a competitor wins is the one investors trust.
  9. Team — why this team, for this problem, now. One line per person, anchored to the specific experience that makes you right for this.
  10. Ask — the amount, the structure (SAFE, equity, convertible note), and the three uses of funds tied to the milestone that unlocks the next round.

The feedback problem most pitch decks never solve

Most founders nail the structure. What kills the deck is what happens during review: an advisor comments in Google Slides, a co-founder replies on the email thread, an angel marks up a PDF — and the actual decision never makes it back to the canonical version. Teams end up with files named Pitch_Deck_Final_v3_REALLY_FINAL.pptx because each reviewer touched a different file.

Sharing the Drafty link means all the reactions land in one place, anchored to the exact slide they're about. When you ship the revision, the URL stays the same — everyone's already reading the updated version.

When to use a full deck (and when not to)

A 10-slide deck is for a formal fundraise. For an intro call, a 3-slide teaser — problem, solution, ask — is often better. For internal alignment, a one-pager is enough. Don't send the full deck to investors until the traction slide has a real number in it.

FAQ

How many slides should a pitch deck have? Ten to twelve for a seed or Series A. Sequoia's format is ten; most decks add an appendix with financials for follow-up questions. Fewer than eight usually means something important is missing; more than fifteen usually means two ideas competing for space.

What's the most important slide? Depends on who you ask, but the team slide consistently gets the most investor attention — roughly 43% of total reading time by eye-tracking data. The problem slide is the most important for keeping them in the deck at all: if it doesn't land in the first ten seconds, they won't reach the team slide.

Can an AI write my pitch deck? It can draft the structure in seconds — the prompt above does that. What it can't supply is the real traction number, the user interview quote, or the reason your team is right for this. The agent handles the skeleton; you put the evidence in.

What's the difference between a pitch deck and a business plan? A pitch deck is 10–15 slides built to be walked through in 10 minutes. A business plan is a 20–40 page document built to be read. Most seed and Series A investors ask for a deck. The full plan lives in the data room for due diligence.

What goes in the ask slide? Three things: the exact amount you're raising (not a range), the structure (SAFE at what cap, or equity at what valuation), and the three uses of funds tied to a named milestone — "18 months of runway to reach $1M ARR." Vague ask slides signal unclear thinking about the business.

How do I share a pitch deck without losing control of the version? Most founders send a PDF and have no idea if it's been opened. Sharing a Drafty link gives you a URL you can update after sending — fix the market sizing slide, and everyone reading the link sees the new version automatically.