Palletix Series A
Robotics pitch deck example with the payback per robot
A robotics pitch deck has to prove that each robot earns back what it costs to build, because hardware investors fund fleets, not demos. Palletix, an invented warehouse picking robot rented by the month, shows 62 robots on contract and a 14 month payback built from four lines in a table.
Every slide, in order
The whole deck as it renders, one slide after another. Read it the way the audience would.
The structure
What each slide is doing, so you can reuse the order even with different content.
- Slide 1cover
- One word and one claim: the robot pays for itself, and the deck will show the months.
- Slide 2intro
- The problem as a warehouse operator states it: picking is the labour line that will not shrink.
- Slide 3pillars
- What the robot is, in four cards, written as what it changes on the floor rather than its specification.
- Slide 4metrics
- The three numbers an investor asks first, each with the arithmetic in the line underneath.
- Slide 5comparison
- Manual against robot on six measures, so 110 against 380 picks an hour is not the only number on the page.
- Slide 6metrics
- Robots deployed by quarter, so the 62 reads as a curve with a slope rather than a total.
- Slide 7metrics
- The 14 month payback as a short table, so an investor can rebuild it from four inputs.
- Slide 8process
- How a site goes live in four steps, because deployment time is the first operational question a buyer asks.
- Slide 9pricing
- One price, robot as a service, with what it includes, because there is nothing for the buyer to choose between.
- Slide 10investment
- The 18 million dollar ask in four cards, almost half of it robots that start earning when they ship.
- Slide 11closing
- Close on the one thing that converts an investor here: seeing a robot work on a real floor.
Slide by slide
Slide one is the company name and the payback claim. Slide two states the operator problem: picking is the labour line that will not shrink, and fixed automation needs a longer lease than most operators sign. Slide three describes the robot by what it changes on the floor. Slide four gives robots deployed, payback and annualised revenue with the arithmetic underneath. Slide five compares one aisle run two ways. Slide six charts robots under contract by quarter. Slide seven is the unit economics of one robot. Slide eight is the seven week deployment. Slide nine is the single robot as a service price. Slide ten is the ask. Slide eleven invites the investor to watch a night shift.
How to adapt this deck
A robot sold outright rather than rented replaces the payback per robot with gross margin per unit and adds a service revenue line, because the investor then asks what happens after the sale. A field robot for agriculture or construction swaps picks per hour for hectares or square metres per day and keeps the six measure comparison. A company before its first deployment cannot show slide six honestly; replace it with the pilot plan and the letters of intent, and move the unit economics slide behind the ask as a model rather than a result.
What robotics investors ask for
The International Federation of Robotics publishes the annual World Robotics figures on installed industrial and service robots, which is where most market slides in this category start. Investors who have read them already accept the market. What they want next is evidence that a deployed robot keeps working: uptime, the number returned, and how long a site takes to go live. This deck answers the last two directly, with two robots returned in 2025 named in the chart description and the seven week median on slide eight.
What makes this deck work
Payback is rebuilt from four inputs
Slide seven lists the 6,850 dollar monthly fee, three cost lines totalling 1,990 dollars and the 68,000 dollar build cost, then divides to get 14.0 months. The headline on slide four is the answer to a sum the investor can redo.
110 against 380 is not the only comparison
Slide five sets the manual picker beside the robot on six measures, including mispicks per thousand and cost per thousand picks, 291 dollars against 51. Picks per hour alone would invite the question of what the robot costs to run.
The ask buys robots that earn
Of the 18 million dollars on slide ten, 8.2 million builds 120 robots at 68,000 dollars each. Taking the fleet from 62 to 182 robots at 6,850 dollars a month is about 15 million dollars of annual revenue, the target in the slide description.
Questions people ask
Should a robotics startup sell robots or rent them?
Renting by the month turns the buying decision into an operating expense and gives the company recurring revenue, which is why Palletix uses robot as a service. Selling raises cash sooner but makes revenue lumpy. Whichever model you use, show the payback or margin on one robot as its own slide.
How do I calculate payback per robot for a pitch deck?
Divide the cost to build and deploy one robot by the monthly contribution it earns after service, monitoring and insurance. Palletix divides 68,000 dollars by 4,860 dollars to get 14 months. Put the inputs in a table so the investor can change one and see the effect.
Do I need a deployment timeline in a hardware deck?
Yes, if customers have to install anything. Deployment time limits how fast revenue can grow, and a buyer asks about it in the first meeting. A four step slide with week numbers, like slide eight here, answers it without a long explanation.
How many slides should a robotics pitch deck have?
Ten to twelve for a first meeting. This example is eleven. If time is short, keep the payback headline, the six measure comparison, the unit economics table and the ask; those four slides carry the argument. The deployment steps and pricing can follow in diligence.
How do I show cost per pick against manual labour fairly?
State the labour rate and the robot hours you assumed beside the result. This deck prints 32 dollars an hour fully loaded under the manual column and 352 robot hours a month under the robot column, so 291 against 51 dollars per thousand picks can be checked.
Can the unit economics table be edited after export?
In the editable PowerPoint export, tables come out as native PowerPoint tables, so a finance reviewer can change the fee or the build cost in their own copy. The PDF export is on every plan at about 1 credit per 10 slides; both PowerPoint exports need a paid plan.
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