Team slide templates

Ten layouts, by head count

Ten templates carry the profile purpose and three more list it as a secondary role. They divide by how many people you are showing: a headshot on the left with the bio on the right for one person, a hero portrait with sections beside it, a stats and headshot combination, a four by four team grid with a lead, a polaroid grid, a diagonal stack, a grouped founders and advisors layout, and a team row with client logos underneath. Pick by the number of faces first, because a two person layout stretched to six is the one thing none of them do well.

Headshots are uploaded, never generated

Any image box whose purpose is profile is skipped by generation, and so is any box marked as a logo. That skip lives in two places, the builder and the fill service, so it holds whether the image would have come from the first generation or from an AI chat instruction later. The reason is simple: a generated face is not the person, and a reader who knows them can tell instantly. Upload the real photograph, or leave the placeholder and say who is missing.

Name, role and one line

Each person carries a name of up to forty characters and a position of up to eighty, which is enough for a title and a company. The slide's own title is capped at thirty two characters and the subtitle at a hundred and forty. Bio sections are a list with a heading, a paragraph and an icon, so a single founder layout can carry three short sections rather than one long paragraph. There is a separate stats list, with an icon, a value and a label, for the numbers a company slide usually wants beside the people.

Advisors and client logos are their own lists

A team slide is often really two groups: the people who work here and the people who lend their names. The grouped layout keeps founders and advisors as separate lists so they are visibly different, and there is a client logos list for the row of marks that usually sits underneath. Logos follow the same rule as faces: they are never generated, so upload them or leave the space.

When a persona slide is the better answer

If the faces are illustrative rather than real, you do not want a team slide at all. A persona slide is built for made-up people: it has a name, a role, goals, traits and an optional portrait, and nobody reads it as a claim about who works for you. Using a team layout for invented people is the fastest way to lose a reader's trust.

How it works, in three steps

1. Step 1

   Add the slide from the library

   From Library, filtered to the profile purpose. Ten layouts come back; choose by how many people you are showing.

2. Step 2

   Upload the headshots

   Click each picture box and upload. Generation will not fill a profile box, so an empty one stays empty until you do.

3. Step 3

   Write the role, not the CV

   Name plus title and company. Eighty characters is the budget, and it is enough for the only thing the room needs.

4. Step 4

   Add logos or advisors if the slide has them

   Both are separate lists, so they lay out as their own group rather than being mixed in with the team.

The full walkthrough with screenshots is in the guide Add and generate images in slides.

Limits worth knowing

• Ten templates carry profile as their primary purpose; three more list it as a secondary role.
• Profile and logo image boxes are skipped by image generation everywhere, including the AI chat.
• A person's name is capped at 40 characters and their position at 80.
• The slide title is capped at 32 characters and the subtitle at 140.
• There is no link or button field on a person, so a profile cannot open a page.

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