Testimonial slide templates

Twelve layouts, by how many voices

One hero quote with a portrait, a split panel with the name beside the words, an editorial pull quote, a pull quote with rules, two stacked quotes, three cards, a stacked rail of three, a compact grid of six, a case study set of three cards, a metric split that pairs a number with a quote, and a logo wall of twelve marks. The choice is not decorative: one quote given the whole slide reads as evidence, and six in a grid read as a wall of names.

The quote budget is 320 characters

A quote runs from twenty to three hundred and twenty characters, which is one to four sentences of plain prose. That cap is doing real work. A testimonial longer than four sentences stops being quoted and starts being read as a paragraph, and nobody in a room reads a paragraph off a slide. If your customer said something longer, cut to the sentence that carries the claim and keep the rest for the case study.

Attribution: name, role, portrait, and a number

Each testimonial carries the author's name up to forty characters, their role and organisation up to eighty, an optional portrait, and an optional metric of up to eight characters that sits beside the quote. That metric field is the difference between a nice comment and a piece of evidence: a quote about saving time next to the number 51 min is a different slide from the same words on their own.

Portraits follow the same rule as team photos

An author's picture is a profile image, so image generation skips it exactly as it skips a team headshot. You upload it or it stays a placeholder. That is deliberate: a generated portrait attached to a named person's words is a fabricated endorsement, which is the one failure mode a testimonial slide must not have.

Logos when you have permission and not much else

The logo wall holds twelve marks with a label each, and it is the right slide when your evidence is who buys from you rather than what they said. Logos are never generated either, so upload them, and only use the ones you are allowed to show. A wall of marks you have not cleared is a slide you cannot present to the customers on it.

How it works, in three steps

1. Step 1

   Pick the layout by voice count

   One quote, two, three, six or a logo wall. Filter the library to the testimonial purpose and the twelve come back.

2. Step 2

   Paste the real words

   Twenty to three hundred and twenty characters. Trim to the sentence that carries the claim rather than quoting the whole email.

3. Step 3

   Fill the attribution

   Name, then role and company. An unattributed quote is worth very little, and the fields are there for a reason.

4. Step 4

   Add the number if you have one

   The metric field takes eight characters and sits beside the quote. It turns a comment into evidence.

The full walkthrough with screenshots is in the guide Make a pitch presentation with AI.

Limits worth knowing

• Twelve templates carry the testimonial purpose.
• A quote runs 20 to 320 characters; an author name is capped at 40 and a role at 80.
• The metric beside a quote is capped at 8 characters and is pre-formatted by you.
• Author portraits and logos are never generated; upload them or leave the placeholder.
• There is no star rating field on any testimonial layout.

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