Pitch deck templates, slide by slide

What these designs are for

Use this when you know roughly what the deck has to say and need to choose the shape of each slide. The cover, the why now statement, the market sizing, the competitor position, the pricing and the raise each have layouts built for them, and choosing well is most of what makes a deck read as finished rather than assembled.

Cover: 27 layouts, and the deck is judged on this one

The cover role holds 27 templates, more than any role except metrics, pillars and comparison. They divide into photographic covers, typographic covers with no image at all, and editorial covers with a meta rail carrying a date or an event name. For an investor meeting the typographic and dark gradient covers tend to survive a projector better than a photo cover, because there is no image to go muddy. Whichever you pick, the canvas is 1920 by 1080, so the title has room for about six or seven words before it wraps.

Intro: why now, in one statement

Eleven templates sit under intro, and the three shown here are the ones built for an argument rather than a company description. A why now slide works when the statement is specific about timing: a regulation, a cost curve, a behaviour that changed. The four pillar variant is the better choice when the argument rests on several conditions at once, because each pillar gets a heading and a line rather than being buried in a paragraph.

Metrics: 34 layouts, and most decks need three of them

Metrics is the largest role in the library at 34 templates, which is why a pitch deck usually pulls several: a market size, a traction number and a growth trajectory are three different slides. The concentric market sizing layout carries the value, the acronym and a line for each ring. The hero stat layout exists for the one number you want remembered. The scenario chart is the honest way to show a forecast, because it draws three lines instead of promising one.

Comparison and pricing: where decks overreach

Comparison holds 32 primary templates and is offered on 46 slides once cross listed roles are counted, so there is no shortage of ways to draw a competitive claim. The scatter matrix is the most defensible, because it names axes and places everyone on them. Pricing has nine layouts: three and four tier cards, a two tier hero, a free against paid split, a single featured plan, a budget line sheet and two comparison tables. They are described here rather than pictured, because the library fills a pricing layout with its own placeholder plan names and prices. One real constraint is worth knowing: the three tier card layout deliberately does not highlight a middle tier, and its own notes say to choose a different layout if you need that emphasis. Tier name budgets 20 characters, price 12 and a feature line 60.

Investment: seven layouts for the ask

The investment role has seven templates, the smallest set a pitch deck depends on: a use of funds table, a funding request banner with four allocation cards, an allocation donut, a fund split, a hero breakdown of six rows, a hero of three items and an allocation strip of four. The table is the most scrutinised version, because the columns sum and an investor can check them. The four card banner is friendlier in a room and carries less detail. These are named rather than shown, for the same reason as the pricing layouts. Whichever you choose, the numbers come from you: the generator is instructed not to invent figures.

What the thumbnails show

The three closing cards are slides from example decks published here; every other card above is the layout drawn by the template library with its own sample text in it, the same content the public template gallery shows. The company names, dates, figures and quotes inside those thumbnails are invented to make a layout readable, not facts about anything. Layouts whose placeholder copy states a price, a funding round or a customer claim are described in words on this page instead of being pictured, so nothing here can be mistaken for a real figure.

How many slides a pitch deck runs to

The finished pitch decks published here run from 8 to 12 slides. The demo day deck is 8, the seed and angel decks 11 and 12, the series A and series B decks 12 each. The generator's length slider runs from 3 to 20 slides and defaults to 3, and on a free account the backend caps generation at 6 slides, returning a paid feature response above that. Twelve slides with one idea each is the shape these decks settle into.

Finished examples

• Seed pitch deck

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