Pitch deck templates that tell you who read them

Which template should I use?

Raising a round. Start with Modern Business Pitch Deck if you want the standard ten-slide investor story, problem to ask, and you're going to fill every slide. Choose Minimal Pitch Deck if your numbers are the story and you want nothing competing with them; it's fourteen slides of paper-white and hairline rules. Cobalt Consulting Deck is for pitching services rather than a company, so use it for agency and consulting proposals.

Selling to a customer. Bluechip Sales Deck is for enterprise rooms that expect something that looks like a report. Sorbet Sales Deck is for relationship-led sales where warm and calm wins. Megaphone Sales Deck is for agencies and campaign pitches where the deck should land like a headline.

Reporting to a board or a client. Keystone Executive Report is the board pack: quarterly results and the decisions you're asking for. Pulse Performance Report is the monthly scoreboard against target. Quarto Insights Report is for research and market studies that need figures, captions, and numbered findings.

Marketing plans and reviews. Ignition Growth Deck is built to win a budget meeting, funnel and ROI first. Atelier Marketing Deck is for launch plans and brand work. Spectrum Marketing Deck is the annual review.

How to use a template without looking like everyone else

A template gets you past the blank page. It doesn't write your story. Four things separate a deck that looks like a template from one that looks like a company:

Replace the placeholder story, not just the names. Every template ships with a fictional company and a plausible narrative. Founders often swap the logo and the numbers and leave the argument. Rewrite every headline as a claim about your business. "Onboarding that runs itself" is Relay's claim; yours is different.

Cut the slides you can't back with numbers. A fourteen-slide template with six slides of real content and eight of filler reads worse than six strong slides. Delete, don't pad. Investors average two to four minutes on a first read, which is ten to fifteen slides, not twenty-five.

Keep one idea per slide and say it in the headline. Someone skimming should get the whole story from the headlines alone. If a slide's headline is "Market", it's not done.

Set your brand once. Put your fonts, colours, and logo in your brand kit and every template you open comes out matching. You stop fighting the design and start editing the words.

Or skip the manual part: tell your AI assistant what the deck is about and let it fill the template. DeckCP speaks MCP, so Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini can write the slides straight into the editor, on your brand. Connect it in one line.

What every investor deck needs

If you're using a pitch template, these are the ten slides investors expect to find, in roughly this order. Both pitch templates cover them; cut what doesn't apply.

1. Cover. Company name, one-line description, the round, your name. That's it.
2. Problem. Who has it, how bad it is, what they do about it today. Specific beats big.
3. Solution. What you built and why it works better than the workaround. One screenshot is worth the paragraph.
4. Product. How it works, in two or three steps. Not a feature list.
5. Traction. Revenue, users, retention, pilots, whatever you have. This is the slide investors sit on longest; make the numbers easy to read and impossible to misread.
6. Market. How many people have the problem and what they'd pay. Show your working, not just a big number.
7. Business model. How you make money and what a customer is worth.
8. Competition. Who else is solving this and why you win. Name them; pretending there's no competition costs credibility.
9. Team. Why you, specifically, for this problem. Relevant history, not full résumés.
10. The ask. How much, what it buys, how long it lasts, and what milestone it reaches.

We wrote a full guide to what happens next: how to send a pitch deck to investors, and how to know if an investor opened it.

What happens after you send it

This is the part other template libraries don't cover, because their templates end at the export button.

A DeckCP template becomes a deck with a link. Share it open for a demo day, or gate it with an email when you're sending to investors so every viewer is a name. When someone opens it, you see who and which slide they're on. Afterwards you see which slides they read, how long on each, whether they came back, and whether anyone else at the firm opened it. When someone sits on your traction slide for over a minute, DeckCP drafts the follow-up with that context in it, and you send it from the same screen.

Edit the deck later and the link everyone already has shows the new version.

Build your deck from a template, send the link, see who reads it

Pick a template above, or import the deck you already have. Either way you end with one link that reports back. Free while we're in early access.