Pitch deck design services: we write the story, then design the slides

Our writers start by mapping the story slide by slide: what each slide has to prove and how it sets up the next, so an investor reaches your ask already persuaded. Then we write the slides. Each headline states its point as a full sentence, so someone who skims only the headlines still gets your case. "The problem" is a label. "Small dairy farms can't afford a vet check on every calf" is a point. Body text is cut to what the slide needs, in your voice, without the inflated language that makes investors skeptical.

Our designers build each slide around its one job. If you already have a logo, fonts and colors, we work inside them. Starting fresh, we'll build a consistent look you can reuse in other documents. If the logo itself is missing, our logo design services can draw one first. Type is large enough to read on a phone, layouts aren't crammed, and text stands out clearly from its background, so nothing disappears on a projector or a cheap laptop screen. The W3C's minimum contrast standard is a good benchmark for how much contrast slide text needs.

We turn market sizing, traction and financial summaries into charts anyone gets at a glance, with a source line under any figure that came from outside your business. We don't invent traction, inflate a market or build projections you haven't given us. A twelve-column forecast can become one chart of revenue by year, with the assumptions in a footnote. For a data-heavy deck, our charts and infographics service can carry the same visual style across your other materials. And when the argument behind the numbers needs more room than a slide gives it, our white paper writing services can build a sourced paper from the same facts.

We can write speaker notes for each slide, so you know what to say while it's on screen and what to save for questions. We also coach delivery: pacing, pauses and the hard questions your slides invite. Ask for them and we'll add them to the scope.

Send us the deck you're using. We'll look it over, say whether it needs a new story, new design or just a tighter order, and quote that. Send the version investors have actually seen, even if you've changed it since.

Pre-seed and seed decks run on promise, early proof and the people, because there's rarely much revenue history yet. We help founders frame the opportunity, explain why now, and present whatever traction exists in its strongest honest light: paying customers, a waitlist, pilot results or letters of intent. We also prepare decks for angel meetings, where you may get even less time. By Series A, investors expect the metrics to carry more of the story, so the traction and financial slides do more of the work.

Making the case for a book is familiar work for a publisher. A producer, studio or media partner wants to see the story at a glance, who it's for and why it would work on screen or in another format. A book deck usually covers the premise in one line, the main characters, the audience, two or three comparable books or films, the author's platform and the format you have in mind, such as a series or a feature. Before you approach the industry, read our guide on how to pitch a story to a studio. When the book needs a script alongside the deck, our screenplay writing team can help.

Funders and boards read decks too. A nonprofit deck has to show the need, the program and the evidence that it works, then say plainly what a gift will change. The ask slide matters as much here as in an investor deck: name the amount and what it pays for, such as a second season of a program or a staff post for a year. When a funder meeting turns into an application, we can write the grant proposal too, from $1,800 per application.

A sales deck has a different job from an investor deck. It leads a prospect from their problem to your solution to a decision, and its last slide tells them exactly what to do next. It often gets forwarded to people who never heard your pitch. When a prospect wants more detail after the meeting, the same story can become a written business proposal.

The $1,600 starting price covers the story, the numbers and the design for a deck we write from your material. When you need only part of a deck, design alone or a rewrite of the story, tell us and the quote will cover just that part.

It's worth knowing which job you're asking for. If investors follow your story but the slides look homemade, that's design. If the slides look fine but nobody reaches the ask convinced, that's the story, and new fonts won't fix it. Plenty of decks need both, and the quote says which parts it covers.

On a slide, the words and the layout are one decision. A headline is written to fit its slide, and a chart is designed to prove the sentence above it. Our writers and designers work on your deck together, so those choices get made at the same time. If a headline runs to three lines, the writer cuts it; the designer doesn't shrink the type to squeeze it in. If a chart can't prove its headline, one of them changes.

Cutting fixes more decks than redesign does. We ask what each slide is for and remove whatever doesn't serve that job. Three bullet points become one sentence. A chart with six lines becomes the one line that proves the point. Here's the kind of change we mean.

The deck and everything in it stay yours, and nothing we sign takes ownership of your work. The fee is fixed, with no hourly billing and no surprise invoice. When a deck isn't something we can do well, we'll say so and explain what it needs instead. Before you decide, you can read what our authors say about working with us.