How many slides should an investor pitch deck have?

Most seed and Series A decks land between 10 and 12 slides. Investors skim, so one idea per slide is the rule. This builder produces that canonical structure so you do not miss a key section.

What goes on the traction slide?

Traction shows momentum with hard numbers: revenue, active users, growth rate, signed pilots or letters of intent. Pick the two or three metrics that are most impressive and trend them upward over time.

How big should my market size slide be?

Show TAM, SAM and SOM — total addressable, serviceable addressable and serviceable obtainable market. Use bottom-up math (price times realistic customer count) rather than only a giant top-down number, which investors distrust.

Where does the ask slide go?

The ask comes near the end, after financials. State how much you are raising, the rough use of funds and the milestones that capital unlocks. Keep it specific so investors can picture the next 18 months.

Is anything I type uploaded?

No. The outline is assembled entirely in your browser from your inputs. Nothing is sent to a server or stored anywhere.

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Pitch deck outline builder

Raising money starts with a clear story, and investors expect that story in a familiar order. A strong deck walks from the problem, through your solution and market, into proof that it is working, and ends with the team and the ask. This builder takes a handful of facts about your company and assembles the canonical 10-12 slide outline, with a tailored talking-point prompt on every slide so you always know what belongs there.

How it works

The builder maps your inputs onto the standard venture deck sequence used by most accelerators and seed funds: Title, Problem, Solution, Product, Market Size, Business Model, Traction, Competition, Team, Financials, and The Ask. Each slide has a fixed purpose — for example, the Market slide is where TAM/SAM/SOM lives and the Traction slide is where your growth metrics go. Where you have supplied a detail (company name, problem, market, traction, ask) it is woven directly into that slide’s prompt; otherwise the prompt explains exactly what to add. The result is a ready-to-fill skeleton rather than generic filler.

Tips and example

Keep one idea per slide and lead with the problem, not the product — investors fund painful problems. On traction, prefer a single chart trending up to a wall of numbers. For the ask, tie the amount to milestones: raising 750k to reach 10k paying users and a Series A. Cut adjectives; let the numbers carry the weight. Once the outline is copied into your slide tool, design each slide as a single headline plus one visual, and rehearse the deck as a five-minute spoken story before you ever send the PDF.