Pixel-perfect, infinitely iterable, delivered in days — not weeks. For founders who read the deck as part of the pitch, and investors who notice the typography.
In 2026, most founders are still building seed decks in software they used ten years ago.
The launch film walks through why Slatepress exists and what we ship — ten slides, one idea each, version-controlled in code, exported to PowerPoint, PDF, or the web in seconds.
Attention on pitch decks has collapsed. The best 2026 seed decks carry exactly one idea per slide; we kill the paragraph and push the supporting detail to speaker notes.
An end-to-end demonstration: narrative arc, market sizing with visible arithmetic, competitive positioning, and a design system that holds across all fourteen slides.
A respectful 2026 redesign of three publicly-shared 2014 slides. The original worked — but the conventions have shifted, and this teardown shows what those shifts mean slide by slide.
The 2008 seed deck raised $600k at a $2.4M valuation. It still works — but three slides in particular read as a red flag in 2026. Here is how we'd redesign them.
Garrett Camp and Travis Kalanick's 2008 deck raised $200k on a $4M cap. Most founders reference it but have never read past the logo slide. The deck worked because of what wasn't on it.
8 tabs. 924 formulas. Every blue cell is an input you can flex. Scenarios prove the downside case survives. The proof artifact for the Vellum Model add-on.
The cover has to say what the company does. Taking the focus off the logo frees the reader to evaluate — the most important job a cover slide has.
We build decks in code. Which means every revision is a diff, every artifact is reproducible, and a design system holds across fourteen slides, not five.
Ten slides forces you to say less than you mean. Fourteen is the minimum number that lets the deck breathe — while still reading like a single, finished object.
The deck didn't sell the company — it sold the judgment. Partners kept quoting slide eight back to us in diligence.
We closed the round in thirty-eight days. I credit the deck for at least half of the meetings, and for all of the no-brainer yeses.
Every page reads like it was written by someone who knew the answer before they drew the chart. That's the tell.
The first investor I sent it to asked who designed it before they asked how much we were raising. Worth every dollar.
An opinionated, slide-by-slide guide to what belongs in a 2026 seed deck — and what gets cut. Six pages, no fluff. The same checklist we use when we build decks for clients.
Run it as a diff against your current deck. You'll probably cut five slides.
One email, the PDF, done. No drip. We don't share addresses. Direct download.
Tell us what you're raising, when you're pitching, and what about the current deck isn't landing. We'll reply with a read on whether we're a fit — usually same day.