Summary

This pitch deck template builds a slide-by-slide outline in your browser. Choose pre-seed, seed or Series A, answer 14 short fields covering problem, solution, traction, market, model, competition, team and ask, and the tool orders 10 or 11 slides for that stage, drafts one headline per slide and notes what each slide must show. Six checks flag a long one-liner, thin traction, a missing use of funds and unfilled placeholders before you send anything.

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Pitch Deck Template: Fill 14 Fields, Get an Outline

This free pitch deck template builds a stage-specific slide outline for pre-seed, seed or Series A. Fill the fields, run the six checks, copy the outline into your slides.

Build your outline

Pitch deck outline generator

Pick your stage, answer in one sentence per field, and the outline updates as you type. Anything in [BRACKETS] still needs your input.

    How the outline is built

    What the template does with each field

    Order set by stage

    Pre-seed puts the team before early signals. Seed and Series A move traction to slide 4 and add a go-to-market slide. The reasoning: the less you can prove with numbers, the more the deck has to prove with people.

    One headline per slide

    Each headline is your own sentence, trimmed to a single line. A slide that states its point in the title can be skimmed in seconds, which is how most decks get read before a first call.

    Six checks before you send

    The checklist flags a one-liner over 20 words, a problem over 25, thin traction for your stage, an ask without use of funds, an empty competition field and any unfilled placeholder. It never invents a number for you.

    Decide before you design

    Write the story first, then open the slide editor

    Most weak decks fail on the story, not the design. Settle the argument in sentences: who has the problem, what changed, what you have already proved and what the money buys. If a field above takes you more than a minute to answer, that slide is the one to work on with customers, not with a designer. Fill the generator once, then show the outline to two people who have never heard your pitch and ask them to repeat the problem back.

    • Write the problem as one customer and one pain
    • Pick the single traction number you can show evidence for
    • Build the market bottom-up: buyers times price
    • Name the milestone the round reaches before the next one
    Three founders at a whiteboard arranging sticky notes as a sequence of pitch deck slides
    Before you send it

    Four checks after the outline is done

    1. 1

      Read only the headlines in order

      If the ten headlines do not tell the whole story on their own, rewrite them. The body of each slide only supports the title.

    2. 2

      Replace every bracket and every adjective

      Clear each placeholder, then cut words like massive, unique or leading unless a number sits next to them. Evidence beats volume.

    3. 3

      Check each claim against a source you could show

      Traction, market and cost figures should each trace to a dashboard, a contract or a cited report. One number you cannot defend costs more than a missing slide.

    4. 4

      Send a link or a PDF, not the editable file

      Share a version you control. Keep the appendix separate so the main deck stays at 10 to 12 slides.

    Pitch deck template questions

    Is this pitch deck template free?
    Yes. It runs in your browser, needs no signup and sends nothing to a server. Your company name, traction numbers and ask stay on your device.
    How many slides should a pitch deck have?
    Ten to twelve for the main deck. Guy Kawasaki's 10/20/30 rule says 10 slides, a 20 minute talk and type no smaller than 30 points. The generator builds 10 slides at pre-seed and Series A and 11 at seed, because seed decks carry a go-to-market slide as well as traction. Move anything extra to an appendix.
    What order should the slides go in?
    It depends on the stage, and that order is an editorial heuristic from the way early rounds are usually argued, not a rule from a study. At pre-seed the team slide comes before the early signals, because you have little else to prove. At seed and Series A, traction moves up to slide 4 so the numbers are read before the market story.
    Where do the market size and traction numbers come from?
    From you. The tool never fills in a figure. It drafts each headline from the sentence you type and tells you what the slide should show. For market size, build it bottom-up: number of buyers times the price they pay, with a source for anything you did not measure.
    What if I have no traction yet?
    Stay on the pre-seed setting and use the early-signals field: interviews held, waitlist size, pilots, letters of intent. A count and a named pilot beat an adjective. If you have nothing countable, run ten customer interviews before you send the deck.
    Does this build the actual slides?
    No. It builds the outline: slide order, one headline per slide and a note on what to put on it. Paste it into Pitch, Google Slides, Keynote or PowerPoint and design from there. A clear outline saves more time than a polished template with the wrong story.
    Should I list competitors or say I have none?
    List what customers use today, including spreadsheets and doing nothing. Investors read 'no competitors' as a sign the problem is not real or the search was short. The checklist flags an empty competition field for that reason.

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