# Pitch Deck Template Generator for Startup Founders URL: https://gotomarket-ai.com/tools/pitch-deck-template Type: tool Locale: en Published: 2026-11-02 Updated: 2026-11-04 --- > A free pitch deck template and outline generator for founders. Pick your stage, fill in the facts you have, and copy a slide-by-slide outline with a headline and a note on what to show for each slide. *Free tool* ## 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. ## 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. *[Interactive widget — see the live page for the full experience]* ## 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 ## Four checks after the outline is done 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. **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. **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. **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. ## Turn the deck into a go-to-market plan A pitch deck argues the plan. gotomarket-ai maps your ICP, positioning and week-by-week launch calendar so the plan behind the slides is ready. *Call to action: Explore gotomarket-ai* ## FAQ ### 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.