Make a fundable pitch deck

A pitch deck has two jobs: convince an investor in 12 slides and leave them with a .pptx they can forward to partners. This stack delivers both — narrative comes first, visuals and editability follow.

Step 1: Build the persuasive arc

Start with ppt-creator. It is opinionated about content structure: every slide answers “so what?” or “so now what?”. This is the McKinsey/BCG framing baked into a skill — perfect for getting the argument right before you worry about visuals.

Use ppt-creator to build a 12-slide Series A deck for [your company].
We do [problem]. Our solution is [value prop]. Traction so far: [numbers].
Use the "so-what / so-now-what" structure. Audience: enterprise CTOs.

Step 2: Apply a coherent theme

The output of step 1 looks like a competent intern made it. Pass it through theme-factory to apply one of 10 hand-tuned themes — color palette + font pairing in one shot. “Tech Innovation” or “Modern Minimalist” are typical pitch-deck choices.

Apply the "Tech Innovation" theme from theme-factory to the deck.
Keep the structure intact, only change palette and typography.

Step 3 (optional): Brand-level polish

If the deck represents a specific company brand, layer brand-guidelines on top — though this is designed for Anthropic’s house style, the mechanism (font-size-aware font swapping, accent rotation) generalizes to any brand book.

Step 4: Export to editable .pptx

anthropic-pptx is the engine layer that’s been running underneath. Confirm the output is a real .pptx — speaker notes intact, charts as editable objects, master slides honored. This is the file you send to investors; this is the file they edit.

Variations

Seed deck (10 slides) — same pipeline, ask ppt-creator for 10 slides instead.
Internal board update — swap step 2 for the “Modern Minimalist” theme.
Demo day deck (5 slides) — same pipeline but compressed; ppt-creator handles the constraint.

What this pipeline doesn’t do

Animated transitions — for that, use nanobanana-ppt instead (~$10 cost).
Cinema-grade visuals — for that, swap to next-slide with a “Bold” or “Cinema” style.

But the workhorse pitch deck stack is the four above. Run them in order, ship in 30 minutes.