Startup Pitch Deck 10-Slide Outline

Founders and team leads who need a pitch narrative skeleton fast.

Fill four fields: {company}, {industry}, the {audience}, and the {ask} you ultimately want (funding, a partnership, internal sign-off). Run it through ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini to get a ten-slide outline with a title, one-line message and visual suggestion per slide. Paste the whole outline into Gamma to auto-generate a first-draft deck, then adjust with your real numbers. Remember: the AI gives you structure — swap in your actual figures and examples.

Investors spend very little time per deck, so this prompt locks down three things: the problem-solution-traction narrative order, one sentence per slide, and under 20 words each. That forces a skim-readable skeleton instead of a wall-of-text doc. Asking for a visual suggestion matters because a deck is a visual medium — deciding the chart or image per slide up front stops you stalling at design time. Forcing a clear closing ask avoids the most common mistake: finishing without telling the audience what you want them to do.

• 01Feed it data for substance: paste your real numbers, competitors and team background ahead of the prompt and the messages get far more specific, not templated.
• 02Swap the framework: change 'problem-solution-traction' to 'status quo, shift, opportunity' or an Amazon-style 'future press release' to suit different topics.
• 03Use each one-liner as your script: that 20-word message is literally the first thing you say out loud on that slide.
• 04Generate investor and client versions separately: rerun with {audience} set to 'enterprise buyers' and the emphasis and ask change completely.

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