Read the deck like a partner reads it.
Cold open, two minutes a slide, no charity. If a slide doesn't earn its place by minute three, it gets moved or cut.
IndexMethod
The deck investors fund, and how we get there.
Two parts. Five questions every partner runs through silently before they pass, and the three phases I move through with you to answer them on the page.
Working principles
Three rules I run every engagement on.
Cheap to state, hard to hold. They're the reason the work compresses into days instead of weeks of agency cycles.
Rewrite, don't redesign.
Most decks fail on the words and the order, not the type and the grid. Design polish goes last, after the spine is right.
Work on the founder's file.
No new template, no agency hand-off. We edit the file you'll actually send, in real time, so the changes survive the next round of feedback.
The method
Five questions a partner asks before they pass.
Every deck I review gets read against these five. Most land two or three. The slides we rewrite, or add, are the ones that don't.
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Layer
What the investor asks
What we work on
01
Foundation
Investor asks
“Why is this team the one to do this, now?”
The tell. The team slide is a list of logos instead of a reason.
We work on
- ·Founder–market fit, in one line
- ·Why now, in plain words
- ·The insight other people don't have
02
Frame
Investor asks
“What category is this, and are they winning it?”
The tell. Page two reads like five other decks the partner saw this month.
We work on
- ·A clear category sentence
- ·Problem framed as a wedge
- ·A first-three-slides arc
03
Engine
Investor asks
“How does a dollar in turn into durable revenue?”
The tell. GTM is a list of channels. CAC, payback and retention sit in an appendix nobody opens.
We work on
- ·GTM motion on one slide
- ·CAC, payback and retention shape
- ·A channel mix that holds up
04
Trajectory
Investor asks
“Does the round size match the milestones?”
The tell. Use of funds is generic. The next round's milestones aren't on the page.
We work on
- ·Use of funds tied to milestones
- ·Path to the next round
- ·12-month plan and risks
05
Ask
Investor asks
“After this meeting, what am I supposed to do?”
The tell. No round structure, no lead profile, no timeline. Process feels improvised.
We work on
- ·Round size and structure
- ·Lead profile and process
- ·Timeline and close
Read bottom up. Layer 01 carries the most weight. If the foundation is soft, every slide above it leaks. Most rounds stall on Engine or Trajectory.
See engagementsHow we work
From your inbox to a closed round in three phases.
Most engagements move quickly. A sharper deck inside a week, partner-meeting ready inside two. You work directly with me from start to finish.
01
Days 1–2
Read and diagnose.
You send the deck, the GTM model and a sentence on what's not landing. I read everything end to end and come back with the two or three slides costing you the most, and which of the five investor questions your deck hasn't answered.
Diagnostic memo and priority list
02
Days 3–10
Rewrite, in your file.
We work side by side on the slides that matter. Narrative arc, the wedge slide, the GTM slide, the ask. I write, you push back, we keep what's true. No design pod, no juniors. Me, on your file, async between sessions.
Rewritten priority slides and speaker notes
03
Through close
On call as the round runs.
Partner-meeting prep, a Q&A appendix for the questions you'd rather not get, fast turns when feedback comes back from the room. I'm reachable until the round closes, not until the invoice clears.
Q&A appendix and live support
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No project managers, no design pod, no handoff to a junior. The person reading your deck is the one rewriting it.
A week in the work
What the modal week actually looks like.
A Refine engagement is two of these weeks back-to-back. Round-out is four. Times are ET; sessions move to fit your calendar — the cadence doesn't.
- MonKickoff · 75 min · live
Screen-share your file. We read the deck cold, slide by slide, and I leave with a written brief on the spine: which slides survive, which get rewritten, which get cut.
- TueAsync · brief returned by 9pm ET
You get the written brief plus a Loom walking the deck. No homework yet — read it overnight and bring objections to Wednesday.
- WedWorking session · 90 min · live
Hands on the file together. We rewrite the two highest-leverage slides in real time. You drive the keyboard. I drive the read.
- ThuAsync · turnaround under 6 hrs
Send me anything you rewrote overnight. Inline comments back same day. This is where most of the silent compounding happens.
- FriClose-out · 60 min · live
Final pass on the deck. Cover-email rewrite. Two follow-up email templates for the partners who will go quiet. We end with a list of what you ship before Monday.
Next
See the three engagements, or send me your deck.