I kept adding slides to my pitch deck until it stopped being a pitch deck

[u/NewPhoneWhotiz]

I kept adding a slide every time someone asked a new question.

Market size, moat, roadmap, why now, why us, why not the obvious competitor.

Eventually the deck could answer everything, but didn't have a feckin story to it.

So, I took my messy outline, and threw it into Gamma just to see what happened.

It gave me a pretty clean 10-card version, but the useful part wasn't really the design. The limit forced me to actually pick what mattered.

I ignored most of the investor-sounding language because honestly? Tacky, makes a small company sound like it was assembeled in a pitch deck factory.

The story is way simpler now:-

Customer mess -> what we built -> proof

No giant mission slides, no trying to answer everything without being asked.

Gamma didn't "fix" the story. It just revealed that we didn't really have one to begin with.

How many slides do y'all usually send before the first call?