Pitch Deck Design · For Seed & Pre-Seed Startups

Pitch decks
investors
actually remember.

Bootstrapped? Same. We build decks proven to hit the story beats, slide order, and financial framing seed investors actually fund. Buy online, kickoff in 48 hours — no sales call required. Flat pricing from $2,400.

48h kickoff · 7–14 day turnaround Money-back guarantee if we're not the right fit Slide script written for you
Printed pitch deck slides laid out in a grid — target market, 5-year growth, path to $100M and product slides
5.0 · HomeJetter
  • Instant checkoutPay securely online. No sales call gauntlet.
  • 48-hour kickoffIntake form + kickoff email land in your inbox within two business days.
  • Flat pricingFixed fee, no scope games, no surprise line items.
  • Money-back promiseFull refund before design starts if we're not the right fit.
Why AwesomeSauce

Built on what actually raises money.

We reverse-engineered dozens of funded seed and pre-seed decks — YC, Techstars, 500, real angels — and boiled down the story beats, slide order, and financial framing investors pattern-match on. Then we made it look sharp enough to forward without a caption.

Proven slide order

We know how partners actually read a deck — which slides they skim, which ones decide the meeting, and the order that keeps them nodding instead of scrolling. Your story lands in the sequence investors are already wired to follow.

Investor-fluent copy

Bottom-Up TAM, unit economics, path-to-scale — written the way partners actually read it. No jargon soup, no “disrupting the disruptors.”

Bespoke visuals

Custom charts, custom illustrations, custom type. Not a Canva template with your logo pasted over someone else’s brand.

Speaker script included

Every slide ships with the words you’ll say out loud. Tuned to a 2–3 minute pitch, memorable, and — importantly — pronounceable at 8am on 3 hours of sleep.

Full spread of printed pitch deck slides designed by AwesomeSauce
Twelve slides. One story. Zero filler.
The Twelve Slides

Every slide should have a purpose.

This is the proven order — the beats investors expect, in the sequence that actually sells a Seed or Pre-Seed round. Each slide has one job. Here's what it needs to do to earn its spot in the deck.

Illustrative examples — these show what each slide should cover, not final designs.

The AI coach that helps ADHD brains actually start.
Company · Logo · One Simple Sentence
01

Intro · One Simple Sentence

Logo, company name, and one line — catchy, short, and memorable. It has to survive a hallway retelling on Monday morning. If a partner can’t repeat it to their team without notes, the sentence isn’t doing its job.

THE PROBLEM
“My brain won’t let me start, and I feel guilty about it every single day.”
Maya · Product Designer, Brooklyn · 6.5 hrs/week lost to task paralysis
02

The Problem

One named human, in their own words. One to three points: who has this pain, how often it hits, and the money or hours it burns. Skip the industry-trend slide — frame it around a specific end user and the cost of the status quo.

HOW IT WORKS
Sage
1“I can’t start my design review.”
2Sage breaks it into a 3-minute first step.
3Voice check-ins keep her moving — task done.
4× more tasks started vs. a to-do list · 4 “stuck” tasks cleared this week
03

The Solution / Demo

Show the product early, as the obvious answer to the slide before it, through a real user’s story. Include actual screenshots, mockups, or a short video walkthrough — plus the value in a number: 10× faster, 80% cheaper, 4× more tasks finished. Three screens, not thirty — never an exhaustive feature list. One claim, quantified.

WHY NOW
Tech →On-device voice models: 12× cheaper inference since 2023
Behavior →ADHD diagnoses in US adults up 42% in 4 years
Policy →Telehealth parity rules made digital care reimbursable
Impossible three years ago · crowded three years from now
04

Why Now

The slide most founders skip and most partners look for. Explain why this company couldn’t have existed three years ago — and why waiting three more is too late. Regulatory shifts, technology unlocks, cost curves, or a real change in how people behave.

A $2.7B UNDERSERVED ADHD CARE MARKET
0TAM · US adults w/ ADHD
0SAM · early adopters (6%)
$0× annual ARPU
05

Market Opportunity

Bottom-Up TAM, built the way partners respect it — population × penetration × ARPU. Every number sourced, one Google away from verification. No “$1 trillion market” hand-waves.

BUSINESS MODEL
12×$14.99×60%= $0
months / yr · monthly sub · retention · = LTV per paying user · CAC $28 · 3-month payback
06

How We Make Money

One line. One outcome. Subscription price, take-rate, tier — whatever the model is, distill it to a sentence you can defend on stage. This is where Bottom-Up TAM starts: real ARPU, sourced and defensible.

WHY WE WIN
ADHD-NativeVoice-FirstClinically InformedAlways-On
Sage
Meditation Apps
Task Managers
Generic AI Chat
07

Competitive Analysis

“No competition” is a red flag. Build the matrix investors already have in their head — and show where you win. Checkmarks, quadrants, positioning maps: the format they pattern-match on in 20 seconds.

TRACTION · 6 MONTHS POST-LAUNCH
$41k MRR · 28% MoM · 62% D30 retention · 9k waitlist
08

Traction & Milestones

Momentum, in the metrics your stage is judged on. Seed: MRR/ARR growth, DAU/MAU, retention cohorts, net dollar retention. Pre-Seed and pre-revenue: waitlist size, LOIs, design partners, pilot agreements, and how fast you ship. One chart that goes up and to the right for the right reason.

PATH TO $100M ARR
One city today → global network · new geos, adjacent segments, higher tiers
09

Financials & Projections

Path to $10M ARR — the believable first act. What it takes — subs, CAC, retention — to get from today’s traction to a real Series A metric. Path to $100M ARR — the expansion story. Adjacent segments, new geographies, higher tiers: the levers that turn a category winner into a venture-scale outcome. This is what partners underwrite to.

TEAM
Jordan ReyesCEO · ex-Headspace PM · diagnosed w/ ADHD, built for it
Anika ShahCTO · ex-OpenAI applied ML · voice + on-device inference
Dr. Miles ChenClinical Lead · ex-BetterHelp · licensed ADHD clinician
10

The Team

Proof you’re the exact team for this problem: headshots, prior achievements, domain expertise, and the logos that earn trust fast.

THE ASK
$0M Seed round · 18-month runway · SAFE or priced
60%
EngineeringVoice model + on-device inference to GA
30%
Go-to-marketCreator engine to 25k paying subscribers
10%
Ops & clinicalEfficacy study to unlock payer deals
Unlocks: $1M ARR in 18 months · Series A metrics
11

The Ask

The number, and exactly what it buys. How much you’re raising, the split of proceeds — 60% engineering, 30% GTM, 10% ops — and the two or three milestones the cash unlocks, stated in the metrics that make the next round obvious. Vague asks stall.

The AI coach that helps ADHD brains actually start.
Same logo · same sentence · the phrase they repeat Monday
12

Closing Echo

End on the exact slide you opened with. Same logo, same one sentence. It gives the room a phrase they can repeat — and dramatically increases the odds they remember who you are on Monday.

Pricing

Three tiers. All under agency rates.

Every tier is flat-fee, includes two revision rounds, a written speaker script, and ships as fully-editable Figma + PowerPoint + PDF files you own outright. Up to 15 slides, tuned for a 2–3 minute pitch.

Tier 01 · Refresh

The Glow-Up

You know the story. Your deck doesn’t.

from $2,400
Typical agency: $6,000+

You’ve pitched it, you’ve won a room with it — but the slides look like a 2016 template you inherited from your co-founder’s cousin. We fix that.

  • Bespoke slide design + custom charts & graphics
  • Reorganized for Seed / Pre-Seed narrative flow
  • Copy polish in investor voice
  • Speaker script written to accompany every slide
  • Custom typography, color, and iconography
  • Two revision rounds
  • Editable Figma + PowerPoint + PDF
  • ~7 day turnaround
Tier 03 · Full Build

The Whole Sauce

Blank page to investor-ready in three weeks.

from $7,900
Typical agency: $20,000+

You’ve got a company. We build the whole story — research, model, strategy, narrative, design, script. The full seed-stage deck a real investor would forward.

  • Everything in The Sharpener
  • Market research + industry data pull
  • Problem statement + customer persona
  • Full go-to-market strategy
  • Path to $10M ARR + path to $100M
  • Animated demo slide — motion / video walk-through of your product
  • Business model + revenue architecture
  • Team, ask, use of funds, milestones
  • Full speaker script — every slide, 2–3 min flow
  • 2–3 week turnaround
Money-back guarantee if we're not the right fit You own all editable files Kickoff within 48 hours

Buying without a call — the honest FAQ

Do I have to book a call first?

Nope. Pick a tier, pay, and we take it from there. That’s the whole point of this page.

What happens the second I pay?

You get an order confirmation and a link to a quick 5-minute intake form. One of our design founders personally reaches out within 48 hours to schedule your kickoff.

What if it’s not the right fit?

Full refund, no drama, any time before we start designing. If we’ve started and you’re not happy, we keep working until you are.

Can I still talk to a human?

Of course. Grab 20 minutes here if you’d rather sanity-check first. Most founders skip it.

Still deciding? Grab a 20-minute call — or just hit Buy. You can refund before we start.

AwesomeSauce built our seed deck from a messy Google Doc and a lot of hand-waving. The story finally clicked, and the investors stopped asking us what we do and started asking how much we were raising. It’s the single best money we spent pre-raise.
Teri Saya · Co-Founder, HomeJetter
The Process

Four steps. Zero mystery.

01

Kickoff Call

30 minutes, virtual, face-to-face. We learn your company, stage, ask, and investor targets.

02

Strategy Draft

Narrative outline + slide order + script bones — delivered before we touch a single pixel.

03

Design + Build

Custom visuals, charts, copy, and script. We walk you through each draft live on Zoom — no lonely Loom links to squint at.

04

Handoff

Editable Figma, PowerPoint, and PDF. Plus the speaker script and a founder Q&A prep doc.

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