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Decks that do not look like everyone else's

How to use getdeck, and what is worth knowing when an agent builds your slides.

• 01
  Guide2026-11-05

  Stop rebuilding every bid proposal from scratch: start with the structure

  Bid and sales proposals need almost the same set of slides for each kind of job. Why forcing content into bought templates is frustrating, and what picking the structure first looks like instead.

• 02
  Note2026-11-05

  I lost a day fitting an AI-made deck into the client template

  AI slide tools give you a first draft in ten minutes. The time leaks out afterwards, when you fit it to the client template and move it into PowerPoint. Here is where it leaks and what changes when you pick the template first.

• 03
  Note2026-11-05

  I asked AI for a deck and every one looked alike. What do I pick first?

  Why AI-made decks look alike, and an order that helps: pick the layouts and the theme first, then let the AI fill in the content.

• 04
  Guide2026-10-15

  When the client changes, the whole deck changes in one click: My Theme and My Templates for consultants

  For independent strategy and management consultants. A way to cut the time you spend re-matching colors for each client and rebuilding last project's structure. Save a theme from three client colors, keep the structure you like as your own template, and reuse both on the next project.

• 05
  Note2026-10-12

  Three colors make a theme, and the deck follows it into AI tools and PPTX

  While building My Theme and My Templates I read the public help pages and pricing of Pitch, Gamma, Canva and others. This compares how many colors you enter, when contrast warnings appear, where an AI-made deck ends up, and presenter mode, including what we do not have.

• 06
  Note2026-09-09

  Seven signs a deck was made by AI

  What an audience notices within five minutes. These are the failures we keep finding while checking 167 layouts, and each one has a different fix.

• 07
  Guide2026-09-09

  A ten-slide pitch deck, in the right order

  The order matters more than the count. One question each slide has to answer, and the place each one usually falls apart.