I Have a Client Pitch Next Week — How Do I Make My Deck Look Polished Fast?

With a client pitch a week away, don't rebuild the deck — polish the slides clients actually judge you on. First, rewrite every title as the point the client should take away. Second, fix three kinds of slides: who you are (team and credentials), your proof (results, figures, cases) and the ask (what happens next). Make each one scannable in five seconds — roles as short labels, results as two or three large numbers, one clear photo, one consistent style. Then spend real time checking: whoever or whatever redesigned the slides, re-read every name, job title, award, date and figure against your source before the meeting.

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   Spend the week on the slides clients judge, in this order

   Day one: rewrite the titles so they read as a story on their own. Then the slides that carry the decision: who you are, your proof, and the ask. Then the cover and contents, which set the first impression. Leave everything else for last — a client forgives a plain appendix, not a confusing credentials slide. Keep the last day for checking, not designing.

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   Make your credentials slide readable in five seconds

   A credentials slide answers “why trust this person?”. Put the role at the top, the strongest result as one large figure, and the honours as a tidy list with years — not a wall of text. In this bank advisor's introduction (in Chinese), the role, certifications, both unchanged award lines and the 800,000 sales figure carried over as written, and the figure became the focal point. But four of the six award names gained the words “provincial branch” (省分行) that weren't in the original, and one line that read “赛博行” was rewritten. On a credentials slide that is exactly the kind of error a client notices — check every honour word for word.

   

   

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   Turn team bios into roles, milestones and strengths

   Clients scan team slides for “who will actually do the work”. A paragraph of biography hides that. Break it into the roles as short labels, two or three dated milestones, and three strengths in plain words. In this example, a dense bio became three role tags, two milestone lines and three capability lines. Two things changed that you'd need to fix: the original only dates joining the studio to 2021, but the award line was also labelled 2021; and the phrase “award-winning interaction designer” disappeared.

   

   

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   Lead your proof slides with the numbers

   Clients remember figures, not bullets. Pull the two or three numbers that prove your capability out of the sentences and set them large with short labels, with a headline that states the point. In this R&D slide, 11%, 1,200+ and 800+ now lead. It was redesigned in “allow restructuring” mode, which changed “up to 60%” to “by 60%” and dropped an industry range — fine to accept or undo, but only if you notice it.

   

   

   What changed in that example, line by line →
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   Who BetterPPT is for — and who it isn't

   BetterPPT is an AI design agent that redesigns PowerPoint decks you've already written — every slide individually — and returns an editable .pptx. A 30-slide deck takes about 15–20 minutes, which leaves the rest of your week for rehearsing and checking. It's for decks where a lot is riding on it — investor meetings, client pitches, board updates, promotion reviews and conference talks. It isn't for a class assignment or a routine team update: free tools like PowerPoint Designer or Canva's free plan are enough for those. It's paid — $39 for up to 30 slides, with a $9.90 refundable deposit to preview up to six of your slides first — and as the examples above show, you still need to read every slide before the meeting.

   How AI redesign of an existing deck works →