The consulting-grade deck system. Three specialised advisors — content, layout, design — ride a three-stage workflow that ends in native .pptx.
5 free generations / month · no credit card · your slides stay yours
// who it's for
Six common deck shapes, six visual systems out of the box. Pick a starting point and you're already in the right neighbourhood — or upload your master and overrule us entirely.
McKinsey-grade restraint — page furniture, hairline rules, source citations. The default for boards that read.
Soft cream paper, Fraunces italic display, sage hairlines, generous interlinear space. Like the Stripe annual letter.
Black canvas, oversized type, electric teal as a single unflinching accent. Feels like a piece of work.
Sober warm cream, deep ink navy, a single copper accent, Source Serif body set ragged-right.
Vellum cream, two-column body, italic captions, plate references. Footnotes ship with you.
Deep plum canvas, Fraunces italic display, full-bleed image plates. Curated, not corporate.
// 12 more templates in the library · or upload your own master and we extract its layouts, fonts, palette & page furniture.
// the advisors
Other tools generate. We advise. Three specialised intelligences ride alongside you through storyboard, wireframe, and hi-fi — each one a consultant in its lane.
Knows your goal, audience, and intention. Pulls credible web sources and your corporate brain. Tells you what's missing before the partner asks.
Reads the slide and picks the right shape. 2×2 for positioning. Sankey for flow. Waterfall for variance. No more drag-the-rectangle.
Picks the visual system that fits the brief. Or extends yours. Holds the typography line like an InDesign annual report — every kerned pair, every hairline.
Gamma has 0 advisors. Plus AI has 0. Beautiful.ai has 0. They generate. We coach.
Advisors don't take over. They mark up. You stay in the driver's seat — like working with a senior partner who reviews and pushes back.
McKinsey, BCG, Bain working files. Built by an ex-strategy consultant — not a designer guessing.
// why we exist
Generic chatbots return paragraphs you have to format yourself. Generic AI slide tools lock you into proprietary slides you can't actually edit. We take the smarts and drop them inside a real design tool — so what comes out is a polished, on-brand slide, native PowerPoint, ready to send to your CEO.
// the same brief · «Q3 board update · revenue + retention»
// Same brief in both. Same data. Very different end state. The wrapper is the product.
// the work
From rough thinking to a slide you'd actually send — without losing the thread between them.
Drop in a brief, raw notes, or a transcript. The system proposes a narrative arc, core message, and slide outline — all editable, never opaque.
Per-slide wireframe with native primitives — 2×2 matrices, funnels, value chains, donut charts. Drag any text block freeform; tune typography per block.
Render to native PowerPoint with native primitives — every shape, line, and label fully editable. Squares stay squares, charts stay native PowerPoint charts.
// the example deck
A real Q3 Operating Review for a fictional company. Every canonical consulting layout in one coherent narrative — every slide rendered as native PowerPoint, every shape, line, and label fully editable.
// Every shape, line, and label rendered as a native PowerPoint primitive — fully editable in PowerPoint, Keynote, and Google Slides. Source: Studio LM is fictional; the layout system is real.
// what comes out
A glance at slides from real slides you'd ship. Every box, line and label is a native, editable primitive — in PowerPoint and on the web. Nothing here is a stock screenshot.
// Every label, line, shape — fully editable in PowerPoint and on the web. No screenshots.
// your control
in development · Q2Other AI slide tools give you one button: regenerate. Press it and your whole slide is rewritten. Don't press it and nothing changes.
slideAtelier hands you three dials — content, layout, visual — for every slide. Hold any at no change and we won't touch it. Push to flexible and we'll enhance, restyle, even split a dense slide into two.
// drawing of the upload control · what you'll see when private beta opens to BYO masters
Word for word. Numbers, dates, claims, names, dollar values — all preserved exactly. We only fit the existing copy into the chosen template.
Tighten copy, fix hierarchy, fill gaps. And uniquely: suggest researched additions — market sizing, competitor stats, third-party benchmarks. Every added stat is sourced and labelled.
Block positions, alignment, grid — exactly as uploaded. Even the odd kerning on your title slide. Page furniture untouched.
Re-balance blocks, fix density, regroup sections, restore breathing room. Your master template's grid still respected — we never invent geometry it doesn't allow.
Charts, shapes, photography, palette, iconography — preserved. Helpful when your team has built brand assets that mustn't drift.
Re-skin within your brand. Ugly chart-PNGs upgraded to native primitives. Stock icons swapped for system iconography. Colour use tightened to your theme.
Any of the three dials can suggest splitting a dense slide into two or more if the content is fighting the layout. You see the suggestion. You decide.
// Generic AI slide tools regenerate everything on every press. We let you say "leave my Q3 numbers alone and don't touch the cover, but freshen the layout on slide 4 and re-skin the charts on 7–11." Granular control. Trustable output.
// templates
Every company has a slide master that took someone three weeks to get right. Upload yours — we read its layouts, type pair, palette, and page furniture. Every slide you generate inherits your brand from slide one. No master yet? Pick from the growing library below.
// the primary path
slideAtelier inspects your .pptx in seconds — extracts every layout, the type pair, the palette, the page furniture, even your title slide's odd kerning. Every slide the system generates respects them. Brand drift stops on slide one.
// or pick from the library — eight systems below, more shipping monthly
01 · light · neutral
McKinsey-grade restraint. White paper, single accent, hairline rules, page furniture done right. The default for board reviews and operating slides.
Inter · 12 native shapes · teal accent
02 · dark · bold
Studio energy. Black canvas, oversized type, electric teal as a single unflinching accent. For brand slides, manifestos, and product launches that want to feel like a piece of work.
Inter Black · oversized numerals · electric teal
03 · cream · serif
A writer's slide. Warm paper stock, serif italic display, generous interlinear space, restrained warm-coral accent. Built for letters to shareholders, founder essays, narrative-led slides.
Instrument Serif + Inter · warm coral · longform
04 · b&w · minimal
No colour. No ornament. Just typography, hairline rules and grid. For design-system documentation, internal specs, and slides where the substance has to carry every page.
Inter + JetBrains Mono · 0.5px hairlines · pure achromatic
05 · light · restrained
Restrained product-team energy. Thin Inter, hairline rules, one piercing red. For status reports and weekly reviews — where the data should speak louder than the design.
Inter Light · −0.01 tracking · single red
06 · cream · geometric
1926, in 2026. Primary colours, oversized geometric type, structural overlap. For brand slides and manifestos that want to feel like a poster more than a slide.
Inter Black · +0.05 tracking · red / yellow / blue
07 · cream · serif
Like a Stripe annual letter. Soft cream paper, Fraunces italic display, sage hairlines, generous interlinear space. For investor updates, quarterly notes, financial commentary.
Fraunces + Inter · sage accent · longform
08 · light · technical
RFC energy. Timestamped doc covers, system diagrams, benchmark charts. For engineering reviews, architecture decisions, and any slide where the audience runs git blame on it.
Inter + JetBrains Mono · signal blue · grid 8
09 · plum · cinematic
Editorial treatment energy. Deep plum canvas, oversized Fraunces italic display, full-bleed image plates. For pitch treatments, brand films, fashion lookbooks — anything that needs to feel curated, not corporate.
Fraunces italic Black · plum + bone · photo-led
10 · cream · zine
Magazine-collage spirit. Warm cream paper, oversized Fraunces italic mixed with bold sans, offset photo plates and pull quotes. For brand books, fashion lookbooks, and creative-agency pitch decks that ought to feel like a print issue.
Fraunces italic + Inter Black · terra · mixed scales
11 · cream · classical
The corporate annual report. Sober warm cream, deep ink navy, a single copper accent, Source Serif body set ragged-right. For boards, regulators, AGM filings — when the document has to feel like a record, not a deck.
Source Serif + Inter · navy / copper · ragged-right
12 · paper · brutalist
Type as image. Stark white paper, black ink, one furious magenta. Words sized to fill the frame. For agency manifestos, opening keynotes, brand launches — single-message slides that reward standing alone.
Inter Black at scale · Inter Light supporting · magenta pop
13 · cream · scholarly
Working paper energy. Warm vellum, two-column body, italic captions, plate references. Built for research deep-dives, white papers, advisory committees — when the audience expects citations, not brand colours.
Fraunces + Source Serif · ink blue · two-column
14 · newsprint · op-ed
A newspaper that travels. Newsprint cream, dropped capitals, two-column body, a single masthead red. For long-form briefings, op-eds, public statements — when the deck wants to sound like reportage.
Fraunces mast + Source Serif body · masthead red
15 · dark · luminous
Modern launch energy. Deep navy mesh background, gradient text, glassmorphism cards, dual violet–cyan accent. For product launches, demo days, vision keynotes — anything that needs to feel like new technology.
Inter Tight · violet + cyan · gradient mesh
16 · paper · whisper
Linear-grade restraint. Maximum whitespace, minimum ornament, hairline rules, a single mint accent reserved only for data. For product roadmaps, internal memos, founder updates — anything that should feel deliberately quiet.
Inter very tight · −0.045 tracking · single mint #10b981
17 · sand · organic
Slow, considered, of the earth. Warm sand paper, forest-ink type, soft horizon photography, a single sage accent. For sustainability reports, impact statements, foundation grants — anything in service of place and care.
Fraunces + Inter · forest ink · sage accent
18 · obsidian · phosphor
A CRT in a back room. Obsidian background, amber phosphor type, ASCII-rule diagrams, command-prompt status lines. For internal engineering reviews, incident retros, demo-day cold opens — when the deck wants to feel earned by code.
JetBrains Mono · amber phosphor · ASCII rules
// 18 systems shipped · new ones added monthly · or upload your master and skip the picker. founder@slideatelier.com
// the shelf
Most AI deck tools optimise for speed and volume. We optimise for what survives a partner review at 11pm.
| // what matters |
// us
slideAtelier
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// generative
Gamma
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// add-in
Plus AI
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// templates
Beautiful.ai
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Native .pptx that round-trips cleanly |
Yes — engineered for it | Export only — re-flows | Yes | Export only |
| Specialised advisors (content · layout · design) | 3 — content, layout, design | 0 — pure generation | 0 — add-in fills the blanks | 0 — smart templates only |
| 3-stage workflow with gates (storyboard → wireframe → hi-fi) | Yes — consulting discipline | One-shot prompt | Slide-by-slide drafting | Template-then-fill |
| Corporate brain — train on your firm's decks, docs, intranet | Atelier tier · Q2 | No | Open-deck context only | No |
| Locked brand master enforcement | Yes — your master, your rules | Their themes | Inherits the deck you opened | Brand pack tier |
| Built by a consultant for consultants | Yes — that's the wedge | General-purpose | General-purpose | General-purpose |
| Granular control (content · layout · visual) | Three sliders, per axis | Re-prompt & pray | Slide-level only | Smart blocks only |
| Your IP, your file | 100% — no training, no lock-in | Web-app first | Inside your PowerPoint | Web-app first |
| Best for | Boardrooms, partner decks, IC memos | Internal updates, web-shareable decks | Drafting inside an existing deck | Self-serve sales decks |
// independently verified Apr 2026 · all named tools are competitor trademarks held by their respective owners.
// for firms
Atelier tier · Q2Every consulting firm has a corporate brain: the last three years of decks, the brochure that took six months, the internal wiki, the diagram library nobody's catalogued. Today, that knowledge dies in SharePoint. We ingest it.
The Content Advisor reads your firm's history and pulls forward — your frameworks, your benchmarks, your house voice. Every deck inherits the institutional knowledge that took partners decades to accumulate.
Talk to us →// self-hosted or VPC option · SSO + SCIM · audit log · zero training on your data · contractual IP retention.
// what's in the box
All shipped, all in production — none on a roadmap, none behind a waitlist gate.
Drop in a brief, raw notes, or a transcript. The system proposes a narrative arc, a core message, and an editable slide outline — never a black box.
.pptx output where squares stay squares and charts stay native PowerPoint charts. Edits round-trip cleanly into PowerPoint, Keynote, and Google Slides.
2×2 matrices, funnels, value chains, donut charts, swim-lanes — all native primitives. No flat-PNG approximations that look like screenshots.
Storyboard → Wireframe → Hi-fi. Modeled on how designers actually work; cross-stage history preserves your edits as you iterate.
Lift any title, body, or caption out of layout flow. Drag, resize, and style every block independently — design-tool freedom on top of slide structure.
Override font family, size, color, weight, and alignment on any text block. Renders identically in .pptx and on the web — no hidden divergence.
Browse, preview, and drop in vetted shapes and diagrams. Selective text stripping keeps labels editable when you copy assets into your slide.
Bring your own fonts; the system maps them onto the right shapes and inline SVG, with no manual fiddling per slide.
Register any company-master slide. slideAtelier extracts its layouts, fonts, and theme colours, then respects them at every render.
One click for a structured critique of any slide — flag dense layouts, weak hierarchy, mismatched themes, before the slide ships.
Compose, edit, publish — all in the browser. No desktop install, no plugin, no Office subscription required to author.
// the roadmap
The consulting layout canon, shipping in waves. Today: the building blocks (14 native shapes · 2 named templates). Through 2026: the rest of the canon, in order of demand.
Web research from credible sources — at both storyboard and per-slide level. Audience-aware (CFO · Board · VC · PE · regulator · client · team). Corporate-brain ingestion follows on the Atelier tier.
Per-slide diagram recommender with thumbnails. Filters our 369-asset consulting catalog by slide content + pinned sources. Plus a Wireframe Coach that rewrites your blocks at the click of a button.
Template-fit reasoning at hi-fi. Reads the whole deck + audience and recommends 1-3 templates with rationale tied to design grammar. Motion + vector primitives next.
// updated monthly. Founding-tier subscribers vote on order of delivery. Email founder@slideatelier.com to nominate.
// pricing
slideAtelier is in private beta. Founding members lock in a flat rate that won't change when we open the doors.
Solo operators, advisors, IC associates. Consulting-grade decks, no consulting bill.
Locked at $39 $19/mo when we open. For life.
Boutique firms, in-house strategy teams, deal teams. Up to ten people, one shared brand system.
Per workspace · billed annually · invite-only
Need self-host, SSO, or a custom system for the whole firm? We'll build it with you.
Render as many decks as you want. No watermarks, no export caps, no surprise overages at quarter-end.
Studio is one flat fee for the workspace, up to ten people. Reviewers, viewers, and clients are free.
Every deck exports to native .pptx. Cancel anytime — your files stay editable in PowerPoint and Keynote.
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