Create a Startup Pitch Deck Outline

This prompt has a VC pitch coach produce a slide-by-slide outline covering all twelve standard investor slides, with bullets and one memorability tip per slide. Reach for it when you're starting a fundraise deck and want the proven structure plus guidance on what belongs on each slide, rather than staring at a blank Keynote. It's an outline generator, not a final deck — the value is the scaffolding and the per-slide advice that flags what investors actually look for.

What you can expect back

Slide 1 — Problem
- Small fleets (5-50 trucks) still dispatch by phone and spreadsheet.
- Manual routing wastes 15-20% of drive time and burns fuel.
- Owner-operators can't afford the enterprise TMS the big carriers use.
Tip: Open with one dispatcher's day in a single sentence — make the pain a person, not a stat.

Slide 2 — Solution
- AI assigns and routes loads automatically from the loads they already have.
- Plugs into existing ELD and load boards; no rip-and-replace.
- Setup in a day, not a quarter.
Tip: Show a 10-second before/after of the dispatch board, not a feature list.

Slide 3 — Market size
- TAM: all US trucking software spend.
- SAM: software for fleets under 50 trucks.
- SOM: fleets reachable through load-board partnerships in year 1-2.
Tip: Build TAM bottom-up (fleets x price) — investors distrust top-down trillion-dollar slides.

[Slides 4-12 continue: Product, Traction, Business model, Go-to-market, Competition, Team, Financials, Use of funds, Ask — each with bullets and one memorability tip.]

Illustrative example — your results will vary by tool and inputs.

Get sharper results

• 01Feed it whatever real traction you have (revenue, users, pilots, LOIs) so the traction and financials slides reflect your story instead of placeholders you'll have to rewrite.
• 02Ask it to build market size bottom-up rather than top-down — investors are skeptical of 'it's a $1T market and we just need 1%' framing.
• 03Have it name your two or three real competitors and position against them honestly; a deck with no competition slide signals naivety to investors.
• 04Request a separate 'investor will push back here' note per slide so you can prep answers to the hard questions before the room asks them.
• 05Once the outline is solid, ask it to draft the single sentence each slide must land — decks fail when slides have bullets but no clear takeaway.

Adapt it for your case