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The AI Startup Pitch Deck Guide + Prompt Generator
Built for frontier founders raising Pre-Seed to Series A — the full guide plus a generator that turns your answers into a tailored, ready-to-paste prompt for a 15–18 slide deck, following 4th Turning Capital best practices.
The full guide — free PDF
An AI pitch deck is not a normal pitch deck with the word 'AI' added. Investors read it differently, diligence it harder, and look for five things a SaaS deck never has to prove: why now, a real moat, a data advantage, sound model economics, and an adult view of risk. This guide walks the full sixteen-slide arc — what each slide must accomplish, what to put on it, and the specific mistakes that lose an AI room — so you can build a deck that survives both the silent read and the meeting.
What's inside
- 01Why an AI deck is a different document
- 02How investors actually read it
- 03The sixteen-slide arc
- 04Slide 1 — Title & one-line positioning
- 05Slide 2 — The why-now
- 06Slide 3 — The problem
- 07Slide 4 — The solution
- 08Slide 5 — The market
- 09Slide 6 — AI moat & defensibility
- 10Slide 7 — Data strategy
- 11Slide 8 — Model & technical architecture
- 12Slide 9 — Business model
- 13Slide 10 — Traction
- 14Slide 11 — Competition
- 15Slide 12 — Responsible AI & risk
- 16Slide 13 — The team
- 17Slide 14 — Financials & projections
- 18Slide 15 — The ask & use of funds
- 19Slide 16 — Vision & close
- 20The mistakes that lose AI rooms
A complete, slide-by-slide playbook for AI founders — in plain language, with the five AI-specific slides investors read hardest.
Custom prompt generator
Build your custom deck prompt
Answer as much as you can across the sixteen slides. We assemble one tailored prompt you paste into Claude or ChatGPT to generate a 15–18 slide, investor-ready deck matched to your brand. Start now — you only need your email at the end.
Step 1
Founder & company
The essentials we weave into every slide and the credit footer. A few fields are required so the deck reads as yours; the rest sharpen it.
See guide example
The deck-builder is told to visit this and match your brand — colours, fonts, logo, aesthetic.
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Roughly how much, and which round. e.g. “$1.5M Pre-Seed” or “$8M Series A”.
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Where we send your founder resources. You'll need it to generate the prompt.
Ready for warm VC introductions?
The AI Capital Acceleration Program takes a small cohort from raise-ready to term sheet in eight weeks — with introductions to our network of technology VCs.
Questions
What does the prompt generator actually produce?
A complete, copy-paste prompt tailored to your company. Paste it into Claude or ChatGPT and it builds a 15–18 slide, investor-ready deck designed to match your brand. The generator handles the prompt engineering; the AI builds the deck.
Do I have to fill in every step?
No. Only a few founder and company details are required. Every slide step is optional — fill what you can, and the prompt tells the AI to handle any gaps honestly. Your progress saves in your browser so you can come back to it.
Is it free?
Yes. The full guide and the generator are free. We ask for your email so we can send your founder resources and the occasional insight. Never sold, never shared.
Will the AI write my whole pitch for me?
It writes a strong first draft from your inputs, but the thinking — your why-now, your moat, your numbers — still has to be yours. Treat the output as a fast, well-structured starting point to refine, not a finished deck.
For founders raising capital
Ready for more than resources?
Apply to the AI Capital Acceleration Program — an eight-week expedition from prototype to term sheet, with warm introductions to our network of technology VCs.