AI-generated pitch decks: the 10-slide structure that actually works

The AI pitch-deck tools that shipped in 2024 all had the same problem: they optimised for looking good, not reasoning well. You got a beautiful deck with a 'why now' slide that was a word salad and a 'market' slide that invented a TAM. Investors read through decks like that in seconds and reject them.

The 10-slide shape that survives

• 1. Title + tagline — who you are, what you do, in six words.
• 2. The problem — specific pain, not a category.
• 3. The solution — what you built, plainly stated.
• 4. Why now — the shift that makes this viable this year, not last.
• 5. Audience — named, segmented, not "everyone."
• 6. Market — bottom-up sizing with sourced assumptions.
• 7. Competition — named players and your wedge.
• 8. Why we win — unfair advantages, 3 bullets max.
• 9. Business model + numbers — ARR, margins, year-1 target.
• 10. The ask — what you need, from whom, for what.

AI handles slides 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 9 well. Humans still write 4, 6, 8, 10. The ask in particular — what you want from this specific investor — cannot be generic. Generate the skeleton, rewrite the four slides that matter, send.