Sistava

Pitch and Presentation Design

AI Graphic Design

Decks that carry the argument instead of burying it

The deck is usually built the night before by the person presenting, which is why most business presentations are dense, inconsistent, and structured around what the presenter wants to say rather than what the audience needs to follow.,Marisol handles the design: a slide system with real hierarchy, data presented so the point is visible rather than merely accurate, and a consistent look that does not shift halfway through because slide fourteen was added later.,Investor decks, sales decks, board updates, and conference talks each get the structure they need, since the requirements genuinely differ.

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How It Works

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At a Glance

One point
Per slide, deliberately
Finding
As the chart title, not the axes
System
Holds when slides get added
Tested
At real presentation conditions

Most Deck Problems Are Structural

When a deck is not working the instinct is to make it look better, and design is rarely the actual problem. The problem is usually that the argument is not sequenced, that slides carry three points each because nobody wanted to cut anything, or that the interesting finding is on slide nineteen after eighteen slides of setup. Restyling that produces an attractive version of the same confusion. Fixing the order and cutting what does not serve the argument changes how it lands, and it is a design decision in the real sense even though it happens before anything is styled.

A Chart Should Announce Its Finding

The convention of titling a chart with what it depicts, revenue by quarter, wastes the most-read text on the slide to describe the axes, which the audience can already see. It leaves them to work out what they are supposed to conclude, and in a live presentation they are listening rather than analysing, so mostly they do not. Titling it with the finding instead, revenue growth accelerated after the pricing change, means the point lands immediately and the chart becomes evidence for a stated claim rather than a puzzle. It also forces a useful discipline, because a chart with no articulable finding usually should not be in the deck.

Decks Are Read in Worse Conditions Than They Are Made In

A deck is built on a large screen, in a quiet room, by someone who already knows what every slide means. It is consumed from the back of a meeting room, or in a video call window sharing space with a grid of faces, by someone encountering it for the first time while also listening to a person talk. That gap explains most presentation failures: eleven-point text, three-column layouts, and subtle grey annotations are all completely fine in the making and invisible in the room. Checking at real conditions is unglamorous and catches nearly all of it.

FAQ

Can she work in our existing deck tool?

She produces in the formats your team actually presents from and can work within an existing template. Editability matters, since a deck you cannot update the night before a meeting is a liability regardless of how good it looks.

Does she write the content or just design it?

She structures the argument and designs the slides, working from your material and your numbers. She will push back when the structure is not working, because a beautifully designed deck built on a weak argument is still a weak deck, and the structural problem is the one worth fixing.

What about the data in our charts?

The numbers are yours and she presents them accurately. If a chart choice would overstate a finding, truncated axes being the classic example, she will say so and propose an honest alternative. An investor or board audience tends to notice, and the credibility cost is worse than the weaker-looking chart.

How is an investor deck different from a sales deck?

Different audience, different question. Investors are assessing a market, a team, and a trajectory, so the structure carries an argument about opportunity. A sales deck addresses one buyer specific problem and is usually shorter, more concrete, and built to be presented rather than read alone.