vc-pitch-deck

name

vc-pitch-deck

description

Pitch-deck creation and teardown: maps the fundraising narrative onto a slide sequence, enforces per-slide requirements (problem, solution, traction, market, team, ask), and reviews decks against funded-deck patterns and investor attention data. Use when a founder is building an investor deck, reviewing or revising an existing deck, fixing one slide, or adapting between send-ahead, presented, and demo-day variants. Don't use for deciding round size, valuation, terms, or the narrative itself (use vc-strategy), nor for investor lists, outreach, or meetings (use vc-outreach).

VC Pitch Deck

Turns a startup's fundraising narrative and evidence into the deck artifact — and tears down existing decks the way investors actually read them. Distilled from a 625-source fundraising corpus (YC, Sequoia, NFX, DocSend telemetry, teardowns of funded decks); benchmarks carry source and year because deck norms drift.

Paths

<skill-dir> = the directory containing this SKILL.md. Every references/… path below is relative to <skill-dir>; expand to an absolute path before reading when the CWD is elsewhere. All bundled files are reference (read-only).

Branches

Invocation	Do
Build a deck (new or rebuild)	Run Steps 1–5
Review / tear down an existing deck	Read references/teardown-rubric.md in full; deliver verdicts per its protocol
Fix or draft a single slide	Read that slide's section in references/slide-anatomy.md, then run the per-slide checklist in references/teardown-rubric.md
Choose or adapt variants (send-ahead, presented, demo day, memo)	Read references/sequences-and-variants.md in full