Use case · Decks
Slides nobody
has to redesign.
The deck template was beautiful when design made it. Twelve people and four months later it is not.
Launch day
Slots
Where decks go wrong
Not in the template. In everything added after.
A chart pasted from a spreadsheet. A title slide someone rebuilt because they couldn’t find the master. A screenshot with the wrong border radius.
Each is defensible on its own. Together they are why the client-facing deck looks assembled rather than designed.
What to template
The repeating, brand-carrying furniture.
- Title and section cards — one text slot, one optional image
- Stat callouts — a number, a label, an accent colour
- Quote slides — quote, attribution, photo
- Comparison and metric cards — the ones people rebuild badly in spreadsheets
Render them as images and place them. They are identical every time because they are the same file.
For agencies
Monthly client reporting is the obvious one.
The same eight slide graphics, new numbers, twelve clients, every month. That is ninety-six renders, generated from the reporting data — each carrying the right client's brand, because each client's project has its own brand kit.
Nobody opens a design file, and no client's deck ends up with another client's accent colour.
Northwind
12 templates
Kepler Foods
8 templates
Halcyon
15 templates
- “We'd rather people edit slides directly.”
- For most slides, yes. This is for the ones that carry the brand hardest and get rebuilt most often — where “editable” is exactly the problem.
Questions
- How do I keep presentation graphics on brand?
- Template the repeating furniture — title cards, stat callouts, quote slides — and render them as images. They are identical every time because they are the same file.
- Can I automate monthly client reporting slides?
- Yes. The same eight slide graphics with new numbers across twelve clients is ninety-six renders, generated from the reporting data, each carrying the right client's brand.