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Your deck, read the way an investor reads it.

Upload the PDF. It gets read slide by slide and held to the standard we hold our own work to — the titles-only test, an honesty pass on every claim, and a ranked list of what to fix first. A fair read, and a comprehensive one. The whole read takes about a minute.

02 · TRACTION Our numbers $1.4M REVENUE 38% REPEAT RATE 2.9x LTV / CAC a topic, not a claim — what did the numbers do? $1.4M over what period? a hero number with no timeframe reads as hiding TITLES, READ ALONE Our numbers → The market → The team → Thank you the titles alone should make the argument. these don't.

The kind of read your deck gets — every slide, in the studio's hand.

Drop your deck here or click to choose a file PDF only · up to 25MB · investors want a PDF anyway

Your read arrives by email, usually within a minute.

Opening the deck…

This takes about a minute

The read.

Fix first — ranked by what it costs you
The scorecard
The honesty pass

Want it fixed, not just found? This is the audit we run before we write a deck. The studio rebuilds the argument, the copy, and the materials as one system.

Start with an audit

Questions.

Asked before uploading

How do I know if my pitch deck is good?

Read the slide titles alone, in order. If they carry the whole argument in under a minute, the deck works; if they read like section headers, it doesn't. Deck Check runs that test on your PDF free — plus an honesty pass on every claim and a ranked fix-first list.

Is it safe to upload my pitch deck to an online tool?

It's the right question — decks are confidential documents. Here, your slides are read once to produce the critique and are not kept. We store your email address and the deck type you picked — nothing else. We treat your deck like we treat our clients'.

What does Deck Check grade on?

Eleven dimensions, drawn from the studio's own standards for what a deck has to survive: narrative completeness, the titles-only read, the ask, why-now, market rigor, competition honesty, traction, team, ordering, length for stage, and whether the deck stands alone without you presenting it.

How much does a pitch deck review cost?

A professional review from a consultant usually runs a few hundred dollars; a full deck engagement runs far more. Deck Check is a free pitch deck review — an email address is the only cost. If the read shows the deck needs real work, that work is what the studio does.

Who can give me feedback on my pitch deck before I send it to investors?

Friends encourage, advisors hedge, and investors who pass rarely tell you why. What you want is the read investors tend to do — in order, once, fast. That's the read Deck Check gives you: where the argument holds, where it breaks, and what to fix first.

How many slides should a pitch deck have?

At seed, roughly ten to sixteen, problem-first. At Series A and beyond, longer is fine — but traction has to lead; a growth-stage deck that opens on vision instead of numbers reads as a warning sign. The count matters less than whether every slide earns its place in the argument.

Why do investors reject pitch decks?

Rarely for the reason founders expect. The common killers are structural: a story that doesn't survive a fast skim, a hero metric with no denominator, "no competitors," a strength buried mid-deck, a missing ask. Most are fixable in a day — once someone points at them.