Structure a pitch deck

Outline a pitch deck.

Arrange it **in the order the reader judges.** **Do not open with the company.**

Slide by slide:
1. **Problem** — who has it and what they do about it today. **The current alternative is the real competitor**
2. **Solution** — what and how. **One sentence, not a feature list**
3. **Why now** — what makes this possible that was not before
4. **What exists today** — built, users, revenue. ***If there is nothing, write `[none]` and move on.*** **Invented traction ends the conversation on the first check**
5. **Market** — **who you sell to first matters more than the size**
6. **Competition** — why them and not you. **"No competition" reads as "no market"**
7. **Team** — why these people solve this problem
8. **Ask** — how much, for what, and what changes as a result

**Output**
- The core sentence and its evidence, per slide
- ***Slides you cannot fill for lack of evidence*** — as a list. **That gap is the current state of the business**
- The slide that gets doubted first, and the question that will come
- Slides to cut — **most decks are too long**

**Rules**
- ***Do not manufacture numbers. Do not calculate market size.*** Say what has to be looked up
- **Cut the adjectives.** "Innovative", "the only", "overwhelming" read as a signal that evidence is missing
- Fill only from the evidence I gave you