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A concise, editable pitch deck for presenting a local business to a bank, a support panel or a partner — ten slides that make the case with evidence, consistent figures and a clear ask, plus a completed example and a short guide.
Enlarge preview: Pitch deck templateStart here: 10 editable slides with prompts.
Title, the problem, offer and how it works, customer and evidence, alternatives, revenue and customer acquisition, capacity and team, financial assumptions, funding (optional), and milestones with your ask. Guidance is in the speaker notes; the funding slide is marked as optional and easy to delete.
Template · PowerPoint and PDF
Enlarge preview: Completed exampleSee it filled in for a fictional mobile dog groomer.
Every claim is marked as checked (with its source and date), from experience, or still to test; figures agree from slide to slide; nothing is invented to look impressive — no interviews, logos, testimonials, market sizes or traction.
an example · PowerPoint and PDF
Enlarge preview: Short guideRead before you fill it in.
What each slide is for, how to keep the figures honest and consistent, how to replace the prompts and delete the optional slide, and which apps we tested.
Guide · Word and PDF
Choose a document, a version and a format. After the first download, the others need no new form.
PowerPoint files (16:9, editable text and shapes) with PDF copies. We checked them in LibreOffice Impress only. The example is a fictional business with invented figures.
A local or small business presenting to a bank, a business-support panel, a landlord or a partner. It covers what they need to decide — the problem, the offer, the evidence, the money and the ask — without venture-capital metrics a local business does not need.
Yes. Every slide is built from ordinary text boxes and shapes, not pictures. Click a [bracketed prompt] and type over it; text that runs longer than planned shrinks to fit its box. Delete the optional funding slide if you are not asking for money.
Mark each claim as checked (with where and when), based on experience, or still to test. Do not invent interviews, testimonials, customer logos, market sizes or traction — a smaller honest claim is more convincing than a big unsupported one.
Yes, and the example shows how: 600 grooms × 55 = 33,000 revenue on slides 6 and 8; 33,000 − 4,800 − 7,500 = 20,700; the uses of funds add up to the 10,000 total and the 4,000 asked for.
It is a standard .pptx file using Cambria and Calibri. We built it to the PowerPoint file format and checked it in LibreOffice Impress, including replacing text and deleting a slide. We have not opened it in PowerPoint, Keynote or Google Slides.