Make It Clear

If Your Offer Needs More Than Two Slides, It Isn't Ready to Sell

Explaining what you do should take one page and one decision, not a deck.

Sixteen slides, and the real question came on slide fourteen

I used to walk into pitch calls with a sixteen-slide deck — history, philosophy, three sample projects, a process diagram nobody read past the title. It felt thorough. It also meant the client’s first real question came on slide fourteen.

I switched to two slides on purpose: one for the process, one for the offer. Not the problem — I let the client describe their own problem first. My job on those two slides is to show how I work and what they’d actually be buying, not to guess at something they haven’t told me yet.

A pitch that needs sixteen slides is hiding an offer that isn’t decided yet.

What cutting fourteen slides forced

The constraint did the work. Cutting fourteen slides forced me to decide which parts of my process actually mattered to the person deciding, and which parts I’d been including because they made me feel more credible.

A two-slide pitch isn’t a shorter version of the long one. It’s proof the offer is actually finished — because you can’t compress something you haven’t decided yet.

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Rebuild your last pitch deck down to two slides. Whatever won't fit is the part of your offer you still haven't finished deciding.

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