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About Ideck

Every great idea deserves a beautiful presentation

That sentence is the whole company. People don't come to us to build slides — they come with something they believe in, and a room they have to convince. We build the messenger.

Why we exist

We watched good ideas lose to bad slides

Ideck started in 2023, after our founders sat through one too many pitches where the thinking was solid and the deck buried it. The problem was never the idea — it was the forty hours between the idea and something you could put on a screen.

So we built a tool that reads what you wrote, finds the argument, and hands you a deck that tells it straight. Not a template store. Not a slide editor with extra buttons. A messenger for your thinking.

2023
founded in a borrowed conference room
18
people across four time zones
240K+
decks generated since launch — most of them by people who'd never call themselves designers.
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What we believe

Three things we won't compromise on

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The idea comes first
We never make your content fit our design. The deck bends around your argument — structure, charts, and emphasis all follow what you're actually claiming.
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Honest by default
Charts that don't exaggerate, claims that carry their sources, and nothing on a slide you can't defend when the hard question comes.
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It leaves with you
Your decks export to native PowerPoint and PDF, always. No lock-in, no watermark ransom on the work you made.
The road so far

From a side project to 240K decks

2023
The side project
A script that turned meeting notes into slide outlines, passed around between two founders and their friends.
2024
First public beta
4,000 people joined the waitlist in a month. The brand-kit engine shipped that summer.
2025
100K decks
PowerPoint export, collaboration, and the design engine rebuilt on a real layout grid.
Today
240K decks and counting
A team of 18, four time zones, and one unchanged belief about ideas and the rooms they walk into.
The team

Small team, strong opinions

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Wrote v0 on a train
Aran Cole
Co-founder · CTO
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Back-row legibility hawk
Elena Ruiz
Head of Design
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Nine years agency-side
Dan Whitfield
Head of Product
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Nine years agency-side
Sara Whitfield
Head of Product
Wall of love

What teams say after the first deck

“We'd pitched that concept before and gotten nowhere. Rebuilt it here with the same numbers and the partners actually leaned in.”
Close-up of a young woman smiling outdoors wearing a beige knit hat and sweater in soft sunlight.Megan WellsFounder, Solace Health
“I gave it the transcript of a voice memo I recorded at a red light. The board saw that deck on Tuesday.”
Young woman with short dark hair focused on a computer screen in a dimly lit room.Elena RuizCOO, Orbit Software
“Honestly? The first draft was maybe 80% there. We fixed two slides, sent it Friday afternoon, and I went home.”
Smiling man in black shirt posing near wall with sketches, color swatches, and app wireframes.James PatelVP Sales, Vantage
“I gave it the transcript of a voice memo I recorded at a red light. The board saw that deck on Tuesday.”
Young woman with short dark hair focused on a computer screen in a dimly lit room.Elena RuizCOO, Orbit Software
“I was skeptical — we've all seen AI slides. But it got my lecture structure right on the first try, which was... annoying, honestly.”
clientPriya ShahLecturer, City University
“The client asked who our new designer was. There is no new designer.”
Smiling man in black shirt posing near wall with sketches, color swatches, and app wireframes.Dan WhitfieldPrincipal, Craftline Agency
“We'd pitched that concept before and gotten nowhere. Rebuilt it here with the same numbers and the partners actually leaned in.”
Close-up of a young woman smiling outdoors wearing a beige knit hat and sweater in soft sunlight.Megan WellsFounder, Solace Health
“I gave it the transcript of a voice memo I recorded at a red light. The board saw that deck on Tuesday.”
Young woman with short dark hair focused on a computer screen in a dimly lit room.Elena RuizCOO, Orbit Software
“Honestly? The first draft was maybe 80% there. We fixed two slides, sent it Friday afternoon, and I went home.”
Smiling man in black shirt posing near wall with sketches, color swatches, and app wireframes.James PatelVP Sales, Vantage
“I gave it the transcript of a voice memo I recorded at a red light. The board saw that deck on Tuesday.”
Young woman with short dark hair focused on a computer screen in a dimly lit room.Elena RuizCOO, Orbit Software
“I was skeptical — we've all seen AI slides. But it got my lecture structure right on the first try, which was... annoying, honestly.”
clientPriya ShahLecturer, City University
“The client asked who our new designer was. There is no new designer.”
Close-up of a young woman smiling outdoors wearing a beige knit hat and sweater in soft sunlight.Megan WellsFounder, Solace Health