# Dk · Decks — element 24 of 58 > The pitch, assembled. Turns an outline into a presentation. - **Group:** 5 · Creative & Design - **Necessity:** Optional - **Price band:** $ · under $30/mo - **Maturity:** Commodity - **Edition:** v2026.Q3 · verified 2026-09-13 ## Leading tools (v2026.Q3) - **Gamma** — doc-to-deck standard - **Beautiful.ai** — brand-locked team polish - **Pitch** — collaborative sales decks - **Plus AI** — ai inside your slides - **Presentations.ai** — chatgpt-to-deck challenger ## Our take Fine for internal speed. For the fundraise, start from Gamma and finish with your own hands. ## Combines with De, Ce ## The top 5 — deep dossier (verified 2026-09-13) Gamma, and it isn't close — 100M+ users claimed on its homepage (Aug 2026), $100M+ ARR while profitable with ~52 people, and a $2.1B a16z-led Series C (Nov 2025) in a category where its nearest dedicated rivals publish no traction numbers at all. Beautiful.ai wins when brand-locked polish for a whole team matters more than raw speed; Pitch when sales teams need collaborative decks with engagement analytics; Plus AI when the deliverable must be native .pptx in the corporate template; and the bundled suites (Copilot in PowerPoint, Gemini in Slides, Canva) when good-enough-and-already-paid-for beats best. For the fundraise itself: start from Gamma, finish with your own hands — investors have seen every default theme. 1. **Gamma** (Gamma Tech, Inc.) — Free · Plus ~$8/mo · Pro ~$18/mo · Ultra $100/mo (annual; vendor page renders prices client-side) · Team/Enterprise via sales. Best for: Outline-to-polished-deck in minutes — plus the same engine for docs, websites, and social cards, with an API to automate all of it. Why: The runaway category leader: 70M+ users and $100M+ ARR while profitable at Series C (a16z, Nov 10, 2025; $2.1B valuation per Sacra), 100M+ users claimed by Aug 2026 — after growing ARR 365% in 2025 with ~52 employees. Gamma 3.0 (Sep 2025) added an AI agent that researches, restyles, and critiques decks, not just generates them. Watch: Web-native design means .pptx export never looks quite like the in-app deck — investor-grade decks still need hand-finishing. Credit-based AI limits bite free and Plus users, and the push into websites/social dilutes focus while Canva, Microsoft, and Google bundle the core job for free. [https://gamma.app](https://gamma.app) 2. **Beautiful.ai** (Beautiful Slides, Inc.) — Pro $12/mo (annual) · Team $40/user/mo annual ($50 monthly) · Enterprise custom · 14-day trial, card required. Best for: Teams that need every deck on-brand and board-grade without a designer — Smart Slide layouts make ugly nearly impossible. Why: The oldest surviving AI-native deck tool (2018) and the strongest guardrails: auto-aligning Smart Slides, centralized brand assets, and SOC 2 Type II / SSO for enterprise (verified on vendor pricing page, Aug 2026). Its guided prompt-to-outline-to-slides flow is built for iteration rather than one-shot generation. Watch: Publishes no ARR or user numbers — its 75%-time-saved case studies are all vendor-claimed. Team seats at $40-50/user/mo cost 2-5x the rivals, and the $45 pay-per-single-presentation option reads like a churn symptom. [https://www.beautiful.ai](https://www.beautiful.ai) 3. **Pitch** (Pitch Software GmbH) — Free (5 members, 100 one-time credits) · Plus $13/mo annual · Team $19/seat/mo annual · Business $25/seat/mo annual · Enterprise custom. Best for: Sales and GTM teams that live in decks — collaborative editing, digital sales rooms, engagement analytics, and an AI agent that keeps slides on-brand. Why: The best team-workflow deck tool: real-time collaboration, per-viewer analytics, and Pitch Agent (2025) that generates on-brand slides, personalizes to an audience, and proofreads against brand tone. Its own 2024 recap describes the shift 'from a presentation tool to a complete pitching platform' — decks plus the pipeline around them. Watch: Survived a brutal Jan 2024 restructuring (roughly two-thirds of staff cut, founder-CEO Christian Reber stepped aside for a profitability push — widely reported, never quantified by the company). AI generation arrived years after Gamma's, and credit-metered AI ($0.004/extra credit) adds bill anxiety at scale. [https://pitch.com](https://pitch.com) 4. **Plus AI** (Plus Docs, Inc.) — Basic $10/mo · Pro $20/mo · Team $30/mo · Max $200/mo (annual; monthly $15-240) · Enterprise custom · 7-day trial. Best for: When the deliverable must be a native PowerPoint or Google Slides file in the corporate template — AI inside the tools your audience already opens. Why: Solves the fatal flaw of every web-native generator: export degradation. Plus AI generates, remixes, and rewrites directly inside real .pptx and Google Slides files, so the output is fully editable by anyone downstream — the pragmatic pick for consultants and anyone presenting into an enterprise (verified on vendor pricing page, Aug 2026). Watch: It competes head-on with its own platforms' AI: Copilot at $18/user/mo and Gemini bundled free into Workspace do a rougher version of exactly this job, and each platform update could close the gap. No public user or revenue figures. [https://plusai.com](https://plusai.com) 5. **Presentations.ai** (Presentations.ai (Zoho-alumni team)) — Starter free (100 credits, 20 slides) · Pro $20/mo (billed $240/yr) · Gold $100/mo (billed $1,200/yr, frontier models). Best for: Prompt-or-ChatGPT-conversation to a finished, on-brand, fully editable .pptx — with brand colors, fonts, and logo pulled automatically from your website URL. Why: The volume challenger with the cleanest bridge from chat to deck: paste a ChatGPT conversation and get a structured deck, Brand Sync auto-theming from a URL, anti-fragile templates that survive edits, and full .pptx export (vendor site, Aug 2026). Cheap enough to trial against Gamma in an afternoon. Watch: Its 'trusted by over 12 million professional teams' claim is self-reported and independently unverifiable — no funding, ARR, or audited user data anywhere public. Crowded from below by $10/mo add-ons (SlidesAI, MagicSlides) and from above by Gamma. [https://www.presentations.ai](https://www.presentations.ai) ### How to choose - If You need internal decks, sales one-pagers, or anything where speed beats craft → Gamma Free or Plus — outline in, deck out, and the same credits also make docs, sites, and social cards. - If It's the fundraise deck → Start from Gamma for structure and speed, then finish by hand — investors see hundreds of default-theme AI decks a quarter, and the export never matches the in-app polish. - If The deliverable must be native .pptx in a corporate template — consulting, enterprise sales, anywhere the client edits your file → Plus AI inside PowerPoint/Google Slides; if the org already pays for M365 Copilot ($18/user/mo), try that first and upgrade only if quality disappoints. - If A revenue team builds, shares, and tracks decks together all day → Pitch Team at $19/seat — per-viewer analytics, digital sales rooms, and brand-tone AI checks are the differentiators. - If You already pay for Canva, Microsoft 365, or Google Workspace → Exhaust the bundled AI (Magic Design, Copilot, Gemini — the latter included at no add-on cost since Jan 2025) before buying a dedicated tool; for most non-pitch decks the gap no longer justifies a second subscription. ### The field (16 more) Tome (dead), Canva (Magic Design), Microsoft 365 Copilot (PowerPoint), Gemini in Google Slides, Duet AI for Workspace (renamed), SlidesAI, MagicSlides, STORYD, Decktopus, Slidebean, Prezi, Napkin AI, Chronicle, Kroma, Prezent, Genspark AI Slides Full dossier data: https://elems.ai/e/dk.json --- Source: [elems.ai](https://elems.ai/e/dk.html) — the periodic table of the AI-led startup. 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