Deck checker: what investors will see

A first read takes a couple of minutes and decides whether there is a meeting. Drop in your deck to see what that reader sees: the slides that are missing, what comes in what order, the seconds each slide gets, and the slides they will not read.

See the exampleWhat it checks

Read in your browser, never uploaded. No login, no AI, nothing kept.

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Checks8each note says why
Decks compared1,708funded decks we hold

The skim, at four times speed

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Slide by slideTyped wrong? Change it and the review updates.

What it checks

Eight things a first read decides on

01StoryEvery slide an investor looks for

Problem, solution, market, traction, business model, competition, team and the ask; with how many of our 1,708 decks have each.

02OrderThe problem before the answer, the proof up front

Traction buried in the back half gets a fraction of a skimming reader's time.

03Skim timeSeconds per slide, slide by slide

About four seconds to take a slide in, plus reading time, capped where a reader gives up. An estimate, and shown as one.

04TextWalls of text and type too small for a phone

Slides over 90 words, against a median of about 40 in the decks we hold.

05TitlesPoints, not labels

"Market" names a slide. "Clinics lose $8B a year to no-shows" makes its case. On a skim the titles are the deck.

06NumbersWhere numbers must be

Traction with figures, the market in money, and an ask that says how much.

07LengthAgainst the decks that raised

Half the decks we hold run 11 to 15 slides.

08BasicsCover line, contact, file size

A cover that says what you do, a way to reach you on the last slide, and a file an inbox will accept.

How often each slide appears in the 1,708 decks we hold: problem 35%, market 62%, team 48%, traction 26%, competition 22%, the ask 19%. The slide database.

How it works

From a PDF to a list of fixes, in your browser

  1. 1Drop the PDF

    Exported from PowerPoint, Keynote, Slides, Canva or Figma. Your browser opens it.

  2. 2Slides are typed

    Problem, market, traction, team: read from titles and words, as in the slide database.

  3. 3The skim is timed

    Seconds per slide, the order, the walls of text, the missing numbers.

  4. 4Notes come back

    What to fix first, each note with what raised it.

Other checks

Know who read which slide.

Send the deck as a link with Deck Tracking and see which slides each investor read, and for how long.

Q&A

Is my deck uploaded?

No. The PDF is opened by your browser and read there; nothing about it is sent to Millionrounds or anyone else. The only data from our side is how the decks we hold compare.

Does an AI read it?

No. Slides are typed by their titles and words, the same way the slide database is, and every note shows what raised it. If a slide is typed wrong, change it in the slide list and the review updates.

My deck came back mostly unreadable.

Decks exported from Figma, Canva or Keynote are often pictures of text. Use "Read the slides as pictures": it reads each slide with OCR, still in your browser, in about a minute. The first time, your browser downloads the reading software (around 10MB).

Where does the skim time come from?

It is an estimate: about four seconds to take in a slide, plus reading time at a skimming pace, capped at sixteen seconds because a reader skips a slide that is too long rather than reading it.

What formats work?

PDF. Export from PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Slides, Canva or Figma as PDF first.

Is this advice?

No. It is a read of the deck as a busy investor would first see it, so the obvious questions are answered before anyone asks them.