Can we update the deck before the jury interview?

No. The deck you pitch at Step 3 is the one submitted with the Step 2 full proposal — no updated slides are permitted at interview. That single rule is why this deck is different from every other deck a startup builds: it is locked at submission and defended months later, so it has to be right at the cut-off rather than right on the day.

How long is the jury pitch?

Roughly ten minutes of pitch to a jury of up to six, then up to thirty-five minutes of questions — so the Q&A is three times the presentation. The deck's job is as much to survive interrogation as to persuade, which means every number on it has to be one you can defend from memory.

Does one juror really decide it?

Every juror has to vote GO. A single NO GO rejects the application, so the deck cannot afford to lose one reader — it has to work for the technical juror, the commercial juror and the impact juror at the same time. That is a structural design problem, not a styling one.

Do you write the proposal too?

No — that is a grant consultant's job and they do it far better than we would. We design the deck and shape how the argument lands visually. Many of our enquiries here come from grant consultancies themselves, who write the proposal and want the deck to match its quality.

When should we start?

Before the cut-off, because the cut-off is the real deadline — after it the file is frozen. Teams that start once the interview invitation arrives have already missed the point at which the deck could be changed.

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EIC Accelerator decks locked at submission, defended months later.

Next cut-off: 2 September 2026. The EIC Accelerator has a rule that changes how the deck has to be built: you pitch the jury using the exact deck filed with your Step 2 proposal. No updated slides. It is written months before it is defended, in front of a jury where a single NO GO ends the application. Everything else we design can be revised. This one cannot.

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Investment

Three ways to raise.

Fixed price, fixed scope. Pick the tier that matches your raise — from a single deal deck to a full capital-raise kit.

Essential

$2,000one-time

A sharp investor deck at the length most decks should be — you bring the content, we design it.

5–7 business days

12–15 designed slides
Core investor structure (problem → ask)
Your brand applied throughout
Custom charts (market, traction)
1 revision round
Editable PowerPoint source files

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Standard

$4,000one-time

The full raise: we shape the narrative from your inputs at the length investors actually read.

Priority · 4–5 business days

15–20 designed slides
We build the narrative from your inputs
Full custom chart set
Matching 1-page investor teaser
2 revision rounds
Editable PowerPoint + source

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Complete

$7,500one-time

A comprehensive deck for detailed raises and sales — full appendix, plus a condensed sales version.

Rush available

25–40 slides — deck + appendix
Custom graphics & data-room slides
Condensed sales version of the deck
3 revision rounds, white-glove
30-minute strategy call
All source files

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N° 01What the rules do to the deck

Four constraints no other deck has.

Frozen at the cut-off

The interview deck is the submitted deck. A number that ages badly, a milestone that slips, a roadmap that reads optimistically in January — none of it can be fixed before you defend it. So we build for the date it will be read, not the date it is written.

Ten minutes, then thirty-five of questions

The Q&A is more than three times the pitch. The deck is less a presentation than a set of positions you will be asked to defend, which means every figure on it needs a source you can recall under pressure.

Unanimity, across different readers

Every juror must vote GO and one NO GO rejects. The technical juror, the commercial juror and the impact juror read the same slides looking for different things. A deck tuned to one of them fails on the other two.

Written by a consultant, defended by a founder

The proposal is usually written with a grant consultancy; the pitch is delivered by the founder. If the deck sounds like the proposal it will not survive the handover. It has to be defensible in the founder's own words.

N° 02Who this is for

Deep tech and the people who write for it.

European deep-tech SMEs at TRL 5–8

Hardware, energy, health, semiconductors, advanced materials. The technology is real and the difficulty is making it legible to a mixed jury without flattening what makes it defensible.

Grant-writing consultancies

You write the proposal; the deck is the part nobody in-house designs. We work white-label behind your name, on your timeline, and we do not approach your client. Volume arrangements are normal for this.

Teams that got a NO GO and are refiling

Often the science was never the problem. A resubmission is a chance to fix an argument that lost one juror, and knowing which one it lost is most of the work.

N° 03What we build

One file, built to be frozen.

The Step 2 deck

The submitted file: the one that becomes the interview deck. Designed to read correctly to three different jurors and to age well across the months before it is defended.

A defence pack

Not submitted — yours. The sources behind every figure on every slide, so the thirty-five minutes of questions meet an answer rather than a pause.

Editable source files

You own the file. For a resubmission or a later investor round, nothing is locked to us.

Sample slides

Sample slides, in house style.

Generated in our editorial discipline — framed to your vertical. Every deck we ship is original and bespoke.

Questions

The answers we give most often.

Can we update the deck before the jury interview?: No. You pitch the deck submitted with the Step 2 proposal — no updated slides are permitted. That is why it has to be right at the cut-off rather than right on the day.
How long is the jury pitch?: Roughly ten minutes to a jury of up to six, then up to thirty-five minutes of questions. The Q&A is over three times the pitch, so every number needs a source you can defend from memory.
Does one juror really decide it?: Every juror must vote GO; a single NO GO rejects. The deck has to work for the technical, commercial and impact readers at once — a structural problem, not a styling one.
Do you write the proposal too?: No. That is a grant consultant's job and they do it better than we would. We design the deck. Many enquiries here come from consultancies who write the proposal and want the deck to match.
Do you work white-label for consultancies?: Yes, and it is a common arrangement — your name on the work, our production behind it, and we do not approach your client. Volume arrangements are normal.
When should we start?: Before the cut-off, because that is the real deadline — after it the file is frozen. Starting when the interview invitation arrives is already too late to change anything.

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