A studio service
Startup Battlefield decks for six minutes and a camera.
Next: 13–15 October 2026, San Francisco. Two hundred companies are selected from thousands, the finalists pitch on stage for about six minutes, and the whole thing is filmed and published. It is the most exposed pitch format in tech: judged live, watched later, and permanent. We build the stage deck, the investor deck it turns into, and the one-pager press take away.
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
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
Standard
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
Complete
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
N° 01What six minutes does
The constraint is the whole brief.
01
Roughly 800 words, spoken
That is what six minutes buys. Eight to ten slides is the ceiling and the best pitches use fewer. The work is subtraction, and subtraction is the part founders find hardest in their own story.
02
A backing track, not a document
On stage the deck supports a performance. Large type, almost no sentences, one idea per slide. The moment a slide needs reading, the audience stops listening to you and starts reading it instead.
03
Then judges ask questions
What you left out is what the Q&A is for, so leave things out deliberately and know which appendix slide answers each likely question. Being able to pull up the right chart in one click reads as command of your own numbers.
04
It is filmed, and it outlives the day
The recording gets watched on phones, often muted with captions. Anything resting on a laser pointer, a subtle hue or an eight-point footnote is gone. It is also a permanent artefact — it will be the first thing many investors ever see of you.
N° 02What we build
Three documents, one argument.
01
The stage deck
Timed to the slot, built to be seen from the back of the room and to survive a muted replay. Rehearsable, because a deck that fights the script is a deck that overruns.
02
The investor deck
The version that gets sent afterwards and read with nobody narrating. It has to carry its own explanation, which means it is not the stage deck with more words.
03
The one-pager
For press and for the follow-up email. One sentence and one image is what actually gets carried away — worth choosing those on purpose.
N° 03Who this is for
On stage, or on the floor.
01
Battlefield finalists
A judged, filmed, six-minute pitch with a fixed date. The highest-stakes version of this work and the one where rehearsal against the real deck matters most.
02
The wider Battlefield 200
Exhibiting rather than presenting. Different job: readable across a busy floor, a short meeting deck, and something to hand over.
03
Companies attending without a slot
Disrupt is three days of dealmaking around the stage. A meeting deck and a leave-behind is a smaller, sharper build.
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.
- How many slides for a six-minute pitch?
- Eight to ten at most; strong pitches often use fewer. Six minutes is roughly 800 spoken words. The constraint is not what fits but what you are willing to cut.
- Is the stage deck the same as the investor deck?
- No, and conflating them is the common mistake. The stage deck backs a spoken performance — large type, one idea per slide. The investor deck is read with nobody narrating, so it must carry its own explanation.
- The pitch is filmed. Does that change the design?
- It raises the bar on legibility — watched later on phones, often muted with captions. Anything depending on a pointer or a subtle colour is lost. It also gives the deck a long tail.
- We are in the 200 but not a finalist. What do we need?
- Something readable across a busy floor, a short deck for the meetings it generates, and a one-pager. Most of the cohort's value is in those meetings, not the stage.
- Press are in the room. Write for them?
- Not for them, but knowing they are there. A journalist carries away one sentence and one image. Choose those deliberately rather than discovering what got quoted.
- How late can we start?
- Tell us the date and we will be honest. A six-minute pitch needs rehearsal against the finished deck, not just a finished deck — that time has to be in the plan.
Next step
Pitching at Disrupt?
Tell us whether you're in the 200, a finalist, or attending for the meetings, and how long you have. We'll come back with what we'd build and an honest read on the timeline.