How to create pitch decks with Gamma | From prompt to investor-ready export

Good news: creating a pitch deck doesn’t have to feel daunting, anymore. With the help of Gamma AI-powered presentations, you can easily build a pitch deck in just a few clicks—literally. 

Read on for our AI pitch deck guide, including tips, tricks, and an AI pitch deck tutorial to get you on your way to powerful, professional-looking pitch decks. 

Start with a free presentation template 

We offer tons of free templates that make building beautiful presentations easy. Browse presentation templates for any presentation on your list, including your upcoming pitch deck, so you can focus on content over formatting. Once you’ve found a pitch deck template you love, our AI pitch deck generator will transform it into a professional and compelling pitch deck. 

Create a custom theme to match your brand 

Ensure every presentation is on-brand by creating a custom theme that perfectly reflects your brand identity. Select the title and heading fonts, background images, accent colors, logo, and more. Save your theme so you’ll never need to worry about branding again. 

Generate a presentation from a range of starting points 

Using our AI presentation maker, Gamma can build a pitch deck from a range of different starting points, including: 

• A single sentence prompt: Tell our AI pitch deck generator what you’d like your presentation to be about in a sentence or two, then see what we bring to life. 

• A set of notes: Have a rough draft of information that you’d like to be included in your presentation? Have Gamma use them to build your pitch deck. Just select the “Paste in text” options and drop your notes in. 

• A file or URL: No one likes to do the same work twice. If you’ve already built a compelling webpage tor have a file hat says it all, have Gamma use that as a starting point for your deck. 

Use AI as a starting point, then adjust 

Once Gamma has created your AI-generated pitch deck, it’s time to review it and adjust so it perfectly suits your needs. Here are a few ways to make your AI pitch deck perfectly “yours.” 

• Modify text using AI: Want your text to be longer, shorter, or otherwise transformed? Click the Agent icon in the top right of the gamma, then tell the Agent what change you’d like to be made across the presentation. If you’d like to modify text on a single card, navigate to that card first, then press the agent icon. 

• Modify images using AI: It’s easy to swap out images in Gamma, but did you know Gamma’s generative AI can transform images in any way you’d like? Click the sparkle icon, then prompt Gamma to make the changes you’d like to see. 

• Try different layouts: Gamma’s AI can easily illustrate what your card would look like in a range of different layouts, using just a few clicks. Click the Smart Layouts button on the onsert bar on the right to try new layouts. You can instantly scroll through and see how your card would look in countless different layouts. 

Speed up the process with the slash menu 

To make your presentation building move really quickly, get familiar with the slash menu. By simply typing a forward slash, you’ll instantly pull up a menu of available options for formatting, layout, embedding, and other commands. 

Embed directly from your most used sites 

Would a Youtube video, Google Sheet, or song bring your presentation to life? It’s easy to embed these and more directly into your presentation using Gamma. Gamma integrates with tons of popular media, data, analytics, and design software to seamlessly integrate elements into your presentation. Just drop the link in where you’d like it, and it will embed. 

Share via URL rather than downloading a file 

When creating visually heavy presentations, file sizes can quickly snowball, making sharing a real challenge. If a presentation is too large, you may need to use a 3rd party file sharing software to send, complicating the process unnecessarily. 

Gamma solves this issue by creating a live URL for sharing. Anyone can see the most up-to-date version of your presentation with a single click. No need to sacrifice quality for file size or take up precious space on someone else’s desktop. 

Use spotlight for greater focus while presenting 

Looking to hold your audience on one topic at a time? Use spotlight mode. It highlights a single element at a time, so your audience doesn’t get distracted by a chain of individual slide animations. Just type S when you’re in Present Mode. 

Create more compelling pitch decks with Gamma 

Say goodbye to the tedium of manual presentation creation. With Gamma AI pitch decks, you can create a meaningful presentation at a moment’s notice, so you’ll never miss an opportunity.