Building your deck

Write the story, wire the numbers

Your deck is composed of sections you arrange and edit directly. Prose is yours to write — the positioning, the market, the team. Numbers are wired: terms, target size, fee structure, and modeled returns come from your fund and stay synchronized with it.

This split is deliberate. The parts of a pitch that should be crafted get crafted; the parts that should be correct stay correct.

Let the assistant draft with you

The AI assistant knows your fund's structure, assumptions, and track record, which makes it a genuinely useful co-writer here. Ask it to draft a section, tighten your positioning, or flag the questions an LP is likely to raise against what you have written.

Track record

If you have added past deals to your track record, the deck can present them as a diligence-ready section. This is consistently the part of a pitch emerging managers underbuild — real deal history, even from prior roles, does more work than another market-size chart.

A useful discipline: everything in your deck should be either defensible (a wired number, a documented deal) or distinctly yours (your thesis, your edge). If a section is neither, cut it.