“What stood out most was the strength of the team and how quickly they understood our business.”Mike BillingsleyExecutive · OnePulseAdvertising and marketing

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Pitch deck design, fund decks, real estate decks and M&A memos, built from the counterparty’s seat by spectup, which takes them to market.
What changes is who reads the document and what they are deciding when they do.
Growth equity and later. They read it without you in the room, then argue about it on Monday.
Strategy, attribution, portfolio construction. Yours arrives in a queue of decks that all promise the same thing.
Underwriting, comparables, the exit. Every number is checked against their own model.
Positioning and normalised financials, written for a strategic and a sponsor at once. It is the memo a sell-side M&A process goes to market with.
The spectup desk you would be sitting with wrote, sized and designed every deck on this page.
Request a callOur pitch deck consulting services put one owner on each layer, and you meet all four. 12 to 19 days end to end.
What is being sold, to whom, on what terms. We decide it from the counterparty's side first: what would make a committee say yes, and whether this transaction has it.
Your first contact, and the one who decides whether we take it on at all. Previously N26, BMW Startup Garage and Deloitte.
The argument the counterparty repeats internally when you are not in the room. We write it as prose and agree it before anything is designed.
Leads the equity story. Previously Barclays, Apax Partners and Euronext.
Sizing bottom up, a competitive map naming the real alternatives, and macro context with a source behind every number, because the committee will check.
Structured finance leader with Santander and Sberbank pedigree.
Typography, charts and pacing built for a fifteen-minute meeting and for the PDF that gets forwarded afterwards. Design comes last, after the argument is fixed.
Award-winning designer, in-house. Every deck is drawn by him.
Layer 01Strategy
Niclas
A generated deck reads as though nobody in particular wrote it, and investors grant the meeting to a team with a view of its own.
Layer 02Story
Edwin
01Somewhere in Michoacán, a grower has four hundred hectares of avocado trees.
02Ripeness cannot be measured from the ground. It is a judgement made by a thumb.
03At that scale the judgement has to be made eleven million times a season.
04So a soft gripper learns the same judgement, and makes it without tiring.
05And in a room like this, someone decides whether any of that is worth funding.
You followed all of that, and nobody explained any of it. That is what a deck has to do.
Layer 03Research
Igor
Our consultants run the research, and it is covered by the engagement. Every figure carries its source, and anything we cannot stand up twice is cut.
What the desk pulls from

Paid market databasesFilings and regulatory sourcesYour own numbers
Built from two licensed databases reconciled against each other, then narrowed by your own numbers. Where the two disagree the deck carries the lower figure and names which one it came from. Each layer is sourced on its own, so a reader can reject one and keep the rest.

Your own numbersFilings and regulatory sources
Built from pricing we can evidence: signed contracts where they exist, list prices where they do not, marked either way. Doing nothing is plotted, because it is the alternative most decks leave off and the one that wins most often.
Transaction and funding data
Built from a licensed transaction database, cut to rounds that closed in your sector and geography inside the last eighteen months. The count sits beside each median so a reader can see where the set is thin, and the ask on your slide is set against it.

Filings and regulatory sourcesPaid market databases
Built from the published series either side of the thing that changed, whether that is a rule, a price crossing a threshold or a platform shift. The timing claim then rests on a dated event a reader can look up, with the series showing what it did.
Layer 04Design
Rezka
Three examples, one per sector, because a deck read by engineers cannot be set like a deck read on a phone. Type, palette, grid, charts, components and slide furniture, decided once and then held across every page.



Energy infrastructure, project finance. Read alongside a model. Monospace throughout, dense modules, units on everything, no rounding.
Consumer, Series A. Read on a phone in ninety seconds. Warm ground, one hot accent, type set huge, a single figure per page doing the arguing.
Deep tech, Series B. Read by engineers before it reaches the partner. Grotesque at two weights, a ruled ledger, every figure carrying its tolerance and its source.
Strategy, story, research and design, run by the four people you just met.
Start with a call
spectup 01 / 06
Design-only agency
Freelance designer
spectupFundraisers who have run rounds, on your deck directly.
Design-only agencyA designer briefed by an account manager.
Freelance designerOne freelancer, whatever their background is.
spectupPositioning, story, sizing, then the slides.
Design-only agencyThe slides.
Freelance designerThe slides, faster.
spectupResearch we run and can source, line by line.
Design-only agencyWhatever you supply.
Freelance designerWhatever you supply.
spectupWe take it to investors ourselves.
Design-only agencyThe engagement ends.
Freelance designerThe engagement ends.
spectupFrom $5,000 per deck, fixed fee.
Design-only agencyA price for the slides; the story is yours.
Freelance designerAn hourly or per-slide rate.
spectupWe are in the room when it is read.
Design-only agencyNobody.
Freelance designerNobody.

“They helped us crystallize our message and structure complex info in a way that clicked with investors.”
“What stood out most was the strength of the team and how quickly they understood our business.”Mike BillingsleyExecutive · OnePulseAdvertising and marketing

“That level of commitment and care set them apart from other firms we have worked with.”Kristian WrightCEO · enhanced.ioCybersecurity

“spectup’s dedication to really understanding our specific business and plan was commendable.”Alvaro SalazarSenior Product Manager · EvencoSoftware

“spectup not only offered us more bespoke options but also provided candid advice.”Head of Technology and InnovationGORDResearch and development, Qatar

“What really impressed me was their reliability.”Elena DangCEO and Founder · POSTHUMAN3D-printed accessories

“great design for reasonable cost”Charles ColtmanChief Product Officer · HealthAgentHealthcare voice AI

“They kept the project moving by constantly contacting us.”Doctoral ResearcherCemDynamicsMaterials research, GORD spinout

“What stood out most was the strength of the team and how quickly they understood our business.”Mike BillingsleyExecutive · OnePulseAdvertising and marketing

“That level of commitment and care set them apart from other firms we have worked with.”Kristian WrightCEO · enhanced.ioCybersecurity

“spectup’s dedication to really understanding our specific business and plan was commendable.”Alvaro SalazarSenior Product Manager · EvencoSoftware

“spectup not only offered us more bespoke options but also provided candid advice.”Head of Technology and InnovationGORDResearch and development, Qatar

“What really impressed me was their reliability.”Elena DangCEO and Founder · POSTHUMAN3D-printed accessories

“great design for reasonable cost”Charles ColtmanChief Product Officer · HealthAgentHealthcare voice AI

“They kept the project moving by constantly contacting us.”Doctoral ResearcherCemDynamicsMaterials research, GORD spinout

“Investors told us this deck is too good, and that they were worried we should be spending more time building the business.”Thomas CramptonFounder and CEO · Sleepless StudiosCreative studios

“Just wanted to thank you again for the great materials Spectup provided.”Rudy EcheniqueDirector of Operations · Sensate RoboticsIndustrial robotics

“The pitch went really well today. It honestly couldn’t have gone any better. Wouldn’t have been possible without you guys.”Dr. Ammar ElhowerisCommercial Lead · ScensaiSpirits sensing, University of Aberdeen spinout

“We were so impressed with how fast they understood our complex needs and turned them into simple, elegant documents.”Serhan BaharCo-Founder · LongevitrackConsumer SaaS

“The quality of the work produced was excellent. The timeframe for delivery was fast & the cost was very reasonable.”Dom GattellariCo-Founder · ContractableConstruction software

“spectup was very knowledgeable and able to get us what we needed.”Camilla WieseCo-Founder · y2kVintage fashion

“Their consultative approach was a big help for us.”Shun DorseyFounder and CEO · BeamPayFinancial services

“Investors told us this deck is too good, and that they were worried we should be spending more time building the business.”Thomas CramptonFounder and CEO · Sleepless StudiosCreative studios

“Just wanted to thank you again for the great materials Spectup provided.”Rudy EcheniqueDirector of Operations · Sensate RoboticsIndustrial robotics

“The pitch went really well today. It honestly couldn’t have gone any better. Wouldn’t have been possible without you guys.”Dr. Ammar ElhowerisCommercial Lead · ScensaiSpirits sensing, University of Aberdeen spinout

“We were so impressed with how fast they understood our complex needs and turned them into simple, elegant documents.”Serhan BaharCo-Founder · LongevitrackConsumer SaaS

“The quality of the work produced was excellent. The timeframe for delivery was fast & the cost was very reasonable.”Dom GattellariCo-Founder · ContractableConstruction software

“spectup was very knowledgeable and able to get us what we needed.”Camilla WieseCo-Founder · y2kVintage fashion

“Their consultative approach was a big help for us.”Shun DorseyFounder and CEO · BeamPayFinancial services

12 to 19 daysProposal accepted to deck delivered
PowerPoint
Google Slides
Keynote
Canva
PDF
The editable deck in your tool, a PDF built for sending and the research appendix.
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A full spectup deck, with strategy, story, market research and design, starts at $5,000 per deck. Where the positioning and the market research are already settled, the days go into the story and the design instead, inside the same fixed-fee proposal. We scope it against the round you are raising and quote a fixed fee before anything starts, so there is no hourly meter. If a template and an afternoon would get you there, we will say so on the first call.
You request a call. We spend about thirty minutes getting to know each other, the round you are raising, the timing and who has to say yes. If there is a deck already you can share it after that call, so we read it knowing what it has to do. Then we send a proposal with the scope, a fixed fee and a timeline of 12 to 19 days. Nothing is chargeable before you accept it.
Positioning, the equity story, the market research and the design, in that order, with one owner on each. That is the difference between pitch deck consulting services and a design job: we decide what the document has to argue before anyone opens a drawing tool, and we can defend every figure in it. If you only need the drawing, we will say so and quote for that instead.
A design agency changes the slides. spectup changes the argument and then the slides: positioning, equity story and market research come first, and the design is built to carry them. The people doing it have run rounds, so the deck is built for the meeting it has to survive.
An equity story is the argument an investor repeats to their partners when you are not in the room, and it is what an investor deck is built to carry: why this market, why this team, why now, and what the money buys. A deck without one can look excellent and still fail, because the reader has nothing to carry into the investment committee.
Market sizing built bottom up from real customers and prices, a competitive map naming the alternatives a buyer considers including doing nothing, macro context with a source behind each number, and go-to-market input on the channel economics the round is meant to fund.
You choose the tool: PowerPoint, Google Slides, Keynote or Canva. You get the editable deck in it, a PDF built for sending, and the research appendix. You own all of it.
12 to 19 days end to end, and the proposal states the figure before anything starts. On a full 19-day job, roughly three days go to strategy, four to the story, five to research and seven to design. Design is last and longest.
Yes. spectup is an international team and raises from investors in Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia Pacific. A European company raising from US funds is the most common shape of engagement.
Sometimes, and we will say so on the first call. If the positioning holds up, design alone is enough.
spectup is a capital advisory firm. Alongside deck work we run full raises as a startup fundraising consultant, run investor outreach and introductions as capital introduction services and act as private placement agent.




Thirty minutes on the round and the reader
You share the deck, if there is one
A proposal: scope, fixed fee, 12 to 19 days