Templates & design systems

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A branded template your team can actually use — master slides, layout libraries, chart styles, and rules simple enough that people follow them.

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From $500 · PowerPoint and/or Google Slides · master slides + layout library + usage guide

Every company that presents regularly eventually faces the same maths: ten people building decks independently, each starting from whatever file they found last, producing ten interpretations of the brand. The cost isn't only design quality — it's the hours spent rebuilding slides that should have taken minutes.

A presentation template system fixes the source. Instead of a single pretty deck, you get infrastructure: master slides that control the whole file, a library of layouts covering the situations your team actually encounters, chart and table styles already on-brand, and a short usage guide that makes the right choice the easy one.

Done properly, this is the highest-leverage presentation investment a team can make. One system, used weekly, quietly raises the floor on every deck the company produces.

Why it works

What a real system includes

Master slides that control everything

Logo, colours, and type set once at the master level, so brand updates propagate instead of requiring a manual sweep.

A layout library for real situations

Title, agenda, section break, data slide, comparison, timeline, team, quote, closing — the layouts people reach for, pre-built and correct.

Branded charts and tables

Chart colour sequences, table styles, and icon sets defined in advance, so data slides stop being improvised.

A usage guide people will read

Two pages, not forty: what to use when, what not to change, and how to add a slide without breaking the system.

The process

How a template system is built

We start from how your team really presents, not from a generic slide checklist.

Step 1

Audit and brief

We review your recent decks and brand guidelines to see which slide types your team genuinely needs — and which they keep improvising.

Step 2

Direction sample

A sample set of key layouts for approval before the full library is produced.

Step 3

System build

Masters, layouts, chart styles, icon set, and a demo deck showing the system in use.

Step 4

Handover and guidance

Template files plus a short usage guide, and a walkthrough so the team knows how to use it.

Why most corporate templates fail

Most templates fail for one of three reasons. They are built as a single deck rather than as true masters, so nothing propagates. They contain forty layouts nobody can navigate, so people copy an old slide instead. Or they enforce rules that make real slides impossible — a rigid text box that can't hold the actual content someone needs to present.

We design for the messy middle: enough structure that decks stay coherent, enough flexibility that people don't route around the system. The test isn't how the template looks on delivery day — it's whether decks made six months later still look right.

Systems for teams that present at scale

For sales teams, the highest-value additions are modular case-study and pricing layouts that can be recombined per prospect. For consultancies, it's data-heavy analysis layouts and a disciplined chart language. For companies with multiple sub-brands, it's a shared skeleton with controlled colour variations, so everything reads as one family.

We've built unified multi-deck systems where several presentations had to feel like one programme — including a five-deck innovation series and a 55-slide training programme rebuilt as a reusable system.

Recent work

Template systems we've built

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Pricing

Template system pricing

Priced by library size and number of platforms.

Core system — 12–15 layouts, one platformfrom $500
Extended system — 20+ layouts, charts, icon setfrom $900
Multi-brand or multi-platform systemquoted individually

Includes master slides, demo deck, usage guide, and a handover walkthrough.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

How many layouts do we actually need?

Most teams are well served by 12–18. Beyond that, people stop navigating the library and start copying old slides — which is exactly the behaviour a system exists to prevent.

Can you build the same system for PowerPoint and Google Slides?

Yes. The two platforms have different capabilities, so we build each natively rather than exporting one into the other, keeping them visually consistent.

Will our team be able to use it without a designer?

That's the point. The usage guide is deliberately short, layouts are named for situations rather than design jargon, and we can run a walkthrough session with your team on handover.

Can you work from our existing brand guidelines?

Yes — brand guidelines are the ideal starting point. Where a guideline creates problems on screen (low-contrast colour pairings are the usual culprit), we'll propose a presentation-specific adaptation rather than silently breaking the brand.

What if we don't have brand guidelines yet?

We can define a presentation-specific visual system: type scale, colour palette, chart language, and imagery direction. It won't replace a full brand identity, but it will make every deck consistent.

How long does a template system take?

Typically 7–14 working days depending on library size, including the approval step on sample layouts.

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