Most strategy decks don't die on the idea. They die on slide 9, when someone asks "so what?" and the room goes quiet.
Open it in FigmaFree first read · $19 once for the memo
Open your strategy, planning or new-business deck in Figma Slides (or on the frames you use as slides) and run Deck Red Team. It reads the deck the way a skeptical client reads it, someone who has to fund what you recommend, and writes you a one-page memo, slide by slide:
Every note names its slide. Tap it and the plugin takes you there.
Slide 6 → 7. Slide 6 says the audience trusts peers over brands. Slide 7 recommends a brand-led hero film. The deck never explains why the finding leads to the opposite of what it says. Either cut the finding or change the idea.
The ask. The last slide says "next steps." A client can't approve that. Name the phase, the cost band and the decision you need by when.
It doesn't redesign slides or rewrite your deck. It isn't for startup fundraising decks; there are plenty of tools for those. It's for the people who make recommendations someone else has to fund.
The first read is free, so you see what it notices before you pay. The text of your slides is read once to write the memo and isn't kept.
Open Deck Red Team in FigmaWriting the brief the deck answers to? Start it on one page, free.
Written by Cody Simmonds. I also write The Rationale, a weekly note for agency strategists.