Path One: The Manual Midnight Trial Without Deck Check
Let’s look at the team doing this the way every analyst knows too well: manually, slide by slide.
You’ve just finished incorporating comments from the VP. Your content is done, and all the numbers tie out. However, formatting is another story. And because this is banking, “formatting” means avoiding questions you never want to hear:
- “Why are the bullets different on slide 14?”
- “Why is this font lighter than the rest?”
- “Millions on slide 19 is misspelled?”
- “Why does this chart look misaligned?”
- “Why is slide 22 using a layout we don’t use anymore?”
- “The chart on slide 56 says revenue is growing but the chart shows last quarter declined?”
Now comes the painful part: clicking through each slide, hunting for issues you hope you find before the VP does. The process is slow and error prone. It’s also happening at 2 AM when you’re least equipped to catch details.
By the time you’re done, the deck might look cleaner, but there’s no guarantee it’s consistent. The VP reviews it in the morning, and, sure enough, you get the email: “Fonts still aren’t consistent across the book. Pls fix.”
That means going through all of that again.
Path Two: The Controlled, Confident Turn With Deck Check
Let’s look at that situation again, using the same deck and pitchbook, but this time, you have Macabacus. The content is finished, and your numbers are all entered.
Now, instead of bracing yourself for the long manual grind, you do something different: You run Deck Check right from PowerPoint — no exporting, no workarounds, and no time wasted.
Deck Check does in seconds what manual cleanup takes hours to even attempt:
- Scans for inconsistent fonts
- Flags off-brand colors
- Identifies incorrect layouts
- Finds bullet and indent errors
- Surfaces misaligned shapes
- Detects styling inconsistencies across slides
- Highlights formatting deviations from firm templates
Deck Check catches everything the VP would catch but does it first.
Instead of playing formatting whack-a-mole:
- You correct fonts globally
- You normalize bullets and indents across the entire book
- You standardize layouts in a couple of clicks
- You instantly fix colors wherever they’re off
- You align objects precisely without eyeballing anything
What was once a grueling grind becomes a predictable, repeatable workflow. Clean deck, no formatting comments, no extra turn, no second late night. Just perfect slides.
The Real ROI: Capacity, Cost Per Deck, and Sanity
People talk about “efficiency” like it’s abstract, but without Deck Check, pitchbook cleanup isn’t a quick pass. The formatting work can easily take 2-4 hours, and then it can bounce between reviewers for multiple days. Now, multiply that by:
- Multiple rounds of comments
- Multiple deal teams
- Multiple books in flight
- Multiple analysts, all cleaning decks at the same time
The cost escalates fast. But, with Deck Check, the math changes. One click replaces the bulk of the manual review.
Global fixes replace slide-specific edits. You dramatically reduce time spent doing low-value work, freeing up capacity across the entire deal process.
Teams can work on more pitches. Analysts can spend more time on modeling or messaging instead of formatting. VPs get decks that reflect the brand standard. Clients receive consistent, professionally created materials. The ROI is immediate – more hours back, fewer review cycles, and cleaner client deliverables.
