Harsha Kotthapalli
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Deck spine: the argument first, then the slides that carry it.

Six to nine numbered claims a listener could retell, one slide each, every number graded, and every hole built as a stated hole. Sized against how long investors actually look: under four minutes.

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Deck spineOutput 16 · POSITION

In

whatever deck you have now

↓

Out

The argument, in order
Every claim, with its proof state
The slides you cannot fill yet

What you know at the end

Whether the argument holds before anyone designs a slide.

What it cannot tell you

Whether the room writes a cheque.

How it gets made

What goes in

The positioning bet
The market funnel
Your traction numbers
The why-now claim

Write the line, not a description of the slide

What comes out

The deck itself

The report

Holes stated, never invented over

How long

3days

start to finish

re-grade the claims before every raise

The output, in full

Built on WealthKarma, a retirement app for Gulf expats. Every count is real and every gap is marked as a gap.

Deck spine26 slides · 6 contradicted · 8 cut · investor deck v15 · 19 Aug 2026
01 · The deck
Now · 26 slides
Cover
Method
Problem
Problem
Quote
Problem
Customers
Solution
MVP
Check
Journey
Progress
Traction
Model · 14
Tiers · 15
Competition
Fees
Competition
Why now
GTM
Market
Roadmap
Financials
Runway
The ask
Founders
The black bar is where four in ten investors stop reading. Your two money slides sit six and seven places past it.
Holds Contradicts your other work How you make money
Recommended · 18 slides
Cover
Problem
Customers
Solution
Journey
Traction
Model · 7
Tiers · 8
Method
Fees
Competition
Why now
Market
GTM
Financials
Runway
The ask
Founders
Eight slides gone, and the money moves in front of the bar. Everything an investor needs to say yes now sits in the part they actually read.
02 · The spine
1
Half of retirees here had under ten thousand dollars.
2
The next generation starts at forty-five.
3
Seven in ten don't know where to start.
4
We built the starting point, in two-minute steps.
5
Sixty testers named the format back to us.
6
Three ways to earn: five dollars, 0.75%, a cut of calls.
7
Regulation is moving. Open banking is live.
8
550 thousand to get licensed and go live.
03 · What changes
3–6
Four problem slides. Keep one.
7
Says 25 to 40. Everything else of yours says 35 to 50.
14–15
Move to seven and eight, in front of the drop-off.
16,18
Three competition slides. Eleven of twelve buyers named none of those four.
17
"Lowest in market" holds in one band. Your table shows rates to 0.2%.
23
Every figure follows from one line nobody tested.
04 · The numbers
The problem numbers — YouGov 2024, n≈1,000. Named on the slide.
85% of GCC expats — in the elevator pitch, nowhere in the deck.
Partnered with employers — slide 13 says one.
20% can save $500 a month — carries the whole model. Five of twelve saved nothing.
05 · The finding
Four slides prove the problem. The two that explain how you make money arrive on fourteen and fifteen.
06 · What can't be known
How this deck has performed. No investor who read it was asked.
Where readers actually stop. The 58% is a published average, not a measurement of yours.
Whether the 20% assumption holds. It produces the 117 million on slide 23.
This reads version 15. Anything changed since is not here.

Where it sits

Research

Compete

Position

Message

Launch

Measure

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