Pitch Deck Roast

You've built a great company. Now build a great case for it.

Send your pitch deck. Get back a full written breakdown of every place your narrative is costing you investor conviction — and exactly what to do about it.

No fluff. No "this is great but." Every slide assessed against what investors are actually responding to right now, and what has stopped working.

Regular price: $1,250 USD

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Limited availability each month. Full written assessment delivered within 48 hours of receiving your deck.

+Complete slide-by-slide narrative assessment

+Written breakdown of what is working and what is losing the room

+Specific rewrite recommendations for every weak point

+Assessment against current investor standards — what they want to see now, what has stopped working

+Delivered as a structured written document within 48 hours of receipt

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After payment, you will receive a secure link to submit your deck. Assessment delivered within 48 hours of receipt.

What You Get

A full breakdown. Not a general impression.

The Pitch Deck Roast is not feedback. It is a structured narrative assessment that tells you exactly what is wrong and what to replace it with.

Slide-by-slide assessment

Every slide reviewed for narrative function, not just visual design. What it is communicating, what it should be communicating, and what the gap is costing you.

Specific rewrite recommendations

Not "clarify your value proposition." Specific language, specific structure, specific sequencing changes — written out so you can act on them immediately.

Investor lens applied throughout

Your deck is assessed against what is actually working in investor conversations right now — the signals that are building conviction and the patterns that are killing deals before the thesis is heard.

The Process

Pay. Submit. Receive.

Pay and receive your submission link

After payment, you will receive a secure link to submit your deck. PDF or PowerPoint. No preparation required — the assessment meets you where you are.

The roast

Your deck is assessed slide by slide against current investor standards. Every narrative gap is named, and a specific rewrite recommendation is written for each one.

Assessment delivered within 48 hours

Within 48 hours of receiving your deck, you will receive a link to your full written assessment. Everything that is working, everything that is not, and exactly what to change.

The Investor Lens

The standards have shifted. Most decks have not.

Investor expectations have changed materially. Your deck is assessed against what is actually working right now — and what has stopped working entirely.

What investors want to see now

A clear willingness-to-pay signal. Someone is already paying, or would pay meaningfully to solve this.

Evidence the customer has already changed behavior. Pull, not potential.

A thesis in one sentence a partner can repeat to their IC without the founder in the room.

Proof before defensibility. What has happened, not what could happen.

What has stopped working

Opening with the technology or the product. The problem it eliminates comes first.

TAM slides that lead. Market size belongs after the problem is established.

Competitive slides that focus on features. The narrative needs a genuine moat claim.

Vision without traction. A story with no signal of early validation does not hold.

Who It's For

Built for founders raising capital.

Pre-Seed

Seed

Series A

The Pitch Deck Roast is for founders who have a deck and are not getting the investor response their traction should be producing. The problem is almost never the business. It is the narrative.

Investor meetings that are not converting at the rate your traction suggests they should

A deck that is accurate but not producing a clear investor thesis

Feedback from investors that is vague: "not the right fit" or "timing is off"

A narrative revised so many times it no longer sounds like anyone said it

First meetings that go well but do not produce a second

Preparing to re-enter market after a product update or pivot

About

Narrative strategy built on non-replicable experience.

I'm Lianne Stewart, founder of Narrative Diagnostic.

For more than a decade I led thought leadership at Meta — one of the most scrutinized communication environments in the world. That included the Facebook-to-Meta rebrand: a narrative challenge at a scale most communicators never encounter. It also included crisis communications at moments when the story had to hold under conditions most decks will never face.

That experience gave me one clear insight: the quality of a narrative is not a writing problem. It is a structural one. Most founders know their business better than anyone in the room. The gap is almost never the idea. It is the architecture of how the case gets made.

I work with pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A founders who are in the room with the right investors and not getting the conversion their traction should be producing. Enterprise clients have included Amazon Ads, Pinterest, Dolby, and Shopify.

Narrative Diagnostic exists because most founders need a clear diagnosis before they need a full rebuild. This is that diagnosis.

10+ years at Meta, Thought Leadership

Amazon Ads, Pinterest, Dolby, Shopify

Pavilion, Women of Pavilion steering committee

Lianne
Stewart

FAQ

Common questions.

What format should my deck be in? +

PDF or PowerPoint. After payment, you will receive a secure link to submit your file directly.

How long does the turnaround take? +

Within 48 hours of receiving your deck — not 48 hours from payment. The clock starts when the deck lands.

What do I get back exactly? +

A structured written assessment delivered via a shared link. Slide by slide: what is working, what is losing the room, and specific language and structural recommendations for every weak point.

What if my deck is still in progress? +

Send what exists. A partial deck often reveals more about narrative gaps than a polished one.

What stage should I be at? +

Pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A. The framework scales to where you are in the raise.

Is this confidential? +

Yes. Your deck and its contents are not shared, referenced publicly, or used in any other context.

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Full written assessment delivered within 48 hours of receiving your deck.

Regular price: $1,250 USD

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After payment, you will receive a secure link to submit your deck.