At what point did your company standardize how decks etc get made and what tool did you land on?
Asking because we just hit a wall with this.
We're about 10 people. Sales, marketing, and the founders are all making decks and client-facing SOPs independently and every single one looks different. Different fonts, different colors, different slide structures. A prospect last week got sent two decks from two different people on our team in the same month and they looked like they came from different companies.
We tried fixing it with a shared Google Slides template but nobody actually uses it. People just open whatever they had last time and start editing from there.
Curious how other teams solved this. A few things I'm trying to figure out:
Did you enforce a tool or just a template? Because I'm starting to think the template approach doesn't work if people aren't bought into the tool itself. Plus, templates can be harder to edit for non-designers.
At what headcount did this actually become a problem worth solving? Were you our size or did you wait longer?
We've been looking at a few options. Landed on two - Alai for high-stake sales pitches and intro decks and Gamma for post closure hand offs and SOPs that are more running docs.
Also genuinely wondering if this is a tool problem or just a people problem. Like maybe we just need someone who owns this.
Open to suggestions :)