Founders raising pre-seed, seed, Series A, or Series B who need the story, the market, and the numbers to read as one argument
Pitch Decks & Presentations That Persuade
I design investor decks, sales decks, and board presentations where the story, the numbers, and the ask all land. Senior pitch deck designer for founders and teams in the US, Canada, UK, EU, and worldwide: Top Rated Plus on Upwork, 10+ years of experience, $100K+ earned.
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portfolio
Investor decks, messaging platforms, and presentation systems shipped for fintech, biotech, hospitality, public sector, and advisory clients.
ScamRocket Investor Pitch Deck
A 25-page investor pitch deck for ScamRocket, turning a complex fraud-detection and identity-verification product into a clear, investor-ready story.
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Maadaadizi Hospitality Investment Deck
An investment pitch deck for Maadaadizi, an integrated hospitality company, turning dense business, financial and market information into a credible, easy-to-navigate investor story.
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RFD Legacy Advisors Messaging Platform
A messaging platform presentation for RFD Legacy Advisors, structuring the firm's brand strategy into a clear story for business owners preparing to sell the business they built.
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Magieva Messaging Platform Presentation
A 29-page messaging platform presentation for the AI company Magieva, turning a content-heavy strategy document into a structured visual narrative from company ethos to elevator pitch.
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Pleiogenix Messaging Platform Presentation
A messaging platform presentation for the biotech brand Pleiogenix, defining brand voice, value proposition, audience messaging and core differentiators for investors, clinicians and grant reviewers.
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NeuroCraft Center Essentials Pitch Deck
An essentials pitch deck for NeuroCraft Center, a neurofeedback therapy provider, structured to take first-responder agencies and high-stakes organizations from the reality to the partnership.
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CESA Messaging Platform Presentation
A messaging platform presentation for the Colorado Emergency Services Association, turning its messaging strategy into a professional, easy-to-follow deck for special districts and their leaders.
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who am I?
$100K+
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4,112
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Top Rated Plus
(top 3% on Upwork)
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who I work with
Founders and teams whose next round, next client, or next board meeting rides on a deck.
Startups preparing for demo days, accelerator applications, and warm investor intros on a fixed date
Sales teams that need a conversion-focused deck for enterprise pitches and procurement reviews
Operators presenting board updates, all-hands strategy, and product launches to people who already know the business
Agencies and consultants who need a senior designer to white-label their clients' decks
Industries I design for most
Pre-seed to Series A
Investor decks that make the story, the numbers and the ask land in a first meeting.
Fintech & AI
Decks that explain a complex product and its compliance story clearly enough for a first meeting.
Healthtech & biotech
Science-heavy narratives turned into slides a non-specialist investor can follow.
Ecommerce & DTC
Brand-led decks for retail buyers, distributors and consumer-focused investors.
Agencies & consulting
Credentials, proposal and sales decks delivered in your own system, white-label ready.
Not the right fit if you need a basic Canva-style template. This is custom deck design with narrative, structure, and visualization. Built for high-stakes pitches.
what I deliver
Consultation
Narrative structure consultation. What story to tell, slide order, what to cut
Data visualization
Data visualization. Charts, market size graphics, financial projections
Revisions
2 rounds of revisions
Investor email template
Optional: investor email template + one-pager design (add-on)
Custom-designed slides
Custom-designed slides (typically 12 to 20 depending on stage)
Visual system
Brand-aligned visual system. Typography, color, iconography, layouts
Handoff
Final PDF plus editable source in Keynote, Google Slides, PowerPoint, or Figma
testimonials
Verified Upwork reviews, LinkedIn recommendations and video testimonials from real clients. Click any card to see the full review.
Gene Wright
Print Media & Newsletter Design / UX/UI & Web Development | Planet Friendly Pest Control
Hi, my name's Gene Wright. I'm the president of Planet Friendly Pest Control, and we have been using Gul for our graphic art for several years now. Very, very happy. We highly recommend her. She has been designing everything from brochures, newsletters, postcards, flyers. She interacts directly with our chief marketing officer, with the mail house distribution companies, provides any type of file structure you need. She's very responsive to edits. Wonderful experience all
Gul E. was a great designer and completed tasks with her design skills, quality and on time. She designed many product labels and making some documents look better and also landing page design. She is a multifaceted designer that is a pleasure to work with and will continue once I have more work.
Jennifer Fausner
Product Label, Packaging & Landing Page Design | CBDMD
Gul spent so much time with me making edits and making sure my project for creating a brand box was absolutely perfect. Gul is without a doubt the best designer I have ever worked with in the ecommerce field in my life and I have been in this field for about 2 years now.
Ibrahem Abourahma
Ecommerce Packaging & Amazon Listing Image Design | Dentradental
Solid work. Turned our proprietary data into a clean, cohesive PDF that fits our brand. Her UX background shows in how cleanly she structures information on the page. Strong aesthetic sense, highly receptive to feedback, and applies it effectively. Professional and reliable.
Francesco Castronovo
UX/UI & Brand Asset Design / Editorial PDF Layout | PB Services
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Outstanding Designer – Highly Recommend! Gul did an amazing job creating menu boards for my restaurant. From the very start, she was professional, responsive, and genuinely invested in understanding my vision. She delivered beautifully designed menus that were both eye-catching and easy to read, perfectly reflecting the style of my business. Her communication was excellent throughout the project, and she was always open to feedback and quick to make any adjustments I requested. The final result exceeded my expectations. If you’re looking for a talented, reliable designer who really cares about delivering quality work, I highly recommend Gul. I will definitely be working with her again!
Ammar Badawi
Print & Digital Media Design | Pitaziki
I'm a year late in writing this. I've hired Gul on a number of graphic design projects and not only is she an exccellent designer, she's also transparent, communicative, and accurately actions revisions. So for anyone who consistently needs graphics, Gul is someone who not only has skills, but gives you peace of mind knowing the job will be done, and done well.
Julien Ross
Ongoing Graphic Design | Guide by PersonifAI
Alex Wright
Newsletter & Direct Mail Print Design | 855 Treeman
Been using Gul now for a few years. We do postcards like this. She's very familiar with what the post office needs. We do a monthly newsletter, always on time. It's 12-page newsletter. Goes out every month. So, I highly recommend, she can definitely take care of you for graphic art.
Working with Gul was a great experience. They listened carefully to my ideas, brought creative solutions to the table, and delivered designs that were both professional and unique. I’d happily recommend them to anyone looking for thoughtful, high-quality design work.
Daren Dien
Packaging, Brand Identity & Logo Design | California Beef Jerky
Incredible work - took time to go into the detail I needed, was reliable and replied quickly to any messages and alterations that were needed. Ive worked with a lot of designers and Gul is definitely one of the best ive worked with.
Babar Raja
Website UX/UI Design | Spartan Labs
Working with Gul has been an absolute pleasure. She goes above and beyond to truly understand the requirements, and she even created multiple versions of the brochure so I could explore different directions before choosing the final one. I'm a very detail-oriented and picky person, yet Gul was consistently patient, kind, and open to every refinement I requested. Not once did I feel she was frustrated or rushed, she was always supportive and committed to delivering the best outcome. The final brochure is beautiful, professional, and exactly what I envisioned. I highly recommend Gul to anyone looking for a talented, thoughtful, and passionate designer who genuinely cares about the quality of her work. Wishing you all the success ahead; your talent and kindness will take you far.
Sana Ennafati
Bilingual Brochure & Print Design | Pure & Bold Beauty
Salam Alaikum. Gul is an A1 Team member & Deisgner! Will help when team members ask and takes initiative to deliver prompt work with passion. Very team friendly kind and manages her time effectively. Will look forward to working more with you!
Mohammad Bayyari
Print & Digital Media Design
pricing
Pitch deck design starts at $500, which covers a visual refresh of an existing deck. A new investor deck is scoped on funding stage, slide count, and data visualization needs, and we scope it together on a free 20-minute call. All prices in USD.
Investor Deck: Seed
- 12 to 15 slides
- narrative consultation
- investor-ready design
- PDF plus Keynote or Google Slides handoff
Investor Deck: Series A / B
- 15 to 20 slides
- advanced data visualization
- multi-format handoff
- one-pager included
Sales & Enterprise Deck
- 10 to 15 slides
- sales narrative structure
- brand-aligned design
- editable handoff for your sales team
Pitch Deck Refresh
- Your content rebuilt visually
- layout, typography, data visualization, and brand alignment
- the fastest route for founders whose story works and whose slides do not
For ongoing presentation support across decks, one-pagers, and board updates, see the retainer page.
Book a free 20-minute callfrequently asked questions
- A pitch deck designer turns your raw material into a deck an investor reads to the end. On a pitch deck project I build the narrative first, slide by slide, and only then design it: custom slides, market and financial data drawn as charts, and a visual system that holds from slide one to slide twenty. You get the final PDF plus the editable file in PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Slides, or Figma.
- Yes. Pitch deck design for fintech and AI founders is mostly a clarity problem: the product is technical, the compliance story matters, and an investor has minutes. I structure the deck so the mechanism, the market and the ask each land in one pass. ScamRocket, a fraud detection and identity verification product, is in the portfolio on this page.
- Yes. Healthtech and biotech decks have to read for two audiences at once, the specialist and the generalist writing the cheque, so pitch deck design here is about sequencing the science and visualising the evidence. The Pleiogenix messaging platform presentation on this page is exactly that work, built for early-stage life science investors and pharma partners.
- Yes. Presentation design for advisory and consulting firms is the Sales and Enterprise Deck tier: your narrative, your brand, and an editable file your team can adapt per client. The RFD Legacy Advisors messaging platform on this page is that job, a seven-section deck built for an advisory firm to use with business owners.
- Yes, seven client pitch decks are on this page with the full slides. ScamRocket is a fintech investor deck, Maadaadizi a hospitality investment deck, Pleiogenix a biotech messaging platform, and CESA a public sector one. Each case study shows the real slides, the structure behind them, and what the deck had to do.
- Yes, through the monthly design retainer rather than per project. Founders who keep pitching need updated numbers, new one-pagers and board decks on a cadence, and the retainer covers that at a fixed monthly rate from $1,500. For a single deck the pitch deck design tiers on this page are the cheaper route.
- Pitch deck design starts at $500, which covers a visual refresh of an existing deck. New investor decks are scoped individually based on funding stage, slide count, and data visualization needs, confirmed on a free 20-minute call. All prices in USD.
- A typical pitch deck takes 10 to 14 days from kickoff to final handoff: outline by day 4, first full draft by day 9, revisions by day 12, then delivery with a walkthrough. Rush delivery in 7 days is available at +25%, useful for demo days and warm investor intros.
- Yes, if you are actually getting in front of investors. An investor spends only a few minutes on a first pass, DocSend's research puts it around three minutes, so structure and visual clarity decide whether your numbers get read at all. A strong deck does not replace a strong business, it makes sure the business gets seen.
- I build the narrative with you: what story to tell, slide order, what to cut, then design around it. Your numbers and claims come from you, and I refine the copy on every slide so it reads tight. For full copywriting or deeper messaging work, my studio CodexQuill scopes that separately so deck and copy ship aligned.
- Both. You get a final PDF for sending to investors, plus the fully editable source in your tool of choice: Keynote, Google Slides, PowerPoint, or Figma. You own the files and can update them yourself as your numbers change.
- Yes, that is the Pitch Deck Refresh package. You keep your content and structure, I rebuild the visuals: layout, typography, data visualization, and brand alignment. It is the fastest option for founders whose story works but whose deck looks homemade.
- The decks on this page were commissioned for real raises, and I can share specific outcomes on our call: some are public, some sit under NDA. The honest framing is that the deck does not raise the money, the founder does. A clear pitch deck makes investors say yes to the meeting faster and keeps them reading all the way to the ask.
- Yes. I work with founders across the US, UK, EU, Canada, and Australia, with daily overlap across US and European hours. All decks are designed in English, and I can deliver final files localized for international investors.
- Very common at pre-seed and seed. I build a clean temporary visual identity for the deck itself: typography, color, and layout system, so you look established before you are. If you want the full brand later, my brand identity service picks up exactly where the deck left off.
- Yes. Fundraising material is confidential by default, and I sign NDAs on request before any work starts. Your numbers, strategy, and deck never appear in my portfolio or case studies without your written permission.
Five steps from the first call to the final file, in 10 to 14 days.
- Discovery call: 45 minutes on the company, the stage, who you are pitching, and what has and has not worked so far. Day 1.
- Narrative and structure: A slide-by-slide outline, no design yet, for your approval before anything gets drawn. Day 2 to 4.
- Design: The first full draft in your chosen tool, every slide, with the data already visualized. Day 5 to 9.
- Review and revise: Your feedback, then two rounds of revisions across the complete deck. Day 9 to 12.
- Handoff: Final PDF and the editable source, plus a 30-minute walkthrough. Day 12 to 14.
A typical pitch deck ships in 10 to 14 days. Rush delivery in 7 days is available at +25%, useful for demo days and warm investor intros.
CONTACT ME
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