A 10-12 slide pre-seed deck and a 1-page memo
A 10-12 slide pre-seed deck and a 1-page memo. Both share a single narrative spine. A target investor list of 30-50 names with intro paths. You're ready to send the deck the day you finish.
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Write a pre-seed pitch deck
A 10-12 slide pre-seed deck and a 1-page memo. Both share a single narrative spine. A target investor list of 30-50 names with intro paths. You're ready to send the deck the day you finish.
Slides
Deck plan
Pointers
Investor list
+1 moreTitleStatusOwner
Write the 1-page memo before you touch a slideshippedYou
Draft the title slide and the 1-line pitchactiveAgent
Draft the problem slide with a specific user, not a marketqueuedYou
Draft the wedge slide: what you ship in v1, who pays firstdraftedAgent
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Public preview of the cloned workspace. Same chrome you'll see after Open in Dock.
Spin up an agent for the heavy lifting
Drafts each slide from the brief; tightens copy to under 30 words per slide; flags marketing fluff.
10 steps, 5 official links, 3 agent prompts
Every external doc the agent needs to cite is pre-loaded into the workspace's Pointers table. No hunting for the right URL mid-draft.
What's inside
Pre-loaded so day one is execution.
5Surfaces
10Steps
3Agent prompts
5Official links
6Tools mapped
Surfaces
- tableSlides
- docDeck plan
- tablePointers
- tableInvestor list
- docStatus
How the loop works
Your agent works. Dock shows you what happened.
Open this template and you get a workspace seeded with an agent prompt. Connect your agent — Claude via our MCP, Cursor, your own setup — and it reads, drafts, and posts updates as it goes. You watch Dock for the latest.
- 01
Connect your agent
Claim an agent invite at trydock.ai/agent-invites — your agent gets an API key scoped to this workspace. Paste the key into Claude Desktop, Cursor, or any MCP client.
- 02
Your agent reads the workspace
The agent prompt at the top of the workspace tells your agent its role, the cadence to follow, and the surfaces to update. No extra setup — open Dock and your agent already knows what to do.
- 03
Watch Dock for the latest
Your agent posts to the Status surface after every meaningful action — newest at top. Wire the workspace's webhooks to Slack or email to get pinged in real time.
Wire it up · Claude Desktop
Add Dock as an MCP server in 30 seconds.
{
"mcpServers": {
"dock": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@trydock/mcp"],
"env": {
"DOCK_API_KEY": "<paste from /agent-invites>"
}
}
}
}Drop into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS) or the equivalent on Windows / Linux. Restart Claude Desktop. Ask Claude:“Read trydock.ai/<org>/write-a-pitch-deck-for-pre-seed and follow the agent prompt.”
FAQ
Common questions on this template.
How long should a pre-seed pitch deck be?
10-12 slides. Pre-seed investors read decks in 3-5 minutes; longer decks get skimmed and the back half is ignored. Aim for 10 if you can hit it, 12 if your story genuinely needs the room. Decks longer than 14 slides get disqualified at most pre-seed funds before the partner reads them.
Do I need traction to raise pre-seed?
No. Pre-seed by definition is pre-traction. What you need instead: a tight wedge, evidence you've talked to real customers (interview quotes are gold), a clear why-now, and founder-problem fit. Some pre-seed investors do want a working prototype or 1-2 design partners — read their site to know.
What's the most common reason pre-seed decks get rejected?
Vague wedge. Decks that describe a category instead of a v1 product get filed under 'come back when you've narrowed'. The fix: name the first customer profile, the first version of the product, and the first dollar — specifically. Other common reasons: top-down TAM with no bottoms-up math, 'no competition', ask without milestones.
Can my AI agents help write the deck?
Yes for drafting + research + tightening copy. Agents are good at: pulling competitor data, drafting first-pass slide copy from the brief, compressing 50-word paragraphs to 25 words, fact-checking market-size citations. Not good at: the founder narrative on the team slide, the wedge decision, the why-now insight. Those are yours.
How much should I raise at pre-seed?
$500K-$2M is the typical band for first-time founders. Repeat founders sometimes raise $3M-$5M. Optimize for runway-to-the-next-credible-milestone, usually 18-24 months. Raising too little means you re-raise in 9 months without enough progress; too much triggers higher next-round expectations.
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About this template
Curated by the Dock team at Vector Apps Inc. Every template is a real shared workspace we run with our own agents before publishing.
Reviewed regularly by the Dock team. Each playbook step links to the upstream tool's official docs so we can re-verify the rules as platforms change.