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Make me a board deck I can edit in 5 minutes

Your AI CEO turns 8 hours of deck-building into one approval pass.

OperationsStrategyOn-demand, typically quarterly for board meetings.
Free to startNo credit card requiredUpdated Apr 2026

You'd think this needs all of Sunday — Astra builds the deck overnight from your real data, you spend 5 min editing.

The short answer

Astra builds your board deck by pulling current data, structuring 12 standard slides, and rendering everything in your existing brand template. She fetches financials from Stripe and QuickBooks, product metrics from PostHog and GA4, OKR progress from Notion, hiring from your ATS, runway and burn from your finance model, and recent press from your inbox. She structures the deck as: cover, agenda, KPI dashboard, financial summary, product update, customer update, OKR progress, key risks, hiring update, asks, appendix. She uses your existing PowerPoint template (or proposes a clean one if you don't have one), drops in pre-formatted charts, writes speaker notes per slide, and ships the .pptx to your Drive. You edit in 5 min, present from your laptop. Most board decks land Friday afternoon for a Monday meeting with zero stress.

How Astra actually does it

  1. 1
    Pull all source data

    Stripe + QuickBooks (financials), PostHog + GA4 (product), Notion (OKRs), ATS (hiring), Brex (burn), Gmail (press mentions), Salesforce (pipeline).

    StripeQuickBooksPostHogGA4NotionBrex
  2. 2
    Structure 12 slides

    Cover, agenda, KPI snapshot, financials, product, customers, OKRs, risks, hiring, asks, appendix. Each slide ≤7 words on title, data-driven.

  3. 3
    Render in your template

    Use your existing .pptx template if available. If not, propose a clean board template (you can swap branding before send). Charts use your brand colors.

  4. 4
    Write speaker notes

    Per slide: 2-3 sentences of context for what to say live. Highlights any awkward numbers and how to frame them honestly.

  5. 5
    Ship and review

    Drop .pptx into your Drive. Lark thread with a screenshot of each slide for fast review. Inline edit comments supported.

    LarkNotion

What it looks like in chat

Make me a board deck for Monday's meeting.
Astra
Building. Pulled data. Draft .pptx in your Drive in 90 minutes (charts take time). Structure: 1. Cover (logo, date) 2. Agenda (5 items) 3. **KPI Snapshot:** $50K MRR, +24% QoQ, 4.1% churn, 18-month runway 4. **Financials:** revenue chart, burn chart, cash position $1.4M 5. **Product:** shipped (rate-limiting, dashboard v2), shipping (SSO MVP) 6. **Customers:** 2,316 paying, top 5 logos, 1 churn case study 7. **OKRs:** Q2 stoplight (3 green, 1 yellow, 1 red — Enterprise tier slipping) 8. **Key risks:** SSO gap costing enterprise deals, hiring lag 9. **Hiring:** 1 backend offer out, 2 designer interviews this week 10. **Asks:** intros to Series B fintech CTOs; senior backend referrals 11-12. **Appendix:** detailed metrics, cohort tables Using your brand template from `/Drive/Brand/board-template-v3.pptx`. Speaker notes per slide. Ready for your edit pass at 4pm. Want me to adjust any section before I render?
What you get back

A 12-slide .pptx in your Drive, formatted in your brand template, with speaker notes, plus a Lark thread with screenshots for fast review and inline edit comments.

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On-demand, typically quarterly for board meetings.

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Frequently asked questions

What if I don't have a brand template?

Astra proposes a clean board-grade template (think a16z/sequoia portfolio company aesthetic) and renders the deck in it. You can swap to your own branding later by replacing the template file in Drive. The data-bound slides re-render automatically.

Can she include sensitive data like cap table or detailed P&L?

Yes — Astra reads from Carta or Pulley for cap table, QuickBooks for P&L, and includes them in the appendix by default (most boards expect them). You can mark sections "hide from deck" and she'll exclude them while keeping the source files intact.

What if my financial model is in a custom Google Sheet?

She reads named ranges from any shared sheet — give her the URL and tell her which tabs to pull from (e.g., "P&L tab columns A-N, runway model row 47"). She refreshes those numbers every time she rebuilds the deck.

How long before the meeting should I run this?

Run it 3-4 days before. That gives time for: 90-min build, your 5-min edit pass, optional review by your CFO/co-founder, and Astra applying any feedback. Last-minute (24 hours before) works but skips review cycles.

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