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Visual deck structure library

Start from a proven narrative pattern, not an empty slide.

Preview the shape of six common business decks, filter by delivery room, inspect the complete structure guide, and start the matching outline-first workflow.

These are Lumen workflow structures, not third-party PowerPoint theme files. You can still switch themes after the deck exists.

Six rooms, six narrative jobs

Choose the structure your audience expects.

Search by job or filter by room. Each card shows a real Lumen visual direction and leads to both the full guide and the corresponding creation workflow.

Structure template or design template?

A slide deck structure is not a PowerPoint theme file.

Both get called a presentation template, and confusing them is why so many decks look finished and land badly.

Design template

What the slides look like

Fonts, colour, spacing, master layouts. A downloadable PowerPoint or Google Slides theme solves this, and so does picking a Lumen theme — which you can switch after the deck exists, without rebuilding it.

Structure template

What the slides say, in what order

The narrative sequence the room expects: situation before recommendation in a consulting readout, problem before traction in a pitch, results before plan in a QBR. This is what the six cards above encode, and it is the part a theme file cannot give you.

Why it matters

Design failures are visible; structure failures are not

A misaligned logo gets spotted in ten seconds. A pitch deck that buries the ask on slide 19, or a quarterly review with no honest miss, reads as polished right up until the questions start.

The practical order

Sequence first, styling second

Choose the structure, review the outline, then pick the look. Reordering an argument is cheap while it is still an outline and expensive once forty slides are designed around it.

What every one of these slide decks shares

Three moves that hold across all six structures.

Open with the executive summary slide

Consulting readout, board deck, pitch, sales narrative, QBR, roadmap — every one of them opens on a slide that states the verdict, carries three to five numbers against a comparison, names the decision you need, and admits the biggest risk. It is the only slide some of your audience will read closely.

One takeaway per slide

The heading should be the conclusion, not the topic. "Retention improved 8 points after onboarding changed" beats "Retention" on every slide type in this gallery, and it makes the deck readable when it circulates as a PDF without you in the room.

Push the detail into an appendix

Keep the presented sequence tight and move backup metrics, methodology, and secondary analysis behind the last slide. The appendix answers the deep-dive question without spending the meeting on it.

Reuse the same shape next time

These structures earn most of their value on repetition. Keeping the sequence stable across quarters or clients is what lets an audience compare one deck to the last one instead of relearning your layout each time.

Structure before styling

Review the outline before the deck becomes expensive to change.

Start with the audience, decision, source material, and section order. Theme switching, Brand Kit controls, and slide editing remain available after the deck exists.

Learn the outline-first workflow

Current public contract

Current Gixo Lumen implementation at a glance

These figures are derived from the implementation catalogs used by the live product.
AspectCurrent behaviorWhy it matters
active themes33Derived from the active presentation-theme registry.
slide layouts26Derived from the implemented slide-layout guides.
workflow profiles7Consulting, finance, startup, sales, executive, product, and general business.
delivery formats4PPTX, PDF, HTML, and slide images

From source material to presentation handoff

Build the deck, review it, and evaluate the exported handoff in one workspace.

Start a 14-day, no-card Starter trial to generate and review decks and evaluate clean hybrid PPTX and PDF exports. Existing decks remain reviewable after the trial; paid Lumen continues generation and unlocks the delivery paths shown in pricing.