Visual deck structure library
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.
For one specific slide, start with its information job. These worked structures answer the older individual slide URLs; they are guidance for building a slide, not downloadable theme files.
Use one decision-relevant metric, its unit, time period, denominator and source. Example: “18 of 24 teams completed the four-week pilot.” Add the source and the limitation: completion does not establish renewal demand.
In Lumen, give the metric and context in the outline, then inspect the generated layout. Avoid a giant “75%” with no population or reporting period. If you need to compare several series, use a chart instead.
Finish with a named owner and a specific next step: “Book a 20-minute pilot scoping call with the implementation lead.” Include a readable email or URL and the expected response time only if it is a real commitment.
Place essential details in text, not only in a QR code. Verify every link in the exported file. A general “Thank you” slide gives the audience less direction than a clear action and owner.
Map stages such as discover, evaluate, start and renew. For each stage, show the user’s task, touchpoint, friction and responsible team. Separate observed research from assumptions.
Example: during “start,” the user needs access, the touchpoint is the invitation email, the friction is an expired link, and support owns recovery. If four stages make the slide unreadable, use an overview plus one slide per difficult stage. A journey map is not simply a timeline of company activities.
Six rooms, six narrative jobs
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.
Client
Consulting
Frame the situation, complication, analysis, recommendation, implementation path, and decisions required.
Executive
Board
Organize strategic context, KPIs, financials, risks, requested decisions, and next-quarter priorities.
Investor
Fundraising
Connect the problem, solution, market, traction, business model, team, ask, and use of funds.
Commercial
Sales
Build from buyer pain through differentiated value, proof, objections, implementation, and next step.
Operating
QBR
Review outcomes against plan, explain variance, surface risks, and align the next-quarter action plan.
Executive
Transformation
Move from current state and design principles into workstreams, sequencing, dependencies, owners, and measures.
Scrolling visual stories
Stanza is Lumen’s visual-story mode, and each blueprint sets the story’s narrative sections, their order and a starting theme. Choosing one opens the story setup with that blueprint and theme already selected; nothing is planned or generated until you ask, and generating a story then uses your plan’s generation capacity.
Recommended theme: Boardroom
A decision-ready narrative for boards and leadership teams.
Recommended theme: Signal
A buyer-specific problem, proof, solution, and next-step sequence.
Recommended theme: Aurora
A launch story from change and differentiation through adoption.
Recommended theme: Paper
A paced explanation with concepts, examples, checks, and recap.
Recommended theme: Editorial Ink
A source-led finding, evidence, implication, and recommendation flow.
Eighteen specific decks
The six patterns above are the shapes. These are the named decks people are handed by a calendar invite — each one a slide-by-slide sequence with the audience, typical length, and the mistakes that sink it.
Structure template or design template?
Both get called a presentation template, and confusing them is why so many decks look finished and land badly.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Start with the audience, decision, source material, and section order. Theme switching, Brand Kit controls, and slide editing remain available after the deck exists.
From source material to presentation handoff
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.
Lumen also includes Stanza, a responsive visual-story mode that turns the same sources into a scrolling web story instead of a slide deck. Start quickly, or plan first and approve the scene plan before generation. Stanza grounds sources through the same pre-authorized search path as Lumen decks, it ships under Lumen access, and a supported Lumen deck can be converted into a separate Stanza story. Review conversion warnings: the original theme and slide imagery are not copied automatically.
