NO. 01 / RESOURCES

Guides, briefings, and insights for better presentations.

Practical resources for shaping the story, designing the deck, producing narration, and using presentation video effectively — all published on the AskDeck blog.

FEATURED GUIDE

Your Deck Is Not Your Pitch. Your Argument Is.

Founders keep filling in template boxes and calling it a pitch. But the deck was never the pitch — the argument is. Own your traction, your wedge, your reason the timing is now, and watch a strong thesis land in five slides.

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Title slide of the deck AskDeck produced for “Your Deck Is Not Your Pitch. Your Argument Is.” — the presentation embedded in the post.

From the production desk.

Every post on the AskDeck blog ships with the deck it argues — produced with AskDeck, embedded slide by slide, and free to download as an editable PowerPoint.

GUIDE
From Idea to a Finished Pitch Deck in Minutes
Brief AskDeck by voice, text, web, or email. Get back a structured, editable .pptx you can refine. Here's exactly how it works.
Read the post: From Idea to a Finished Pitch Deck in Minutes
PRODUCT
Meet Eric: the AI that builds your deck (and what makes him different)
Eric turns a quick brief — by voice, text, web, or email — into an editable pitch deck. Here's how he works, and why he isn't just another template.
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AI BRIEFING
The Simple Idea Behind Self-Improving AI Agents
Strip away the hype and an AI agent is just a model using tools in a loop. Here's why that embarrassingly plain mechanism beats clever pipelines, what “self-improving” really means, and how it's about to reprice software and move your job up one level.
Read the post: The Simple Idea Behind Self-Improving AI Agents
AI BRIEFING
GPT-5.6 Sol vs Terra vs Luna: OpenAI's Three-Tier Pricing
OpenAI split its newest model into three priced tiers. Here is what Sol, Terra, and Luna actually cost and do.
Read the post: GPT-5.6 Sol vs Terra vs Luna: OpenAI's Three-Tier Pricing
AI BRIEFING
Page-Level Slide Personalization: Teaching AI Design Taste
Researchers describe inverse planning, a method that infers unstated slide design habits instead of relying on templates or written instructions.
Read the post: Page-Level Slide Personalization: Teaching AI Design Taste
AI BRIEFING
What 9,700 Heavy Users Reveal About AI's Grip on Knowledge Work
A 2026 study tied 9,700 AI users' survey answers to their real usage logs, revealing how much of their work they expect AI to do and who's most worried.
Read the post: What 9,700 Heavy Users Reveal About AI's Grip on Knowledge Work

The complete file.

23 POSTS · INDEXED 15 JULY 2026

12 JUL 2026AI BRIEFINGThe Simple Idea Behind Self-Improving AI Agents
11 JUL 2026AI BRIEFINGGPT-5.6 Sol vs Terra vs Luna: OpenAI's Three-Tier Pricing
10 JUL 2026AI BRIEFINGLongCat-2.0: Meituan's 1.6T Model Trained Without Nvidia
09 JUL 2026AI BRIEFINGChinese AI Models Now Handle 46% of US Enterprise Traffic
08 JUL 2026AI BRIEFINGForward-Deployed Engineering: AI's $9 Billion Enterprise Bet
07 JUL 2026AI BRIEFINGLanguage World Models: How AI Learns to Simulate Agent Environments
06 JUL 2026AI BRIEFINGAI Isn't Replacing Engineers. It's Repricing the Middle.
06 JUL 2026AI BRIEFINGPage-Level Slide Personalization: Teaching AI Design Taste
04 JUL 2026AI BRIEFINGLineShine: How China's GPU-Free Supercomputer Topped TOP500
03 JUL 2026AI BRIEFINGAgentic AI: Why 80% of Users Now Delegate Hour-Plus Tasks
03 JUL 2026GUIDEYour Deck Is Not Your Pitch. Your Argument Is.
03 JUL 2026AI BRIEFINGWhat 9,700 Heavy Users Reveal About AI's Grip on Knowledge Work
02 JUL 2026AI BRIEFINGModel-Agnostic Coding Agents: Escaping AI Tool Lock-In in 2026
01 JUL 2026AI BRIEFINGAI Research Workbenches: How Agentic AI Is Changing Life-Science R&D
01 JUL 2026AI BRIEFINGAI Orchestration Models: Routing Around Vendor Lock-In
30 JUN 2026AI BRIEFINGFrontier AI Releases Are Now Gated by the US Government
30 JUN 2026AI BRIEFINGWhy AI Companies Are Building Custom LLM Inference Chips
30 JUN 2026AI BRIEFINGOpen-Source AI Coding Agents: Why Model-Agnostic Design Matters
28 JUN 2026AI BRIEFINGGovernment-Gated Frontier AI: Inside a New Three-Tier Model Rollout
27 JUN 2026AI BRIEFINGWhen Export Controls Can Pull a Frontier AI Model Offline
17 JUN 2026PRODUCTMeet Eric: the AI that builds your deck (and what makes him different)
17 JUN 2026GUIDEFrom Idea to a Finished Pitch Deck in Minutes
17 JUN 2026PRODUCTIntroducing the AskDeck blog

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NO. 02 / STARTING POINTS

Start from a real production.

Five real productions are public in Examples — real briefs, real customer palettes, every slide browsable and every deck downloadable as a fully editable PowerPoint.

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