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How a YC Founder Built a High-Stakes Pitch Deck Overnight

  • MayureshCEO and Co-founder, Chronicle
  • ReneeGTM Lead
2 min readJul 30

In the world of early-stage startups, time is everything — especially when you’re preparing for a high-stakes investor meeting. Flai (YC S25), a Y Combinator-backed company building AI infrastructure, needed a clean, professional deck fast. Using Chronicle, they pulled it together overnight — no designer required.

From raw idea to structured deck in minutes

Using Chronicle’s AI-powered presentation builder, the Flai team was able to:

  1. Paste their company narrative and instantly generate a structured outline
  2. Remix slide layouts using Chronicle’s built-in design system
  3. Drop in prebuilt widgets like market-sizing diagrams, 2×2s, and quote block
  4. Rewrite content inline with Chronicle’s built-in tone-adjusting tools

No PowerPoint. No Figma. Just fast iteration on story and structure — all inside the product.

A tool that moves as fast as you do

“We reached out to Chronicle support at 11:30 p.m. and got a response in minutes. By the next morning, we had a clean, structured deck ready to go.”

Flai Founder

Chronicle didn’t just save time — it helped Flai tell their story more clearly. It was fast, intuitive, and made the deck feel like it was designed on purpose.

Why Chronicle worked for this YC startup

For Flai, it meant spending more time refining their pitch — not formatting slides. Startups like Flai use Chronicle when speed, clarity, and design all matter — especially in moments like:

  1. Investor meetings
  2. Sales calls
  3. Demo Day prep
  4. Fundraising updates
  5. Internal product or team strategy decks

The finished product

Chronicle streamlines the storytelling process so founders can focus on the what — not wrestle with formatting the how.

Start creating now

Chronicle lets you turn ideas into beautiful, interactive presentations, fast. Whether you’re sharing a pitch or a story, Chronicle helps you make it visual, clear, and impossible to ignore, just like we did for the Flai team.