Where the two days actually go
When we time this workflow with teams, very little of it is design. It is hunting for the latest version, waiting on a colleague to reply, re-checking whether a number is current, and fixing formatting after a copy-paste between decks.
The twenty-minute pattern
- Start from the shape of the story, not from a template — five to seven beats on paper first.
- Search the library per beat and pull two candidate slides for each.
- Assemble the draft before you polish anything. Order beats aesthetics.
- Cut back to one slide per beat, then export and read it end to end.
- Only customise the three slides the buyer will actually remember.
Keep the customisation shallow
Heavy per-deal editing is what pulls slides out of the library and back into personal drives. Customise the framing slides, keep the proof slides canonical, and your library stays trustworthy.