SlideHub PowerPoint Presentation Tool: For consultants by consultants

Background story

SlideHub was started in 2016 using the name NoMore ApS. The company was started with the idea of bringing super-efficient outsourcing of day-to-day office tasks to a wider audience. Think of UpWork but with consistent quality, predictable prices, no need for managing the freelancers, and with very fast turnaround. The concept was inspired by the SlideHub founder, Anders Thomsen, who had previously had access to such services while working as a consultant with McKinsey & Co. After experimenting with different service offerings, the founding team decided to narrow the scope of the service to be fully focused on PowerPoint services.

Since then the PowerPoint service has received a lot of positive feedback from clients and enable SlideHub to grow substantially over the last 5 years.

Why a PowerPoint tool?

Via the PowerPoint service, more than 20.000 PowerPoint tasks are annually handled for consultants and other business professionals across the globe.

While many PowerPoint-related issues can be handled via an efficient service, many of SlideHub's clients were experiencing several other pain points that could not be handled. The PowerPoint tool was build to help existing and future clients solve some of these challenges - including:

• Generate inspiration for how to structure a new slide
• Leverage inspiration slides efficiently - including automatically having colors adjusted
• Make it easier to manage best practice PowerPoint slides across a larger group of people
• Make it easier to find the high-quality slides created by others
• Find consistent high-quality icons and illustrations that align with the design guidelines of the company

Why a tool for consultants?

There are two reasons: 1) SlideHub was founded by a former McKinsey consultant. As a result, many of the clients served via the PowerPoint tool work in consultant agencies or as in-house consultants or business development professionals within larger companies. 2) Consultants have a difficult job. They are expected to be great at business and/or engineering, good at talking with people, experts in Excel and analysis, but ALSO be great a building visual consistent presentations. At the same time, consultants are under a lot of time pressure to deliver value to their clients and thus value any tool that can help them be more efficient.

What makes this PowerPoint tool different?

As outlined above, we at SlideHub have extensive experience conducting PowerPoint slides internally Thus, we have a deep understanding of the requirements of what it takes to build a solid presentation and the challenges of working in PowerPoint without good tools. From this experience, we aim to do the following different from other tools:

• Focus on speed: Consultants are busy people, so each small step needs to run fast
• Keeping it simple: PowerPoint already has a large number of small tools and we don't want people to learn another 30 of them. Instead, we want to introduce a more modern interface for solving PowerPoint pains.
• Empower the end-users: We believe that our tool is only successful if it becomes loved by our end users - not only the managers and brand gatekeepers. Thus, we always aim to find ways to provide more flexibility and control to the end-users who are using the PowerPoint tool.