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Project status update deck: progress, risks and next steps

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Project status update deck: progress, risks and next steps

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Example for the Standard package

Presentation: investor pitch for a neighbourhood coffee roastery

Slide outline

1. Title — Ember Street Roasters: fresh coffee for the whole east side. Founders' names, date.

2. The problem — Local cafés buy beans roasted weeks ago. Customers notice: 62% of our survey respondents say "freshness" is why they switched to us.

3. What we do — We roast in small batches every morning and sell within 7 days. Three pillars: freshness, transparent sourcing, a café people come back to.

4. Traction — Chart: monthly revenue Jan 2025 → Sep 2026, from $18k to $41k. Key number in large type: +128% in 20 months.

5. Customers — 1,400 loyalty members; 38% visit at least weekly. Quote card from a regular.

6. The market — East side: 3 neighbourhoods, ~60,000 residents, 22 cafés, only 2 roast their own.

7. The opportunity — Wholesale to cafés and offices: 14 businesses already asked to buy our beans.

8. The plan — Second café in Millbrook (lease offered, 1,100 sq ft) + wholesale line with a new 15 kg roaster.

9. Unit economics — Table: average ticket $7.40, gross margin 68%, café break-even at month 9.

10. Financial forecast — 3-year table: revenue $520k → $1.1M; EBITDA turns positive in year 2.

11. Use of funds — Pie chart: fit-out 45%, roaster 25%, working capital 20%, marketing 10%.

12. The team — Two founders, head roaster with 9 years' experience, café manager.

13. Risks and how we handle them — Bean prices (6-month contracts), staffing (training program), slower ramp-up (cash runway of 14 months).

14. The offer — $180,000 for 15% equity; quarterly reports; investor coffee club.

15. Thank you — Contacts and an invitation to a cupping session at the roastery.

Design notes

  • Warm palette: espresso brown, cream, ember orange for key numbers
  • One message per slide; every number shown in large type with a short caption
  • Speaker notes added to slides 4, 9 and 10 with talking points

Client: Ember Street Roasters, a small-batch coffee roastery with one café. Goal: raise $180,000 from local investors to open a second location and a wholesale line. Deliverable: 15-slide PowerPoint and PDF. Below is the slide-by-slide content.

The client and all details are made up.

About this service

Steering committees and sponsors want to know three things: are we on track, what is at risk and what do you need from us, and they rarely get them on the first slide. Send your plan, tracker export or notes, and we write a status deck with an overall status in red, amber or green, milestones done and coming, budget and schedule against plan, the top risks and issues with owners, decisions needed and next steps. The wording is factual and short, so a sponsor understands the situation in two minutes.

What is included

  • What you getSlide-by-slide text with status tables, a risk and issue table and a decisions slide, on the order page and as a plain PowerPoint (.pptx) or PDF file made from the text.
  • Overall statusRed, amber or green with one-line reasons
  • MilestonesDone, in progress and next with dates
  • Budget and scheduleActual against plan from your figures
  • Risks and issuesImpact, owner and mitigation
  • Decisions neededWhat the sponsor must approve and by when

How it works

  1. 1
    InputsYou send the plan, figures and notes
  2. 2
    StatusWe summarise progress, risks and asks
  3. 3
    DeckYou present or send it to sponsors

What we need from you

The project goal and plan, progress since the last report, budget and schedule figures, risks and issues you know, decisions you need, and exports from Jira, Asana, MS Project or a spreadsheet as Excel or PDF files.

We will ask you:

  • What is the project, and who is the audience?
  • What is the status, in your own words?
  • What are the biggest risks or blockers?
  • What decisions do you need from the audience?

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Questions and answers

Do you decide whether the project is red or green?

We suggest a status from your figures and notes and explain why. The final call is yours as the project manager.

Can you read our Jira board directly?

No, we never log in to your tools. Export the issues or a report to Excel or PDF and attach it.

Will the file include a Gantt chart?

No, the files contain text and tables only. Milestones come as a table you can turn into a chart in your template.

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