The Pitch Deck That Raises Money Without You in the Room

01 /The Concept

Every developer dreams of a product that sells itself. Every founder dreams of a pitch deck that raises its own funding.

InteractPitch is a platform for building exactly that kind of deck. These presentations don't just describe a product on slides – they answer investors' questions on the spot.

According to the platform's creator, the whole setup takes just a couple of minutes.

You start by uploading your deck in PDF or PowerPoint format, optionally attaching speaker notes to each slide – notes that remain hidden from the viewer.

Next, you upload a photo and a voice sample. The platform creates an AI avatar of you that will interact directly with whoever views the presentation.

From there, you can add custom instructions – defining the core message, setting the tone, and uploading supplementary files like a detailed product brief, an investor term sheet, or any other material a curious reader might want to dig into.

Once the deck is ready, you send a personalized link to your distribution list, right from the platform.

When an investor opens the presentation, they can ask questions at any point – by voice or in chat – and your avatar answers instantly. For each slide, it draws on the notes you attached to that slide, plus the background documents you uploaded for the whole deck.

A particularly useful feature: you can see exactly who opened your deck, when, how long they spent on it, and what questions they asked. Armed with that data, you can follow up with the most engaged recipients already knowing which points to emphasize in conversation.

InteractivePitch launched last week – Startuping spotted it on Product Hunt. It's technically a sub-project of InteractAI, a platform focused on the same interactive presentation format but for B2B sales rather than fundraising.

02 /Why It Matters

The dominant trend in enterprise buying is that corporate buyers – and investors, who are a subspecies of corporate buyer – no longer want to sit through a live sales pitch or a founder's personal presentation.

This is a generational shift. Less than 30% of baby boomers avoid live sales contact, but roughly 55% of millennials do. On average, 43% of buyers today prefer to research entirely on their own – which is already a majority.

The result: nearly 70% of the B2B purchase journey now happens without any involvement from a salesperson. Even more striking, 81% of corporate buyers build a shortlist of 4–5 vendors before ever talking to sales – and in 90% of cases, the final purchase comes from that self-assembled shortlist.

By analogy, the same dynamic almost certainly applies to startup fundraising. Investors increasingly prefer to discover and evaluate opportunities independently, engaging founders only when they're close to a decision.

That means the most critical moment in the funnel – for sales and for fundraising alike – is the very top: getting onto the shortlist in the first place. And buyers and investors want to reach that decision on their own, without being pushed into a conversation they didn't ask for.

Interactive presentations built on platforms like InteractPitch and InteractAI address this tension directly:

- On one hand, they stay concise – the longer a deck, the less likely anyone reads it.

- On the other hand, they let curious readers go deeper on the questions a short deck can't answer – without forcing them into a live conversation they've already decided to avoid.

The broader category is taking shape. Other startups have launched platforms that replace live sales reps with AI avatars for product demos – with a couple of compelling angles:

- They answer customer questions mid-demo in real time.

- They automatically highlight the product features most relevant to that specific prospect, drawing on CRM data, pre-demo form responses, or the context of the questions being asked.

To name a couple of recent examples: Supersonik ([related review](/review/menshe-boltaj-luchshe-daj-poshhupat)) raised €4.2 million last fall for interactive product demos, and Olto ([covered here](/review/kuj-prodazhi-poka-gorjacho)) raised $5.1 million last summer for a similar approach.

03 /Opportunities

There's something almost elegantly TRIZ-like about the platforms described here. The methodology says: first identify the core contradiction, then design a solution around it. In this case, the contradiction is that today's buyers don't want to talk to salespeople – but they do want comprehensive, on-demand answers about the products they're evaluating.

Until recently, those answers could only come from a live salesperson, or from a buyer willing to dig through the internet on their own. Neither option is particularly appealing.

Today, buyers can try ChatGPT. But that's not ideal for the seller – there's no guarantee the AI's answer will be accurate, current, or favorable.

The better move for sellers is to embed a familiar, ChatGPT-style interface directly into their product page, pitch deck, or website – so they stay in control of the narrative.

The opportunity, then, is in platforms that help create product descriptions and presentations capable of doing their own selling – at minimum by surfacing the right information to get onto a buyer's shortlist before the final decision is made.

These platforms can take many forms across many industries. Consider a retail app that lets shoppers photograph a product on the shelf and ask it questions. Or a restaurant app that lets diners "have a conversation" with the menu.

Ask yourself: in what situations do you find it annoying to have to talk to someone just to get the information you need? That frustration is your product direction