A year on from the best-of-breed stack. What survived, what got absorbed, and why opencore plus agent-first won.

First principles for slide tooling in 2026: stop generating PowerPoint, start generating websites that happen to look like decks.

Tome, Gamma, Beautiful.ai, Slides AI — they all keep producing the same dead deck. The wrong abstraction can't be fixed by a better model.

Every deck ships with two markdown files. Rules, plan, font sizes, slide count, source citations. The receipts that make institutional pitches survive due diligence.

One DeckViewer component, many slide registries. The cleanest way to build pitch decks, info memorandums, conference talks and demo-day pitches in the same app.