The Deck Room

Pitch deck studio

Most decks are built
to look busy.
Mine are built
to look clean.

Investor-ready decks for multifamily GPs, fund sponsors, and syndicators raising capital from LPs.

Cover slide of the Redwood Capital Fund II investor deck
Redwood Capital Fund II · $10M value-add raise · sample
Investor decksFund decksData-room appendicesWhite-label for agencies

Designer and capital raiser

Most deck people are one or the other. I trained in both.

The people who build investor decks usually fall into two camps. Designers who make a beautiful slide and have never sat across from someone deciding whether to hand over money. Or finance people who know exactly what an LP checks and produce something that looks like a bank statement.

I studied design in college, then spent a campaign season on a California governor's race running the visual output and helping raise the money. Same race, both jobs, real deadlines. Before that I spent years licensed and in front of investors, where the deck was never the thing that closed them. What closed them was whether the story held up when they pushed on it.

So the work here runs in both directions. What belongs on a slide, what belongs in the data room, what an LP will not believe no matter how well it is set. Then it gets built by someone who actually knows how to build it.

Design

Formal training in digital arts and design. Lead designer on a statewide governor's campaign.

Capital

SIE licensed with FINRA. New York Life, top 10% Executive Council. Relationship banking at Chase. Fundraising on a statewide campaign.

Benjamin Young

Founder · Designer and SIE licensed · LinkedIn

What an LP actually checks

Conservative is a claim, not a number.

Every deck says its underwriting is conservative. Almost none of them show the point where the deal stops working. That gap is the first thing a burned 2021 LP goes looking for, and it is usually the reason a deck stalls.

AssumptionStatedBreaks at
Rent growth3.0%1.4%
Exit cap5.25%6.10%
Occupancy94%89%
Debt service coverage1.35x1.08x

Illustrative · the number is the proof, the word is not

Your deck should answer that question before an LP has to ask it.

Selected work

Two decks, two raises.

Real estate deals are confidential, so these are built from scratch rather than borrowed from a client. One single-asset deal, one fund. Same standard.

Halstead Point

Kestrel Residential · 184 units · Charlotte NC · $11.4M equity raise

A value-add deal deck for a 2016-vintage asset bought 17% under the seller's 2021 basis. Sixteen slides, including a downside case most decks leave out.

Halstead Point cover slide
Cover
Deal summary slide showing asset basis and capital terms
The underwrite
Downside case slide showing exit cap and rent growth sensitivity
Downside case

Redwood Capital Fund II

Multifamily value-add fund · $10M raise · target 18% IRR

A fund deck rather than a single deal. Strategy-led, with acquisition criteria and fund-level returns in place of one property's story.

Track record slide showing portfolio performance
Track record
Maple Court case study slide
Case study
Closing slide with the allocation ask
The ask

Pricing

Fixed scope. No hourly.

You know the number before we start. Scope is negotiable, rate is not.

Deck Diagnostic

$500

A written teardown of the deck you have now. Structure, story order, and the slides an LP will stop on. Credited toward a full build within 30 days.

Deck Refresh

$900

Your content, rebuilt. Restructure, redesign, and tighten an existing deck that is close but not landing.

Investor-Ready DeckMost requested

$3,500

Built from the ground up. A tight core of 12 to 16 slides covering deal summary, sponsor track record, market, model, and exit. The version most sponsors actually need.

Raise Package

$6,500

The core deck plus a data-room appendix, so the depth lives where an LP expects to find it instead of padding the deck to 30 slides.

50% deposit to start · 50% on delivery · retainer and white-label available on request

How it works

Four steps. No wasted meetings.

You are raising on a clock. The process is built to respect that.

Intake

A short call or a written brief. Your deal, your raise target, who you are pitching, and whatever deck you have now.

Structure

Before anything gets designed, you get the slide map. Order, argument, and what each slide has to do. We fix the story on paper where it is cheap to fix.

Build

First full draft, designed. You see the whole thing, not a teaser.

Revise and deliver

One revision round, then final files in PDF and editable format so your team can update numbers without coming back to me.

Questions

Before you ask.

If something here is not covered, email me and I will answer it straight.

How fast can you turn this around?

Slide map within 2 business days of kickoff, first full draft within 7, and each revision round within 3. Most projects finish inside two to three weeks. If you are closing on a hard date, say so up front and I will tell you honestly whether it fits.

What do you need from me to start?

Whatever you already have. A deck, a model, an OM, an email thread. It does not need to be organized. If you have nothing but the deal, that is workable too, it just means more of the structure comes from the intake call.

Do you write the content or just design it?

Both, and the writing is the part that matters. I build the slide map before anything gets designed, which means deciding what each slide has to prove and what belongs in the data room instead. If you only want someone to restyle slides you have already written, the Deck Refresh is the right scope.

Will you sign an NDA?

Yes. Confidentiality is also written into my standard service agreement, so you are covered either way. Nothing from a client engagement goes in my portfolio. The samples on this page are built from scratch for exactly that reason.

How many revisions, and what files do I get?

Two revision rounds are included. You get a presentation-ready PDF plus an editable file, so your team can update numbers before the next investor call without coming back to me.

Do you work outside multifamily?

Multifamily and real estate funds are the focus, and that narrowness is the point. I know what an LP checks because I only look at these. Other capital raises get considered case by case, but I will tell you if someone else is a better fit.

How does payment work?

50% deposit to begin, 50% on delivery, both through Stripe. Scope is fixed before you pay anything, so the number does not move mid-project.

Start a project

Tell me about the raise.

Send over the deal and whatever deck you have now. I will tell you straight whether it needs a rebuild or just a refresh.

ben@thedeckroom.co

I reply to every inquiry within one business day.

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