# A pitch deck drawn as a sea chart

> A startup pitch drawn on antique sea charts: sailing ships, compass roses, red routes, ship-sized pricing tiers, a positioning quadrant and coastal milestones. An image model painted each page from published page prompts.

- Kind: Slides
- Live deck: https://rocsgh.github.io/ppt-zen/
- Page: https://meetreference.com/v/sea-chart-pitch-deck-painted-page-by/
- Ready-to-use agent handoff: https://meetreference.com/v/sea-chart-pitch-deck-painted-page-by/agent.txt
- Exact prompt as plain text: https://meetreference.com/v/sea-chart-pitch-deck-painted-page-by/prompt.txt
- Authorship: AI-made, per the source
- Made with: Not stated
- Model: not stated
- Built with: not stated
- Skills or plugins: PPT-Zen
- Style: Decks; antique cartography, parchment, nautical, engraved illustration, serif typography, visual metaphor, sepia
- Slides: 10
- Preview: a flip-through of inspected screenshots; open the live work to experience its motion and interactions.
- Shared by rocsgh in GitHub, Aug 14, 2026: https://github.com/rocsgh/ppt-zen/tree/master/examples/relayboard-portolan
- Prompt fidelity: Verbatim. This is the complete prompt exactly as the creator published it.

## Before you start

Guidance from Reference, separate from the creator's instructions.

1. Read the reference and inspect the project, installed libraries, and available agent skills before writing code. Reuse suitable tools already present.
2. Prefer the creator-reported libraries and skills when they fit the task. Explain what useful additions help with, and install missing project dependencies or relevant skills from official sources when the environment and the user's existing permissions allow it. Respect the project's package manager and setup rules; do not ask again for routine setup already authorized.
3. Distinguish tools used by the creator from your own recommendations. A listed tool is not automatically required, and an empty tools or requirements list means the setup is unknown, not that nothing is needed.
4. Ask concise questions when missing inputs or choices materially affect the result: paid services, credentials, the user's assets, or a different production approach. Use existing answers and permissions; continue independent work while waiting.
5. If a useful library, skill, or service cannot be installed or used, explain an available alternative and its expected effect on quality, features, or effort. Get the user's choice before a material compromise; otherwise state the fallback and continue. Never silently simplify the result or claim to have used a tool you did not use.

Requirements reported by the source: PPT-Zen skill installed in your agent; An OpenAI-compatible image model key (.env); Your own project content.

## Recreating this deck

These are the creator's published instructions, unedited.

## Prompt

```text
Make me a 10-page pitch deck about <your project> with ppt-zen, in the Portolan style.
```

## What it looks like

Written by Reference from the captured walkthrough frames, not by the creator.

An antique nautical-chart aesthetic applied to a startup pitch deck, with coastlines, compass roses, ships, and plotted routes.

- Color: Warm parchment, faded blue-green water, muted ochre land, dark brown lettering, and restrained red route accents.
- Type: Elegant serif headings, including italic titles, paired with smaller serif or sans-serif labels and metrics.
- Framing: Each page layers clear text or data over a lightly gridded map, using nautical illustrations and symbols as supporting decoration.
- Structure: A sequence of pitch pages moves from the company introduction through the problem and product, then traction, pricing, positioning, roadmap, and fundraising.

Storyboard of the slides: https://meetreference.com/media/sea-chart-pitch-deck-painted-page-by/storyboard.webp

- Slide 1: https://meetreference.com/media/sea-chart-pitch-deck-painted-page-by/f1.webp
- Slide 2: https://meetreference.com/media/sea-chart-pitch-deck-painted-page-by/f2.webp
- Slide 3: https://meetreference.com/media/sea-chart-pitch-deck-painted-page-by/f3.webp
- Slide 4: https://meetreference.com/media/sea-chart-pitch-deck-painted-page-by/f4.webp
- Slide 6: https://meetreference.com/media/sea-chart-pitch-deck-painted-page-by/f5.webp
- Slide 7: https://meetreference.com/media/sea-chart-pitch-deck-painted-page-by/f6.webp
- Slide 8: https://meetreference.com/media/sea-chart-pitch-deck-painted-page-by/f7.webp
- Slide 9: https://meetreference.com/media/sea-chart-pitch-deck-painted-page-by/f8.webp
- Slide 10: https://meetreference.com/media/sea-chart-pitch-deck-painted-page-by/f9.webp

## How it was made, per the creator

- Notes: Each page is one full-bleed 16:9 image painted by a text-capable image model from a per-page prompt; the skill writes slides/PLAN.md (all ten page prompts, published in the repo), locks one material for the whole deck, QCs each frame and assembles deck.pptx. This edition re-renders the same ten pages as the dark Relayboard deck in the Portolan sea-chart material.

## Links

- View deck: https://rocsgh.github.io/ppt-zen/
- Original post: https://github.com/rocsgh/ppt-zen/tree/master/examples/relayboard-portolan