Business Plan Deck

About this template

A speaking plan is not a submission form

A written business plan is judged on completeness; a presented one is judged on whether each slide makes a single claim. This file is built for the second case, in 14 slides: cover, agenda, four dividers with four body slides, one comparison slide, key metrics, a trend chart, and a closing slide. The cover carries the category line “PROPOSALS & PLANNING” and a “2026. Presenter name / Affiliation” byline placeholder, and slide 14 closes with “A three-year promise in numbers” over “Thank you”. If a grant program mandates its own form, fill that form separately and keep this as the speaking version.

The argument the four body slides make

The body slides already run in the order a plan should argue: “Why we started”, “Market sizing”, “Revenue model”, “Three-year financials”. The dividers are marked SECTION 01 to SECTION 04, so the number alone tells the audience where you are. Each body slide answers one question.

1. Slide 4, why we started – why now. The lead line, “Why this business, and why now.”, asks you to give the grounds for starting now, and the three defaults are “A problem the founder lived”, “Timed with deregulation” and “12 customers signed up front”: one line of motive, one of timing, one of evidence. The pre-secured customer count is the strongest line here, so say whether those are contracts or letters of intent.
2. Slide 6, market sizing – how big. “Domestic market est. KRW 1.8tn”, “Target segment KRW 420bn” and “2.5% share target within 3 years” narrow the total market down to your share. Attach a source to each line.
3. Slide 8, revenue model – where money comes from. “Monthly subscription and per-transaction fee”, “Assumes KRW 380,000 per customer”, “Based on a 71% repeat rate”: pricing mechanism, unit price, repeat purchase, one line each.
4. Slide 10, three-year financials – when it pays. “Year 1 revenue plan KRW 1.4bn”, “Break-even in month 24”, “Year 3 operating margin 18%”. Raise the revenue line without a cost structure and this slide collapses.

The agenda has seven lines: “Why we started”, “Market sizing”, “Revenue model”, “Three-year financials”, “Year 1 plan and Year 3 target”, “Key metrics” and “Trend analysis”. The first four are each backed by a divider-and-body pair (slides 3 to 10) and the last three map onto slides 11, 12 and 13, so agenda and deck already match one to one and need no editing unless you reorder. What is missing is a dedicated slide for competition or for the funding plan – both come up in every review – so duplicate a divider-and-body pair and add a line to the agenda before you present.

Milestone examples

These sentences are not in the file; they are examples of what to write over the three body lines.

• Example: Q1 – four pilot stores; expand only if order accuracy reaches 98%.
• Example: Q2 – 20 franchise stores at KRW 290,000 monthly subscription each.
• Example: Q3 – outsource logistics, cost of revenue from 62% to 54%.
• Example: Q4 – break even at 32 stores against KRW 42m monthly fixed cost.

Reading the two financial slides

The four cards on slide 12 hold “KRW 1.8tn” (target market), “24 months” (break-even), “KRW 3bn” (raise target) and “71%” (repeat rate): one size, one date, one ask, one measure of business health. The funding card is the only number in the deck that asks the audience for something, so say out loud what it buys and how many months it lasts. The trend chart on slide 13 runs 14, 39, 86 and 150 against the labels “Year 1” to “Year 4” – but the body slide is titled as a three-year projection. Delete the fourth bar or retitle the slide so the two agree, and label any forecast year explicitly, for example as “Year 4, plan”. The bars are shapes, so resize them by (value / largest value).

Where a plan loses credibility

• Raising the revenue line with no cost structure, so there is no break-even point.
• Presenting the sample “KRW 1.8tn” figure unchanged; reviewers recognise it. Bring the total-to-serviceable-to-target arithmetic with you.
• Never naming a competitor. Slide 11 puts “Flagship product established”, “20 clients secured” and “Approaching break-even” against “Product line expanded to 3”, “120 clients · 2 overseas markets” and “Operating margin of 18%” – your own plan against your own plan, with no room for a rival. Duplicate its two-column structure to put existing alternatives beside your product.
• Not connecting the “KRW 3bn” ask to the year-one revenue plan of KRW 1.4bn; you should be able to say how many months of runway it represents.