Lightning
From
₹4,500
24–36 hrs
Journal lightning talk · 3-minute thesis · short pitch.
- Up to 8 slides · 5 min
- Figures placed & formatted
- University template applied
- Editable
.pptx+.pdf
§ Presentation Making · Defence · Viva · Conference
Slide decks built for the room — defence, viva, plenary, conference.
Your committee will not read forty cluttered slides. We format defence-ready decks — clean layouts, readable typography, a consistent colour system, and your figures placed and aligned so the result reads at a glance. Editable .pptx, in your university template.
- 01Formatted, not improvised. Consistent master slides, grid-aligned layouts, readable type sizes and a single colour system across every slide.
- 02Your figures, placed and polished. We size, align, recolour and caption the charts you already have so they read cleanly on screen — we format your figures, we don't rebuild your data.
- 03Your template, respected. University coat-of-arms, supervisor crest, departmental colours — we work inside your institution's template, not over it.
Working in
Defence
PhD viva
20–25 slides · 30 min
Viva
MPhil · MS
12–15 slides · 15 min
Lightning
Journal
6–8 slides · 5 min
Conference
Plenary
30–45 slides · 45 min
Lab seminar
Internal
15–20 slides · 25 min
Synopsis
Pre-PhD
8–10 slides · 12 min
Poster
A0 / A1
Conference board
Custom
House style
University template
Bring your university's template if there is one —
.potx, .thmx, or a single slide. We format against it. No template? We set up a discreet system in your department's colours, restrained enough to pass any committee.
§ 03 · The standard
Why this deck holds up — under your committee.
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Your template, set up right
Master slides, layouts, colour palette, departmental crest and footer rules configured correctly — so every slide is consistent and the deck reads as one piece, committee-ready.
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Sized for the slot
A 5-minute lightning talk and a 45-minute defence carry different slide counts and densities. We set the deck to the right length and keep each slide to a legible amount — no wall of text, no overflow.
03
Figures placed, not rebuilt
Bring your charts and tables as they are. We size them, align them to the grid, match their colours to the deck and caption them so they read cleanly — we format your figures, we don't re-make your data.
§ 04 · Catalogue
Decks we design, indexed by occasion.
A working list, not exhaustive. Bring the brief — the slot, the audience, the template — and we'll scope from there. Most engagements fit one of the rows below; the rest we adapt.
Defence & viva
- PhD doctoral defence (30–60 min)
- MPhil viva voce (15–25 min)
- Master's thesis defence
- Pre-submission internal review
- Synopsis presentation
Conference
- Plenary & keynote (45–60 min)
- Parallel-session paper (15–20 min)
- Lightning / 3-min thesis
- Symposium panel slides
- Workshop & tutorial decks
Journal & publication
- Author lightning talk
- Pre-submission rehearsal deck
- Reviewer-response presentation
- Editorial-board briefing
- Embargo / press preview
Funding & grants
- DST · DBT · ICMR pitch decks
- UGC project review
- Foreign-fellowship interview
- Industry-partner brief
- Mid-term & closure reports
Teaching & seminars
- Lab seminar · group meeting
- Guest lecture series
- Course module decks
- Onboarding for new students
- Departmental brown-bag
§ 05 · The process
From manuscript to the room — step by step.
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i.
Brief
Send your manuscript / chapter, the slot length, the audience, and any university template. A 20-minute call (free) to scope the deck.
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ii.
Template & layout setup
We set up your university template — master slides, colour palette, type styles, footer and crest — and map your content onto clean, consistent layouts. Approve the look, and we format the full deck.
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iii.
Format & deliver
Every slide formatted to the template — layout, typography, colour, alignment — with your figures placed and polished. Daily updates by email; a draft halfway through for early feedback.
Presenting at a journal or society — Elsevier, Springer Nature, IEEE, ACM, ACL? We deliver in the venue's house style: aspect ratio, font stack, logo placement, embargo conventions. Send the speaker pack and we match it.
§ 06 · Pricing
By occasion and length, not by slide count.
Indicative starting fees in INR. Final quotation arrives within twelve hours of brief — no payment until you approve.
Most common
Defence
From
₹9,500
3–4 days
PhD / MPhil viva, full defence. The most common slab.
- 20–25 slides · 30–45 min
- Master slides & layout system
- Up to 6 figures placed & formatted
- Type & colour polish + rehearsal call
- 2 free revisions pre-defence
- Defence-day handout (3 pp.)
Conference
From
₹14,000
5–7 days
Plenary, keynote, conference paper. Designed for the bigger stage.
- 30–45 slides · 45–60 min
- Up to 10 figures placed & formatted
- Agenda & section dividers
- Master template you can reuse
- Embargo & press one-pager
Poster
From
₹6,500
3–5 days
A0 / A1 conference poster, print-ready.
- Single-board · A0 or A1
- Up to 3 figures placed & formatted
- Print-ready PDF + InDesign
- Tri-fold handout (optional)
- Hand-off to a printer
QuotationWithin 12 hrs of brief.
RevisionsUp to 2, included.
Rehearsal call30 min, included.
ConfidentialityNDA on request, no charge.
§ 07 · Voices
What scholars say after the room turns the lights up.
★★★★★
I had 47 cluttered slides for a 30-minute defence. They formatted the whole deck to one clean university template and placed my figures so they actually read from the back row. The committee said it was the clearest defence they had seen that month.
Dr. M. Kapoor
IIM Indore · Marketing PhD
Defence
★★★★★
They reformatted my whole deck to the university template in two days — consistent type, aligned layouts, my figures cleaned up. I marked up a few slides and they turned the fixes around overnight.
A. Rao
Anna University · PhD
Defence
★★★★★
Three-minute thesis competition: I had to compress a dissertation into eight slides. They formatted the eight I chose into a tight, consistent set — clean type, my key figure front and centre — and I placed second.
Pranay G.
Manipal · MPhil
Lightning
★★★★★
The rehearsal call was the unexpected gift. We rehearsed the four most likely questions on slide 14 — the external asked exactly two of them, and I had the answers cued.
Dr. R. Iyer
IIT Madras
Defence
★★★★★
Conference plenary in Berlin, 45 minutes, 200 people. They built a master template I have reused four times since for invited talks. Worth the fee on the second use alone.
Dr. S. Iqbal
JNU · Sociology
Conference
★★★★★
A0 poster for a clinical-research congress, two days from print deadline. It was on the FedEx truck the next evening and won an early-career poster prize.
A. Sengupta
AIIMS New Delhi
Poster
Questions
FAQ
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Yes — and we prefer to. Send the .potx / .thmx, or even a single slide, and we format against it: master slides, layouts, colour palette, departmental crest, footer rules. If your university doesn't publish a template, we set up a discreet system in your department's colours, restrained enough to pass any committee.
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Fewer than you think. A 30-minute defence is comfortable at 20–25 slides if one of them is a figure that holds the room for two minutes. A 45-minute defence sits around 30–35. We design backwards from your slot, not forwards from your chapters.
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Yes — that's most of what we do. Send your existing slides and we reformat them to a consistent standard: your university template applied, typography and colour harmonised, layouts cleaned up and aligned, and your figures placed and polished. Your content and argument stay yours; we format, we don't rewrite.
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No. We format — layout, typography, colour, alignment and template — not content. Your headings, text and findings stay exactly as you wrote them; we make them read cleanly on screen. We don't write narrative outlines or speaker notes.
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We place and format them — sized correctly, aligned to the grid, recoloured to match the deck and captioned for legibility. We work with the charts you provide; we don't rebuild them from raw data or re-run your analysis. Send the highest-resolution version you have and we'll make it read cleanly on screen.
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The Defence package includes two free revisions in the week before defence. Most last-minute changes — re-ordering two slides, swapping a figure, tightening the takeaway — fit inside that window. Larger structural rewrites are quoted separately, but we will always try to absorb them.
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Yes. Devanagari, Bengali, Tamil, and IAST transliteration all handled. We pick a script-appropriate display face (Mukta, Hind, Catamaran, Noto Serif Devanagari) and pair it with our usual sans for the chrome. Bilingual decks (English headlines, regional body) are common.
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We hand off. Posters are delivered print-ready (300 dpi, CMYK, bleed marks) with an InDesign source file. We will recommend a printer in your city, brief them on paper stock, and review the proof — but the final transaction is yours.
§ Begin
Send your slides. Walk into the room with a deck that holds it.
Defence, viva, lightning, plenary, poster. Formatted to your university template — master slides, layout, typography and colour, your figures placed and polished. Editable .pptx, with a rehearsal call before the defence.
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