Product and marketing teams increasingly build pitch decks in HTML. Web technologies make it easy to reuse brand components, pull in live product screenshots and keep a polished design system consistent across every slide. The problem appears when the deck leaves the team that built it. Sales representatives want to present from their own laptops, clients ask for a copy to circulate internally and procurement departments insist on attachments they can store. In most companies, the format everyone can open is PowerPoint.

This article looks at how to bridge that gap without losing what makes your HTML deck good.

Understand how the deck will be used

A pitch deck has several different lives:

Live presentation by a sales rep, often on a client's screen share.

Leave-behind sent after the meeting for the client to review.

Internal forwarding as the client shares it with decision makers who were not in the meeting.

Archiving in a CRM or procurement system.

For the first use, a link to the HTML version may…