Replacing Slides with Living Cards
Grant Lee, co-founder of Gamma, on rethinking the primitives of presentations
This reveals that Gamma is not trying to make prettier decks, it is trying to replace the fixed page with a living work object that can be read, searched, reused, and presented. In remote work, the same artifact often has to serve as pre read, meeting material, and persistent documentation. Traditional slides break because they force ideas into stacked rectangles, which makes reuse, discovery, and remixing much harder than in block based tools like Notion or web native formats.
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Gamma’s answer is the card. A card is not locked to one page size, can expand and collapse, and can hold text, video, embeds, and live web content. That makes a presentation behave more like a document or mini website than a deck of printed pages.
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That matters most for product managers and go to market teams. They often start with one source document, then remake it into multiple decks for executives, engineers, customers, or investors. Gamma is built to keep the core content in one place and package it differently for each audience.
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The competitive line is not just PowerPoint versus better PowerPoint. Neo slide tools like Pitch improve classic slides, while Gamma is pushing toward a hybrid of doc, deck, and microsite. That is why responsive layouts, async sharing, and web publishing matter more than pixel perfect slide controls.
The market is moving toward presentation software that acts more like a content system and less like a file. As AI makes first drafts cheap, the durable advantage shifts to the format that best supports editing, reuse, publishing, and collaboration across devices. That trend pulls Gamma further toward a web native workspace, not back toward standard slides.