Neo-slides versus web-native decks
Jon Noronha, co-founder of Gamma, on building AI-powered slides
Neo slides is shorthand for a category that improves the way decks get made, without changing what a deck is. Pitch and Beautiful.ai make the classic slide workflow faster and cleaner, with better templates, collaboration, and auto formatting, but the end product is still a sequence of fixed slides built for presenting or exporting. Gamma is drawing a harder line around a different medium, built from flexible cards, interactive elements, and web style reading.
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Pitch fits the neo slides label because it modernizes familiar slide work. Teams still create deck pages, edit together in real time, apply brand styles, and share presentations, just in a more polished browser native product than Google Slides or PowerPoint.
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Beautiful.ai fits the same bucket from the opposite angle. Its value is more automation inside the slide canvas itself, helping users keep layouts clean and on brand without manually nudging boxes around. That is better slideware, not a new presentation format.
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The strategic split is about job to be done. Neo slides serve people who still need a standard deck file or a familiar live presentation flow. Gamma is aimed at cases where the content should also work as something read asynchronously, clicked through online, or republished like a microsite.
This divide will keep widening as AI makes first draft slide generation cheap everywhere. The durable winners in neo slides will be the ones with the best editing, branding, and team workflows around standard decks, while the next category leaders will be the ones that turn presentations into a more interactive web native format.