Gamma collapses writing and presenting
Grant Lee, co-founder of Gamma, on rethinking the primitives of presentations
Gamma’s wedge is not better slides, it is collapsing the handoff between writing and presenting into one working file. For product managers, that means the PRD, the review deck, and the async readout can share the same underlying content, with cards, embeds, and layered detail instead of forcing constant copy paste from docs into slides. That makes Gamma closer to a Notion-like communication workspace than a prettier PowerPoint.
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The practical pain point is audience translation. A PM writes one source document, then has to spin versions for executives, engineering, and customers. Gamma was built so the same material can be shown at different levels of detail, rather than rewritten into separate doc and deck workflows.
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This comes from Gamma’s card based format. Cards can expand, collapse, hold long text, video, Loom style recordings, websites, and live embeds like Airtable. That lets one artifact behave partly like a doc and partly like a presentation, which is the product reason two tools can become one.
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The competitive contrast is clear. Pitch still centers on classic slide making, then adds analytics and sales rooms around it. Gamma has pushed further into responsive, web native documents and microsites, which is why it scaled faster, reaching about $102M ARR by October 2025 versus Pitch at about $9.4M ARR in 2024.
The next step is turning Gamma from a creation tool into a content home. The more it can store reusable assets, import existing docs and decks, and publish the same content as an internal memo, live presentation, or microsite, the more it stops competing for slide budget and starts competing for the core workspace where teams package ideas.