Lightning
From
₹4,500
24–36 hrs
Journal lightning talk · 3-minute thesis · short pitch.
- Up to 8 slides · 5 min
- One key figure rebuilt
- Speaker-notes script
- Editable
.pptx+.pdf
§ Presentation Making · Defence · Viva · Conference
Slide decks built for the room — defence, viva, plenary, conference.
Your committee will not read forty bulleted slides. We design defence-ready decks that visualise the methodology, foreground the result, and leave time for the questions you can actually answer. Editable .pptx, your university template, speaker notes that match the script.
- 01Story before slide. A one-page narrative outline before any slide is laid out — what argument the deck is making, in what order, and where the load-bearing slide sits.
- 02Data, visualised. Tables become charts, regressions become path diagrams, surveys become annotated quotes. Every figure has a caption a reader can grasp in five seconds.
- 03Your template, respected. University coat-of-arms, supervisor crest, departmental colours — we work inside your institution's template, not over it.
- 04Speaker notes + rehearsal. A 30-minute walk-through with the designer before your defence. Pacing, transitions, the answers to the slides that will draw questions.
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 sample slide. We rebuild against it. No template? We design a discreet system in your department's colours, restrained enough to pass any committee.§ 02 · The deliverable
What lands in your inbox — not just a template filled in.
A genuine excerpt from a Marketing PhD defence deck: 22 slides built around three results, designed to a 30-minute viva. Four key slides shown; the takeaway slide is the one we test the whole deck against.
Designer's note
The defence runs 30 minutes — at 22 slides that is 80 seconds per slide on average, but slide 14 is built to hold the room for three minutes. We've moved the path diagram to slide 9 (earlier than your draft) so the committee enters the results section already understanding the model. The takeaway slide drops the limitations callout deliberately — your supervisor's mark-up suggested the room would ask, and you want to invite the question rather than answer it pre-emptively. — Dr. P.
You receive
Editable
.pptx & .pdf · speaker-notes script · figures as .png and editable shapes · 30-min rehearsal call · two free revisions in the week before defence.§ 03 · The standard
Why this deck holds up — under your committee.
01
Outline before layout
You receive a one-page narrative outline before a single slide is designed. What the deck is arguing, in what order, where the load-bearing slide sits, what the room walks out remembering. Sign off, and we begin.
02
Designed for the timer
A 30-minute defence and a 5-minute lightning talk are different objects. We design backwards from your slot: minutes per slide, where to skip, where to dwell, which slide is the one the room remembers.
03
Data turned into images
Tables become charts, regressions become path diagrams, surveys become annotated quotes. Every figure earns its slide — no decorative chrome, no generic stock, no "data slop."
04
Rehearsal, not just delivery
A 30-minute walk-through with the designer before your defence. Pacing, transitions, anticipated questions. Most scholars find this the most valuable hour of the engagement.
§ 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
Posters & print
- A0 / A1 conference posters
- Tri-fold handouts
- One-page lay summary
- Methods cheat-sheet
- Defence handout (3 pp.)
§ 05 · The process
From manuscript to the room — step by step.
- i.
Brief
Send your manuscript / chapter, the slot length, the audience, and any university template. A 20-minute call (free) to scope the deck.
- ii.
Narrative outline
You receive a one-pager: argument arc, slide map, where the load-bearing slide sits, anticipated questions. Approve, and we design.
- iii.
Design & build
Slides drafted, figures rebuilt, speaker notes written. Daily updates by email; a draft halfway through for early feedback.
- iv.
Rehearsal + delivery
You receive the editable
.pptx, a.pdfmirror, and a speaker-notes script. A 30-minute rehearsal call before defence is included — bring questions.
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
- Narrative outline + sign-off
- Up to 6 figures rebuilt
- Speaker notes & 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 rebuilt
- Speaker-notes + Q&A prep
- 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 rebuilt
- 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 slides for a 30-minute defence. They cut it to 22, rebuilt three figures into one path diagram, and wrote a speaker script that actually fit the timer. The committee said it was the clearest defence they had seen that month.
Dr. M. Kapoor
IIM Indore · Marketing PhD
Defence
★★★★★
The narrative outline came back two days after brief. I marked up half of it and they redesigned it overnight. Once I signed off, the slides arrived on schedule and needed almost no edits.
A. Rao
Anna University · PhD
Defence
★★★★★
Three-minute thesis competition: I had ninety-eight slides of dissertation to compress into eight. They picked the right three findings, designed the slides around them, 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 sample slide, and we rebuild against it: master slides, layouts, colour palette, departmental crest, footer rules. If your university doesn't publish a template, we design 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. The Defence and Conference packages cover redesign at the same fee as a new build. We take your draft as the script, restructure the narrative outline, rebuild figures, and harmonise typography and palette. Most scholars come to us this way.
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Yes — included in every package above Lightning. Speaker notes are a full sentence-by-sentence script per slide, paced to your slot. They live in PowerPoint's Notes pane (so they don't show on screen) and are also delivered as a separate .docx you can rehearse from.
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We rebuild. SPSS / R / Python output is rarely defence-ready — axis labels too small, legends in the wrong place, a colour palette that doesn't match the deck. We re-export the underlying data and build native, editable PowerPoint shapes. You can edit any number on any chart in PowerPoint without our help.
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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 the manuscript. Walk into the room with a deck that holds it.
Defence, viva, lightning, plenary, poster. Narrative outline before slide. Editable .pptx, your university template, speaker notes that match the script, rehearsal call before the defence.