Guides & Insights

Frameworks, mistakes to avoid, and real-world advice on building decks that land.

AgenciesProposalsBusiness Communication Intelligence

How Agencies Win More Pitches With Knowledge-Grounded AI Review

Unreviewed proposals lose pitches. Strategy consultants, digital agencies, and PR firms are using knowledge-grounded AI expert review to catch what their seniors miss — before the proposal leaves the building.

Lurio Team·Product & Growth
8 min read·April 30, 2026
AI ExpertsProposalsStrategy

The 5 AI Experts That Review Every Deck Before You Send

Strategy Critic, Brand Compliance, Narrative Reviewer, Data Integrity, Audience Fit. Meet the five curated AI experts that critique every page of every proposal.

Lurio Team·Product & Growth
8 min read·April 28, 2026
ProposalsAI ExpertsAgencies

Grammarly for Proposals: How AI Experts Review Every Page Before You Send

Grammarly does not write your email — it makes sure what you send is right. Lurio is the same for proposals. Five AI experts, every page, every critique cited back to your knowledge.

Lurio Team·Product & Growth
6 min read·April 26, 2026
Business Communication IntelligenceAI ExpertsStrategy

Why Critique Beats Generation: The Case for Business Communication Intelligence

Generation tools optimise for speed. Critique tools optimise for outcomes. Why the shift from AI-generated decks to AI expert review changes everything for agencies and consulting firms.

Lurio Team·Product & Growth
7 min read·April 24, 2026
AnnouncementBrand

Introducing Lurio — The Intelligence Layer for Business Communication

Dev Decks is now Lurio. Same product, same team, new name and Ultraviolet palette. Your decks, data, and account are unchanged. Here is why we rebranded and what it means for you.

Lurio Team·Product & Growth
4 min read·April 16, 2026
ProductivitySales DecksPitch Decks

The Edition Control Problem: Why Every Professional Deck Ends Up With 12 Copies

If the filename says FINAL_final_v7, the system has failed. How founders, sales reps, and consultants all fall into the same edition sprawl trap — and the structural fix that eliminates it.

Lurio Team·Product & Growth
9 min read·April 2, 2026
ProposalsConsultingAgencies

The Copy-Paste Proposal Problem: Why Clients Can Tell, and How to Fix It Without Rebuilding from Scratch Every Time

Custom proposals take 3-6 hours each, but clients can smell a copy-paste job instantly. The Living Proposal model eliminates the assembly-line grind while keeping every proposal feeling authored.

Lurio Team·Product & Growth
9 min read·April 1, 2026
Sales DecksProductivityB2B Sales

Why Your Sales Deck Isn't Getting Read (And the Fix That Takes 10 Minutes, Not 10 Hours)

Sales reps spend 30 hours a month on content that prospects never open. Personalized decks get 68% more full reads. Here's a practical system for reps who have a number to hit.

Lurio Team·Product & Growth
7 min read·March 31, 2026
Pitch DecksFundraisingProductivity

How to Customize Your Pitch Deck for Every Investor Without Losing 20 Hours Per Round

The math is brutal: 30 investors, 20 minutes each, 10 hours before a single follow-up. Here's the Core + Edition framework that cuts customization time by 80% without sending generic decks.

Lurio Team·Product & Growth
8 min read·March 30, 2026
AI AgentsOpen SourceEngineering

We Open-Sourced Our AI Agent Orchestrator — Here's How It Works

How we built an autonomous PM-to-PL pipeline that plans sprints from outcomes, executes them with quality gates, and ships code — using Claude Code skills and the AI-Human Engineering Stack.

Tom McDonough·CTO, Lurio
8 min read·March 19, 2026
Pitch DecksFundraisingStartups

How to Build an Investor Pitch Deck That Gets Meetings

A practical guide to structuring a ten-slide investor pitch deck — what each slide must do, common mistakes to avoid, and how to make your business story compelling enough to get a meeting.

Lurio Team·Product & Growth
6 min read·March 16, 2026
Pitch DecksFundraisingDesign

7 Pitch Deck Mistakes Founders Make (And How to Fix Them)

The most common pitch deck mistakes — starting with the solution instead of the problem, slide bloat, vague market sizing, and missing the ask — with actionable fixes for each.

Lurio Team·Product & Growth
5 min read·March 15, 2026