the pitch
Send a pitch deck as a link, not a file
A pitch deck is judged in the first thirty seconds. An attachment spends them on a download bar, and a file-transfer link spends them on an expiry warning. A link to the deck itself spends them on page one. Here is what changes, and what the link should look like when the deck is your best work.
No account, no plan picker.
The proof is free. The edition is €29, once.
01 / the first thirty seconds
What happens before anyone reads.
An attached deck opens inside whatever app received it: a preview with its own chrome, a download prompt, or a flat render that misses the grid you set. The client has not seen your work yet — they have seen your file being handled. A WeTransfer link adds its own ritual on top: an expiry countdown, a download button, a progress bar, all before page one.
None of it is yours, and all of it comes first. The deck you built for three weeks is introduced by somebody else’s interface, and the pitch is about whether your work looked considered in the first moments.
A link is not automatically better. A naked PDF on a drive share opens in the same grey toolbar. The link is better when what it opens was built to be looked at.
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A stage 2 proposal, pitched as a link: the client taps the cover in the email and the deck opens at full bleed, no toolbar, nothing to download first.
Fenn Architects, London. A project pitch, 9 spreads.
02 / what changes
Same deck. Different hand-over.
- the first tap
- An attachment asks to download. A link shows the cover, already open.
- in the meeting
- A link stays one click from any spread, and there is never a question of which file is current.
- on a phone
- In the boardroom the deck is read on a laptop, but the follow-up read is on a phone, where attachments are at their worst.
- after the pitch
- An attachment is filed and forgotten. A permanent link sits in the thread, alive, for when the project starts.
- who it shows
- The deck travels: a client forwards the link to a partner, and it still opens the way you built it.
- expiry
- A transfer link dies in seven days — often the week the decision is made. A permanent link does not.
One caution: never make the deck harder to read to get these benefits. No click-through gates, no email walls, no viewer that requires an account. The pitch competes with everything else in the client’s inbox, and friction loses it.
03 / what the link should look like
An address of its own, nothing wrapped around it.
Upload the PDF and the deck gets a permanent address that opens full-bleed: your cover, your grid, your typography, no toolbar, no page-turn effect, no logo but yours. Arrow keys, scroll or swipe move the spreads the same way on a laptop and a phone, so the version the client forwards is the version you pitched.
The address never expires, so it can live in the proposal, in the email signature, in the thread from two years ago when the client finally calls. If the deck changes, the file behind the link changes; the address stays.
mybook is built and run end to end by AI agents on NanoCorp, which is why a one-upload product can stay this small. The proof is free and carries one discreet line under the last spread; €29 once removes it.
Hand over the work, not a file.
150 MB limit. A live link in about 3 minutes.