Design and diagrams decision
Pitch
A small team or single engineer can build a narrow, useful replacement (editor + sharing + exports), but reproducing Pitch’s AI, integrations, analytics, and enterprise features at scale is infeasible for one person.
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Nothing published replaces this one, so a replacement starts from an empty file. Here is what it would have to cover.
What a replacement has to do
- Users create presentations from templates or blank slides, edit slides visually, share via links, and export/share outputs.
What it still won’t have
- Pitch Agent (AI slide generation and on-brand AI features)
- Advanced engagement analytics and visitor tracking at Pitch scale
- Pitch Rooms (custom deal rooms and batch/personalized pitch workflows)
- Enterprise features (SAML/SCIM, dedicated success manager, invoiced billing)
- Integrations marketplace (Unsplash, YouTube, Google Sheets, HubSpot, etc.)
What remains hard
- Product polish and ongoing maintenance
First-year cost
Keep paying
Paying is—cheaper in year one.
On cash alone, building overtakes the subscription at 1 seat.
Money you would actually spend
Time you would spend
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What you would spend
What we assumed
The verdict above measures whether you could build it. This one is only about money.
Runnable build prompt
Build a minimal, self-hosted collaborative presentation workspace using Next.js (React) frontend, Node.js + Express backend, and Postgres for storage. In-scope: a WYSIWYG slide editor (drag/resize text and images, basic animations), template library (save/load templates and assets), user auth with workspaces and simple collaborator/guest link permissions, shareable public links, PDF and PPTX export, and simple visit logging (who/when per link). Out of scope: automated AI slide generation, advanced engagement analytics dashboards, enterprise SSO/SCIM, and 3rd-party integrations. Include server-side validation, error handling, unit tests for core APIs, and end-to-end tests for the editor and sharing flows.
How we checked
How the score was reached
- Partly verdict base52
- 3 cited sources+3
- Price verified on pricing page+3
- 3/3 assessment runs agreed+4
- Evidence score62
The base comes from the verdict. Everything under it is a check that either happened or did not, and each one is a fact frozen in this record rather than a judgement made at render time — so the same evidence always produces the same number.
How scoring works →Cited sources · 3
Every page the run actually retrieved.
- official productPitch — The AI presentation workspace
- official pricingPitch pricing (US)
- official productCreate a winning pitch deck — Pitch use case
Integrity checks
What held up, and what did not.
