How to build a board meeting deck on Starch

A board meeting deck is the quarterly document that tells your directors, lead investors, and advisors exactly where the company stands — financials, KPIs, progress against plan, risks, and asks. Most operators know they need one. Most also know they spent the last two days before the meeting pulling numbers from Stripe, reconciling against their bank, copying MRR into slides, and writing the same burn update they wrote three months ago.

What this looks like in practice depends on your stack, your investor expectations, and how much of your financial data lives in clean systems versus spreadsheets and gut feel. A founder running on Stripe and Plaid has a different starting point than one whose books are in NetSuite or QuickBooks.

On Starch, the deck comes together from data that's already current — your real burn rate from actual bank transactions, revenue from Stripe, and any operating metrics you've connected. The Investor Reporting app pulls the numbers, drafts the narrative, and formats a board-ready update. If you want slides, the Presentation Agent (coming soon) takes that output and builds the deck itself. What you end up with is a document that reflects what actually happened this quarter, written in your voice, ready to send — not a blank template and three hours of copy-paste work on a Sunday night.