How to prepare an all-hands deck on Starch

An all-hands deck is the one artifact that has to make sense to everyone at once — the engineer who wants numbers, the ops person who wants decisions, and the new hire who's still figuring out what the company actually does. Most operators build it by pulling from four or five different places: a metrics dashboard, last month's board update, a Slack thread where someone mentioned a key win, and a half-finished notes doc from last week's leadership meeting. The result is a deck that took half a day to assemble and still feels incomplete by the time you're presenting it.

What this workflow looks like in practice varies — the right data sources, cadence, and level of detail depend on your business model, your team size, and how you run meetings. That's why Starch handles it through composability rather than a one-size-fits-all template. You describe what you want — 'a monthly all-hands deck pulling our latest financial metrics, key wins from Slack, and open action items from last week's leadership sync' — and Starch assembles the apps and connections to make that happen. For teams already using the Investor Reporting app, building an all-hands deck from the same underlying data takes minutes, not hours. The Presentation Agent (currently in development — request beta access) will generate polished slides directly from that output. In the meantime, Starch pulls the data, drafts the narrative, and you take it from there.