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Presenton: Same-Day Branded Proposals for Sales Teams
Give sales teams on-brand proposals the same day with a free, open-source deck builder.
Sales teams lose deals while they wait two or three days for marketing to build a proposal. Presenton turns a short form, or even a call recording, into an on-brand PowerPoint in minutes. That makes it a setup-plus-hosting service sales leaders can justify with closed deals.
What Presenton is
Presenton is an open-source AI presentation generator, a free alternative to tools like Gamma, Canva and Beautiful.ai. It has 10.7k GitHub stars and an Apache 2.0 license.
- Your brand, locked in: builds custom templates from a company's existing PowerPoint files.
- Real files: exports fully editable PPTX and PDF, not images of slides.
- An API: a REST API and MCP connection let you automate decks from forms, CRMs or call notes.
- Any AI model: OpenAI, Google Gemini, Anthropic, Azure, Amazon Bedrock, or local models through Ollama.
- Runs anywhere: self-host with Docker, or use the desktop apps for Windows, Mac and Linux.
- Teams: multi-user workspaces with company sign-in options.
The service: same-day branded proposals
You turn a company's brand deck into a Presenton template and set up a simple form. A sales rep fills in a few fields and gets a finished, on-brand proposal. The advanced version sends the sales call recording to Presenton and builds the proposal automatically.
The buyer gets proposals the same day instead of days later, every deck on brand, and no designer in the loop. Faster quotes mean faster closes.
Who buys it: sales teams sending 20+ custom proposals a month, such as contractors, agencies, staffing firms, event companies and commercial real estate.
Pricing and costs
The video suggests $2,500 to set up and $200 a month for hosting and template fixes. By the video's comparison, Gamma runs about $400 a month for 10 seats, so you come in at half that.
| Clients | Setup fees | Monthly recurring |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $2,500 | $200 |
| 4 | $10,000 | $800 |
The higher setup fee is easy to defend because it ties directly to revenue.
How to find clients
- Find companies posting jobs for proposal writers or sales coordinators.
- Focus on companies with 20–200 staff in the industries above.
- Contact VPs of Sales or sales operations, ask for their last proposal, and rebuild it live on the call.
Getting started
- Run Presenton with Docker, or install the desktop app.
- Connect an AI model with your API key, or a local model.
- Upload a real company deck, turn it into a template, and time how long a new proposal takes.
Watch-outs
- Keep the client's pricing and customer details in their own install or workspace.
- Have a person check every AI-written proposal before it goes out; a wrong price costs more than a slow one.
Sources
- Presenton on GitHub, checked September 28, 2026
- 5 Github repos that print $$$, Corey Ganim (offer, pricing, Gamma comparison and client-finding ideas)