# Prep Deck Builder: a deck before every meeting that matters

> A new specialist template researches the people and company behind a meeting and builds a five-slide prep deck in your fonts, colors, and logo.

Oct 26, 2026. Topics: Specialists. https://www.generalinput.com/changelog/2026-10-26-prep-deck-builder

The Prep Deck Builder is a new [specialist template](/templates) for any kind of business, made for anyone heading into sales calls, client meetings, or partner and investor meetings. Add it in one click and its first conversation finds your next external meeting on your calendar and builds its prep deck. After that, ask for one in a line, like "prep me for my 2pm", and it reads the invite, your emails and CRM history with them, and recent public news, then lays out five slides: the call, who you're meeting, their company, what changed this year, and how to run it. Every deck is a [deliverable](/changelog/2026-10-21-deliverables) in your workspace's fonts, colors, and logo, and exports as PowerPoint or PDF.

### How it works

- **Researched, with sources.** Every public fact on a slide names where it came from, and a guess is marked as one.
- **Your history with them.** Past emails and records in [HubSpot](/apps/hubspot) or another CRM, so a promise you made or a question they asked is on the slide.
- **Questions to ask.** Three or four questions and the outcome to aim for, drawn from what it found.
- **Tomorrow's meetings, flagged.** Each weekday evening it can list tomorrow's external and first-time meetings and which deserve a deck, so you ask for them in one line.
- **It only prepares.** It never contacts an attendee, changes a meeting, or edits a CRM record.