What’s inside the Kickoff Deck.
16 slides with real content in place. Rewrite them, reorder them, or add your own.
- 1Slide 1A warm cover with the project name, the client, the kickoff date and the go-live date
- 2Slide 2Welcome: a seven-item agenda with minutes, and what you will leave with
- 3Slide 3Why we’re here: a full-bleed photo, the problem in one sentence and a client quote
- 4Slide 4What we’re making, in plain words: three pillars beside a drawn phone
- 5Slide 5What success looks like: four measures as paired now-and-target bars
- 6Slide 6What is in scope and what is not, side by side
- 7Slide 7The fee and the four invoices, with a split bar and a payment table
- 8Slide 8The plan: fourteen working weeks drawn as a timeline with six milestones
- 9Slide 9Milestones and what each one needs from you, as a table
- 10Slide 10Your team and ours, with who to contact for what
- 11Slide 11How we will work: the call, the note, response times, and a week from the inside
- 12Slide 12Approvals and feedback drawn as a flow, with the two included rounds
- 13Slide 13What we need from you in week one, as a dated checklist
- 14Slide 14Five risks we are watching, with what we would do about each
- 15Slide 15The first two weeks, day by day
- 16Slide 16A closing slide with the next meeting and the first three actions
When to use it.
Kickoff Deck is a 16-slide presentation for the first meeting after a client signs, built the way a studio runs that hour: an agenda with minutes, the work restated in plain words, the measures you agreed, scope in and out, the fee and its four invoices, and a fourteen-week timeline with six milestones. Half the deck is about working together rather than the work — who to contact for what, the weekly call and Friday note, how approvals and the two included rounds run, the dated list of what you need from the client in week one, and the risks you are both watching. It ends with the first two weeks day by day and the date of the next meeting. Every chart, timeline and flow is drawn, so the numbers stay consistent as you edit them.
Made for
- Agencies presenting work to clients
- Consultants and strategists
- Product and project teams
- Freelancers pitching an approach
Make it yours in four steps.
Open it in Decks and work through it, or let Docsiv AI do the first pass with your details.
- Step 1
Open the template in Decks and replace the client name, project name and kickoff date on the cover.
- Step 2
Set your own dates on the timeline and milestone slides first — the fee, week-one and fortnight slides refer to them.
- Step 3
Swap the team photos and roles for your people and theirs, and put a real name against every contact line.
- Step 4
Trim the agenda to the time you actually have, then export to PDF or share the link before the meeting.
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Is the Kickoff Deck template free?
Yes. Create a free account and it opens in Docsiv's Decks app, ready to edit and share. The Free plan includes every Docsiv app and 500 AI credits a month.
Can I change the colours, fonts and text?
Yes, all of it. The template uses Fraunces and Manrope with #fbf5ec, #f0e6d6, #2e4a3b, #bf6a40, #2a2420, and you can change any of them, rewrite every word and add or remove slides.
What can I export it as?
Decks in Docsiv offers: Slides, PPTX, PDF and HTML exports. Once it's saved, you can also share it with a link.
Can Docsiv AI write the project kickoff meeting deck for me?
Yes. Tell Docsiv AI about the client or project and it can draft the content in this template's style, which you then review and edit. AI uses credits; the Free plan includes 500 a month.
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