Build strategy presentations faster in PowerPoint
- Create waterfall, scatter, Mekko, and 40+ other chart types made for strategy work.
- Find the right slide in your team's library and refresh it with new data in seconds.
- Prepare board-ready slides with consulting-grade quality, every time.
Save 70% working time in PowerPoint
Corporate strategists lose hours to fiddling with charts. Get that time back with think-cell and focus on the strategy, not the slides.
Create complex waterfall charts
Build waterfall charts in two minutes, not twenty, without invisible columns or dummy data. Just the clear P&L statements and EBITDA bridges your stakeholders need.
- Show the takeaways with auto-calculated totals and subtotals.
- Tell clear data stories with stacked segments, connectors, and bridges that snap into place on their own.
- Change a value, then the chart adjusts and recalculates on its own.
Plot scatter charts in less time
Present two or three dimensions on a single chart. Then skip the rebuilds with automated layouts and bubbles that adjust themselves.
- Cut down on last mile chart edits with auto-labeled data points and size-scaled bubbles.
- Resize bubbles and change group colors with just a few mouse clicks.
- Update your data? Every label, line and axis adjusts. Nothing to reformat or tweak.
Build Gantt charts in PowerPoint, fast
It takes three minutes to build a professional timeline with think-cell. Then it takes three seconds to update it for your next status meeting.
- Build once, then add workstreams, dates, and rows directly within PowerPoint.
- Update your swimlanes, flag tasks delays, or add dependencies and your Gantt adjusts.
- Customize it for any scope, from a strategic initiative to multi-year transformations.
Two stories, one chart, done in half the time
Build a combination chart with ease to present the multi-variable analysis that board discussions often need.
- Pair column and line charts on shared or dual axes with automatic scaling and formatting.
- Add auto-calculating net lines for targets, benchmarks, or averages.
- Show context with labels and annotations that snap into place when the data changes.
Make Mekko charts in minutes
Mekko charts are staple of business strategy but difficult to make in PowerPoint. think-cell makes the process smoother and quicker.
- Create real Mekkos in PowerPoint with think-cell, not manipulated stacked column charts.
- Update your data and the chart automatically adjusts. No re-stretching columns.
- Build 100% Mekkos for market share or bar Mekkos for portfolio breakdowns.
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Make your business strategy slides more effective with AI
think-cell Assist gets your slides board-ready faster, so you can focus on the thinking that goes behind them.
- Build professional charts from data from Excel or verified data sources, like Statista.
- Use chat to test your analysis or sense-check your narrative before the board see it.
- Draft action titles and summaries, so your stakeholders get the strategic point.
Reuse instead of rebuild your slides
Turn around ad-hoc requests quickly. Find your team’s best slides to build board-ready decks without redoing work that already exists.
- Templates and external databases are pre-installed. Customization is quick.
- From dashboards to matrices to process maps, make it once, then save it and share it.
- Find exactly what you need with full-slide search and powerful filters.
Update your quarterly business review in minutes, not hours
Work in Excel. Report in PowerPoint.
What happens when your EBITDA models, market sizing, and scenario analyses all live in Excel? Link them to your deck for accurate decks, every time.
- Refresh your entire slide deck from one Excel master file with just a click. No copy-pasting.
- Stay in control of what data is linked, with alerts for changes and one-click updates.
- Present confidently. No broken formatting, no manual re-alignment, no version confusion.
With think-cell, I’m able to work almost three times faster compared to using standard PowerPoint features. It’s a massive time-saver.
The feedback from our stakeholders has been overwhelmingly positive. Our C-level executives have even commented that our presentations now resemble those of top consulting firms like McKinsey.
We automate our reports by establishing links not just to chart data ranges, but to every single cell that contains a value. In this way, think-cell’s Excel links helps us generate our reports faster, while also guaranteeing 100% accuracy.
think-cell gives us more time for critical thinking, which is the soul of the consulting job.
How business strategists use think-cell to create polished board-ready slides.
The conditional formatting in your Excel flows into PowerPoint tables. Color scales, thresholds, and status indicators update automatically.
Highlight performance gaps and other variances with difference arrows that auto-calculate and move when the data moves.cagr
Compare scenarios with CAGR arrows that recalculate automatically when assumptions change. No manual redrawing.
Include formula-powered data in your presentation without needing a separate Excel spreadsheet. No need to manually adjust values.