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Thesis defense slides as careful as your thesis

Attach your abstract and results, or paste them in. PitchBoost builds the defense in the order committees expect, from research question to limitations, and flags any figure it can't trace to your work or a cited source.

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The deck you get

How PitchBoost shapes a thesis or dissertation defense

Not a pitch with your topic pasted in. The slides follow the order this kind of talk actually needs.

1TitleThesis title, your name, degree, department and date. The one slide the committee won't question.
2Research questionThe question your thesis answers, in one sentence the committee's outside member can follow.
3Why it mattersThe gap in what's known and why it's worth closing. Background kept to what the question needs.
4MethodsDesign, data and analysis, in enough detail to trust the results. The full detail stays in the methods chapter.
5ResultsThe findings, one per slide, in the order that builds your argument, using the numbers from your work.
6ContributionWhat your work adds that wasn't known before. The answer to the question every committee asks: so what?
7Limitations and future workWhat the study can't claim and what you'd do next. Saying it first beats being asked.
8QuestionsA closing slide for the committee's questions. The defense part of the defense.

Why it is harder than it looks

The usual ways this goes wrong

Years of work, thirty minutes to show it

The thesis took years. The talk gets maybe thirty minutes before the questions start. Deciding what makes the cut is hard enough without also fighting slide layouts.

Committees read every axis label

A number that doesn't match chapter 4, or a typo in a results table, becomes a question you didn't need, asked at the worst possible moment.

The writing ate the time you had

The defense date was set months ago. The last chapter was finished last week. The slides are being made in the gap between, which is not a gap.

What you get

What comes back

A defense in the order committees expect: research question, why it matters, methods, results, contribution, limitations and future work, then questions.
Results built from the material you give it, with any figure it can't trace to your work or a cited source flagged for you to check.
University colors, logo and fonts, pulled from the department or university website, or set by hand if your program has its own.
A draft deck you've already started, uploaded as a .pptx or PDF, gets redesigned with every slide, your words and your numbers kept.
Short speaker notes ride along in the editable PowerPoint, so the rehearsal has a script to depart from.
After your advisor's comments, ask the AI to rework one slide and nothing else moves.

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Prompts that work

Specific beats short: say who it is for, how long, and anything it must include. Pick one to start with it filled in.

“PhD defense in molecular biology, 30 minutes plus questions, from my attached abstract and results summary. One committee member is outside the field.”Start with this prompt →“Master's thesis defense in public policy, 20 minutes, on rent control and housing supply in mid-size cities. Methods and results are in the attached PDF.”Start with this prompt →“Dissertation defense in education: a mixed-methods study of teacher retention in rural schools, with 412 survey responses and 18 interviews.”Start with this prompt →

FAQ

Questions people ask

Can it build the slides from my thesis?

Yes, from the material you give it. Attach the parts that carry the argument, such as your abstract, results and conclusions, as PDFs, or paste them into the prompt with your field, time limit and committee.

Will it change my results?

Your numbers come from your own material, and any figure it can't trace there or to a cited source is flagged before your committee gets the chance. Upload a draft deck instead and the redesign changes the design, not the data: same slides, same words, same numbers.

My advisor wants changes to three slides. Do I start over?

No. Ask the AI to change each of those slides and the rest stay exactly as they were, or edit them yourself. For the version you'll present, a paid plan or the $9 option gets you the editable PowerPoint, real text boxes and short speaker notes included.

What does one defense deck cost?

A defense usually runs past the free plan, which makes one AI deck a month at up to 10 slides, shared as a link with a small badge. The simple route is $9 once: that one deck at up to 25 slides, no badge, and every download (PDF, PowerPoint and Google Slides). Starter ($7 a month) and Pro ($29 a month) include downloads too.

Can't ChatGPT do this?

ChatGPT is good for rehearsing likely committee questions, and you should. For the slides, PitchBoost builds the defense in the order committees expect, in your university's colors, from your own material. It runs inside ChatGPT too, free accounts included, so you can do both in one place.

Guides

Years of research. A few minutes of slides.

Free for your first deck. $9 once to download a finished one, or plans from $7 a month.