Tome

Tome is the AI-first presentation and storytelling platform, founded in 2020 by Keith Peiris (ex-Instagram product) and Henri Liriani (ex-Facebook design). It made early waves in 2022-2023 as one of the first AI presentation tools that genuinely worked — type a prompt, get a complete deck with narrative structure, generated images, and a coherent design language. In 2024-2025 Tome pivoted hard from 'AI deck generator' to 'AI for sales and revenue teams' — and that's the product today. The pivot is worth understanding. The original AI-deck-generator market got crowded fast (Gamma, Beautiful.ai, Pitch all added AI generation; Canva did too). Margins thin, competitors many, no defensible moat. Tome looked at where AI presentations were actually useful in business — and the answer was sales teams. So Tome rebuilt around: AI account research, AI-generated sales decks personalised per prospect, account intelligence from public + internal data, and post-meeting follow-ups. It's now positioned as the 'AI sales assistant for revenue teams' competing more with Outreach/Apollo than with Gamma. The core feature set (2026): • **AI account research** — input a target company, get back account brief: tech stack, recent news, exec changes, fundraising signals, current vendor landscape • **Personalised AI sales decks** — generates pitch decks tailored to the prospect's industry, role, and account data • **Account intelligence** — surfaces buying signals (job changes, funding rounds, product launches) across your target accounts • **AI follow-ups** — drafts meeting recaps + next-step emails after sales calls • **Native deck editor** — for when you want to manually refine the AI's output. Modern, vertical-scroll-friendly format optimised for sharing as a link. • **Integrations** — Salesforce, HubSpot, LinkedIn, Gong (call recording), Apollo for prospect data • **Tracking + analytics** — see who viewed each section of your deck, how long, which slides drove engagement • **Original AI deck generator** — still there, now used as a feature of the sales workflow more than a standalone tool For founders the use cases: • **Founder-led sales** — generate research-backed pitch decks tailored per prospect, with the homework done for you • **Series A B2B startups with 2-5 person sales teams** — deck personalisation that would otherwise eat 4 hours per call • **Account-based marketing (ABM)** — automate target-account research at scale, surface buying signals • **Sales coaching + enablement** — managers can see which slides drive engagement, iterate the team's pitch • **Investor relations + board updates** — modern vertical-scroll deck format works well for async board memos The pricing reflects the new positioning. Free tier lets you generate basic decks. Pro at $20/user/month unlocks AI account research, unlimited generation, and analytics. Team at $40/user/month adds sales workflow features, CRM integration, account intelligence at scale. Enterprise for larger sales orgs. Where Tome wins clearly: the AI account research is genuinely useful and saves real time for sales reps and founder-led sellers, the deck personalisation per-prospect is unique in the AI presentation category, the modern vertical-scroll format with section-level analytics is better for async sharing than traditional 16:9 decks. Where it loses: pivoted hard away from the 'AI deck for everyone' use case where it had brand recognition — if you just want a quick AI deck, Gamma is now better and cheaper; the sales focus narrows the audience significantly; less mature than dedicated sales tools (Apollo, Outreach) for outbound execution; some founders feel the pivot abandoned the original product positioning. My take: Tome is now a niche-but-real product for sales-led B2B startups and founder-led selling teams. If you're hand-crafting sales decks for prospects and spending hours on research per call, Tome legitimately saves time and improves quality. If you just want a quick AI-generated deck for an internal meeting or pitch, use Gamma — it's cheaper, faster for that use case, and stayed focused on the original mission. The pivot was strategically smart for Tome's defensibility but means recommending Tome now requires understanding their sales focus, not the 'AI presentations for everyone' positioning they had in 2023.