For the consultant who lives in slides, Gamma is the fastest way I’ve found to get past the blank page — provided you treat its output as a first draft, not a final deliverable.

What Gamma actually is

Gamma generates presentations, documents and simple websites from a prompt, an outline or pasted notes, using a flexible “card” editor instead of fixed slides. You restyle the whole thing with one click and export to PowerPoint, PDF or Google Workspace.

Pricing, in plain terms

There’s a genuinely usable Free tier (with a Gamma badge and one-time AI credits), then Plus at roughly $8–10/month, Pro near $20/month, and Team/Business plans around $20–40 per seat that add custom branding, SSO and the promise that your data is excluded from AI training. Credits are consumed as you generate.

Where it shines

The consensus from reviewers is that Gamma kills the blank-page problem: a meeting outline becomes a structured, modern-looking deck in minutes, and non-designers can produce something presentable fast. For high-volume pitch and proposal decks, that speed is the whole point. It’s also a serious company — press reports a $2.1B valuation, roughly $100M ARR and around 70 million users (company-stated figures).

What to watch

Two caveats matter for client work. First, the AI copy tends to be bland and needs your judgment and brand voice layered on. Second, export fidelity to .pptx is unreliable — layouts and fonts can shift, which is a problem when a client demands an editable deck in their corporate template. Note also that low Trustpilot scores are driven by billing and refund complaints more than the product itself.

My verdict

A genuine time-saver for first-draft decks and internal docs. Use it to scaffold, then polish in PowerPoint when the client expects pixel-perfect, on-brand output.