Every week, teams across your organisation are opening PowerPoint and starting from scratch. Wrong fonts. Old logos. Colours copied from memory. And then a finished deck goes to a client that looks nothing like your brand guidelines.
It's not a design problem. It's a tooling problem.
The hidden cost of inconsistent presentations
Research by Lucidpress found that consistent brand presentation can increase revenue by up to 33%. The flip side: inconsistency doesn't just look unprofessional — it actively undermines trust.
For companies with more than 100 people, the maths are brutal:
- •If 50 people spend 2 extra hours per week fixing formatting → that's 100 hours a week
- •At an average loaded cost of £40/hour → £4,000 per week, £208,000 per year
- •Wasted on pixel-nudging, not on the ideas that win deals
Why existing tools don't solve it
Brand guidelines in a PDF don't help when you're in PowerPoint at 11pm before a pitch. Shared drives get messy. Templates go out of date. And most people don't even know the templates exist.
The problem isn't knowledge — it's access. When the tools are inside the software your team is already using, adoption is instant.
What on-brand actually looks like at scale
The companies that get this right don't enforce brand through policing. They make it the path of least resistance. When your exact brand colours are one click away, people use them — not because they have to, but because it's faster.
That's the difference between a brand guideline document and a toolbar that does it for you.
Internal links for more context
External resources
For further reading on brand consistency:
- •Lucidpress Brand Consistency Report — data on how brand consistency impacts revenue
- •Microsoft AppSource — where PowerPoint add-ins are distributed
- •Harvard Business Review on presentation design — research on effective business communication
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