Book a free consultation about your slides

The recommended way to reach us is to book a time directly. Pick a slot that suits you, and you will get a calendar invite with a meeting link. There are no forms to fill in first, and nobody from sales calls you beforehand, because there is nobody in sales. If you would rather write than book, email John at JohnBaluka dot com, or use the enquiry form on the contact page.
Two things worth saying before you book. First, if you only want the free thing, you do not need to talk to us at all. gitSlides is free, it publishes your slides to GitHub Pages, and there is no signup wall in front of it. Go and use it.
Second, on confidential material: we are happy to sign your non-disclosure agreement before you send anything, or to talk in generalities on the first call and keep your content out of it entirely. Local, offline conversion is available for content that cannot leave your network. Just say so, early.

Four things to bring to the call. None of them require any preparation beyond finding a file.
First, one representative deck. Not your best one. A typical one, ideally with speaker notes already in it, because that is the material we work from.
Second, the actual problem. "Nobody can find our training material" is far more useful to us than "we want a website". The first one tells us what to solve.
Third, where it would need to live. Your website, a learning management system, an intranet, a wiki, whatever platform is involved. That changes the shape of the work more than anything else.
And fourth, any hard constraints. Content that cannot leave your network, a compliance deadline, a fixed budget. Tell us early, because a constraint mentioned at the start is a design input, and the same constraint mentioned at the end is a problem.
One request: please do not send anything confidential before we have sorted out a non-disclosure agreement, if you need one. Bring it to the call instead, or just describe it.

Here is exactly what happens in those thirty minutes, so there are no surprises.
Step one, you tell us about the deck and the problem. Mostly we listen. This is the part that takes the longest, and it should.
Step two, we tell you which of the three products fits, or that none of them do. That second answer is a real possible outcome, and if it is the right one you will hear it.
Step three, if it is a fit, you get a rough range and a rough timeline on the call itself. Not a week later, and not after an internal review.
Step four, and only if you want to proceed, we send a fixed quote and a written scope. Nothing starts before you approve it.
And there is no step in there where a proposal gets emailed to your procurement team without you asking for it.

If you would rather not book anything at all, here is how to reach us directly.
By email, at John at JohnBaluka dot com. Response time is one business day and usually a lot less, because it is two of us reading the inbox rather than a support queue.
On LinkedIn, both John and Laura are easy to find. And elsewhere, MultimodalSlides.com is the product itself, and JohnBaluka.com is the broader consulting work.
And a note on what we do with any of that. We use what you send us to reply to you, and nothing else. There is no mailing list, no customer relationship management enrichment, and no sharing with anybody. This site sets no cookies and runs no analytics or tracking scripts, which is why there is no cookie banner in your way.

Four quick answers before you write to us.
Is the consultation really free? Yes. Thirty minutes, no charge, no obligation, and we do not ask for a credit card or put you on a list. If we cannot help you, we will say so and the call ends early, which is a good outcome for both of us.
Do I need to send a deck before the call? No. And please do not send anything confidential before we have sorted out a non-disclosure agreement if you need one. Bring it to the call, or describe it. If you are comfortable sharing one in advance, we can often have something converted for you to look at by the time we talk.
What time zone are we in? We work North American business hours and can usually accommodate European mornings. The booking page shows times in your local time zone, so just pick what works for you.
And, we are a large organisation with procurement requirements. That is fine. We have been through vendor onboarding, security questionnaires, non-disclosure agreements and data processing agreements before. Mention it early, so we can start the paperwork in parallel rather than discovering it at signature time. Thank you for your time. We look forward to hearing about your decks.