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MaC can compete with Gamma and Figma now.

Last week we said we wouldn't build our own versions. Then we did. Then we shipped one that beat Gamma's output on the same brief.

By Ross (Head of Automation) and John Osberg (VP Partnerships, Brandlete) · makeacompany.ai

A week ago, the answer to "can MaC compete with Gamma, Figma, and Lovable?" was a measured no. The argument was clean: those tools each spent years optimizing one workflow. If MaC ships its own version of each, MaC becomes a worse copy of each. Better to be the operator on top, not another tool in the stack.

This week the answer changed. A new MaC skill called deck-polish rendered the Brandlete × Orange Crush pilot pitch end to end — brand kit, hero imagery, typography, hosted URL, PDF export — and the output came out sharper than the Gamma version of the same brief. Same nine slides. Same story. Two surfaces. The MaC surface won.

This post unpacks what shipped, why the strategic frame had to flip, and what it means for anyone using MaC to build a company without a deck team behind them. (If you're reading this on decks.makeacompany.ai, you're already inside the proof — this page is a MaC-rendered deck too.)

01

The reversal.

  • A week ago, the answer was: don't compete head-on. Orchestrate. Use Figma when Figma's right, Gamma when Gamma's faster.
  • This week, the answer changed. We can compete head-on. The polished Brandlete x Orange Crush deck rendered through MaC is sharper than what Gamma gave us on the same brief.
  • Same pitch. Same brand. Two surfaces. The MaC surface wins.
02

What changed: deck-polish.

  • A new MaC skill. Density rules, hierarchy, color, typography, imagery, logos, full Brandlete brand kit baked in.
  • Goes from brief to hosted HTML deck to PDF, end-to-end, without leaving Slack.
  • Renders at the quality bar of a designer-built Gamma deck, in the time it takes to type the brief.
Time to wire a new SKILL — polished decks, proper logos, imagery, formatting, best practices engrained.John
03

Side by side. Same pitch.

  • Gamma rendered the Brandlete x Orange Crush pilot pitch in 9 slides over four prompts.
  • MaC rendered the same 9 slides from one Slack conversation, with custom imagery, brand-correct palette, and a clean CTA replacing the partner contact card.
  • Live at decks.makeacompany.ai/brandlete-orange-crush/.
It's better than what Gamma made us.John
04

What MaC ships now, end to end.

  • /deck — turn any Slack thread into a hosted deck in 30 seconds. The wedge.
  • deck-polish — render investor-grade decks with a real brand system, hero imagery, and a host URL. The polish.
  • Both ship to decks.makeacompany.ai. Both look like the operator made them, not the platform.
05

Why this is the real moat.

  • Gamma optimizes one workflow. Figma optimizes one workflow. Lovable optimizes one workflow.
  • MaC optimizes the operator. Same operator now ships the deck, the brand assets, the landing page, the DNS, the Slack rollout — without changing tools.
  • The point tools win on depth in one box. MaC wins on the path across all the boxes.
06

What this unlocks.

  • Pitch deck for a founder. Sales deck for a partner. Investor deck for a round. All from a Slack thread.
  • Brand systems for new clients. Define the palette once, render every artifact (deck, landing, social) against it.
  • The deck stops being a chore between the conversation and the close. It becomes a side effect of the conversation.
07

Proof, in production.

  • Brandlete x Orange Crush pitch — decks.makeacompany.ai/brandlete-orange-crush/
  • Built tonight, in Slack, by Ross and John. From transcript to hosted, polished deck.
  • If you're reading this on decks.makeacompany.ai, you're already inside the proof. This page is a MaC-rendered deck too.
We now can compete with Gamma and Figma.John

Join the beta. Ship a deck in a Slack thread.

MaC is in private beta. The /deck command and the deck-polish skill are both live inside the platform — operators in the beta can trigger either one from any Slack thread MaC is installed in. No login. No template picker. No four-prompt loop. Have the conversation, type the command, share the URL.

If you're a founder, a partner, or a community member who wants in, the door is at makeacompany.ai. If you want to see another worked example before you ask for access, the Brandlete pitch is live and clickable — same pitch Gamma rendered, same brief, two surfaces, same operator.

Published 2026-06-20 by the Make a Company team. Built in a Slack thread, naturally.

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