Graphite Stage — Hardware Keynote Hero
A device-centered keynote hero that floats a product render above a soft graphite gradient floor, with a single mono-sans name line and a pill-shaped availability chip — closer to a DJI product page than a PowerPoint slide.
This template believes the product is the only speaker that matters. It rejects background texture, secondary copy blocks, and decorative gradients that compete with the hero render. It exists for hardware brands with enough confidence to let one line of type and a release date carry the entire slide — the kind of restraint that reads as authority in a darkened conference room or a livestream thumbnail.
Good for
- · Hardware product reveal title slides
- · Keynote opening frames where the device IS the argument
- · Single-product availability or ship-date announcements
- · Livestream thumbnail-quality hero moments
Avoid for
- · Chart-heavy quarterly earnings or financial reviews
- · Multi-product feature comparison slides
- · Service or SaaS pitches with no physical hero asset
- · Text-dense investor narrative decks
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