Eight years inside high-stakes presentations. One tool built to fix what was always broken.
Work smart. Work better.
For almost eight years, I worked as a Presentation Designer at McKinsey & Company. Hundreds of decks, thousands of slides, impossible deadlines. McKinsey had an internal PowerPoint add-in — built just for their designers — that made everything faster. Alignment in one click. Spacing in one click. Things that normally took five steps took one. It changed the way I worked.
When I moved on, that tool was gone. I went looking for alternatives. Nothing I found felt like it was built by someone who actually did the work. They were all either bloated with features no working designer needs, or priced for large teams on software budgets — not for the individual who just wants to work faster.
So I built what I actually needed. SwiftDeck started as a personal tool — the ten things I did every single day, automated. Then twenty. Then eighty. At some point it stopped being a personal script and became something worth sharing.
That's EscapeWork. One person. Real problems. Tools built from the inside out.
Every second saved per click, across hundreds of slides, becomes hours of your life back. SwiftDeck doesn't try to do everything — it does the 80 things you repeat every single day, and it does them faster than anything else. That's the whole bet.
SwiftDeck v1 covers the high-frequency actions — alignment, sizing, distribution, text, margins, and more. That foundation is solid. What comes next is driven by usage data and user feedback: the features that come up again and again in support emails and feature requests.
The plan isn't to add complexity. It's to go deeper on speed — finding the remaining two-second actions that still take five steps, and eliminating them one by one.
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