Tome
The AI presentation app that shut down in April 2025 — don't build an offer on it
What Tome is
Tome was the viral AI presentation tool that hit 20 million users, then shut down its slides product in April 2025 after failing to make it a viable business. The founding team moved on to build Lightfield (an AI-native sales/CRM product) and the Tome brand was acquired by AngelList. The presentation tool is gone — existing decks were deleted and there is no self-serve product to buy.
Key features
- AI presentation generation from prompts (discontinued April 2025)
- Reached 20M users but shut down after ARR stayed under $4M
- Founding team pivoted to Lightfield, an AI-native sales/CRM product
- Tome brand acquired by AngelList for document-summarization use
- All unexported user decks were permanently deleted at shutdown
💰 Sell it as a service
The offer
There's no service to build on Tome — the lesson is the offer. If you sold deck or deliverable systems on Tome, migrate clients to Gamma or Beautiful.ai and charge for the move.
What to charge
A deck-system migration (rebuild templates and live decks on Gamma) is a $500-$1,500 project per client. Never anchor a retainer to a single venture-backed free tool.
How it gets delivered
Export anything salvageable, rebuild the client's template set in Gamma with their brand kit, and document the new workflow. Takes a day per client.
This is one offer. AI Operator Academy is where operators build the full stack — packaging, pricing, fulfillment, and a peer group selling the same services. $999/yr.
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