Presentation Design in Qatar, From QAR 3,100
Pitch deck or presentation, QAR 3,100. Up to 20 slides, plus a master template your team keeps using.
Annual report, QAR 9,800. Up to 40 pages, data visualisation, bilingual.
Corporate Qatar runs on documents. Tenders, board packs, investor updates and supplier presentations decide a great deal of business here, and most of them look like they were assembled the night before by whoever had PowerPoint open.
The master template is the part that lasts
A designed deck solves one meeting. A master template solves the next thirty.
What is delivered is not twenty flat images. It is a working file with proper slide masters, defined layouts for the shapes a deck actually needs, the type hierarchy built in, and the colour palette loaded. Your team opens it, picks a layout, types, and the result stays consistent without anybody policing it.
This matters more than the individual deck, because the alternative is what most Qatar businesses have now: a good-looking deck from two years ago that nobody can update, so every new presentation starts from a copy of the old one and drifts a little further each time.
A deck is not a document
The commonest failure, and it is a structural misunderstanding in place of a taste problem.
A slide that will be presented aloud carries one idea and very few words, because the audience is listening to you rather than reading. A document that will be emailed carries the full argument, because nobody is there to explain it. Most decks in circulation try to be both and fail at each: too dense to present from, too fragmented to read alone.
The fix is deciding which one you are making, and building the other version separately if you genuinely need both. A presented deck with a proper leave-behind beats one file doing neither job.
That decision gets made in the brief, and it is the single question that most changes the output.
Tender submissions, which are their own discipline
Qatar B2B is heavily tender-driven, and a tender presentation is judged differently from a sales pitch.
The evaluator is working through a scoring matrix, often comparing five submissions in an afternoon. So the structure has to follow the tender's own sections, not your preferred narrative, the mandatory information has to be findable without hunting, and the evidence has to sit next to the claim instead of in an appendix.
Practical consequences: mirror the requirement numbering, put compliance statements where the evaluator expects them, and make every claim checkable. A beautiful submission that reorganises the brief scores worse than a plain one that follows it.
This pairs closely with the company profile, which is usually attached alongside.
Annual reports and data visualisation
At QAR 9,800 for up to 40 pages, the work is mostly the numbers.
Charts get drawn to a single scale, with axes labelled at values the chart actually reaches, and without the decorative effects that make a figure harder to read than the table it replaced. A chart exists to let somebody compare two things quickly. Anything that does not serve that gets cut.
Bilingual is included at this tier, meaning Arabic typesetting and right-to-left layout for the Arabic edition. Translation of the text is not included and is referred out, for the same reason as everywhere else on this site: a mistranslated figure in a financial document is a serious problem, not an awkward sentence.
What is excluded
Copywriting and content
The argument is yours. What is designed is how it lands. A structure and prompts for each section are included, which is usually what people need.Financial data preparation
Numbers arrive from you, checked. They get visualised, not audited.Arabic translation
Arabic typesetting and layout are included at the annual report tier. Translation is referred out.Printing and binding
Files are supplied press-ready, and your Doha printer bills you directly.Photography
Not shot by Rankly. Existing images get prepared for print or screen.Licensed stock imagery and fonts
, quoted separately at cost.Presenting it
Coaching and delivery are a different profession.
How it is delivered
A production-network designer builds the deck and the master template. Arbaz briefs it and reviews it before you open the file.
Designers pass a paid test brief first. Two revision rounds are included, then QAR 350 each, agreed in advance. Source files come to you on final payment, in whatever format your team actually opens.
What this costs
| Service | QAR |
|---|---|
| Pitch deck or presentation, up to 20 slides | 3,100 |
| Annual report, up to 40 pages, bilingual | 9,800 |
| Company profile, up to 20 pages | 4,900 |
| Additional revision round | 350 |
A deck beyond 20 slides, or one needing heavy data visualisation throughout, is quoted separately and usually lands between the two figures above. Everything is listed on the pricing page.
Questions we get asked
Can you work in PowerPoint rather than something I cannot open?
Yes, and that is the default. Source files are delivered in the format your team uses, because a deck nobody can edit becomes obsolete the first time a number changes. Google Slides and Keynote are equally fine, said at the brief.
We have a deck already. Can you fix it?
Usually, and it is often cheaper. If the argument is sound and it merely looks poor, a redesign against a new master template costs less than starting again. If the argument is the problem, design will not rescue it and you will be told so.
Do you build the financial model?
No. Numbers arrive from you and get visualised. Modelling is somebody else's profession and a designer should not be quietly doing it.
How many slides should a pitch deck be?
Fewer than you think, and it depends on whether it is presented or sent. A presented deck runs lean with the detail in your voice. A sent deck carries more. Deciding which comes first.
Can you match our existing brand?
Yes, and send the guidelines if they exist. If they do not, the deck ends up defining the brand by accident, which is worth knowing before rather than after.
Before the deadline
Say what the deck is for, who is receiving it, and whether it will be presented or emailed. If it is a tender, send the requirement document.
If it is a tender, send the requirement document with it. The structure follows theirs, not ours.