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StratEngine can pick up pitch decks without an upload in two ways. Folder watch checks one cloud folder every 2 hours and analyzes new PDF and PPTX files in it. Email forwarding analyzes decks you send as attachments to your personal address at in.stratengineai.com. Both produce the same memos as an upload and land in Analysis Memos.
Any workspace admin can set up folder watch, in the Pitch deck folder onboarding step or later in Settings under Pitch Deck Folder Watch Location. Every VC user has their own forwarding address in Settings. Decks from either source count toward your memo allowance like uploads; see VC plans and memo overages.

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Watch a folder

1

Open the panel

In Settings, scroll to Pitch Deck Folder Watch Location. (During onboarding, it’s the Auto-ingest pitch decks from a folder step.)
2

Connect storage if asked

If no storage is connected, the panel shows Connect a storage provider. Click Connect storage provider, choose Google Drive, Dropbox or OneDrive, and sign in. Once storage is connected, the panel shows Not watching until you choose a folder.Connecting a provider here also makes it your export destination, so new memos are saved to that storage. See Export memos.
3

Paste the folder URL

Open the folder in your provider in another tab and copy the URL from the address bar (not a Share link). Paste it into the field.
4

Click Start watching

The panel switches to Active and shows the folder path.

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What the Active panel shows

A file shows Retrying when the storage provider asked StratEngine to slow down; it’s picked up again automatically. The same version of a file is only analyzed once.

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Change or stop

  • Change folder stops the current watch and shows the URL field again.
  • Stop watching stops checking the folder. Memos already created stay in Analysis Memos.

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If setup fails

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Forward decks by email

Your forwarding address is in Settings, in the Or forward decks by email box. Admins see the box at the top of the folder watch panel. Members see it on its own under Pitch Deck Forwarding Address, without the folder controls. Click Copy to copy the address. If the address isn’t ready yet, members see Your forwarding address will appear here once it is ready.
1

Attach the deck

Forward or send an email with the PDF or PPTX attached to your forwarding address. You can attach more than one deck.
2

Send from your StratEngine email

Send from the same address you sign in to StratEngine with. Email from any other address is rejected.
3

Find the memo

The deck appears in the Processing Queue if the Upload page is open, and the memo lands in Analysis Memos when it’s done.
If there’s no attachment, StratEngine looks for a Google Drive, OneDrive or SharePoint, or iCloud Mail Drop link in the email and downloads the deck from it. The link must be shared so anyone with it can open it.

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If a forwarded deck is rejected

You get a reply titled Pitch deck not accepted with the reason:
The forwarding address belongs to you, not the workspace. Memos it creates are listed under your account and visible to your whole workspace, like any other memo.