Zeck Improves How Your Board Reads the Deck.
Steerco Eliminates the 40 Hours It Took to Build It.
They solve opposite ends of the same problem.
Zeck is a genuinely excellent board meeting platform — interactive delivery, pre-votes, auto-generated minutes, mobile-friendly board books. It makes the board meeting experience dramatically better. But it doesn't touch the hardest part: the weeks of manual data gathering, slide formatting, and all-hands deck prep that happen before anyone opens Zeck. That's the Presentation Tax. That's what Steerco eliminates.
Steerco vs. Zeck at a Glance
Two tools that each solve a real problem — but different problems. Here's where they overlap and where they don't.
| Feature | Steerco | Zeck |
|---|---|---|
| Core Problem Solved | ||
| Primary job | Eliminate the work of building board decks and executive presentations | Transform how boards receive and engage with meeting materials |
| Where it operates | Upstream — deck creation and data automation | Downstream — deck delivery, engagement, and governance |
| Core differentiator | ✓ Live data → zero manual work → finished deck in minutes | Interactive board books, pre-votes, auto-minutes, mobile-first |
| Deck Creation | ||
| Automated deck generation | ✓ Full deck generated from live data — zero manual input | ✗ You build the content — Zeck presents it beautifully |
| Live data integrations | ✓ 150+ sources — CRM, billing, analytics, external signals | ↗ Some data connections for embedding charts and metrics |
| Data freshness | ✓ Pulled at generation time — always current | Depends on what's been manually updated before upload |
| Time to create a board deck | ✓ 5 minutes from zero | Hours of manual prep — then fast upload to Zeck |
| Your templates | ✓ Upload your templates — every deck in your format | Zeck's own format — customizable but not template-driven |
| Beyond Board Decks | ||
| QBR / EBR / renewal deck generation | ✓ All executive presentation types automated | ✗ Board meetings and investor updates only |
| Strategic planning / success plans | ✓ Living success plans from real customer conversations | ✗ Not in scope |
| Customer intelligence | ✓ 150+ signals — expansion and renewal risk surfaced | ✗ Not in scope |
| SOC 2 / enterprise security | ✓ SOC 2 Type II on Strategic & Executive tiers | ✓ Enterprise security and governance tools |
| Pricing transparency | Published on website — three clear tiers | Sales call required — no published pricing |
Zeck information based on publicly available product documentation. Verify current capabilities at zeck.app.
Two Different Problems. Two Different Tools.
Zeck is excellent at what it does. So is Steerco. The question is which problem is actually costing you more time.
Eliminates the Presentation Tax before the deck exists.
The Presentation Tax is the 40+ hours of manual work that happens before a board deck is ready — pulling numbers from your CRM, reconciling financials, gathering pipeline data, formatting slides, chasing stakeholders for their sections. Steerco eliminates that work. Connect your data sources, click generate, and a complete board deck emerges from live data in minutes. The hard part is done before Zeck ever opens.
Transforms the board meeting experience after the deck is built.
Zeck takes an existing board deck and transforms how your board receives and engages with it. Interactive, mobile-first, with dynamic comments, pre-votes, and auto-generated minutes. It makes the meeting better. But it doesn't reduce the weeks of preparation that preceded the meeting — it starts where that preparation ends.
Every number in your board deck pulled from the source of truth.
Steerco connects to 150+ data sources — your CRM, your billing system, your product analytics, your financial systems. When you generate a board deck, every KPI is current. Every pipeline number is live. Every metric reflects this week's reality, not last month's export. The "as of Q2, asterisk" problem disappears entirely. Boards stop asking "is this current?" because it always is.
Presents what you provide — and presents it beautifully.
Zeck has some data connectivity for embedding charts and metrics, but the core workflow requires you to build your content before uploading it. The numbers in your Zeck board book are as fresh as the last person who updated the underlying slide or document. Zeck solves the presentation problem. It doesn't solve the data-gathering problem that precedes it.
Every executive presentation type — automated.
Steerco generates board decks, QBRs, EBRs, renewal presentations, expansion proposals, and internal ops reviews. All from live data. All in your templates. If a presentation requires pulling data from multiple systems and presenting it in an executive format, Steerco handles it — regardless of whether the audience is your board, a key customer, or your leadership team.
Board meetings and investor updates — by design.
Zeck is focused specifically on board meeting governance — board packs, investor updates, and the meeting management workflow that surrounds them. That focus is a strength: the product is purpose-built for its use case and does it very well. But if you also need to automate QBRs, EBRs, or customer-facing executive presentations, Zeck isn't the tool for that job.
Not a board portal. We don't try to be.
Steerco doesn't compete with Zeck's board meeting governance features — pre-votes, dynamic comments, auto-generated minutes, secure voting, document signing. These are genuinely valuable capabilities for running board meetings, and Steerco doesn't replicate them. We generate the content. You decide how to deliver it — including through Zeck if that's your board portal of choice.
Best-in-class board meeting experience. Purpose-built for it.
Pre-Vote eliminates routine agenda items before the meeting starts. Dynamic comments allow board members to engage asynchronously. Auto-generated minutes remove the most tedious post-meeting task. Digital governance — voting, signing, compliance documentation — handled within the platform. These are Zeck's genuine strengths, and for organizations whose primary problem is running better board meetings, Zeck delivers real value.
Build the deck in 5 minutes. Deliver it in Zeck.
Steerco and Zeck solve different ends of the same problem. Steerco eliminates the 40 hours of manual work that precedes a board meeting. Zeck transforms the meeting experience itself. Used together: Steerco generates the board deck from live data in minutes, you export it, upload to Zeck, and your board receives an interactive, mobile-first experience. The Presentation Tax is gone. The board experience is elevated. Both problems solved.
Better meetings — if you can survive the prep.
Zeck's value is real: boards that use Zeck report higher engagement, more productive meetings, and faster governance cycles. But that value is contingent on having a board deck ready to upload. If your team is spending 40 hours preparing that deck every quarter — gathering data, reconciling numbers, formatting slides across six departments — Zeck makes the meeting better. It doesn't make the preparation shorter.
Where Zeck Ends and Steerco Begins
Zeck is excellent at board meeting delivery. Here are the problems it leaves untouched — and what happens when you add Steerco.
The 40 Hours Before the Meeting
Zeck starts where your board deck preparation ends. If it took your CFO, CEO, and department heads 40 combined hours to produce that deck — pulling data, formatting slides, chasing updates — Zeck doesn't reclaim any of it. Steerco eliminates that preparation. The deck is generated from live data in minutes. The 40 hours become 5.
Stale Data in a Beautiful Package
Zeck presents your board deck beautifully. But the data in that deck is only as current as the last manual update. If your ARR figure is from the export you ran two weeks ago, Zeck presents it with perfect formatting — and it's still two weeks old. Steerco generates from live data. Stale data in a beautiful package is still stale data.
The Quarterly Scramble
Every quarter, the same scramble. Finance needs the revenue slide. Sales needs to update the pipeline. Product needs to pull metrics. CS needs to gather customer health. Steerco automates the data gathering across all of it — each section built from the source of truth, not from whoever remembered to send their update by Thursday. The scramble disappears.
QBRs, EBRs, and Customer Presentations
Your board deck is quarterly. Your QBRs are weekly. Your EBRs are monthly. Your renewal presentations are constant. Zeck is built for board governance — it doesn't touch the customer-facing executive presentation workload that consumes your team every day. Steerco automates all of it: board decks, QBRs, EBRs, renewals. One platform for every presentation that requires live data.
Consistency Across Departments
A board deck requires input from Finance, Sales, Product, CS, and Leadership. Without Steerco, each department builds their section independently — different data sources, different formats, different levels of quality. Steerco pulls consistently from your systems of record for every section. What reaches the board is coherent, current, and consistent — not a PDF assembled from six different peoples' Tuesday nights.
The Version Control Nightmare
Board deck v1. Board deck v2 with CFO comments. Board deck v3 final. Board deck v3 FINAL final. Steerco generates from live data at generation time — there's no version management problem because the data is always current when you click generate. The "which version did we send the board?" problem doesn't exist when the deck takes 5 minutes to regenerate from scratch.
What Happens When the Presentation Tax Gets Eliminated
Hear from leaders who stopped spending their best hours building decks and started spending them running the business.
Steerco has completely changed how Branch49 interacts with our clients. We moved our dedicated presentation person off the sidelines and onto the sales floor. The result? Our clients achieved a 300% increase in pipeline.
I used to walk into board meetings with a forecast built on hope. With Steerco, I have a defensible map of buyer behavior. We aren't just guessing anymore. We're orchestrating.
What used to take four hours of manual slide deck babysitting on a Sunday night now happens in minutes. I stopped asking if the data was right and started asking how we win the expansion.
Our board deck used to take three weeks of coordination across six teams. Finance, Sales, Product, CS — everyone had their section, everyone had their own idea of what "done" looked like. Steerco collapsed it to a single generation event. Same data, same format, same quality, every time.
When to Choose Steerco, Zeck, or Both
Honest recommendations based on the actual problem you're trying to solve.
The deck creation is where your time goes
If the 40 hours of quarterly prep — data gathering, slide building, cross-department coordination — is your actual bottleneck, Steerco solves it. Zeck doesn't touch this problem.
Your board deck data needs to be live
If a board member asking "is this ARR figure current?" causes a problem, you need live data integration. Steerco pulls from 150+ sources at generation time. Zeck presents what you upload.
You need more than quarterly board decks automated
If your team also builds QBRs, EBRs, renewal decks, and executive briefings — all requiring live data — Steerco handles the full scope. Zeck is focused on board governance only.
Board engagement and meeting experience is the priority
If your board is disengaged, meetings run long, and governance is painful — pre-votes, interactive comments, mobile-first delivery, auto-minutes — Zeck solves these problems. It's genuinely excellent at improving the meeting itself.
You need board governance infrastructure
Digital voting, document signing, board meeting records, compliance documentation — Zeck is a full governance platform for organizations that need structured, auditable board processes. That's not Steerco's territory.
You have both problems
Build the deck in 5 minutes with Steerco. Deliver it through Zeck. The Presentation Tax is gone and the board experience is elevated. Both problems solved, no tradeoffs required.
Common Questions About Steerco vs. Zeck
Technically yes — both touch board presentations. But they solve different parts of the problem. Steerco eliminates deck creation: the 40 hours of manual data gathering and slide building that happen before the board meeting. Zeck transforms deck delivery: the meeting experience, pre-votes, comments, and governance that happen after the deck is built. Many organizations use both. They're complementary more than competitive.
Yes. Steerco generates your board deck from live data in your templates. That deck can be exported to PowerPoint, PDF, or any format your board portal accepts — including Zeck. Steerco handles the hard part (creating the deck). Zeck handles the delivery. If you're already a Zeck customer, Steerco removes the manual preparation that precedes every upload.
Zeck has some data connections for embedding metrics and charts. But the core workflow requires you to build and maintain your board content before uploading it. Zeck doesn't connect to your Salesforce pipeline, billing system, or product analytics to generate a board deck automatically from live data. That's Steerco's job — and the distinction is significant when you're measuring prep time in hours.
Zeck handles the board meeting governance layer: interactive delivery, pre-votes, dynamic comments from board members before and during meetings, auto-generated minutes, digital voting, and document signing. These are purpose-built for the board meeting experience — and Steerco doesn't replicate them. If your primary need is a better board meeting, Zeck is excellent at it.
Four things: (1) Automated board deck generation from 150+ live data sources — zero manual input. (2) QBR, EBR, renewal, and expansion presentation automation — not just board decks. (3) Living success plans that connect to every presentation and update from real customer conversations. (4) Customer intelligence with external market signals — press releases, 10-Ks, funding rounds surfaced automatically. Steerco eliminates the work that precedes every meeting, not just board meetings.
About 5 minutes from zero to a complete, executive-ready board deck — pulling live data from your CRM, billing, product analytics, and any other connected source. Compare that to the typical 3–4 week coordination process across Finance, Sales, Product, and CS teams. The time savings on a single board deck often exceeds the annual cost of Steerco.
Days, not months. Connect your data sources, upload your board deck templates, and start generating. Our team handles the full configuration — data pipelines, template setup — so you can generate your first board deck the same week. Book a demo → and we'll show you exactly how it works with your data.
Stop Building the Deck.
Start Running the Business.
Your board deserves live data, not last quarter's export. Your team deserves 40 hours back. Steerco generates your board decks from the source of truth — in minutes, every time, in your templates. See it live with your data.