DeckFinder: Conversation with Andreja Zujkovic

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      Andreja Zujkovic is the founder of IceFyre, a company specializing exclusively in automating PowerPoint and Microsoft 365. He earned a degree in Computer Science in Belgrade in 2007 and, after more than a decade in the IT industry, founded IceFyre. Today, the company brings together a team of engineers working within the Microsoft Office 365 ecosystem with over 10 years of experience in the slide creation industry. Specializing in the creative sector, Andreja focuses on improving PowerPoint productivity by streamlining processes and integrating innovative tools that enhance presentation workflows. Outside of work, he is passionate about leadership, public speaking, kickboxing, and staying up to date with the latest technology trends.

In this conversation, Andreja explores his DeckFinder solution for searching PowerPoint slides.

Geetesh: Andreja, tell us a little about DeckFinder. Also, was DeckFinder born from a client request, or did it emerge from patterns you kept seeing across organizations?

Andreja: That’s actually one of my favorite questions, because DeckFinder was born from a very real problem we kept seeing while working with clients. At IceFyre, we work with teams that produce a large volume of PowerPoint presentations. Our focus has been on optimizing and automating PowerPoint workflows to help designers improve their productivity. During that work, we identified a pattern across two distinct customer groups.

The first group consists of companies that generate thousands of slides every year, whether they are consulting teams, marketing departments, sales teams, or creative agencies. The second group includes presentation consumers – corporate users, usually from HR, sales, or finance people who communicate internally or externally through PowerPoint.

For both groups, slide content or specific assets from past presentations are often difficult to find. As a result, users waste a surprising amount of time searching through network drives, Slack or Teams conversations, emails, and other sources just to locate a slide they need information from. But the real value is not only in finding the slide itself. Often there are valuable elements inside, a widget, a chart, or even an idea captured in comments or speaker notes that can be reused, adapted, or rediscovered when someone is working on a new project.

In the case of design teams, up to 20% of a designer’s time is spent simply searching for existing resources instead of building on top of work that has already been done. What made this particularly interesting for us was how frequently this issue kept appearing across different industries. That’s exactly what led to the creation of DeckFinder.

DeckFinder is a web application that allows users to search directly across all of their existing presentations and instantly find the exact slide, visual element, or asset they need.

One of the key advantages of DeckFinder is that it can connect to multiple file management systems. You simply connect it to your company’s file storage, and the tool automatically scans all PowerPoint content. There is no need to manually tag slides or reorganize existing folders. DeckFinder analyzes the content and effectively transforms a company’s presentations into a searchable, reusable knowledge base.

Your best slides already exist. Our job is to find them for you.

Geetesh: Where do you see slide search and presentation asset management evolving over the next five years? And what role would DeckFinder play in this evolution?

Andreja: Today, presentations are still viewed as posters used to convey a one-off message to an audience. What is often overlooked is the fact that a large amount of valuable information remains on those slides. Unfortunately, most of that knowledge stays locked inside presentations and quickly gets forgotten once a project is finished.

This will have to change, and I believe we will see a transition from simple file storage toward intelligent content retrieval.

This transition will be propelled by AI, which will play a significant role in making slide assets more accessible. It will start with ordinary semantic search and smarter content discovery and eventually will evolve into fully automated systems capable of self-management and quality control across the entire company.

I like to think that DeckFinder is the first step toward that future. Its mission is to help organizations unlock the value of the presentation content they already have. By making slides searchable across multiple departments in the company, DeckFinder uncovers a valuable source of information that has often been overlooked.

In the long term, we see DeckFinder evolving into an intelligent layer that connects presentation content with anyone in the organization who needs to read, modify, or share the information and data stored on slides.

Geetesh: Can someone try DeckFinder before buying it? What’s included in the trial experience?

Andreja: Yes, absolutely.

For every new client, we organize an introduction session where we walk users through the main features and settings of DeckFinder. This gives prospective users a clear understanding of what they can expect from the tool.

After the introduction, we usually offer a free 30-day trial. During the trial period, all features of the DeckFinder Pro package are available with no restrictions.

The purpose of the trial is to allow clients to test-drive the tool using their own content and see the impact DeckFinder can have on their daily work.

There is one important detail I am obligated to mention. We know that presentations often contain confidential information, and we care deeply about our clients’ data. Therefore, I want to emphasize that DeckFinder does not copy, store, or redistribute original presentation files when connected to external systems.

The only exception to this rule is the option to upload files manually to internal DeckFinder storage. This feature is intended for individual users who choose the free package and don’t have cloud storage of their own.

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