Elevator pitch generator — five short spoken pitches with timings

How to use the elevator pitch generator

1. Type Your name and Role, and optionally your Company.
2. Fill in Who you help and Their problem, written so it follows “A lot of small clinics…”, for example “lose hours every week to paper scheduling”.
3. Fill in What you do about it, written to follow “I help them…”, such as “move their bookings online in a day”.
4. Optionally add Proof (a real result) and Your ask (what you want from the listener).
5. Read the five pitches and the Length table, pick one, and practise it out loud.

What it does and when to use it

An elevator pitch is a short spoken introduction for networking events, job fairs, meetings with investors, or the “so, what do you do?” moment. The hard part is getting the order right: who you are, who you help, the problem, what you do, and why the listener should care. This tool gives you five tested orders using your own words, so you can hear which one sounds most natural.

The five structures are: a plain introduction, a “You know how…?” opener, a problem-first version, a result-first version (“so they no longer…”), and a “What if…?” question. For written versions of the same story, use the LinkedIn summary generator. For a one-line profile, try the Twitter bio generator. For your company’s longer purpose statement, see the mission and vision statement generator.

How it works

Your answers are dropped into the five fixed structures. Small grammar fixes are applied: “a” or “an” is chosen for your role, final full stops are removed from your phrases so they are not doubled, and “I’m” at the start of your ask is not repeated. Empty optional fields remove their sentence, and empty required ones get neutral placeholders such as “teams”.

The length table counts words and estimates seconds at 150 words per minute. No AI writes the text, and it all runs in your browser.

Worked examples

Default pitch. Arjun, a product manager at Fieldnote, helps small clinics. The plain introduction reads I'm Arjun, a product manager at Fieldnote. A lot of small clinics lose hours every week to paper scheduling. I help them move their bookings online in a day. It continues with the proof and the ask. The table shows 1 | 49 | 20: 49 words, about 20 seconds.

Without company, proof or ask. The same pitch shrinks to I'm Arjun, a product manager. A lot of small clinics lose hours every week to paper scheduling. plus the solution sentence: 27 words, about 11 seconds.

Limits and tips

• The problem field must read naturally after both “A lot of small clinics…” and “What if small clinics didn’t have to…”. Start it with a verb.
• Only use proof you can explain if someone asks a follow-up question.
• Practise until it sounds like talking, not reading. Cut any word that trips you up.