Steerco
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Zeck Zeck Reinvented the Board Meeting.
Steerco Reinvented the Board Prep.
A modern web-native meeting tool vs. the AI that builds the deck from your live data.
Zeck is genuinely modern — beautiful web-native pre-reads, async voting, director engagement analytics, and a strong opinion on what a board meeting should feel like in 2026. It is one of the best things to happen to the boardroom in a decade. But Zeck still expects you to author the content. Steerco is the only platform that builds the entire board book from your live data — on-brand, executive-ready, in minutes instead of days. Zeck makes the meeting better. Steerco makes the prep disappear. Most modern leadership teams will end up using both.
Leadership teams running on Steerco
Steerco vs. Zeck at a Glance
Zeck and Steerco both produce presentations. The difference is what goes into them — and who they're built for.
| Feature |
Steerco
| Zeck |
|---|---|---|
| Core Approach | ||
| Built for | Building the board book from live operating data | Running a modern, web-native board meeting |
| Primary user | CEOs, CFOs, Chiefs of Staff — the team building the deck | Board members and corporate secretaries — the people in the meeting |
| Generates board deck from live data | Yes — fully automated from 600+ integrations | Partial — modern authoring, but humans write the content |
| Time to first draft | Under an hour from zero | 2–4 days of manual content assembly |
| Output format | Your exact PowerPoint / Google Slides / PDF template | Zeck's web-native pre-read format |
| Board Prep Workflow | ||
| On-brand template output | Your exact template, brand, voice preserved | Beautiful default Zeck format — less template flexibility |
| Zero-prompt generation | No prompts — context comes from your data and Team Guidance | Manual authoring or copy/paste from existing materials |
| Modern web-native pre-read | Exports to PDF or directly to Zeck for distribution | Best-in-class web-native pre-read experience |
| Director engagement analytics | Not in scope — use Zeck for director engagement | Yes — see who read what, when, and where they engaged |
| Async voting and resolutions | Not in scope | Yes — native async voting workflow |
| Director permissioning | Standard role-based access controls | Strong director-side permissioning and roles |
| Data & Integrations | ||
| CRM connectivity (Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive) | Live — pulled at generation | Not available |
| Finance / billing (Stripe, Chargebee, NetSuite, QBO) | Live — pulled at generation | Not available |
| Product analytics (Amplitude, Mixpanel, PostHog) | Live — pulled at generation | Not available |
| Total integrations | 600+ via HotGlue | Limited — focused on the meeting layer, not data ingestion |
| Data freshness | Real-time at generation | Whatever was manually pasted or typed in |
| Security & Governance | ||
| SOC 2 Type II | Yes — Strategic & Executive tiers | Yes |
| SSO / SAML | Yes | Yes |
| Role-based access | Yes — standard RBAC | Yes — strong director-side roles |
| Pricing transparency | Published pricing on site | Published pricing on site |
The Same Output. Completely Different Problems.
Both produce presentations. The question is which problem is actually costing your organization time.
Building the Book vs. Running the Meeting
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Steerco
Builds the entire board book from your live data.
Steerco is the only platform that builds the entire board book from your live operating data — on-brand, executive-ready, in minutes instead of days. Salesforce, Stripe, NetSuite, Amplitude, Gong — all 600+ sources flow into a finished deck in your exact template. The work that used to take a Chief of Staff a week now happens in under an hour.
Zeck Reinvents the meeting experience itself.
Zeck made a real bet: the board meeting itself was broken, and a modern, web-native pre-read could fix it. They were right. Zeck's pre-read experience, async voting, and director engagement analytics are the best in the category. But Zeck still expects you to bring the content. The deck doesn't build itself in Zeck — it just reads beautifully once it's done.
Live Data vs. Modern Authoring
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Steerco
Every number live. Every chart current. Zero copy-paste.
Steerco connects to 600+ revenue and operating data sources and pulls every figure at generation time. ARR, pipeline, burn, runway, NPS, product usage — all live. The 'is this current?' question structurally goes away because nothing in the deck was typed by a human.
Zeck Beautiful authoring — but the content is still on you.
Zeck has authoring features and a far better editing experience than slideware. But it doesn't pull live data from your CRM, your billing system, or your product analytics. Whatever ends up in a Zeck pre-read got there because someone exported it, eyeballed it, and typed it in.
Under an Hour vs. 2–4 Days
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Steerco
First draft in under an hour. Final in an afternoon.
Steerco compresses the entire board prep cycle. Connect your data, upload your template, generate. The first draft of the full book — your sections, your narrative, your numbers — lands in under an hour. The Chief of Staff goes from week-long fire drill to focused review.
Zeck Better meeting, same content assembly.
Zeck doesn't change the upstream prep work. The CEO, CFO, and Chief of Staff still spend 2–4 days assembling the content from spreadsheets, decks, and Slack threads. Zeck only takes over once that content exists. The pre-read is gorgeous — and the prep that fed it was the same as last quarter.
On-Brand Templates vs. Web-Native Format
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Steerco
Your template, your brand, your voice — generated.
Steerco outputs to your exact PowerPoint, Google Slides, or PDF template. The deck looks like your design team built it because the template is theirs. You can also export directly to a portal like Zeck for distribution.
Zeck A beautiful web-native pre-read — in Zeck's format.
Zeck's format is intentional and excellent. It's also Zeck's. If your board expects a branded PDF/PowerPoint that matches the rest of your investor materials, you're trading some template flexibility for the web-native experience. For many growth-stage boards that's the right trade. For others, it isn't.
Director Engagement vs. Builder Productivity
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Steerco
Built for the team that builds the book.
Steerco is built for the CEO, CFO, and Chief of Staff — the people whose calendars get destroyed by board prep every quarter. The optimization is on the build side, not the read side.
Zeck Built for the directors reading and voting.
Zeck's analytics tell you which directors read which sections, where they spent time, and what they engaged with. That's genuinely useful — and it's a problem Steerco doesn't solve. If director engagement is your bottleneck, Zeck is the right tool.
Use Both — Steerco Builds, Zeck Distributes
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Steerco
Steerco generates the book. Zeck delivers the meeting.
These are not competitive. Steerco builds the deck from your live data. Zeck distributes it as a modern web-native pre-read, runs the async voting, and gives you director engagement analytics. Most modern leadership teams will end up using both — and the integration is one export away.
Zeck Zeck plus Steerco is the modern board prep stack.
If you want the best of both: build with Steerco, run the meeting in Zeck. The CEO gets their week back, and the directors get the modern pre-read experience Zeck is famous for.
Where Zeck Ends and Steerco Begins
Zeck is the most modern thing that's happened to board meetings in a decade. Here's what it doesn't fix.
Content Is Still Authored by Humans
Zeck has a great authoring surface. It still expects a human to type, paste, and curate the content. The 2–4 days of upstream work doesn't go away.
No Live Data Integrations
Zeck doesn't connect to Salesforce, Stripe, NetSuite, Amplitude, or Gong. Every number in a Zeck pre-read was manually entered. Steerco pulls all of it at generation time.
Built for the Reader, Not the Builder
Zeck optimizes the director's experience. Steerco optimizes the Chief of Staff's. Both matter — they're just different jobs.
No Template Generation
If your board expects a branded PDF or PowerPoint that matches your investor materials, Zeck's web-native format is a trade-off. Steerco generates inside your existing template.
The Quarterly Prep Scramble
Zeck doesn't compress the upstream chaos: pulling numbers, reconciling sources, drafting the narrative. Steerco does that part — in under an hour.
What Happens When the Board Book Builds Itself
From leadership teams who reclaimed the week before every board meeting.
"Board prep used to be a week-long fire drill. With Steerco it's an afternoon. We still use a portal to distribute, but the building is done."
"I want my directors reading a beautiful pre-read. I don't want my CFO spending three days exporting CSVs to make it. Steerco solved the second problem for us."
"The numbers are always live now. No one asks 'is this current?' in the meeting anymore."
When to Choose Steerco, Zeck, or Both
Honest guidance — these tools solve different parts of the same workflow.
The bottleneck is building the deck
If your CEO, CFO, or Chief of Staff loses a week to board prep every quarter, the bottleneck is content assembly. Steerco eliminates it.
You need live data in every chart
If 'is this current?' has ever been asked in your boardroom, you need live integrations. Steerco pulls from 600+ sources at generation time.
Your board expects a branded PDF or PowerPoint
Steerco generates inside your existing template — the deck looks like your design team built it, because the template is theirs.
Director engagement is your problem
If directors aren't reading the pre-read or engagement is low, Zeck's web-native format and analytics directly address that.
You want a modern meeting experience
Async voting, web-native pre-reads, and a strong opinion on what the board meeting should feel like — Zeck is best in class here.
Build with Steerco, run with Zeck
Steerco generates the board book from your live data. Zeck distributes it as a modern pre-read and runs the meeting. The integration is one export away — most modern leadership teams end up here.
Common Questions About Steerco vs. Zeck
Is Zeck a board book builder?
Can I use Zeck and Steerco together?
Does Steerco replace Zeck?
How long does it take Steerco to generate a board book?
Does Steerco output to a branded PowerPoint or PDF?
Is Steerco enterprise-grade?
Stop Building Slides. Start Building the Narrative.
Steerco builds the entire board book from your live data — on-brand, in minutes. Pair it with Zeck for the modern meeting experience your directors expect.