Offline Investor Relations App for a Global Pharmaceutical Company

Anonymised engagement

Client: Pharmaceutical company · Global · one of the world's largest, app used from the CEO down
Industry: Life Sciences
Department: Finance & Accounting
Region: Europe

At an investor conference, the CEO's answer depended on finding the right slide in a 350-slide deck that was out of date the moment anyone changed it. Now the same content lives in a Power Apps app that works offline on five platforms, kept current by the teams that own it.

A working model of the approach on sample data. It plays on its own and pauses when scrolled away; nothing here touches a live system.

Investor material · Power Apps

5 platforms

~350 linked slides → Node.js → recordsDeck retired · ~350 slides became records

Investor materialOnline

Search medicines and stagesphase III

AllOncologyCardiometabolicRespiratoryImmunologyRare diseases

ONX-412Phase III
Non-small cell lung cancer, 2nd line
ONX-388Sub.
HER2-low breast cancer
ONX-517Phase II
Gastric cancer
ONX-290Stopped
Ovarian cancer
CVM-145Phase III
Chronic kidney disease
RSP-073Phase III
Severe asthma
IMM-226Phase I
Lupus

ONX-412Oncology

Non-small cell lung cancer, 2nd line

I
II
III
Sub.
Appr.

Trial: Study 301
Next: Readout H1 2027
Owner: IR UK

Comments

IIR director · Q3 wording approved

IIR contributor · Readout timing confirmed with R&D

Conference hall · no connection. Changes are kept.

Sync queue0

IR contributor
Readout timing confirmed with R&D
Synced
R&D contributor
ONX-517 · II → III (draft)
Synced

Same app, same content

iOS
macOS
Android
Windows
Web

Back online, the queue syncs. Owners keep the content current on all five platforms.

The results

~350
slides migrated into structured data: About 350 hyperlinked slides, extracted by a Node.js engine. Scope of the build, not a measured saving.; 5
platforms, online and offline: iOS, macOS, Android, Windows and web. Scope of the build.; Day 1
content loaded from the existing deck: Used from the CEO down. No time or usage figures recorded.

The challenge

Our client is one of the world's largest biopharmaceutical companies. Every quarter its investor relations teams in several countries work with the research centres to update the material leadership uses with investors: company performance, R&D, the state of each medicine in the pipeline, what is heading to market and what is being discontinued.

The result was a single PowerPoint of about 350 slides, used as an application: hyperlinks between slides let presenters jump between therapy areas, medicines and pipeline stages.

What it was costing them

One file, many authors. Contributors in several countries edited one deck, with no structure behind the content and no record of who changed what.
Always slightly out of date. A pipeline that moves every quarter, captured in a file that had to be rebuilt and redistributed.
Hard to find the answer. Navigating 350 slides by hyperlink in front of an investor or at a conference.
No offline guarantee. Leadership travelling to conferences needed the material on any device, with or without a connection.
No room for feedback. The people preparing the material had no way to comment, review and agree content inside the tool.

Investor material, before and after

The approach

We built a Power Apps canvas app that turns the investor deck into structured, searchable content, maintained by the people who own it and available offline on every device leadership uses.

What the app does

Content as data, not slides. Therapy areas, medicines and pipeline status held as structured, categorised records instead of linked slides.
Navigation and search. Category navigation that mirrors how leadership talks about the business, plus full search and retrieval of structured information.
Comments and feedback by role. The people who prepare and collect the information for the investor relations directors comment and give feedback inside the app, according to their role.
Every device, online and offline. Runs on iOS, macOS, Android, Windows and the web, and works offline for conferences and travel.
Built for the top of the company. Used by the CEO, investor relations and other directors and departments to prepare and steer conversations with investors and other third parties.

Day-one content

A Node.js engine read the existing PowerPoint, extracted the semi-structured content, tables repeated in the same format across slides, into a structured dataset and loaded it as the app's initial data. The app opened full on its first day, not empty.

What the app gives leadership

Technology

Layer	What we used
App	Microsoft Power Apps canvas app, Power Apps mobile and web
Platforms	iOS, macOS, Android, Windows, web; offline mode
Data and connectors	Power Platform
Migration	Node.js extraction engine for PowerPoint (PPTX) content
Content model	Therapy areas, medicines and pipeline status, with role-based comments

The outcome

Leadership opens an app instead of a deck: the right answer is a search or two taps away, on whatever device is at hand, with or without a connection.

	Before	After
Investor material	One 350-slide PowerPoint	Structured, categorised records
Finding an answer	Hyperlinks between slides	Category navigation and search
Without a connection	No guarantee	Works offline
Keeping it current	Rebuild and redistribute the deck	Owners update their own content
Feedback	Outside the tool	Comments by role, inside the app
Initial content	Not applicable	Migrated automatically from the deck

A 350-slide navigational PowerPoint replaced by a structured app on every platform leadership uses: iOS, macOS, Android, Windows and web.
Investor material available offline at conferences and meetings.
Content kept current by its owners, with comments and feedback in one place.
Existing content migrated automatically, not retyped.
Used from the CEO through investor relations to other directors and departments.
No time or usage figures were recorded, so we do not quote any.

The risk most teams miss

Moving a deck into an app is easy to promise and hard to land. If the first version opens empty, nobody uses it; if it needs a connection, it fails in the conference hall. Day-one content and offline behaviour decide adoption. Extracting the existing deck into structured data before launch, and designing the app offline-first with synchronisation when a connection returns, is what made it the tool leadership opened instead of the PowerPoint.

Built with

The tools this ran on, by the layer each one carried.

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