Tome no longer exists. The AI presentation app, which had about 20 million users, spent 2024 turning itself into an AI assistant for sales teams, closed its presentation product on April 30, 2025, and by June 2025 tome.app redirected to Lightfield, the AI-native CRM its founders now build. Since November 2025 the address has returned an error page. For AI presentations, Gamma, Pitch, Beautiful.ai and Plus AI are the current options.
Reviewed by EdGrows·Updated Sep 26, 2026This analysis is based on documentation, public user reports, and vendor materials — not yet on our own hands-on testing. How we rate
Tome was one of the first generative AI apps to go viral. It launched in 2022 as a new format for presentations and stories: type a prompt and it produced a deck of tiles with text, AI-generated images and embedded media, shared as a link rather than a slide file. By early 2024 it had 20 million users.
It then became one of the clearest examples of the gap between AI popularity and AI revenue. The timeline below comes from news reports, archived copies of tome.app and the site as it stands today.
| Date | What happened |
|---|---|
| 2022 | Tome launches its AI presentation and storytelling app |
| April 2024 | Tome cuts about 20% of its 59 staff and refocuses on sales teams, Semafor reports |
| April 2025 | tome.app presents Tome as an "AI assistant for sales", with demos by request |
| April 25, 2025 | AngelList buys a different startup called Tome, a legal AI tool |
| April 30, 2025 | Tome's presentation product closes |
| June 2025 | tome.app starts redirecting to lightfield.app |
| November 2025 | Lightfield launches publicly as an AI-native CRM, and tome.app begins returning a 404 error |
| September 2026 | tome.app still shows "This page doesn't exist" |
tome.app as archived by the Wayback Machine on April 28, 2025, two days before the presentation product closed.
The pivot began in April 2024. Semafor reported that most of Tome's 20 million users did not pay, while sales organizations had shown they would pay for extra features. Tome laid off about 20% of its 59 employees and rebuilt the product for those buyers: an AI tool that pulled intelligence from SEC filings, connected to Salesforce data, analyzed call transcripts and generated a sales deck tailored to a specific customer, down to which competitors that customer already used.
By April 2025 the homepage no longer led with presentations at all. It called Tome an AI assistant for sales, promised to find "a path into your best accounts" and asked visitors to request a demo instead of signing up. Presentations survived as a menu item.
The presentation product closed on April 30, 2025. Users had to export their decks before that date, and work that was not exported went with it. The sales assistant did not outlive it for long: by June 2025 tome.app redirected visitors to lightfield.app, and from November 2025 the domain began returning an error. On September 26, 2026 it showed a Vercel page reading "This page doesn't exist" with the code 404 DEPLOYMENT_NOT_FOUND, the screenshot at the top of this page.
There is nothing left to sign in to and no plan to buy. Tome links in old documents, bookmarks and blog posts now lead nowhere.
Lightfield's homepage on September 26, 2026.
Tome's founders, Keith Peiris and Henri Liriani, cut the company back to a core group of engineers and spent about a year building in stealth. VentureBeat reported that the company still had $43 million in the bank when they made that decision. The result, Lightfield, launched publicly in November 2025 as an AI-native CRM aimed at Salesforce and HubSpot.
Lightfield continues the thread of Tome's sales pivot, account research and outreach, and drops presentations entirely. It updates itself from every customer interaction, and its agents run outbound, flag deals at risk and tell a rep where to focus next. Its homepage offers a free trial and announces a $47 million Series A led by a16z. It is a product for sales teams, not a replacement for anyone who used Tome to make decks.
Search for what happened to Tome and you will find claims that AngelList bought it. That was a different company. On April 25, 2025, AngelList announced the acquisition of Tome, a legal AI startup whose software summarizes term sheets and other financing documents for venture investors. It has no connection to the presentation app, whose team moved on to Lightfield. An earlier version of this page repeated that confusion, and it has been corrected.
Tome had two lives, so it needs two kinds of replacement.
| If you used Tome for | Use instead | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Turning a prompt into a deck | Gamma | The closest successor to Tome's idea: cards instead of fixed slides, AI images, and output as a deck, document or web page |
| Team decks under one brand | Pitch | Collaborative editing, templates and brand settings for shared presentations |
| Slides that lay themselves out | Beautiful.ai | Smart templates keep layouts consistent as content changes |
| Working in Google Slides or PowerPoint | Plus AI | Generates and edits slides inside the tools most companies already use |
| Design-heavy visual decks | Canva | A large template library and AI design tools for slides and social graphics |
| Researching sales accounts | Clay or Apollo | Enrichment, AI research agents and B2B contact data for the prep work Tome's sales assistant promised |
Gamma is the natural first stop for former Tome users. It shares Tome's premise that a presentation can be a flexible, web-native document rather than a stack of fixed slides, and it drafts a whole deck from a prompt the way Tome did. If your decks have to end up in PowerPoint or Google Slides, Plus AI is the better fit, because the output stays in the formats colleagues and clients already open.
Two checks would have protected Tome's users. The first is whether a tool earns money from people like you: when most users pay nothing, the company's attention can move to someone else, as Tome's did to sales teams. The second is whether you can export your work in a standard format whenever you want. Users with exported copies kept their decks when Tome closed; everyone else lost them.
No. Tome closed its AI presentation product on April 30, 2025. The AI sales assistant it had pivoted to did not last either: by June 2025 tome.app redirected to Lightfield, the CRM built by Tome's founders, and since November 2025 the address has returned a 404 error page. There is no way to sign in, make a deck or buy a plan.
Almost certainly not. Users had to export their decks before the April 30, 2025 shutdown, and reports since then say work that was not exported could not be recovered. With tome.app offline, no self-service route is left. A PDF you downloaded before the shutdown is the copy that survives, and its content can be rebuilt in Gamma, Pitch or PowerPoint.
Tome was popular but earned little. In April 2024 Semafor reported that most of its 20 million users did not pay, and that it was cutting about 20% of its 59 staff to focus on sales teams, which were willing to pay for extra features. A year later the founders dropped Tome altogether to build a CRM; VentureBeat reported the company still had $43 million in the bank when they made that call.
Not this Tome. On April 25, 2025, AngelList announced it had acquired a different startup also called Tome, a legal AI tool that summarizes term sheets and other financing documents for venture investors. The presentation app's team went on to build Lightfield. Many articles mix up the two companies.
Lightfield is an AI-native CRM built by Tome's founders, Keith Peiris and Henri Liriani, and launched publicly in November 2025. It updates itself from customer interactions, and its agents run outbound, flag deals at risk and suggest where to focus. Its homepage offers a free trial and announces a $47 million Series A led by a16z. It does not make presentations.
Gamma is the closest to Tome's original idea: a prompt becomes a card-based deck, document or web page with AI images. Pitch suits teams sharing brand-consistent decks, Beautiful.ai keeps layouts tidy automatically, Plus AI works inside Google Slides and PowerPoint, and Canva is the pick for design-heavy slides.
For account research, Clay enriches company and contact lists using AI research agents, and Apollo pairs a large B2B contact database with prospecting tools. Lightfield itself covers research and outbound as part of a CRM. For the pitch deck that follows the research, Gamma and Pitch are the practical choices.
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