Technology Readiness Level PowerPoint And Google Slides

How do you actually tell a funding panel, a client, or your own team whether a technology is ready for the real world, or still sitting in the lab? That's the exact question the Technology Readiness Level scale was built to answer, and this template gives you four different ways to put it on screen, so you're not locked into a single layout for every audience.

The headline slide lays out the full nine-stage journey, grouped into three phases that make the scale much easier to follow: Research, Development, and Deployment. Start at basic principles being observed, and work all the way through to a system actually proven in operational use. No jargon dump, just a clean, color-coded path from one end of the scale to the other.

Once that's covered, you get options. A simple side list keeps things minimal for a quick reference slide. A table layout adds a short explanation to each stage, handy for an audience that wants to know the "why," not just the label. And if you'd rather show how each level connects back to its broader development phase, there's a tree-style diagram for that too, numbered 0 through 9, with every branch mapped out.

Whether you're writing a grant proposal, reporting on an R&D milestone, or just trying to get your team aligned on where a project actually stands, this template adapts to the conversation. Swap in your own project name, tweak the colors, drop in your current stage, and you're set to present with a scale everyone in the room will actually understand.