Decks & Docs
Argument before slides
Build the case before you open PowerPoint.
I need to present [TOPIC] to [AUDIENCE] to get [DECISION]. Give me a 10-slide outline where each slide has one headline that is a complete sentence making a claim. Under each, list only the evidence needed to support that claim.
Decks & Docs
Speaker notes you can actually use
You know the slides. You do not know your opening line for each.
Here are my slide headlines: [PASTE]. For each, write the one sentence I should say as the slide appears, and the one question I should expect from [AUDIENCE]. Conversational, not written prose — I am saying these out loud.
Decks & Docs
Kill the filler slides
Your deck is 34 slides and should be 12.
Here are my slide headlines: [PASTE]. Identify which slides make an argument and which are context nobody asked for. Give me the shortest sequence that still gets to [DECISION], and list what I should move to the appendix.