Client-Ready Decks with AI
A free guide by Kamran Imam — Instagram · TikTok · YouTube
The slowest way to build a deck is to open the slide software. The fastest way is to build the argument first and only then touch a slide. That’s how strategy firms do it, and AI makes the argument phase absurdly fast.
The 45-minute deck workflow
Minutes 0–5 — brief Claude. Paste your context: audience, decision you want, what they already believe, time limit. (Template: /r/brief.)
Minutes 5–15 — storyboard, no slides.
Storyboard a [N]-slide deck for [purpose] to [audience]. For each slide give me: an action title (a full sentence stating the takeaway - not a label like "Background"), the evidence that proves it, and what the audience should feel or decide. The titles alone, read in order, must make the complete argument.Read only the titles top to bottom. If the argument doesn’t flow as plain sentences, fix it here — this is the cheapest place to fix anything.
Minutes 15–25 — pressure-test the story.
Review this storyboard as my most skeptical audience member. Where would they say "we already knew this", "that's not what the data shows", or "what exactly are you asking me for"? Rank the problems by damage and propose fixes.Minutes 25–40 — build slides from the storyboard. One idea per slide. For each: title from the storyboard, one exhibit, max 25 words of supporting text. If a slide needs a paragraph, it’s two slides or it’s an appendix.
Minutes 40–45 — the read-aloud pass. Present it out loud to nobody, once. Every sentence you stumble on, simplify. Every slide you skip past, cut.
Rules that make decks feel senior
- Titles are claims (“Churn is concentrated in month 2, and onboarding is why”), never topics (“Churn analysis”).
- The ask appears twice: slide 2 and the final slide. Nobody should wonder why they’re in the room.
- 12 main slides max; everything else is appendix. Confidence is shown by what you leave out.
- Numbers get context or they get cut: “$40K” means nothing; “$40K — 3x last quarter” is a story.
Related
/r/consultant (sections F & G are 24 more deck prompts) · /r/boardroom
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