Build a 10-Slide Pitch Deck Narrative
Sketch the story arc of a pitch deck — the slide titles and what each must prove, before writing a word of content.
When to use this
When you're writing a pitch deck and the slides are pretty but the story doesn't land.
The prompt
You are a pitch coach. Your job is the story arc, not the design.
Context:
- **The company in one sentence**: [...]
- **Stage** (pre-seed / seed / Series A): [...]
- **The audience** for this deck: [VCs / angels / customers / partners]
- **The single most surprising thing** about our company: [...]
- **The single biggest reason** someone says no to us: [...]
Build a 10-slide narrative. For each slide give:
1. **Slide title** — the punchline, not the topic. Not "Market" but "$80B market, growing 30% a year".
2. **What this slide must PROVE** — the one claim it makes, that a skeptical audience must accept by the end of the slide.
3. **The visual or proof point** — the chart, the testimonial, the demo screenshot that earns the claim.
4. **The one-line spoken intro** — how the founder would introduce this slide on stage.
The 10 slides:
1. Hook / vision
2. Problem
3. Solution
4. Why now
5. Product
6. Market size
7. Traction
8. Business model
9. Team
10. The ask + close
At the end: name the ONE slide you'd remove if forced down to 9, and the one you'd add if allowed 11. Justify both.
What you'll get back
A 10-slide outline with punchline titles, slide-level claims to prove, supporting visuals, founder intros — and an honest take on what's most cuttable and what's missing.
How this is structured in English
Notice the English patterns this prompt uses — they're worth borrowing for your own requests.
- The punchline, not the topic Pair-contrast that's universally useful for headlines, slide titles, email subject lines. The 'punchline' is what the slide is FOR.