Ten prompts that take you from raw findings to a presentation that gets approved — set the strategy, structure the story, craft the slides, and prep the room. Below, watch the workflow on a real board deck.
The scenario
A global bank’s board needs to see the AI strategy on Friday. You have 40 pages of findings, a folder of charts, and no story. Here’s how the ten prompts turn that into the board-grade deck at the bottom of this page — one craft step at a time.
This is a simplified view of how a top consultant builds a board deck.
Each step below is condensed to a single highlight. In reality every prompt returns far more — full slide specs, speaker notes, chart encodings, and QA — not the one-line outputs shown here.
The journey · 10 prompts
Each step names the presentation craft it runs — the same moves a top consultant makes. Run them in sequence, or pull any single skill on its own.
Define the objective, the audience read, and the core message — before a single slide exists.
Objective + 40 pages of findings + “board deck, Friday.”
“Get the board to approve the $2M refocus — they care most about risk.”
The strategy brief: the one objective, what the board believes vs. must believe, the core message stated as the answer, and the 2-3 obstacles to a yes.
Picks the storyline and states the one governing thought.
Findings with no through-line.
Governing thought: “AI isn’t a cost center — it’s the bank’s widest moat. Fund the three platforms now.”
Stated as the answer up front, never a slow reveal — plus the 60-second spoken version.
Turns the story into a slide-by-slide skeleton.
The chosen storyline.
One message per slide, recommendation by slide 2, MECE across the deck — no orphan data.
Rewrites every flat label into a takeaway sentence.
“AI Spend” · “Roadmap” · “Results”
Read the new titles top to bottom and the whole argument is already there.
Picks the right chart for each point and the number to emphasize.
A slide dumping twelve metrics.
Each exhibit gets one takeaway and the single number to emphasize — chart-junk killed.
Compresses the deck into the one page a CEO actually reads.
The full 12-slide deck.
One answer-first page a senior leader absorbs in under a minute — recommendation first.
The written update execs trust — bad news up front.
The quarter’s results.
The miss is up front, not buried — with the ask, owners, and the three hardest questions answered.
The verbal layer that makes the deck work in the room.
The slide outline + your delivery style.
Presenter-facing, never a re-read of the slide — plus a 60-second version for when time is cut.
The message that lands — short enough to read on a phone.
Escalate a slipping deadline to a VP.
Bottom line first · minimum context · the ask · the date.
One-line ask pulled out so it can’t be missed — with a high-commitment and a low-friction close.
Red-teams the deck and preps you for the room.
The near-final board deck.
Caught: three topic-label titles and one slide of orphan data — plus 15 ranked hostile questions answered.
→ Now deliver the board deck below. ↓
Run the workflow and you get a deck like this — a real, board-grade deck with action titles, the right chart per point, and a clean house style. Swipe through it, slide by slide.
Generated in the NOVA house style — a one-click .pptx where your tool can run code; a build-ready spec & slide-by-slide outline anywhere (including Gemini).
All 10 prompts with full copy-paste templates and worked examples — a downloadable PDF plus a plain-text copy file. Lifetime updates.
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