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One self-contained prompt that turns an objective and your raw material into a board-grade PowerPoint deck. The router, the narrative spines, the slide blueprints, the chart rules, the house style, the evidence rules, the edge cases and the QA gates are all baked in — so the AI runs the real pipeline instead of guessing, and never invents a number to fill a gap. Below, the two menus it opens with, and six worked examples, one for each kind of audience.

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Six of the ten deck types, worked through

Pick an audience. Watch the deck built, step by step.

Each tab is a worked example run through the same prompt: the brief, the eight steps, and the real slides it built. Each tab shows its deck-type number from the menu. Every company is fictional, so every number is ours to show you.

Ridgeline Health: nine hospitals and a margin down to 0.6%

“Ridgeline Health, nine hospitals, $2.1B net patient revenue. Operating margin has fallen from 3.8% to 0.6% in two years. I need a margin recovery plan for the board in three weeks.” With three years of finance and operations figures, that is the whole input. Answered 1 and 2 — strategy / board deck, board audience — the one prompt builds the twelve-slide board deck.

$2.1Bnet patient revenue
0.6%operating margin, from 3.8%
3.2%margin by FY28, the plan
12slides out

The pipeline · in → out

1
Step 1 · Intake

Intake

Opens with the two menus, then asks only what is missing.

Deck type 1 · Audience 2
In

“Ridgeline Health, nine hospitals, $2.1B net patient revenue. Margin has fallen from 3.8% to 0.6% in two years. Recovery plan for the board in three weeks.” + the FY23–FY25 finance and operations figures.

Out
1 Strategy / board2 BoardObjectiveLength 12Raw materialBrand: house style

Answered with two numbers, then restated in 7 lines — objective: board approval of a margin recovery plan. It pauses for your confirmation.

The analysis · A strategy deck for a board must end on one decision

The deck type sets the storyline and the slides; the audience sets what the deck leads with and what it cuts. A board approves or rejects a recommendation; it does not want the working.

  • Deck type 1, strategy / board: the deck exists to win approval of a margin recovery plan.
  • Audience 2, board: it leads with risk, governance and shareholder value, and cuts execution detail.
  • The brief: operating margin down from 3.8% to 0.6% on $2.1B of revenue, a $67M swing in operating income.

Takeaway: the board has three weeks and one question: approve the plan or not.

2
Step 2 · Route

Route

Picks the spine, the analyses and the slide blueprint for the deck type, and applies the audience overlay.

ROUTER · 10 deck types
In

The restated brief.

Out
Spine · Situation-Complication-Resolution, answer first
Analyses · framing · situation · competitive · options · business case · risk
Blueprint · strategy / board, 12 slides
Audience overlay · lead with risk and governance; cut execution detail

Edge cases checked: none apply. Pauses for your OK.

The analysis · The answer goes on slide 2, not slide 12

Situation-Complication-Resolution (SCR) is a storyline in three moves: what nobody disputes, what has changed and forces action, and what to do about it. Answer-first puts the resolution at the front.

  • Situation: a nine-hospital system that earned a 3.8% operating margin.
  • Complication: the margin fell to 0.6% in eight quarters while admissions grew 1.2%.
  • Resolution: four operating fixes, none of which closes a service line.

Takeaway: a board that hears the answer on slide 2 spends the meeting testing it rather than waiting for it.

3
Step 3 · Analyse

Analyse

Runs only the analyses the route names, grades every finding, and finds one uncomfortable insight.

ANALYSIS TOOLKIT
In

Three years of finance and operations figures.

Out
Contract labour is 19.4% of nursing spend vs a 7.6% peer medianEvidence
Weekend discharge cuts widened the length-of-stay gapInference
“Medicare Advantage rates recover at the FY27 renewals”Assumption

Uncomfortable insight: the FY24 cost programme cut the appeals team by 30%, and denials overturned on appeal fell from 64% to 41%. Part of the margin loss was self-inflicted. Pauses.

The analysis · Contract labour costs 1.4 points, and part of the loss was self-inflicted

Evidence grading labels every finding: Evidence (in the material or a cited source), Inference (reasoned from evidence, saying from what) or Assumption (neither, with what would confirm it).

  • Evidence: contract labour at 19.4% of nursing spend comes from Ridgeline’s own payroll, set against a 7.6% peer median: $38M a year above benchmark.
  • Inference: the gap in length of stay, the days a patient spends in hospital, is widest where weekend discharge staff were cut in FY24. The link is reasoned from that pattern, not proven.
  • Assumption: a recovery in Medicare Advantage rates rests on renewals not yet negotiated; the FY27 renewal outcome is the check.

Takeaway: the FY24 cost programme cut the appeals team by 30%, and the share of denied claims won back on appeal fell from 64% to 41%.

4
Step 4 · Narrate

Narrate

One governing thought, stated as the answer, with three MECE arguments beneath it.

SPINES
In

The graded findings.

Out

“Ridgeline can recover to a 3.2% operating margin by FY28 by fixing four operating problems — none of which requires closing a service line.”

Three MECE arguments beneath it, each with its strongest proof, and the 60-second spoken version. Pauses.

The analysis · Four drivers explain the fall, and none requires a closure

The governing thought is the one sentence the whole deck proves, stated as the answer. Beneath it, the Pyramid Principle groups the arguments so they are MECE: mutually exclusive (no overlaps) and collectively exhaustive (no gaps).

  • The answer: a 3.2% operating margin by FY28 from four operating fixes.
  • The four drivers: contract labour 1.4 points, length of stay 0.9, claim denials 0.7 and payer mix 0.6, together 3.6 points.
  • Why 3.6, not 3.2: cost actions already taken recovered 0.4 points of the fall.

Takeaway: each slide that follows proves one of the four drivers, so no slide carries two ideas or none.

5
Step 5 · Blueprint

Blueprint

Lays out the slide-by-slide skeleton, then recomputes every total before a slide is drawn.

BLUEPRINTS
In

The storyline.

Out
S1 Cover · big stat
S2 Governing thought · the answer up front
S3 Situation · margin 3.8% → 0.6%, as a waterfall
Number check · four drivers explain 3.6 points of a 3.2-point fall; the 0.4 recovered by cost actions is added to S2
The analysis · Every bridge on the slides adds up before it is drawn

The number check lists every figure the deck will show, with its source, and recomputes every total, bridge and percentage before a single slide is drawn.

  • Margin bridge: 0.6% + 1.1 + 0.7 + 0.5 + 0.3 points = 3.2% by FY28.
  • Recurring income: 2.6 points × $2.1B = $54.6M, shown as $55M.
  • The swing: 3.2 points × $2.1B = $67M of operating income lost.

Takeaway: a board member who adds up any bridge gets the number the deck shows.

6
Step 6 · Craft

Craft

Locks the action title and the right chart for every slide, in the house style or your brand.

ACTION TITLES · CHART SELECTOR
In

The blueprint.

Out
Payer MixMedicare Advantage grew from 19% to 34% of volume, and reaches 41% by FY28
Composition → waterfall
Trend vs peers → line
The analysis · Twelve titles tell the whole story

An action title states the slide’s conclusion as a full sentence; a topic label only names the subject. The chart selector then picks the one chart that proves that sentence.

  • Before: “Payer Mix”, which tells the board nothing.
  • After: Medicare Advantage grew from 19% to 34% of volume, and reaches 41% by FY28.
  • Chart choice: a change made of parts is a waterfall; a trend against peers is a line.

Takeaway: reading only the twelve titles, a board member gets the full argument in under a minute.

7
Step 7 · QA

QA

Runs eleven quality gates, slide by slide, and fixes every failure.

QUALITY GATES
In

The drafted deck.

Out
9 PASS2 FAIL

Caught: a topic-label title (“Roadmap”), and $55M shown without its arithmetic — now 2.6 points × $2.1B = $54.6M in the speaker note.

The analysis · Nine gates passed first time; two failures fixed

The quality gates are eleven checks run on every slide and reported PASS or FAIL; each failure is fixed and the gates are run again before handover.

  • Topic label: “Roadmap” rewritten as a finding.
  • Missing arithmetic: $55M now carries 2.6 points × $2.1B = $54.6M in the speaker note.
  • Result: 9 PASS and 2 FAIL, both fixed before the file was built.

Takeaway: both failures are the kind a board member spots first.

8
Step 8 · Build

Build

Builds the .pptx with native, editable charts, then opens it to check.

.pptx or build-ready spec
In

The checked deck.

Out
.pptx12 slidesnative chartsnotes with sources

Then: paste the final deck into the Script Generator for the word-for-word talk.

The analysis · The ask: $9M of one-time investment for $55M a year

A native chart is an editable PowerPoint chart with its data inside it, not a picture, so the numbers can be updated in the file. Speaker notes carry what to say and the source of every number.

  • The file: 12 slides with native charts, the action titles in the title boxes so they read as an outline.
  • The ask: $9M of one-time investment to recover $55M of recurring operating income, paid back in 14 months.
  • Next: the finished deck goes into the Script Generator for the word-for-word talk.

Takeaway: the board receives one decision, with every number traced to its source.

The deck it builds

The real slides from this run, exported from the .pptx. Click a title, or swipe through them.

Ridgeline Health, slide 1: Cover: the margin recovery plan Ridgeline Health, slide 2: The governing thought, up front Ridgeline Health, slide 3: Where the margin went Ridgeline Health, slide 4: Four drivers, two controllable now Ridgeline Health, slide 5: Contract labour against the peer median Ridgeline Health, slide 6: Length of stay against the benchmark Ridgeline Health, slide 7: Denials up, overturns down Ridgeline Health, slide 8: The shift to Medicare Advantage Ridgeline Health, slide 9: Four workstreams, sequenced Ridgeline Health, slide 10: The bridge from 0.6% to 3.2% Ridgeline Health, slide 11: The three-year roadmap Ridgeline Health, slide 12: The ask: $9M for $55M
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Slide 1 · Cover: the margin recovery plan

Which AI tool to run it in

Built for Claude — because Claude builds the file

Run the whole prompt in Claude and it returns a finished .pptx with native, editable charts — real chart objects and real text boxes you can edit in PowerPoint, not a picture of a chart.

Claude

Runs the full pipeline and builds the PowerPoint file at the end. This is the path the prompt was written for.

ChatGPT

Runs the same pipeline. Returns a build-ready spec, and a file only where code execution is available to it.

Gemini

Runs the pipeline and returns the build-ready spec: titles, bodies, visuals, speaker notes and the colour tokens.

Do not split it across tools. Running the analysis in one tool and pasting the spec into Claude gives you a much weaker deck. The spec is a summary; the detail that makes the deck good — the evidence grades, the chart encodings, the reasoning behind every action title — lives in the conversation, not the summary. Run all eight steps in one place.

How to get the file

Microsoft PowerPoint Getting a real PowerPoint out of Claude

1

Paste the whole prompt into Claude. All of it, in one message. It is self-contained by design — the router, the spines, the blueprints and the QA gates travel with it.

2

Answer the two menus with two numbers. The deck type and the audience. Then it asks only for what is missing — objective, length, raw material, brand — and you paste your material and let it run.

3

Stay in the same conversation to the end. The prompt pauses between steps so you can steer. At the final step, Build, it offers the .pptx — take it there, while it still has the whole analysis in front of it.

Open it in PowerPoint and edit anything. The house style specifies native, editable charts rather than images, so the series, the labels and the colours are all yours to change.

AI PowerPoint generator: questions

Can Claude make a PowerPoint presentation?

Yes. Claude can build a real .pptx file in the chat. Paste the generator, answer its two menus, approve its three stops, and Claude hands you the finished deck, ready to open and edit in PowerPoint, Keynote or Google Slides.

Does it work in ChatGPT or Gemini?

Yes, as a specification. ChatGPT and Gemini run the same routing, analysis and storyline, and return the content of every slide, with its title and chart, as text to build in your own template. The finished .pptx file is built in Claude.

Are the charts editable?

Yes. In Claude the charts are built as native PowerPoint charts, so you can change the figures, labels and colours in PowerPoint. They are not pictures.

How is this different from an AI presentation app?

It is a prompt you buy once, not a subscription. It runs in your own Claude account, routes your deck to one of ten deck types with its own storyline before any slide is drawn, marks every missing figure instead of inventing one, and hands you a .pptx file you own.

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