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20 presentation prompts that leave one point behind

Ask an AI for a presentation and you get a topic list with five bullets per slide. These prompts start from the one sentence the room must remember, give every slide a single claim, and prepare you for the questions before you stand up.

Swap anything in [brackets] for your topic, draft deck, notes or audience.

01. Find the one sentence your talk must leave behind

Before you open PowerPoint or Slides.

I am presenting to [audience: who they are and what they care about] about [topic]. I have [minutes] minutes. After the talk I want them to [decide, approve, change, or understand what].

Here is what I know and want to say:

[paste notes, a draft or a brain dump]

Write 5 candidate sentences for the one thing they should remember a week later. Each one is a claim someone could disagree with, under 20 words, with no jargon.

Rank them by how directly they lead to the action I want. For the top one, list the three facts from my notes that prove it, and flag anything in my notes that does not support it so I can cut it.

02. Build a slide outline with one claim per slide

You have the main message and need the structure.

My main message is: [your one sentence]
Audience: [who]
Length: [minutes], so about [number] slides.
Material: [paste notes, data or a draft]

Build a slide outline. For each slide give:
1. The slide title, written as a full sentence claim.
2. The one piece of evidence that proves it (a number, an example, a quote, a chart).
3. What I say out loud, in two lines.

Every slide must support the main message. If a slide could be removed without weakening the argument, mark it [CUT?]. Use only facts from my material; write [NEED DATA] where a claim has nothing behind it.

03. Turn a long report into slides without pasting paragraphs

A 20 page report and a meeting on Thursday.

Turn this document into a [number] slide presentation for [audience], who need to [decide or know what].

[paste the document]

First, write the one sentence conclusion of the whole document. Then give me the slides: a claim as the title, at most three short lines or one chart or table on the slide, and the source page or section for each fact.

Do not carry paragraphs onto slides. Put the detail I should say aloud in a separate notes line. At the end, list what you left out and why, so I can check nothing important was dropped.

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