Prompts for pitch decks

What it is good at

• Strong at diagnosing a weak deck structure, missing slides, wrong order, buried ask.
• Good at tightening slide copy down to the few words that survive on screen.
• Useful for generating the hard questions a real investor or buyer would ask.
• Can adapt the same content into different deck lengths (5-minute vs 20-minute versions).

Where it falls short

• It cannot know your actual numbers are realistic, verify any financial or market-size claim it helps phrase.
• Default output tends toward generic startup-deck language; push it for specifics.
• It has no sense of your actual investor's priorities unless you tell it who they are.

How to use it for creative work

1. 01

   Lock the structure before the words

   Get the slide-by-slide skeleton approved first, every slide should have one job, and writing copy before the order is right wastes the copy.

2. 02

   Write each slide as one idea

   Ask for the single sentence a slide must communicate before asking for the bullet points under it.

3. 03

   Cut ruthlessly

   A slide with more than a few lines of text won't be read while you're talking, push every slide toward the minimum words that still make sense standalone.

4. 04

   Pressure-test before the real room

   Have the model play a specific type of investor or buyer and ask the questions that person would actually ask, not generic ones.

5. 05

   Build the short version last

   Once the full deck works, ask for a 5-minute cut so you have a version ready for a shorter slot.

Ready-to-use prompts

Here's my current slide order: [list slide titles/one-liners]. Identify: any slide that could be cut, any missing slide investors will expect, and whether the ask/investment appears in the right place.

Build a slide-by-slide skeleton for a pitch deck for [company/product, one paragraph]. For each of 10-12 slides, give: the slide title, the one sentence it must communicate, and the one visual/data point that would prove it.

Here's my problem statement: [paste]. Rewrite it so it's specific and felt, not abstract, use a concrete scenario or number rather than a general statement about the market.

Act as a [type, e.g. seed-stage consumer VC / angel investor in fashion tech] reviewing this deck summary: [paste summary]. Ask me the 8 hardest questions you'd actually ask, in the order you'd ask them.

Here's a description of what we do: [paste]. Write 5 versions of a single-sentence pitch, each emphasising a different angle: the problem, the market size, the founder story, the traction, and the product itself.

Here's the current text on this slide: [paste bullet points]. Cut it to the minimum words that still make sense without me speaking, ideally under [word/line count].

Here's our position versus competitors: [describe]. Suggest how to frame the competitive slide so it looks confident rather than defensive, where should the axis or comparison sit to favour our real strengths?

Here are our raw numbers: [paste metrics]. Suggest the 3 numbers that would matter most to [investor type] and how to present them (chart type, framing, time period) to tell an honest but compelling growth story.

Here's my full deck outline: [paste 10-12 slide skeleton]. Cut it to a 5-minute, 6-slide version that keeps the strongest argument intact, tell me which slides to merge or drop and why.

Write 3 versions of the closing ask slide for [amount/goal, use of funds in one line]. One direct and numbers-led, one vision-led, one that ends on a question to the room.

Questions people ask

Can AI write my whole deck for me?

It can draft structure and copy, but the numbers, traction claims and market data must be yours and verified, never let a model invent a statistic to fill a gap.

What's the single biggest improvement this makes?

Structural diagnosis, most weak decks have the wrong slide order or a buried ask, which is exactly what a fresh structural read catches fastest.

Should I use the same deck for investors and clients?

No, the slide order and emphasis differ (return on investment vs. what the buyer gets), so ask for a version adapted to who's in the room.