Presentation Narrative Builder

The default failure mode of business presentations is the same one: open PowerPoint, dump everything you know about the topic across 25 slides, hope the audience reaches the same conclusion you did. They don't. Executives check out after slide three, the recommendation gets buried at slide 22, and the meeting ends with "let's circle back." The fix isn't better design — it's writing the argument before the slides exist.

This skill picks the right framework for the job. Minto Pyramid (recommendation first) for business cases and strategy pitches — the structure that respects how senior people actually read. SCR (situation-complication-resolution) for change initiatives and proposals where the audience needs to feel the tension before they'll accept the answer. STAR for case studies. A simplified Hero's Journey for keynotes and all-hands. Each framework comes with rules about what goes where and what gets cut.

Then it builds the slide outline, headline-first. The rule is brutal — if you read the slide headlines in order, they should tell the complete story without any other content. "Q3 Results" is a topic and gets rejected. "Q3 beat target by 12%, driven by Enterprise" is an argument and stays. Every slide also gets a purpose line (why this slide exists), the verbal transition to the next one, and a time budget — so the 15-minute slot doesn't quietly become 28 minutes.

It also plans the emotional arc, prepares 3-5 backup slides for predictable objections, and has format adaptations for read-aheads, lightning talks, and bad-news presentations (where the resolution must exist before you walk in). For the "I'm presenting in 30 minutes" panic, there's a 5-minute emergency outline that gets you 4 slides and an ask — better than walking in unprepared. What it won't do is help you cram more content in. If you have more material than the slot allows, the answer is always cut, never talk faster.