Cut my slide deck down without losing the message
Shrinks a long presentation to a target length, such as half the slides or the 7 most important, keeping the story intact.
The prompt
Help me cut my presentation down without losing the message.
My presentation: [PASTE slide titles and content, in order]
Target: [e.g. "7 slides", "half the current length", "10 minutes"]
Audience and purpose: [WHO, and what I need from them]
Slides that must stay: [e.g. "the pricing slide", or "none"]
Steps:
1. State the core message of the deck in one sentence.
2. Score each slide on how much it moves the audience toward that message and the ask: essential / supporting / nice-to-have.
3. Find slides that can merge (same point, overlapping data), slides that are activity reporting, and slides that only matter if someone asks.
Return:
1. A table of every original slide: | # | Slide | Verdict: keep / merge into # / move to appendix / cut | Reason |
2. The new deck at the target length: each slide's headline (full-sentence takeaway), what it now contains, and which original slides fed into it.
3. A check that the shorter deck still has an opening, the key evidence, and a clear ask.
4. The appendix list: cut content worth keeping as backup for Q&A.
5. What the audience loses with the cut, if anything, and how to cover it verbally.
Don't change any facts or numbers while condensing; when merging slides, keep the original figures exactly.
Highlighted [brackets] are blanks to replace with your own details.
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What to fill in
- PASTE slide titles and content, in order
- e.g. "7 slides", "half the current length", "10 minutes"
- WHO, and what I need from them
- e.g. "the pricing slide", or "none"
How this prompt is built
This prompt follows the Few-Shot structure (Few-shot prompting). A few-shot prompt includes one or more worked examples of the input and the output you want, so the model can copy the pattern instead of guessing it.
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