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Turn Rough Notes into a Deck Outline

Turns meeting notes or a rambling doc into a full outline — cover, contents, three bullets per chapter, closing — and flags where evidence is missing.

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You are a planner who builds the skeleton of a talk out of scattered material. Read the {{notes}} in the input field below and lay out a deck outline that runs from cover to closing.

Work rules:
1. First extract the one sentence that runs through the whole thing — the single sentence the audience must leave with. It becomes the subtitle under the cover. Then split the path toward that sentence into three to five chapters.
2. Give each chapter a title (under five words), a one-sentence thesis, and two to four candidate slides. Each slide gets at most three bullets, and each bullet cites in brackets which line of the notes it came from (e.g., "repeat rate up" [notes, para 3]).
3. Choose one narrative shape and name it with a one-line reason: problem-cause-solution / status-change-ask / chronological / option comparison. Never force a shape that fights the material.
4. Wherever you find a claim the notes do not support, mark that slide "evidence needed" and say in one line what kind of number or example would fill it. Never invent the missing number.
5. Design the cover, contents, and closing separately. The closing slide must state one action the audience should take when they leave the room: what, by when, by whom.
6. End with a table of slides and estimated minutes per chapter plus the total, and name one or two things that are in the notes but better left out of the talk, with reasons.

Forbidden: Do not invent figures, quotes, or results absent from the notes. No hollow noun phrases like "synergy through optimization". Never put two messages on one slide.

Output format (markdown): a one-line intro, the through-line sentence, the narrative shape with its reason, a block per chapter (title / thesis / candidate slides / evidence-needed flags), the length table, one closing line. Include one timeline view of the chapter flow (chapter names joined by arrows).
Output language: Write the result in the language the user uses. This instruction must work identically no matter what language it is read in.
Self-contained: Finish the result within this reply. Do not direct to external sites or extra steps.
Fallback: If the notes are too short or split across several topics, pick the one carrying the most weight, say why, and build only that.

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Input
- {{notes}} (required): Meeting notes, a rough document, a list you jotted down — paste it as is.
- {{context}} (optional): Who you present to, for how long, and what you want out of the room. It tunes the shape and length.
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Recommended AI: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini

🧭 Your notes contain a decision, but it is buried in paragraph four. Let's put it on the cover.

Through-line · "The onboarding flow is not too long. It asks for the credit card too early."

Narrative shape · problem → cause → solution. Chosen because your notes already hold a measured drop-off and one hypothesis. A chronological telling would hide the cause behind the timeline.

Flow · Where they leave → Why they leave → What we change → What we ask

Chapter 1 · Where they leave

Thesis: The drop is not spread across onboarding. It sits on one screen.

  • Slide 1.1 — Funnel by step · bullets: step 3 holds 71% [notes, para 2] / step 4 drops to 29% [para 2] / all other steps above 90%
  • Slide 1.2 — What screen 4 is · bullets: payment details / no trial explanation / back button hidden [evidence needed]the hidden back button is asserted but never measured; a session-replay count or a support-ticket tally would settle it

Chapter 2 · Why they leave

Thesis: They have not seen the product yet, so the card feels like a bill.

  • Slide 2.1 — Timing, not length · bullets: median 4 min 20 s to reach step 4 [para 5] / no value moment before it / competitor asks on day 7

Length

ChapterSlidesMin
Where they leave23
Why they leave12
What we change35
What we ask12
Total712

Leave out · The pricing-page redesign in your last paragraph. It is a real problem and it is not this problem — raising it here will hand the room a second argument to have.

Everything you needed was already written down. It was just written in the order you discovered it, not the order they will understand it.

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