pitch-deck
Pitch Deck - one HTML file, narrated, recordable
The deck is the backdrop; the speech carries the pitch. So the deck's job is: one idea per slide, minimal text, numbers that are cited or cut, and navigation reliable enough to drive by hand on stage or by script on camera. One file, no CDN - it must open from disk, on a venue machine, with no network.
Steps
1. Outline: one slide, one idea
Derive the slide list from the pitch story (the pitch-craft skill's storytelling rules apply to structure too). A proven arc to adapt, not worship:
Hook -> what-it-is 101 -> the cost of the status quo -> Reveal (name + throughline) -> test bed / credibility -> the concrete example -> how it works (one flow, end to end) -> "watch it work" (the demo slot) -> the differentiator ("it learns") -> one-more-thing -> roadmap -> architecture -> Close (numbers land again + name).
Appendix slides (anticipated hard questions: safety, "is this really agentic", adoption, commercials) go AFTER the close, are never narrated, and are opened only when a judge asks.
2. Build the single file
Follow references/deck-patterns.md: section-per-slide skeleton, hash-based deep links (#11 starts at slide 11 - the recorder depends on this), data-anim staggered entries, a fixed brand mark in the top-right of every slide, progress bar + counter. Rules that earn their keep: cited or cut (every industry number hyperlinks a real source, verified to load), vector icons never emojis, synthetic-data disclaimers as one corner legend rather than per-slide clutter.