Pitch Package - the whole performance

A pitch is one argument delivered through three instruments: the deck (setup), the demo (proof), and the speaker (trust). The demo is the proof; the deck is the setup. This skill's job is sequencing and budget, so the instruments never fight each other. Two rules govern everything: interview before you build, and budget the slot first.

Phase 1 - Interview before you build

STOP: produce no artifacts in this phase. Ask (adapting to what's already known):

1. Audience: hackathon judges, VCs, or a customer? What do they explicitly judge or care about (rubric, thesis, their own pain)?
2. Slot: total minutes? Is Q&A inside or after it?
3. Inventory: what already exists - working product? demo video? deck? scripts? Reuse beats rebuild.
4. Demo mode: live product on stage (higher wow, higher risk) or recorded film (deterministic)? Default to recorded unless the live path has been rehearsed with a fallback.
5. Speakers: who talks, and are there real credentials to weave into the intro?
6. Constraints: venue machine? offline? projector resolution? phone-as-teleprompter?
7. Voice and music: a model voice (Kokoro af_heart at 1.0 is the default) or a human? A music bed, and whose rights? For a model voice, agree to audition one segment two ways after the brief is confirmed, then let them choose; never pick for them.
8. Branding and rights: the company logo under the picture? A copyright and distribution line, in which words? A disclaimer card for a public copy? Whose logo, if a prospect's brand is in the product? Ask; a brand in every frame cannot be cut out later.
9. Where it plays: a portal, a stage, YouTube, a feed? A film with a caption band needs its own 16:9 cut; captions burned in, as a sidecar file, or both.
10. Film guardrails: if a demo film will be made or reused, what is it for and what must be burned in - any third-party logo or name in the frame, generic or personalised disclaimer card, a persistent "Demo purposes only" label, the rights line and company mark, and where it may live (private streaming link, our website's unlisted showcase, direct file, public platform)? Optional guardrails, mandatory questions: demo-video/references/distribution.md.