Action Titles Library
Real declarative titles from real consulting decks.
The McKinsey convention: the title of a slide states its insight, not its topic. Every entry here is verbatim from a live deck in the corpus.
McKinsey
illustrate_case
“Brands can create favourable conditions for sustainable-material innovators to scale”
MorganStanley
benchmark_peers
“...being the strongest European bank under the 2018 EBA stress test adverse scenario”
MorganStanley
frame_problem
“What can governments and businesses do now to prepare for the green jobs transition?”
PwC
analyze_data
2x2 Matrix
“2.2 Fund transfer and payments priorities are security and increased ease of payment”
PwC
frame_problem
“COMPANIES CAN BENEFIT FROM EO SOLUTIONS PRIMARILY THROUGH EXPLORATION AND MONITORING”
misc
transition
“Campaigns are typically more effective when the objectives are focused and connected”
Accel
size_opportunity
“$3.1T AI data center revenue required over 5 years to payback '26-'30 expected CapEx”
AirStreetCapital
illustrate_case
“Deep learning in medicine: Neural networks can restore limb control for the disabled”
AirStreetCapital
illustrate_case
“Robotics in the real world: From learning to walk to jumping around a parkour course”
AirStreetCapital
analyze_data
“Robotic process automation: An overnight enterprise success (15 years in the making)”
AirStreetCapital
illustrate_case
“Deep learning models can actually understand the verbs as well as the nouns in video”
AirStreetCapital
illustrate_case
“OpenAI's multi-agent RL system learns to play complex real-time strategy game, Dota2”
AirStreetCapital
analyze_data
“Understanding feature importance gives us high level insight into a model's behavior”
AirStreetCapital
analyze_data
“Distributed “federated” learning to decentralise data acquisition and model training”
AirStreetCapital
establish_context
“If automation does reduce net employment and/or wages what new policies will emerge?”
AirStreetCapital
illustrate_case
“Fake views: Generating synthetic video is getting cheaper, easier and more realistic”
AirStreetCapital
illustrate_case
“OpenAI launches Sora 2: controllable video-and-audio inches toward a world simulator”
AirStreetCapital
establish_context
“The reasoning timeline: from o1 “thinking” to R1, GPT-5 and parallel compute routing”
AirStreetCapital
analyze_data
“From outlier to archetype: the best and most attractive companies are built AI-first”
AirStreetCapital
analyze_data
“Chinese labs have yet to advance the frontier, but compete in the open-weight domain”
AirStreetCapital
analyze_data
“Gradually then suddenly: 71M rider-only miles w/out a human driver through March '25”
AirStreetCapital
illustrate_case
“Unexpected generalization: narrow fine-tuning can unlock a “cartoon villain” persona”
AirStreetCapital
establish_context
“Our survey of 1,183 participants reveals significant AI usage and productivity gains”
AirStreetCapital
illustrate_case
“Expanding the protein function design space: challenging folds and soluble analogues”
AirStreetCapital
illustrate_case
“2023 Prediction: A Hollywood-grade production makes use of genAI for visual effects.”
AirStreetCapital
analyze_data
“China’s domestic semiconductor efforts struggle despite impressive paper performance”
AirStreetCapital
illustrate_case
“What do self-supervised Vision Transformers see in an image that other models don't?”
AirStreetCapital
illustrate_case
“Predicting and prioritising novel drug combinations, dosages, and timing for therapy”
AirStreetCapital
illustrate_case
“One year after General Language Understanding Evaluation (GLUE), SuperGLUE is solved”
AirStreetCapital
diagnose
“Graph Neural Networks: improving the memory and parameter efficiency of large models”
AirStreetCapital
illustrate_case
“Citizen science with 1.2M participants demonstrates real-world vaccine effectiveness”
AirStreetCapital
analyze_data
“Market forces in action: supply of technical US AI talent grows 26.5% to meet demand”
AirStreetCapital
illustrate_case
“Military AI moves into production: Israel uses AI guided drone swarm in Gaza attacks”
AirStreetCapital
analyze_data
“Diffusion models take over text-to-image generation and expand into other modalities”
AirStreetCapital
illustrate_case
“2021 Prediction: transformers for learning in world models in reinforcement learning”
AirStreetCapital
analyze_data
“For NVIDIA, the V100 is most popular, and Graphcore is most used amongst challengers”
AirStreetCapital
illustrate_case
“Private companies are shoring up NVIDIA GPUs and wielding them as a competitive edge”
AirStreetCapital
analyze_data
““GenAI” is the new “new” thing: AI investments are stable vs. 2022, powered by GenAI”
AirStreetCapital
analyze_data
“GenAI companies raised 33% larger Seeds and 130% larger As than all startups in 2023”
AirStreetCapital
illustrate_case
“From physical object recognition to “cell painting”: Decoding biology through images”
AirStreetCapital
illustrate_case
“Evolving entire algorithms from basic mathematical operations alone with AutoML-Zero”
AirStreetCapital
analyze_data
“The Great Brain Drain: AI professors depart US universities for technology companies”
AirStreetCapital
size_opportunity
“The main self-driving contenders raised almost $7B in private rounds since July 2019”
AirStreetCapital
diagnose
“Supervised learning and the cost of edge cases: New technology approaches are needed”
AirStreetCapital
illustrate_case
“Google is leaning into fairness, interpretability, privacy and security of AI models”
AirStreetCapital
establish_context
“Semiconductors amplify the geopolitical significance of Taiwan and particularly TSMC”
BCG
quantify_impact
“AI-driven procurement cuts headcount to 70%, freeing workers and requiring AI skills”
BenedictEvans
transition
“Everything the internet did to music or newspapers is now happening to everyone else”
BenedictEvans
cite_precedent
“The risk of under-investing is significantly greater than the risk of over-investing”
BondCap
analyze_data
“AI Model Training Dataset Size = 250% Annual Growth Over Fifteen Years, per Epoch AI”
BondCap
establish_context
“Tech’s Perpetual A-Ha = Declining Costs + Improving Performance → Rising Adoption...”
BondCap
analyze_data
“...Select Private AI Model Companies – 5/13/25 = High Valuation-to-Revenue Multiples”
BondCap
establish_context
“AI-Enabled Specialized Software @ Large Service Industries = Growing Very Quickly...”
BondCap
analyze_data
“Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) = Rising in Highly Competitive / Capitalized Sectors”
BondCap
illustrate_case
“Brazil (Nubank) = Banking / Consumer Credit… ~9MM Unique Customers + ~2x in One Year”
BondCap
illustrate_case
“Interactive Gaming (Play) = Fortnite @ 250MM+ Users + ~2x Y/Y Across Seven Platforms”
BondCap
analyze_data
“Data Stewardship = Evolving... Enterprise Surpassed Consumer...Cloud Overtaking Both”
BondCap
analyze_data
“...Global Relative Unemployment Concern... USA = Materially Below Other Countries...”
BondCap
establish_context
“Consumer Confidence Index (USA) = High & Rising… @ 97 vs. 88 Sixty-Five Year Average”
BondCap
illustrate_case
“Health Incentive Tools = Driving Positive Choices via Savings + Personalized Rewards”
BondCap
analyze_data
“1.1B Global Mobile 3G Subscribers, 37% Growth, Q4 – @ Only 18% of Mobile Subscribers”
BondCap
illustrate_case
“Good News = Mobile ARPU Can Rise Rapidly, as Evinced by Japan Mobile Game Maker GREE”
BondCap
analyze_data
“Global GDP Growth Expected to Decelerate in 2012 with Europe Slipping Into Recession”
BondCap
analyze_data
“Mobile Daily Gaming Session Duration = +33% (3/17 vs. 7/15), Global, per Unity Games”
BondCap
establish_context
“India Leadership = Digital-Focused Government Policies Rolled Out with Speed + Scope”
BondCap
benchmark_peers
“India Gender Disparity = Female Labor Participation Rate @ 27%...Below World Average”
BondCap
analyze_data
“Consumers = Increasingly Expect Digital Health Services... Especially Millennials...”
BondCap
frame_problem
“Personalization = Data Improves Engagement + Experiences... Drives Growth + Scrutiny”
BondCap
analyze_data
“Rising User Engagement = Drives Monetization + Investment in Product Improvements...”
BondCap
establish_context
“Technology Disruption Drivers = Rising & Cheaper Compute Power + Storage Capacity...”
BondCap
transition
“DATA GATHERING + OPTIMIZATION = YEARS IN MAKING... INCREASINGLY GLOBAL + COMPETITIVE”
BondCap
illustrate_case
“Smartphone → A Very Smart Phone... Re-Imagining Presence = All Visual...All the Time”
BondCap
analyze_data
“Global Life Expectancy @ 72 Years = Up 36% Since 1960 (0.6% Annual Average Increase)”
BondCap
analyze_data
“Image-Based Platforms Like Pinterest = Often Used for Finding Products / Shopping...”
BondCap
analyze_data
“Voice = Gaining Search Share... USA Android @ 20%...Baidu @ 10%...Bing Taskbar @ 25%”
BondCap
analyze_data
“Google Voice Search Queries = Up >35x Since 2008 & >7x Since 2010, per Google Trends”
BondCap
transition
“Voice as Computing Interface... Hands & Vision-Free = Expands Concept of 'Always On'”
BondCap
analyze_data
“Early Autonomous / ADAS Features Continue to Improve = Miles Driven Continue to Rise”
BondCap
analyze_data
“QR Code Scanning = Up 4x Y/Y in China, Offline Businesses Driving Online Connections”
BondCap
analyze_data
“Global Smartphone Operating Systems ‘Made in USA’… 97% Share from 5% Eight Years Ago”