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”
The State of Fashion 2025 2025
MorganStanley benchmark_peers
“...being the strongest European bank under the 2018 EBA stress test adverse scenario”
OP 2020 03 17 morgan stanley european financials conference 2020 santa 2020 141 · FL CET1 erosion (bps)
MorganStanley frame_problem
“What can governments and businesses do now to prepare for the green jobs transition?”
ey e book the green transition 2023
PwC analyze_data 2x2 Matrix
“2.2 Fund transfer and payments priorities are security and increased ease of payment”
Blurred lines: How FinTech is shaping Financial Services 2016
PwC frame_problem
“COMPANIES CAN BENEFIT FROM EO SOLUTIONS PRIMARILY THROUGH EXPLORATION AND MONITORING”
COPERNICUS Market report February 2019 2019
misc transition
“Campaigns are typically more effective when the objectives are focused and connected”
2020 Effie UK Report • In partnership withIpsos 2020
Accel size_opportunity
“$3.1T AI data center revenue required over 5 years to payback '26-'30 expected CapEx”
2025 Accel Race for compute $3.1T · Total Revenue Required
AirStreetCapital illustrate_case
“Deep learning in medicine: Neural networks can restore limb control for the disabled”
2019 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2019 5.67% · Failure rate
AirStreetCapital illustrate_case
“Robotics in the real world: From learning to walk to jumping around a parkour course”
2019 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2019
AirStreetCapital analyze_data
“Robotic process automation: An overnight enterprise success (15 years in the making)”
2019 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2019 2500 · Customer count
AirStreetCapital illustrate_case
“Deep learning models can actually understand the verbs as well as the nouns in video”
2018 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2018
AirStreetCapital illustrate_case
“OpenAI's multi-agent RL system learns to play complex real-time strategy game, Dota2”
2018 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2018
AirStreetCapital analyze_data
“Understanding feature importance gives us high level insight into a model's behavior”
2018 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2018
AirStreetCapital analyze_data
“Distributed “federated” learning to decentralise data acquisition and model training”
2018 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2018
AirStreetCapital establish_context
“If automation does reduce net employment and/or wages what new policies will emerge?”
2018 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2018
AirStreetCapital illustrate_case
“Fake views: Generating synthetic video is getting cheaper, easier and more realistic”
2018 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2018
AirStreetCapital illustrate_case
“OpenAI launches Sora 2: controllable video-and-audio inches toward a world simulator”
2025 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2025 55% · GPQA Diamond accuracy
AirStreetCapital establish_context
“The reasoning timeline: from o1 “thinking” to R1, GPT-5 and parallel compute routing”
2025 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2025
AirStreetCapital analyze_data
“From outlier to archetype: the best and most attractive companies are built AI-first”
2025 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2025 41% · AI company share of top-tier startups
AirStreetCapital analyze_data
“Chinese labs have yet to advance the frontier, but compete in the open-weight domain”
2025 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2025
AirStreetCapital analyze_data
“Gradually then suddenly: 71M rider-only miles w/out a human driver through March '25”
2025 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2025 709,180 · Monthly paid trips
AirStreetCapital illustrate_case
“Unexpected generalization: narrow fine-tuning can unlock a “cartoon villain” persona”
2025 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2025
AirStreetCapital establish_context
“Our survey of 1,183 participants reveals significant AI usage and productivity gains”
2025 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2025 1,183 · survey respondents
AirStreetCapital illustrate_case
“Expanding the protein function design space: challenging folds and soluble analogues”
2024 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2024
AirStreetCapital illustrate_case
“2023 Prediction: A Hollywood-grade production makes use of genAI for visual effects.”
2024 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2024
AirStreetCapital analyze_data
“China’s domestic semiconductor efforts struggle despite impressive paper performance”
2024 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2024 $47.5B · Investment fund size
AirStreetCapital illustrate_case
“What do self-supervised Vision Transformers see in an image that other models don't?”
2021 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2021 78.3% · top-1 accuracy
AirStreetCapital illustrate_case
“Predicting and prioritising novel drug combinations, dosages, and timing for therapy”
2021 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2021
AirStreetCapital illustrate_case
“One year after General Language Understanding Evaluation (GLUE), SuperGLUE is solved”
2021 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2021 90.6% · SuperGLUE score
AirStreetCapital diagnose
“Graph Neural Networks: improving the memory and parameter efficiency of large models”
2021 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2021
AirStreetCapital illustrate_case
“Citizen science with 1.2M participants demonstrates real-world vaccine effectiveness”
2021 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2021 80% · Infection risk reduction
AirStreetCapital analyze_data
“Market forces in action: supply of technical US AI talent grows 26.5% to meet demand”
2021 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2021 26.5% · Employment growth
AirStreetCapital illustrate_case
“Military AI moves into production: Israel uses AI guided drone swarm in Gaza attacks”
2021 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2021
AirStreetCapital analyze_data
“Diffusion models take over text-to-image generation and expand into other modalities”
2022 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2022
AirStreetCapital illustrate_case
“2021 Prediction: transformers for learning in world models in reinforcement learning”
2022 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2022
AirStreetCapital analyze_data
“For NVIDIA, the V100 is most popular, and Graphcore is most used amongst challengers”
2022 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2022 6,612 · Number of AI papers citing use
AirStreetCapital illustrate_case
“Private companies are shoring up NVIDIA GPUs and wielding them as a competitive edge”
2023 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2023 22,000 · GPU cluster size
AirStreetCapital analyze_data
““GenAI” is the new “new” thing: AI investments are stable vs. 2022, powered by GenAI”
2023 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2023 $119B · AI investment volume
AirStreetCapital analyze_data
“GenAI companies raised 33% larger Seeds and 130% larger As than all startups in 2023”
2023 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2023 130% · Median round size
AirStreetCapital illustrate_case
“From physical object recognition to “cell painting”: Decoding biology through images”
2020 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2020 14M
AirStreetCapital illustrate_case
“Evolving entire algorithms from basic mathematical operations alone with AutoML-Zero”
2020 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2020
AirStreetCapital analyze_data
“The Great Brain Drain: AI professors depart US universities for technology companies”
2020 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2020 52 · Number of AI professors
AirStreetCapital size_opportunity
“The main self-driving contenders raised almost $7B in private rounds since July 2019”
2020 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2020 $7B · Private funding raised
AirStreetCapital diagnose
“Supervised learning and the cost of edge cases: New technology approaches are needed”
2020 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2020
AirStreetCapital illustrate_case
“Google is leaning into fairness, interpretability, privacy and security of AI models”
2020 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2020
AirStreetCapital establish_context
“Semiconductors amplify the geopolitical significance of Taiwan and particularly TSMC”
2020 Air Street Capital The State of AI Report 2020 60% · TSMC sales from US
BCG quantify_impact
“AI-driven procurement cuts headcount to 70%, freeing workers and requiring AI skills”
2024 Executive Perspectives Maximizing Value Potential from AI in 2025 70% · Total headcount
BenedictEvans transition
“Everything the internet did to music or newspapers is now happening to everyone else”
2021 Benedict Evans 2021 Three Steps to the Future
BenedictEvans cite_precedent
“The risk of under-investing is significantly greater than the risk of over-investing”
2025 Benedict Evans 2025 Autum AI eats the world
BondCap analyze_data
“AI Model Training Dataset Size = 250% Annual Growth Over Fifteen Years, per Epoch AI”
2025 Bond Cap Artificial Intelligence AI 2025 250% · Annual Growth Rate
BondCap establish_context
“Tech’s Perpetual A-Ha = Declining Costs + Improving Performance → Rising Adoption...”
2025 Bond Cap Artificial Intelligence AI 2025 300M+ · USA Internet Users
BondCap analyze_data
“...Select Private AI Model Companies – 5/13/25 = High Valuation-to-Revenue Multiples”
2025 Bond Cap Artificial Intelligence AI 2025 75x · Revenue Multiple
BondCap establish_context
“AI-Enabled Specialized Software @ Large Service Industries = Growing Very Quickly...”
2025 Bond Cap Artificial Intelligence AI 2025
BondCap analyze_data
“Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) = Rising in Highly Competitive / Capitalized Sectors”
2019 Bond Cap Internet Trends 2019
BondCap illustrate_case
“Brazil (Nubank) = Banking / Consumer Credit… ~9MM Unique Customers + ~2x in One Year”
2019 Bond Cap Internet Trends 2019 9MM · Unique Customers
BondCap illustrate_case
“Interactive Gaming (Play) = Fortnite @ 250MM+ Users + ~2x Y/Y Across Seven Platforms”
2019 Bond Cap Internet Trends 2019 250MM+ · Registered Users
BondCap analyze_data
“Data Stewardship = Evolving... Enterprise Surpassed Consumer...Cloud Overtaking Both”
2019 Bond Cap Internet Trends 2019
BondCap analyze_data
“...Global Relative Unemployment Concern... USA = Materially Below Other Countries...”
2019 Bond Cap Internet Trends 2019 69% · Share of respondents
BondCap establish_context
“Consumer Confidence Index (USA) = High & Rising… @ 97 vs. 88 Sixty-Five Year Average”
2019 Bond Cap Internet Trends 2019 97 · Consumer Confidence Index
BondCap illustrate_case
“Health Incentive Tools = Driving Positive Choices via Savings + Personalized Rewards”
2019 Bond Cap Internet Trends 2019 $1.6B · Cumulative Incentives
BondCap analyze_data
“1.1B Global Mobile 3G Subscribers, 37% Growth, Q4 – @ Only 18% of Mobile Subscribers”
2012 Bond Cap Internet Trends 2012 1.1B · 3G Subscribers
BondCap illustrate_case
“Good News = Mobile ARPU Can Rise Rapidly, as Evinced by Japan Mobile Game Maker GREE”
2012 Bond Cap Internet Trends 2012 $24 · Annualized ARPU
BondCap analyze_data
“Global GDP Growth Expected to Decelerate in 2012 with Europe Slipping Into Recession”
2012 Bond Cap Internet Trends 2012 -0.3 · GDP Y/Y % Change
BondCap analyze_data
“Mobile Daily Gaming Session Duration = +33% (3/17 vs. 7/15), Global, per Unity Games”
2017 Bond Cap Internet Trends 2017 +33% · Gaming Session Duration
BondCap establish_context
“India Leadership = Digital-Focused Government Policies Rolled Out with Speed + Scope”
2017 Bond Cap Internet Trends 2017
BondCap benchmark_peers
“India Gender Disparity = Female Labor Participation Rate @ 27%...Below World Average”
2017 Bond Cap Internet Trends 2017 27% · Female Labor Participation Rate
BondCap analyze_data
“Consumers = Increasingly Expect Digital Health Services... Especially Millennials...”
2017 Bond Cap Internet Trends 2017 56% · Adoption rate
BondCap frame_problem
“Personalization = Data Improves Engagement + Experiences... Drives Growth + Scrutiny”
2018 Bond Cap Internet Trends 2018
BondCap analyze_data
“Rising User Engagement = Drives Monetization + Investment in Product Improvements...”
2018 Bond Cap Internet Trends 2018 $34 · Annualized Revenue per Daily Active User
BondCap establish_context
“Technology Disruption Drivers = Rising & Cheaper Compute Power + Storage Capacity...”
2018 Bond Cap Internet Trends 2018
BondCap transition
“DATA GATHERING + OPTIMIZATION = YEARS IN MAKING... INCREASINGLY GLOBAL + COMPETITIVE”
2018 Bond Cap Internet Trends 2018
BondCap illustrate_case
“Smartphone → A Very Smart Phone... Re-Imagining Presence = All Visual...All the Time”
2015 Bond Cap Internet Trends 2015
BondCap analyze_data
“Global Life Expectancy @ 72 Years = Up 36% Since 1960 (0.6% Annual Average Increase)”
2016 Bond Cap Internet Trends 2016 72 · Life Expectancy
BondCap analyze_data
“Image-Based Platforms Like Pinterest = Often Used for Finding Products / Shopping...”
2016 Bond Cap Internet Trends 2016 55% · Percentage of users
BondCap analyze_data
“Voice = Gaining Search Share... USA Android @ 20%...Baidu @ 10%...Bing Taskbar @ 25%”
2016 Bond Cap Internet Trends 2016 50% · Search share
BondCap analyze_data
“Google Voice Search Queries = Up >35x Since 2008 & >7x Since 2010, per Google Trends”
2016 Bond Cap Internet Trends 2016 >35x · Search query volume
BondCap transition
“Voice as Computing Interface... Hands & Vision-Free = Expands Concept of 'Always On'”
2016 Bond Cap Internet Trends 2016
BondCap analyze_data
“Early Autonomous / ADAS Features Continue to Improve = Miles Driven Continue to Rise”
2016 Bond Cap Internet Trends 2016 100 million · Miles driven
BondCap analyze_data
“QR Code Scanning = Up 4x Y/Y in China, Offline Businesses Driving Online Connections”
2013 Bond Cap Internet Trends 2013 9MM · Monthly QR Code Scans
BondCap analyze_data
“Global Smartphone Operating Systems ‘Made in USA’… 97% Share from 5% Eight Years Ago”
2014 Bond Cap Internet Trends 2014 97% · Market Share