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
analyze_data
“Venture capital and other private capital make up nearly 80 percent of QT inflows.”
McKinsey
quantify_impact
“...and in key priorities cities where our card members live, work & travel most...”
McKinsey
analyze_data
“Fashion industry growth is expected to remain low, but increase slightly from 2024”
McKinsey
illustrate_case
“India is a unique country which has both sourcing as well as consumption capacity.”
McKinsey
analyze_data
“Reinventing product discovery will be a key focus area for fashion players in 2025”
McKinsey
frame_problem
“Getting the fashion “inventory equation” right has become increasingly challenging”
McKinsey
analyze_data
“European Deep Tech is increasingly gaining relevance, both regionally and globally”
McKinsey
frame_problem
“European investors are falling short in scaling and exiting European Deep Tech ...”
MorganStanley
establish_context
“We have delivered strong growth based on Scale, Customer Focus and Diversification”
MorganStanley
present_framework
“Execution of our three-pillar plan to drive profitable growth in a responsible way”
MorganStanley
analyze_data
“Small cross-border listings outperforming larger offerings in after-market returns”
MorganStanley
decompose_segments
“Deal activity shaped by critical digitalization priorities of enterprises and SMBs”
MorganStanley
analyze_data
“Partner ecosystem of leading software vendors - focal point of capability tuck-ins”
MorganStanley
analyze_data
“More than half of the customers in the region, feel that 5G is much better than 4G”
MorganStanley
analyze_data
“Cultural bias: respondents in Europe seem to expect the biggest changes in the FoW”
PwC
analyze_data
“USA, Singapore, Hong Kong and UK continue to dominate global token offering sphere”
PwC
establish_context
“This year edition covers 18 countries across the globe, grouped into three regions”
PwC
analyze_data
“Within the top five, Microsoft overtakes Apple as the most valuable public company”
UBS
quantify_impact
“Leveling up technology to drive digitalization and differentiation for our clients”
Accel
illustrate_case
“What about down rounds 🤔 — looking back at the 2022 Euroscape Unicorn health check”
Accel
analyze_data
“GenAI standing out in terms of hiring velocity, mainly driven by foundation models”
AirStreetCapital
illustrate_case
“Endowing common sense reasoning to natural language models: Is text really enough?”
AirStreetCapital
analyze_data
“Compensation of senior engineers at large tech companies is approaching $1,000,000”
AirStreetCapital
size_opportunity
“Global venture capital investments in AI themes grow at a clip to reach >$27B/year”
AirStreetCapital
illustrate_case
“Andrew Yang’s presidential bid focuses on AI and proposes a universal basic income”
AirStreetCapital
analyze_data
“Chinese groups own the most patents, but only 23% were “invention patents” in 2017”
AirStreetCapital
illustrate_case
“True scene understanding requires understanding actions ('verbs') and common sense”
AirStreetCapital
illustrate_case
“AlphaZero showed that a deep RL system can learn from scratch to beat Go champions”
AirStreetCapital
illustrate_case
“Learning from superintelligence: AlphaZero teaches chess grandmasters new concepts”
AirStreetCapital
illustrate_case
“OpenAI pivots from the “wrong side of history” to aligning with “America-first AI””
AirStreetCapital
illustrate_case
“Google comes out unscathed in 1 of 2 antitrust cases but search is on the ropes...”
AirStreetCapital
analyze_data
“...but opts not to restrict the use of hardware by Chinese labs in US data centers”
AirStreetCapital
frame_problem
“Cash pours into humanoid start-ups...but are they set to be the next self-driving?”
AirStreetCapital
analyze_data
“The IPO market remains lifeless, while M&A activity drifts -23% from its 2021 peak”
AirStreetCapital
analyze_data
“Transformers take over other major AI applications, e.g. audio and 3D point clouds”
AirStreetCapital
illustrate_case
“The rise of research communications: Twitter threads drive citations 3-fold higher”
AirStreetCapital
frame_problem
“Government funding cuts to higher education threatens more expensive STEM students”
AirStreetCapital
analyze_data
“Europe woke up to its largest company, ASML, the linchpin to global semiconductors”
AirStreetCapital
illustrate_case
“Databricks: The enterprise data/AI juggernaut reaches $38B valuation and $600M ARR”
AirStreetCapital
analyze_data
“Major semiconductor fabs commit $400B for new capacity as global market hits $551B”
AirStreetCapital
illustrate_case
“Google infuses AI capabilities into more of its business and consumer applications”
AirStreetCapital
analyze_data
“Facial recognition: upcoming IPOs and fundraising despite controversy and lawsuits”
AirStreetCapital
size_opportunity
“Exits in AI: $2.3T of enterprise value has been created by AI companies since 2010”
AirStreetCapital
analyze_data
“Investing in AI: software leads while robotics, AI biotech and defense are growing”
AirStreetCapital
establish_context
“David teaming up with Goliath: training large models requires compute partnerships”
AirStreetCapital
frame_problem
“Slow progress in providing academics with more compute leaves others to act faster”
AirStreetCapital
illustrate_case
“Goal misgeneralization – agents can learn the right skills but the wrong objective”
AirStreetCapital
illustrate_case
“Learning the rules of protein structure at evolutionary-scale with language models”
AirStreetCapital
illustrate_case
“Tweet storm: a SOTA pathology language-image pretrained model from medical Twitter”
AirStreetCapital
analyze_data
“GPU demand sees NVIDIA print blowout earnings as it enters the $1T market cap club”
AirStreetCapital
analyze_data
“A larger model needs less data than a smaller peer to achieve the same performance”
AirStreetCapital
illustrate_case
“Ophthalmology advances as the sandbox for deep learning applied to medical imaging”
BCG
present_framework
Value Chain
“A field service function has four parts of its value chain with various activities”
BCG
frame_problem
“Field Service functions are fraught with pain points which can be resolved with AI”
BCG
establish_context
“This maturity is driving a shift from predefined workflows to self-directed agents”
BenedictEvans
cite_precedent
““It’s been almost impossible to build capacity fast enough since ChatGPT launched””
BenedictEvans
frame_problem
“Still need to narrow the domain to things you can actually do, and tell your users”
BondCap
establish_context
“...Technology Compounding Over Fifty-Plus Years = Better + Faster + Cheaper → More”
BondCap
analyze_data
“AI Inference Costs – Serving Models = 99.7% Lower Over Two Years, per Stanford HAI”
BondCap
illustrate_case
“AI Monetization...AI Infrastructure = Oracle Revenue +50x to $948MM Over Two Years”
BondCap
size_opportunity
“AI Monetization...Chips = Google TPU Sales* +116% to $8.9B Y/Y, per Morgan Stanley”
BondCap
quantify_impact
“AI Monetization – Generative Search = xAI Annualized Revenue Up Materially in 2025”
BondCap
analyze_data
“AI Monetization Threats = Rising Competition + Open-Source Momentum + China's Rise”
BondCap
analyze_data
“Media Time vs. Advertising Spending = Mobile @ Equilibrium (2018)...Desktop (2015)”
BondCap
transition
“Data / Artificial Intelligence – Used Properly – Can Improve Customer Satisfaction”
BondCap
illustrate_case
“Communication / Professional Community = Extending Knowledge Base to Practitioners”
BondCap
size_opportunity
“Global Mobile App + Advertising Revenue = $12B in 2011E Revenue, Up 17x in 3 Years”
BondCap
illustrate_case
“What Has One Insanely Great Designer / Entertainer / Leader / Businessman Wrought?”
BondCap
illustrate_case
“Hyperlocal Targeting (Nextdoor...xAd) = From Home (Neighborhood) to Work (Commute)”
BondCap
illustrate_case
“In-App Ads + Dynamic Creative (Vungle) = Driving Higher In-App Install Performance”
BondCap
size_opportunity
“User-Generated Live Gaming / Streaming = Growing +122% Y/Y to 100MM MAUs on Twitch”
BondCap
benchmark_peers
“China E-Commerce = Low Take Rates* Helped China Marketplace Leaders Pass USA Peers”
BondCap
analyze_data
“China Gross Capital Formation = Slowing... Sum of Past 6 Years > Previous 30 Years”
BondCap
illustrate_case
“...Image-Based Platform Houzz = Content + Community + Commerce Continue to Ramp...”
BondCap
analyze_data
“China Online Advertising > TV (2015)... Online > 42% Total Ad Spend vs. 39% in USA”
BondCap
analyze_data
“Global Smartphone Operating Systems 'Made in USA'… 88% Share from 5% Six Years Ago”
BondCap
analyze_data
“Relative Impact of Technology on Large Organizations = #2 Concern & Rising Rapidly”
BondCap
analyze_data
“...Sensors = Big / Broad Business (+32% Y/Y to 8B) Rising Proliferation OF Devices”
BondCap
analyze_data
“Mobile = More & More Video Consumption... 22% (+2x Y/Y) of Online Video Time Spent”
IDC
present_framework
2x2 Matrix
“Strategy Spotlight: High Business Value and Feasibility in Use Case Prioritization”