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Each deck reviewed by an AI editor through the Storymakers lens — narrative arc, opening hook, closing call-to-action, and action-title quality. With a one-line verdict, top strengths and weaknesses, and three concrete fixes per deck.
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The Swiss FoodTech Ecosystem 2021
“A well-researched ecosystem atlas masquerading as a deck — useful as a reference document but a weak Storymakers exemplar because it lacks thesis, tension, and recommendation; teach it as a cautionary case for landscape reports that forget to make an argument.”
↓ No recommendation or call to action anywhere — the deck is a landscape map with no 'so what.'
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WORLD REFUGEE DAY
“A competent Ipsos research deliverable with strong data discipline but weak narrative craft — useful as a counter-example for action titles and closing structure, not as a Storymakers exemplar.”
↓ Slide titles are survey questions, not insights — p.30 'Q. My country's national labour market' should read something like 'Views on labour-market impact split nearly 50/50, with sharpest negativity in Türkiye and Hungary'
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IPSOS GLOBAL TRUSTWORTHINESS INDEX 2023
“A well-templated annual reference report from a research firm - useful as a navigable data catalogue but a poor Storymakers exemplar: use it only as a counter-example of topic-label titles and missing SCQA arc.”
↓ Zero action titles in 35 slides - every per-profession page (pp.15-32) is templated as 'Trust in X by country', burying the finding
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REINVENTION WITH GENERATIVE AI: CalPERS
“A capabilities-and-education primer dressed as a client deck — useful as a teaching example of clean case-study slides (p.17–20) but a cautionary tale on story arc, since the client and the recommendation are both buried until the last two pages.”
↓ CalPERS — the named client — does not appear in the narrative until p.24, turning a client deck into a generic GenAI capabilities primer
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Lazard LCOE+
“A polished annual reference report with strong MECE pillar structure but no narrative arc or recommendation — useful as a teaching example for parallel-section design and sensitivity tables, not as a Storymakers narrative exemplar.”
↓ Opens cold: cover → TOC → divider → three 'Executive Summary—...' topic-label slides (pp.1-6) before any insight surfaces
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Education: 2023 M&A Deal Roundup and Trends to Watch Out for in 2024
“A competent thought-leadership / BD deck with metric-led titles in the retrospective half but no thesis upfront and no recommendation at the close — use the 2023 retrospective (pp. 6-15) and the AI mini-arc (pp. 39-42) as title-craft teaching examples, not the overall structure.”
↓ No thesis slide upfront — p.5 names 'four key themes' but the title doesn't enumerate them, forcing readers to discover them across 10+ slides
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Charging Ahead Australia’s battery powered future
“This is an Accenture capabilities/credentials deck dressed as a research report — structurally tidy but narratively flat, with a context-heavy open and a case-study close; useful as an example of section-divider hygiene and MECE frameworks, not as a Storymakers narrative exemplar.”
↓ No thesis in the first 5 slides — opening is pure decarbonization context, never states the answer (pp.1-5)
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Global Shared Services 2017 Survey Report
“A data-rich survey report with good insights trapped in the callouts — useful as a teaching case for how topic-label titles and a missing Resolution act can flatten strong evidence into a 'results walkthrough', not as a Storymakers exemplar.”
↓ Titles are topic labels, not action titles — 'Operations and governance' is reused verbatim across p.9–12 with zero differentiation
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2019 Holiday Survey of Consumers Keeping the good times rolling
“A competently titled but structurally flat research-findings deck — use its slide-level action titles and quantified callouts as teaching examples, but not its architecture, which buries the recommendation and ends on a methodology slide.”
↓ No recommendation or call-to-action slide — the 'How to win the holidays' section (p.29-31) is only 3 slides and describes high-spender demographics rather than prescribing retailer actions
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Third-party governance and risk management The threats are real
“A data-rich Deloitte survey report with a clear diagnostic thesis ('execution gap') but no Resolution act and too many topic-label titles — use pp.22/26/28 as examples of good action titles, not the overall deck as a Storymakers structural exemplar.”
↓ No Resolution act — deck ends on technology analysis (p.35) then jumps straight to bios/contacts with zero recommendations or next-steps slide
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Ipsos SEA Ahead Shift + Sentiments 20211209
“A solid analytical research read-out with strong quantified action titles in its first pillar, but it functions as three stitched-together topic briefs rather than a Storymakers arc — useful as an example of action-title writing in the macro section, not as a structural exemplar.”
↓ No closing synthesis: p.33 'ROADMAP TO NETZERO' is a divider with no follow-through, then jumps straight to Q&A on p.34
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Earth Day 2024 Global Report
“A research-survey report with a strong executive summary bolted onto an analytical data dump — useful as a teaching example for action-title openers (p.4–11) and section pillar naming, but not as a Storymakers structural exemplar.”
↓ ~75% of body slides title-recycle the survey question verbatim (p.13–37 especially), forcing the reader to derive insight from the chart rather than being handed it
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Banking and capital markets trends 2020: Laying the foundations for growth
“A reference catalog masquerading as a deck — useful as a topic checklist for an internal audit team but a poor Storymakers exemplar; cite it only as a counter-example of how topic-labels and pagination suffixes erase narrative.”
↓ Titles are topic labels, not action titles — 88 slides and not one declarative finding in the title bar
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ey global ipo trends 2023 q1 v1
“A competent quarterly market-update deck with strong action titles in the analytical middle but no Resolution act — useful as a teaching example for headline-writing, not for full Storymakers narrative arc.”
↓ No Resolution act — deck ends on p.10 SPAC data and goes straight to Definitions/Contacts, leaving the reader without a recommendation
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wipoapiday2023 o neill
“A competent Gartner-style trends briefing with quantified data and a recognizable framework, but as a Storymakers exemplar it is an analytical dump that lacks thesis, recommendation, and close — useful for teaching action-title rewrites, not narrative architecture.”
↓ No thesis or recommendation — the deck never tells the audience what to do with the trend data (no 'recommendation' or 'next_steps' slide type appears).
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KSA Banking Pulse Q3 2024
“A competent quarterly data-pulse with strong insight-bearing action titles and consistent callouts, but as a Storymakers exemplar it fails the arc test — no thesis up front, no recommendation at the close — so use it to teach action-title writing, not narrative structure.”
↓ No answer-first opening — p.1-p.5 never state the deck's thesis; the reader waits until p.7 to learn earnings grew 5.3%
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FIBA faninsights juli24
“A competent Nielsen data-tour report with strong callouts but weak narrative spine — useful as an example of clean section structure and quantified pull-quotes, not as a Storymakers exemplar of action titles or SCQA closure.”
↓ No recommendation or 'so what' — the deck stops at p.16 demographics and jumps straight to 'Thank you!' (p.17), leaving FIBA with data but no advice
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mi gtia
“A well-organized JPMorgan reference guide with parallel country structure and solid data, but a textbook example of an analytical-dump deck with topic-label titles and no SCQA arc — useful as a counter-example for Storymakers training, not as an exemplar.”
↓ No thesis slide in the first 5 pages — the deck never tells the audience what to believe or do about Asia
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barclays global credit bureau forum v30
“Competent investor-day roadshow with strong slide-level quantified titles inside each segment, but no overarching narrative spine or closing synthesis — use the mid-section analytical build-ups (Ascend p.26, Verify p.29–30, Serasa p.50–60) as teaching examples of action titles, not the deck's overall structure.”
↓ No executive-summary or thesis slide in the first 5 pages — the deck leads with agenda/CFO Q&A instead of an answer-first insight
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Barclays Bank PLC FY24 Client Information
“A credit-investor fact pack with solid evidence and a few strong action titles, but no narrative spine — useful as a reference artefact, not a Storymakers exemplar.”
↓ No SCQA arc — the deck has a Situation (p.2) but no Complication, Question, or Answer; it is a reference document, not a narrative
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Barclays H12023 Results Presentation
“Competent IR earnings deck with an answer-first opening and disciplined main-body action titles, but it has no real story arc, a dead 'Outlook' close, and a topic-labelled appendix — use pp3-24 as a teaching example of metric-anchored action titles, not as a Storymakers narrative structure.”
↓ Dead close: p25 'Outlook' is a bare topic label with no recommendation, no ask, no memorable line — the deck whimpers into the appendix
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Deutsche Bank Q1 2024 Presentation
“Competent investor-relations earnings deck with a quantified opening and disciplined callouts, but organised by reporting taxonomy rather than narrative — use p.2-5 as a teaching example of leading with numbers, not the structure as a Storymakers exemplar.”
↓ Segment section (p.15-19) titles are pure nouns — 'Corporate Bank', 'Investment Bank', 'Private Bank' — forcing the reader to the callouts to extract the story
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Deutsche Bank Q1 2025 Presentation
“A textbook earnings-deck opening married to an appendix-heavy tail — use p.2–p.6 as a teaching example of thesis-first framing, but not the overall structure, which buries the recommendation behind a premature appendix divider.”
↓ Premature 'Appendix' divider at p.20 buries the actual close (p.21 '2025 financial targets' recommend, p.22 shareholder distribution commitment) inside what readers will skip
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20230316 scff portfolio details
“A portfolio-disclosure reference document masquerading as a deck — useful as a counter-example of topic-label titles and missing narrative, not as a Storymakers exemplar.”
↓ Titles are 100% legal-entity labels rather than action titles — slides 3-12 all repeat variants of the fund name with no insight