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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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Global Top 100 Companies by market capitalisation
“A competent annual ranking publication with a few model action titles but no narrative arc and no recommendation — useful as a teaching example of how a research-report format collapses Storymakers structure, not as an exemplar of it.”
↓ No recommendation, no 'so what', no closing synthesis — deck ends in raw rankings (p.36-40) then Contact (p.41)
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Making WorkWorkBetter for Deskless Workers
“A well-titled diagnostic brief with a clean opening but no recommendation or MECE spine — use the action-title craft on pp.2/5/8 as a teaching example, not the overall structure.”
↓ No Resolution act: the deck ends on a diagnostic finding (p.8) plus a methodology page (p.9) with zero recommendations or next steps
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ey digital survey shaping the new normal
“A competent, well-titled regional-survey topic dump with strong action-title hygiene but no narrative arc and no recommendation — useful as a Storymakers exemplar of action-title discipline, not of story structure.”
↓ No closing synthesis or recommendation — deck ends on a data slide (p41) and a 'Contact us' (p42), with zero 'so what' for the reader
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1681885970281
“A competent sell-side thematic outlook with strong callout writing but no story arc or recommendation — useful as an example of how callouts should sound, not of how a Storymakers deck should be structured.”
↓ No resolution act — the deck terminates on Theme 10 (p.10) and immediately enters 8 pages of disclosures with zero synthesis, recommendation, or 'how to position' slide.
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article monthlymarketmonitor july23
“A polished cross-asset reference monitor masquerading as a deck — useful as a data appendix template, but a poor Storymakers exemplar because it has no opening thesis, no MECE pillars, no resolution, and almost exclusively topic-label titles.”
↓ Zero narrative arc — no Situation/Complication framing in the opening, no synthesis slide anywhere, no recommendation at the close (p.40 → glossary)
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guide to the markets asia
“A best-in-class market reference book judged against its own genre, but a near-zero Storymakers exemplar — use it to teach how reference decks differ from narrative decks, never as a model for action titles, SCQA, or pillar structure.”
↓ Zero action titles across 92 pages — every header is a topic label, forcing the reader to interpret each chart unaided
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Sustainability Corporate Citizenship
“A compliance-grade ESG disclosure with a decent MECE pillar skeleton but no SCQA, no action titles, and no resolution — usable as a teaching example of pillar structure, not of Storymakers narrative.”
↓ Front-matter bloat: 3 of the first 5 slides (cover, forward-looking disclaimer, ToC) before any substance, and 'Overview' (p.4) carries no thesis
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Digital Transformation NJ
“A credentials-led government capabilities pitch with strong case-study evidence but no SCQA arc, no NJ thesis, and a «Thank you» ending — useful as a teaching example of why action titles and a closing recommendation matter, not as a Storymakers exemplar.”
↓ No NJ-specific thesis or stakes anywhere in the first five slides — opens with Deloitte's credentials (p.2) instead of the client's situation
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Global Economics Intelligence Apr 2023
“A competent McKinsey periodic intelligence monitor with a strong opening thesis but no closing argument — useful as a teaching example for action-titled analytical slides and MECE geographic structure, but not as a Storymakers exemplar because it lacks Complication-Resolution arc and ends without a recommendation.”
↓ Country section dividers (p6, p12, p16, p19, p22, p25) are pure noun labels — wasted real estate where a pillar insight should live
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WORLD AFFAIRS 2023
“A 92-page Ipsos survey-data report dressed as a deck — useful as a counter-example of how topic-label titles, a missing exec summary, and a 19-slide country dump destroy narrative; do NOT use as a Storymakers exemplar except to teach what to avoid.”
↓ No executive summary, no thesis slide, no recommendations slide — 92 pages and zero synthesis
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Ipsos Issues Index March 2025
“A disciplined tracker data report with strong callouts but zero Storymakers craft — useful as a counter-example of how topic-label titles and a missing recommendation flatten genuinely interesting findings.”
↓ Cover/opening is dead weight: p.1, p.2, p.3 are all variants of the title with no thesis, no headline finding, and no chart of the month
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WHAT WORRIES THE WORLD? 2023
“Competent monthly survey-tracker report with strong stat callouts but topic-label titles, non-MECE sectioning, and no synthesis or call to action - useful as a 'before' teaching example for action-title rewriting and SCQA closure, not as a Storymakers exemplar.”
↓ No resolution: deck closes on five country snapshots (p.24-28) and methodology (p.29) with zero synthesis, implication, or recommendation
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Ipsos Global Advisor Predictions 2024 Full Report web 0
“A clean, navigable annual survey readout that respects MECE structure but reads as a data dump — useful as a reference document, weak as a Storymakers exemplar because titles describe questions rather than answers and the deck never lands a recommendation.”
↓ Titles are survey items, not findings — e.g. p.27 and p.35 still carry the literal stem 'Q. For each of the following, please tell me how likely or unlikely you think they are to happen...?'
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femke de keulenaer
“A competent secondary-research evidence pack with strong stat callouts but no narrative arc or recommendation - useful as a teaching example of how good data dies inside topic-label titles, not as a Storymakers exemplar.”
↓ No recommendation or 'so what' act - the deck terminates at p.17 data and jumps straight to 'THANK YOU!' on p.18
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Ipsos Issues Index Jan25
“A competent recurring data tracker, not a Storymakers artifact — use its callout discipline and parallel segmentation grid as small-scale teaching examples, but treat the overall structure (no thesis, topic-label titles, no recommendation) as a cautionary case of analytical dump dressed as a deck.”
↓ Titles p.2–3 are literally just 'January 2025' — two consecutive slides with a date as their header is a failure mode
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Education Monitor 2024 Ipsos
“A competent research-monitor publication with a strong answer-first opening and several model action titles, but it is not a Storymakers exemplar — use pp. 4-14 and pp. 20/46 as teaching examples of insight titling, and use the pp. 47-58 sequence as a cautionary example of MECE failure and of a deck that analyses without ever recommending.”
↓ No resolution act — deck ends on methodology (p.73) and 'For more information' (p.74), with no recommendation or call to action
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ipsos predictions 2025 survey report
“A topically MECE survey read-out with a strong unease setup and three excellent analytical 2x2s, but the action titles are mostly survey prompts and the deck ends in methodology — use slides 28/69/71 as title-quality exemplars, not the deck as a Storymakers structural model.”
↓ Closing is an appendix dump (Methodology p.75-76, 'For more information' p.77) with zero synthesis, recommendation, or call back to the opening unease theme
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The shape of retail: Consumers and the new normal
“A raw survey appendix masquerading as a deck — useful as a counter-example of what happens when action titles are left as question stems and the close is a contacts page.”
↓ Titles on p.3–p.6 are verbatim survey questions rather than insights — the reader must infer the takeaway
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The CMO Survey Marketing in a Post Covid Era
“A competent annual research report with above-average chart titles but essentially no story arc — useful as a teaching example of strong metric-led action titles in the middle, and as a cautionary example of how topic-driven structure and missing opening/closing acts turn insight-rich data into a reference document rather than a persuasive deck.”
↓ No executive answer up front: p.2 is labeled 'executive_summary' but titled only 'The CMO Survey' — no pyramid-principle lead, no governing thesis
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14th Five-Year Plan Sector Impact
“A competent policy explainer organized as a sector-by-sector inventory — useful as an example of action titles and callout discipline, but a weak Storymakers exemplar because it has no pillars, no synthesis, and no recommendation.”
↓ No recommendation, synthesis, or 'so-what' slide before the contact page (p.13 → p.14 contact)
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Global Economics Intelligence Feb 2024
“A competent macro-monitor dashboard with strong quantitative titles in spots, but as a Storymakers exemplar it is a cautionary tale of a geographic topic-dump with no arc, no tension, and no close — use it to teach what 'analytical build without narrative' looks like.”
↓ No closing synthesis slide — deck terminates on a Brazil PMI chart (p.28) with no 'implications' or recommendation
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SAP Innovation Awards 2022 Entry Pitch Deck
“A template-driven awards submission with strong KPI evidence but no narrative spine — useful as a cautionary example of how rigid submission templates kill action titles and destroy the closing act, not as a Storymakers exemplar.”
↓ Fourteen consecutive slides titled 'Additional Information' (p.15–p.30) — the deck abandons titling discipline entirely in its second half
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MARKET DATA FROM SECONDARY SOURCES
“A secondary-research data tour disguised as a deck — useful as a counter-example of methodology-first structure, not as a Storymakers exemplar.”
↓ No thesis or recommendation anywhere — the deck is a methodology demonstration ('here is how we pull secondary data'), not an argument
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What Worries the World
“A competent recurring data tracker with strong callouts but topic-label titles and no resolution act — useful as a counter-example of how even good underlying insights get neutered by non-action titles, not as a Storymakers exemplar.”
↓ Twelve consecutive slides titled 'Current Economic Situation' (p.35–46) — zero differentiation, reader cannot navigate or remember anything