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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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2019 Global Shared Services Survey Report 11th biannual edition
“A competently structured Deloitte survey-findings report with strong callouts but topic-label titles and no recommendation — use it as a teaching example of the gap between insightful callouts and weak action titles, not as a Storymakers exemplar.”
↓ Titles are survey questions, not insights — p7, p8, p10, p13, p15, p16, p18, p19, p21, p22 all read as interview prompts rather than conclusions
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Capgemini Group Presentation 2025
“Corporate introduction brochure with a decent three-pillar spine but no SCQA arc and a bloated appendix — useful as a teaching case of how MECE pillars can coexist with weak action-titling, not as a Storymakers exemplar.”
↓ No SCQA or problem framing anywhere in the first 10 pages — the deck asserts identity rather than arguing a point
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2023 impact report
“Polished corporate ESG catalog with strong case studies and metrics but no story arc, no action titles, and no close — useful as a reference for pillar structure and evidence density, not as a Storymakers exemplar.”
↓ No SCQA setup anywhere in the opening — pp.1-4 are brand mood, not situation/complication
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Barclays Q32023 FI Presentation
“A textbook fixed-income IR deck with strong declarative titles and clean pillar discipline, but no story arc or ask — use pp6-14 as a teaching example for action-title craft, not the deck's overall structure.”
↓ No BLUF slide: pp3-4 ('Q323 themes' / 'Outlook') are topic labels where the thesis should live
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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
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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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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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Global Top 100 companies 2023
“A competent annual benchmarking publication with strong analytical action titles in the middle, but it is a data report — not a Storymakers narrative — because it has no complication, no recommendation, and dissolves into ranking tables; use slides 5-8 as title-craft exemplars, not the deck as a whole.”
↓ No Complication or Resolution act — the deck never asks 'so what should leaders do?' and ends in ranking tables (p.17-21)
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Boardroom Agenda 2022
“A competently sectioned PwC event briefing — usable as a teaching example for four-pillar boardroom architecture and quote-led tension framing, but a weak Storymakers exemplar overall because it has no deck-level thesis, a placeholder-style opening, fragmented closes, and predominantly topic-label titles.”
↓ No deck-level thesis: opening (p.1-5) skips straight from 'Welcome' to agenda with zero stakes, and there is no closing slide that synthesizes across the four pillars
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Annual Report 2018
“A compliance-driven annual report dressed as a strategy story — useful as a counter-example of how regulator-mandated structure crushes Storymakers narrative, not as a positive exemplar.”
↓ No SCQA opening — first five pages contain zero stakes-setting; the strategic narrative does not begin until ~p.21 ('How we create value')
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ey ivca monthly pe vc roundup january 2023
“Competent monthly market-intelligence roundup with rich data but pure topic-label headlines and no thesis, build, or close — useful as a teaching example of why action titles matter, not as a Storymakers exemplar.”
↓ Five consecutive slides (p.21-25) share the identical title 'Spotlight: PE/VC credit investment deal trends' — readers can't navigate the build
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Global Growth Development Context
“A solid context-setting trend pack with strong quantified action titles, but it is a Setup-only deck with no Analysis or Resolution — useful as a teaching example for action-title craft, not for Storymakers narrative arc.”
↓ No Resolution act — p.11 frames the problem and the deck ends, leaving the audience with tension and no answer
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Global Economics Intelligence (August 2023)
“A competent recurring economics briefing with strong action-titled analytical slides but no narrative arc and no recommendation - useful as a teaching example for dense data-slide titling, not for Storymakers structure.”
↓ No closing recommendation, synthesis, or 'so what' - deck ends on a Brazil PMI chart (p.28) then a logo (p.29)
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2024 US CEO Outlook Pulse Survey
“A survey-results pulse report dressed as a deck — useful as a counter-example of topic-label titles and a missing resolution act, not as a Storymakers exemplar.”
↓ No resolution act — deck ends on an ESG data point (p.10) and a disclaimer (p.11) with zero recommendations, implications, or call to action
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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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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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ipsos pride report 2025
“Syndicated research report with a strong 5-slide editorial summary bolted onto a 35-slide data appendix; use slides 5-9 as a Storymakers exemplar for translating data into narrative, but the overall structure is a topic dump, not a story.”
↓ Title duplication: 'LGBT Attitudes by Country' appears on at least 5 slides (11, 13, 15, 17, 23) with no insight extracted on the page itself
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Ipsos global trustworthiness index 2023
“A well-structured data reference report but a weak Storymakers exemplar — use pp.4/10/14 as an example of clean sectioning, but not as a model for narrative, titling, or close.”
↓ No thesis slide — pp.1-4 are cover/TOC/intro/divider with zero insight asserted before data begins on p.5
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Ipsos Global Health Service Monitor 2023 WEB
“A well-organized survey data report, not a Storymakers deck — use the section scaffolding and THE HEADLINES pattern as a navigational example, but it is an anti-example of action titling and has no closing argument.”
↓ No recommendation or 'so-what' act: the deck ends in appendix + methodology + corporate slide (p.30–p.45) with zero synthesis
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Ipsos Global AI 2023 Report NZ Release 19.07.2023
“A competently structured survey-results report with strong navigation but no narrative — useful as a counter-example of topic-label titling and missing resolution, not as a Storymakers exemplar.”
↓ Action titles are pure topic labels repeated across multiple slides (e.g., 'Feelings about AI' on p.10/11/12/13) — zero insight conveyed by the title alone
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Ipsos Equalities Index 2023 Full report
“A well-instrumented opinion-research data book with a strong 20-page narrative front and a 50-page reference back, but it is not a Storymakers exemplar — use pp.1–20 to teach answer-first openings and quotable callouts, and use the appendix as a cautionary example of topic-label titling.”
↓ Action titles are survey-question labels, not insights — the same question text is reused on 20+ appendix slides (pp.30–51)
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Global Report What Worries the World May 23 WEB
“A competent recurring tracker report with strong evidence in the callouts but topic-label titles and no resolution act — useful as a teaching example of what NOT to do at the title and closing layers, not as a Storymakers exemplar.”
↓ Titles are nouns, not insights — the action sits in the callout (p.9, p.13–19, p.22–28)
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Global Advisor War in Ukraine
“A competent survey-findings report with MECE-ish pillars but no narrative arc — use it as a cautionary example of topic-label titles and a missing resolution, not as a Storymakers exemplar.”
↓ Titles are nouns, not verbs: p.3, p.7, p.9, p.12 all read as chart captions rather than insights
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“A Goldman weekly strategy note with a strong thesis opening and a reference-book middle — useful as a teaching example for lead-with-the-answer openings, but not as a story arc.”
↓ 27 consecutive analyze_data slides (p.6–32) with no narrative thread back to the Mag-7 question