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Storymakers reviews of every deck.
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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Moving Laggards Early Adopters
“Solid mid-tier McKinsey explainer with a strong analytical middle and a clear three-part recommendation, but it buries the thesis behind a generic problem-overview opener and fades into a 'Thank You' close — useful as a teaching example for analytical action titles, not for full-arc Storymakers structure.”
↓ Duplicated/topic-label titles in the opening (pp.3-4 share 'Overview of Challenges with Technology Implementation in Manufacturing'); no thesis appears in the first 5 slides
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Project Management: Improving performance, reducing risk
“A competently-structured awareness deck for a board audience that uses question-based section dividers well but reads as a topic walkthrough rather than an argument — useful as a teaching example of how clear section spines do not by themselves produce a Storymakers narrative when action titles and a synthesized close are missing.”
↓ No answer-first slide in the opening — the thesis is delayed until p.10 and never restated as a single declarative claim
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Trend Compendium 2050 Six megatrends that will shape the world
“A polished, MECE thought-leadership compendium with strong declarative titles and disciplined data sourcing, but as a Storymakers exemplar it teaches title craft and pillar architecture only — not narrative arc, opening hook, or closing call to action.”
↓ No thesis-led opening: p.2–3 describe scope rather than state Roland Berger's point of view on what 2050 actually means for the reader
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EY Georgia Medicaid Oral
“A competent but template-driven oral-proposal deck whose three-phase spine is reusable, but whose topic-label titles and missing thesis make it a weak Storymakers exemplar — useful as a 'before' case for retitling exercises.”
↓ Action titles are topic labels, not insights — 'Timeline', 'Lessons learned', 'Examples of measures', 'Phase one/two/three' force the audience to read the body to learn anything
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IPSOS LOVE LIFE SATISFACTION 2025
“A competent research-findings deck with several strong action titles in the back half, but it is structured as a data tour rather than a Storymakers narrative — useful as an example of good callouts, not of arc construction.”
↓ Slides 4-6 reuse the verbatim survey-question wording as titles, abdicating the action-title responsibility
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Executive Compensation at Deloitte Delivering global insight and expertise
“A competent capabilities brochure with a few strong benchmarking action titles, but as a Storymakers exemplar it is mid-tier — useful to teach title-writing in the middle section, not to teach narrative arc or closing.”
↓ No complication or 'so what' — the deck presents market facts (p.3-7) without telling the reader why these trends threaten or pressure them
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IIF/McKinsey Cyber Resilience Survey
“A competent McKinsey survey deck with strong action titles in the diagnosis section but a buried thesis and a collapsed ending — useful as a teaching example for declarative titling and quantified callouts, not as a model of full SCQA narrative architecture.”
↓ First 5 slides are all front matter and methodology; the thesis is buried — by p.5 a reader still doesn't know what the deck argues
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Global third-party risk management survey 2022
“A competently-pillared survey report with strong data callouts but topic-label titles and no resolution — useful as a teaching example of MECE section architecture, not of Storymakers action titling or closing.”
↓ Titles are nouns, not insights — 46 slides and nearly all headlines repeat the section name instead of stating the takeaway
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Ukraine Refugee Pulse
“A credible, humane survey report with a strong emotional close but weak Storymakers structure - use p.19-21 as a teaching example of empathetic closing, but do not model the title writing or opening on this deck.”
↓ Action titles are topic nouns ('BARRIERS', 'MENTAL HEALTH', 'CONNECTIVITY') - the insight lives in the callouts, not the titles
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20231114 MorganStanley APAC Summit Presentation slides
“Competent corporate-update deck with strong quantified callouts in its quarterly section but no SCQA spine and a buried thesis — useful as an example of metric-led titles, not as a Storymakers narrative exemplar.”
↓ No SCQA setup — the deck never poses the strategic question it is answering, so the audience must infer the 'so what'
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MSDL 4Q23 Earnings Presentation
“A competent investor earnings deck whose callouts do the storytelling its titles refuse to — useful as a teaching example of how action callouts can rescue topic-titled slides, but not a Storymakers exemplar at the deck level.”
↓ Two disclaimer pages (p.2-3) before any thesis — opening real estate is wasted
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Global gas outlook to 2050
“A credible thought-leadership 'perspective' with strong metric-bearing action titles, but structurally a methodology-and-data dump that buries its thesis and has no recommendation — useful as a teaching example for action-title craft, not for Storymakers narrative arc.”
↓ No BLUF: the thesis is never stated in the first three slides; opening is dominated by model inventory (p3) and scenario taxonomy (p4)
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GOLDMAN SACHS MEDTECH AND HEALTHCARE SERVICES CONFERENCE
“A standard investor-conference template with competent analytical slides but a weak narrative spine — useful as a teaching example of how topic-label titles and a missing thesis flatten an otherwise reasonable story, not as a Storymakers exemplar.”
↓ No thesis slide in the opening — p.1–4 never tell the audience what the ask or argument is; p.4 CSR derails the flow
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Newmark May 2023 FI Conference Presentation Vf Final
“A competent fixed-income IR deck with several exemplary action titles in its middle third, but structurally it is a data walk rather than a Storymakers story — use slides 11, 14, 16, and 19 as teaching examples for declarative titles, not the deck's overall arc.”
↓ No SCQA opening — slides 1–5 are pure front matter; the investable thesis ('when markets normalize we exceed peak revenues') is hidden on p.13 rather than stated on p.3 or p.4
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barclays global credit 2024
“A competent investor-day-style segment walkthrough with solid MECE by business unit and strong quant callouts, but it buries its overall thesis at both ends and repeats a single generic title nine times — use the Insurance sub-section (p.57–62) as the storytelling exemplar, not the deck as a whole.”
↓ Nine consecutive slides p.8–16 all titled 'Ascend Technology Platform' — the single biggest title-quality hit in the deck; the reader cannot skim the narrative
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Barclays FY2023 ESG Investor Presentation
“A competent ESG disclosure deck structured as a taxonomy rather than a story — useful as a teaching example of MECE pillar dividers and KPI dashboards, but a cautionary example for Storymakers narrative: no complication, no recommendation, and a closing that dissolves into appendix.”
↓ No complication or recommendation — the 'Answer' act of SCQA is entirely absent; no slide says 'so here is what we are committing to next'
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csg investor day 2016 sru
“A competent investor-day progress report with several strong metric-led titles, but weak as a Storymakers exemplar — it lacks SCQA setup and pillar structure, so use individual action titles (p4, p8, p11) as teaching examples rather than the deck's architecture.”
↓ No Situation/Complication setup — the deck never explicitly frames why the SRU story matters before diving into metrics
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A&M Valuation Insights March 2024
“A data-rich thought-leadership update with genuinely strong action titles, but structurally not a Storymakers exemplar — use slides p2-p9 as a teaching example for declarative titling, not as a model for deck architecture.”
↓ No executive summary or thesis slide — the deck never tells the reader what the overall point is before diving into data
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Scottish Fiscal Commission Audit
“A compliance-grade statutory audit deliverable that diagnoses carefully but buries every insight behind numbered topic labels — useful as a cautionary example of action-title failure, not as a Storymakers exemplar.”
↓ Sixteen consecutive slides titled 'Wider scope requirements (continued)' (p.16–31) — a catastrophic failure of navigation and a textbook topic-dump.
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Trend 2030 Scarcity of Resources
“A high-quality trend compendium, not a Storymakers exemplar — use pp6-16 as a teaching case for metric-bearing action titles, but its methodology-led opening, hidden pillars, and thin recommendation tail make it a poor model for full deck architecture.”
↓ Methodology-first opening: pp1-4 sell the Compendium product before any insight; thesis arrives at p17
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The economic and social impact of investment in the nbn network Methodology Report
“A credentialed methodology report with a clean two-pillar structure and strong quantitative spine, but it buries the answer and ends without a recommendation — useful as a teaching example for sound MECE pillars, not for narrative arc or opening/closing craft.”
↓ No thesis up front: pages 1-7 are entirely scene-setting; the headline number a reader should remember is never stated in the opening
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2023 ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL, GOVERNANCE REPORT
“A conventional ESG disclosure document organized as a topic encyclopedia with strong evidentiary detail but topic-label titles and no narrative arc — useful as a counter-example for what action titles and a Resolution act should fix, not as a Storymakers exemplar.”
↓ Titles are topic labels, not insights — the reader must read body text to learn what each page concludes
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rmb morgan stanley conference quilter september 2019
“Competent investor-conference update with a clean three-pillar spine but missing the Complication and a real close — useful as an example of pillar structure and callout discipline, not as a Storymakers narrative exemplar.”
↓ No Complication: the deck never names the problem the strategy is solving, so 'Business initiatives' (p10-14) feel like activities rather than answers
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goldman sachs dec 2023 final 12 5 23
“A competent investor-conference update with a strong closing thesis and solid peer-benchmark titles, but the front half buries the answer and the growth pillars aren't MECE-framed — use p.5-7 and p.12 as title-quality exemplars, not the overall structure.”
↓ Opening three content slides (p.3 'Overview', p.4 'financial performance detail') bury the lede — no thesis until p.13