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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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Innovation Engine for Growth Playbook
“A solid methodology playbook with a genuinely MECE four-pillar spine, undermined by a marketing-brochure opening, topic-label titles, and excessive divider padding — use the pillar architecture as a teaching example, not the narrative or title craft.”
↓ Slides 1–5 burn the entire opening on cover/filler/dividers/TOC; thesis doesn't appear until p.6 — fails the 'lead with the answer' test
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Re-Imagine the Possible 2018/2019
“A topic-organized budget walkthrough with strong numerical content but weak narrative scaffolding — useful as a teaching example of how MECE pillars and quantitative anchors are necessary but not sufficient without action titles and an explicit thesis.”
↓ No thesis in the first 5 slides — opening is cover/agenda/divider/divider/framework with no stated point of view
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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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Sportech 2021 Paris, February 2022
“A competent analytical scan of French sportech with strong metric-laden titles and good callouts, but no thesis, no resolution, and overlapping pillars — useful as a teaching example for action-titled data slides, not for end-to-end Storymakers narrative.”
↓ No SCQA opening: pages 1-4 are cover/agenda/divider/context — the deck never states what question it answers or why the reader should care
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Simple & Digital Customer Experience Model
“A conceptual framework walkthrough on NPS/CX with strong individual action titles in the analytical middle but no narrative arc, no opening thesis, and no closing recommendation - useful as a teaching example for action-title craft (pp.5, 9, 13), not for deck structure.”
↓ Opening five slides contain zero thesis statement - two covers plus three framework intros
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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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IPSOS GLOBAL ADVISOR Global Perceptions of Healthcare
“A competently executed survey-results report that mistakes a question-by-question data walk for a narrative — useful as a counter-example of how repeating the survey question as the slide title kills any Storymakers structure.”
↓ No SCQA arc: zero Complication or Resolution slides — the deck is 9 consecutive analyze_data pages with no synthesis
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Trends & AI in the Contact Center
“A competent survey-plus-capabilities deck with strong data callouts but a weak story spine — use its quantified pull-quotes as a teaching example, not its structure or titles.”
↓ Six near-identical section dividers (pp.2,4,6,8,10,12) eat ~20% of the deck without differentiating pillars — dividers should be MECE, not refrains
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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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ey future of work 20 10
“A capabilities brochure dressed as a point of view — useful as a counter-example of how repeated taglines and noun-phrase titles erase a deck's narrative, not as a Storymakers exemplar.”
↓ Six slides (p.4, p.6, p.7, p.8, p.9 and the callouts on p.5, p.10, p.11) repeat the identical 'Operate in two gears…' string, collapsing differentiation between sections
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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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2025 05 28 Goldman Sachs Brazil Commodities Days
“A competent investor-conference IR deck with textbook three-pillar structure and strong analytical chapters, but it delays substance, labels half its slides by topic, and ends ceremonially — use the pulp-analysis sequence (p.30-42) as a teaching example, not the overall narrative.”
↓ No upfront thesis slide — pages 1-5 are cover, disclaimer, two dividers and a governance boilerplate slide, burning the reader's attention before any claim lands
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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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ei strategy presentation
“A competent asset-manager credentials deck with two or three exemplary insight-titles, but structurally a topic-dump rather than a Storymakers narrative — useful as a counter-example for openings and CTAs, not as a model arc.”
↓ No SCQA opening: the first 5 slides credential the firm instead of stating the strategy's thesis or the client's stake.
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SUBC Barclays 2019 F.pdf.downloadasset
“Investor/corporate-overview deck masquerading as a story: useful as a counter-example of how topic-label titles and missing complication flatten a narrative into a capabilities brochure.”
↓ Opening 5 slides (cover, Subsea 7, capabilities, CSR, segments) bury any thesis — no stake, no question, no answer
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PwC’s MSME Survey 2020 Building to Last
“A topic-organised survey report dressed as a deck — strong on evidence, case studies and quoted statistics, but weak as a Storymakers exemplar because it never leads with an answer, lets question-style titles do the work that insight titles should, and ends on a technology tangent instead of a recommendation.”
↓ No answer-first opening — the thesis is buried until the 'Headline survey findings' on pp.11-12, and even those are not declarative single-sentence claims
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Risk Management as a catalyst for growth
“An awards-ceremony deck dressed as a thought-leadership piece — useful as a counter-example of how topic-label titles and sponsor-driven sectioning suppress an otherwise defensible argument; not a Storymakers exemplar.”
↓ No thesis in the opening — the cover promises 'Risk Management as a catalyst for growth' but slides 1-9 deliver only logistics and a textbook definition; the 'catalyst' claim is never substantiated
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Dissecting 2021-22 Budget Speech
“Comprehensive but headline-free budget recap — useful as a teaching example of how topic-titled, sparse-callout decks fail the Storymakers test, not as an exemplar of narrative or action-title craft.”
↓ Titles are uniformly topic labels — '2021/22 Annual Budget Speech: <X>' — leaving the reader to derive the insight (p.4-20)
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Namibia National Budget 2024-25
“Topic-labeled government budget walkthrough with no SCQA arc and a non-existent close — useful as a counter-example of what action titles and answer-first structure fix, not as a Storymakers exemplar.”
↓ Title-as-topic on every slide — there is not a single declarative action title in 25 pages
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An Introduction to Our Group Oct 2025
“A polished corporate capabilities brochure, not a Storymakers exemplar — useful as a cautionary example of how pillar dividers and proud proof points cannot substitute for a thesis, complication, and recommendation.”
↓ No SCQA: the deck never names a business complication a reader should care about — it only asserts capability
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Reinforcing the New South Wales Southern Shared Network (HumeLink) PADR – EY Market Modelling
“A technically rigorous market-modelling report in deck clothing — useful as a counter-example of how burying the answer and using topic titles instead of action titles weakens even strong analysis; do not use as a Storymakers exemplar.”
↓ No recommendation slide anywhere — the 'preferred option' (Option 3C) is never stated as a headline, only implied through a highlighted table row on p.11
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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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Dissecting 2023-24 Budget Speech
“A topic-organised budget summary that is informationally competent but narratively inert — useful as a counter-example for action-title training, not as a Storymakers exemplar.”
↓ No thesis or 'so-what' anywhere in the first 4 slides — the deck never tells the reader what to conclude about the 2023/24 budget
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WORLD AFFAIRS
“A polished public-opinion survey report with strong section scaffolding but weak Storymakers DNA — it dumps findings instead of telling a story; use the priority-vs-preparation gap section (p32-35) as a teaching example of derived-metric analysis, but not the structure or titling.”
↓ No executive answer up front: p3 'Key findings' is one page with a single 76% stat and no thesis, forcing the reader to assemble the message themselves