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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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2023 Global Marketing Trends
“A credible trend-survey report mis-cast as a deck — useful as a cautionary example of how strong evidence and good callouts can still fail Storymakers when titles are topic labels and the closing is a URL.”
↓ No recommendation or 'so-what' slide — the deck ends on a blockchain chart (p.16) and a URL (p.17)
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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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“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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morgan stanley conference slides
“Investor-conference status briefing with topic-label titles and no narrative arc — useful as a counter-example for action-title coaching, not as a Storymakers exemplar.”
↓ No thesis slide: a reader of the action titles alone cannot answer 'what is Northern Trust IT's argument?'
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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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Moving faster: Reinventing compliance to speed up, not trip up
“A well-architected survey-report-as-deck with disciplined sectioning and a memorable Compliance Pioneer payoff, but action titles default to topic labels and the close substitutes metaphor for a recommendation — useful as a teaching example for repeating per-pillar 'Actions' beats, not for headline writing.”
↓ Action titles overwhelmingly topic labels (e.g. p.11 'Negative impacts of increased complexity', p.17 'A different way', p.34 'Culture of compliance') — the insights live in callouts, not headlines
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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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20230530 A long way down Credit Suisse Rolf Sethe 11th EBI Academic Debate
“A chronologically compelling academic-debate narrative with a strong scandal-cascade spine and two genuinely original conclusions, but it buries its thesis behind seven 'Contents' dividers and repetitive price-delta titles — use the scandal-walk (pp.15-27) as a teaching example of dramatic sequencing, not the deck's structure.”
↓ Seven 'Contents' section dividers (pp.2, 5, 7, 9, 11, 28, 35) instead of named MECE pillars — the deck's structure is invisible to the reader
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European Distressed Credit Watch List
“A competently produced reference catalogue of distressed European credits with strong market-context data on the front end, but it abandons narrative craft at the case-study section and has no close — useful as a teaching example of what 'analytical dump with no resolution' looks like, not as a Storymakers exemplar.”
↓ No recommendation or 'so what' slide anywhere — the deck ends mid-catalogue at p.39 (Winoa) then jumps to contacts
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title quality
Introduction to A&M Services in Asia
“A standard firm-capabilities brochure organized by practice area — useful as an anti-example of 'no SCQA, no close' and of topic-label titles, not as a Storymakers exemplar.”
↓ No SCQA arc — the deck never poses a client Question, so there is no Answer to build toward; it is an undifferentiated service catalog
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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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title quality
Familiar challenges new approaches
“A competent survey report with a clean three-pillar spine but weak action titles and no recommendation — useful as a teaching example for chapter dividers and quote-slide pacing, not for narrative arc.”
↓ Many data slides ship the raw 'Exhibit N: <question text>' as the title (p.7, p.10, p.11, p.13, p.18, p.19, p.24, p.30) — the chart caption is doing the work an action title should
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title quality
Technology Trends Outlook 2022
“A high-quality 14-trend research compendium with a strong data-led opening but no closing synthesis or recommendation — use the per-trend micro-template and the p.3/p.5 opening as teaching examples, not the overall deck structure.”
↓ No closing synthesis — the deck terminates on the last trend's appendix (pp.180-184) with zero cross-trend wrap-up or recommendation
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Scalar calibration For Life insurance business
“A competent two-part technical memo with disciplined callouts but topic-label titles and an appendix-buried structure — useful as a teaching example for callout writing and case-study framing, not for Storymakers narrative architecture.”
↓ Action titles default to noun phrases ('DESIGN DECISIONS: …', 'COUNTRY-SPECIFIC DETAILED ANALYSIS – …') instead of insights, forcing the reader to extract the point from the callout.
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IEI 2024 Global Charts
“A competently organised annual research index with a summary-first opening and a handful of strong action titles, but it is an analytical readout — not a Storymakers exemplar — because most titles restate survey questions and the deck ends without a recommendation or call to action.”
↓ No recommendation or 'so what' act — deck ends on a data chart (p.38) then methodology, with the closing slide (p.41) reduced to a contact card
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Accenture Tech Vision 2025
“A well-structured thought-leadership report with genuine MECE pillars and strong evidence cadence, but it buries its insights in generic section labels and fades into an appendix instead of landing a recommendation — useful as a teaching example for pillar architecture, not for action titling or closing.”
↓ Duplicated titles ('The Big Picture', 'The Technology', 'What's Next', 'A Portrait of the Future') recur in every section, making the deck unscannable and forcing readers to rely on callouts
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uefa weuro 2025 approaching the summit en may 2025
“Competent EY economic-impact report with a disciplined 5-pillar measurement spine and strong numeric callouts, but the topic-label titles and missing closing synthesis make it a useful exemplar for MECE structure — not for Storymakers action-title or resolution craft.”
↓ Topic-label titles dominate (e.g. 'THE PROFESSIONAL GAME' p.19, 'BROADCAST AND SPONSORSHIP POTENTIAL' p.20) — none of the punchy stats reach the action title
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Accelerating Sustainable and Inclusive Growth
“An ESG compliance report dressed as a deck — front-loaded KPIs and a clean three-pillar spine are usable as teaching examples for section dividers, but topic-label titles, the missing complication act, and a 23-slide appendix tail make it a weak overall Storymakers exemplar.”
↓ Closing collapses into a 23-slide appendix tail (pp.67-89) with no recommendation or forward-looking ask — the deck ends on a CPA assertion (p.87) and a URL (p.89), not an invitation
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Everest Group RCM Operations
“A reprinted analyst-report vendor profile with one good action title (p.4) and six dead topic-label slides — useful as a negative example for Storymakers training on action titles and missing closes, not as a structural exemplar.”
↓ Six consecutive 'Cognizant profile (page N of 6)' slides (p.5–p.10) are a topic dump with zero insight-bearing titles — the reader cannot scan and know what each page claims
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Parthenon Profit Warnings Q3
“A competent quarterly-report build-up with strong callouts and data, but topic-label titles and a missing recommendation act make it a teaching example of how editorial prose can rescue weak slide titles — not a Storymakers structural exemplar.”
↓ No resolution act — the deck ends on a clickable map (p.13) and contacts page (p.14) with no recommendation or next steps framed as a 'so-what'.
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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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2022 Manufacturing Survey
“A competent survey-results executive summary with a clear thesis on p.4 but topic-label titles and a data-dump close — useful as a teaching example of how analytical credibility alone doesn't make a Storymakers deck.”
↓ Closing slides (p.9-10) are a 2-of-2 data appendix, not a recommendation — no 'where to play / how to win' synthesis
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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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Five global shifts megatrends
“A well-organized PwC point-of-view survey with disciplined parallel pillars but a buried thesis, recycled titles, and no call to action — useful as a teaching example for MECE pillar structure, not for Storymakers narrative arc.”
↓ Five identical 'Possible implications…' titles (p.6/10/14/18/22) — pure topic labels that waste the most-read line on every other slide