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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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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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WORLD REFUGEE DAY
“A competent Ipsos research deliverable with strong data discipline but weak narrative craft — useful as a counter-example for action titles and closing structure, not as a Storymakers exemplar.”
↓ Slide titles are survey questions, not insights — p.30 'Q. My country's national labour market' should read something like 'Views on labour-market impact split nearly 50/50, with sharpest negativity in Türkiye and Hungary'
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WHAT WORRIES THE WORLD? 2024
“A competently produced survey-data release with disciplined callouts but topic-label titles and no resolution; useful as a teaching example of insight-bearing callouts, not of Storymakers narrative structure.”
↓ Action titles are nouns, not insights — 'Current Economic Situation' repeats verbatim on p.35–46 instead of saying what each country shows
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IPSOS GLOBAL HEALTH SERVICE MONITOR 2023
“A competently structured survey-monitor report — useful as a reference document but a weak Storymakers exemplar because it labels topics instead of arguing a thesis and ends in an appendix rather than a recommendation.”
↓ No recommendation or 'so what' slide anywhere — deck ends on a methodology page (p.44) and a brand slide (p.45)
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Captive Insurance Guide
“A competent educational primer that reads as a topic-ordered brochure rather than a Storymakers narrative — useful as a counter-example for how topic titles and an appendix-heavy close drain persuasive force.”
↓ Every section title is a noun phrase — 'Structures', 'Key players', 'Lifecycle' — none carries an insight or recommendation
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Ipsos Issues Index Mar25 Charts
“A competently executed monthly data tracker, not a Storymakers exemplar — useful as a counter-example of how topic-label titles and a missing synthesis slide flatten genuinely interesting trend data into a chart catalogue.”
↓ No thesis or 'what changed this month' on the opening — the reader has to assemble the story themselves from 16 individual trend charts
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Road to Resilience The 2024 Annual Turnaround Survey 0
“A competent survey-results report with strong statistics but weak storycraft — useful as a teaching example of how topic-label titles and a missing thesis flatten otherwise solid analysis, not as a Storymakers exemplar.”
↓ Opening never states a thesis: p.1–5 is cover/TOC/'Introduction'/'Key Insights'/'Economic Outlook' — five slides to reach the first real data point
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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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mi gtm latam br en
“A reference-grade market almanac with strong data hygiene but no narrative — useful as a teaching example of MECE regional coverage and callout discipline, not of Storymakers structure or action-titling.”
↓ Zero action titles — every page title is a topic label ('Latin America: Politics' p.6, 'U.S.: The Fed and interest rates' p.34) leaving the audience to extract the insight themselves
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Essity Barclays Consumer Staples Conference 2017 tcm339 48081
“A standard investor-conference company overview with a predictable spine but topic-label titles and no narrative tension — use it to teach what to avoid (noun-phrase titles, buried thesis, redundant 'Summary' pages), not as a Storymakers exemplar.”
↓ Opening five slides establish no stakes or thesis — the point is buried until p.9-10
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CO2 Emissions Report
“A solid analytical benchmark report with a strong opening thesis and quantified stakes, undermined by a near-total absence of slide-level action titles and a flat 'Get in touch' close — useful as a teaching example of section-divider discipline and OEM-benchmark structure, but a cautionary case for title craft.”
↓ Title repetition: ~75% of slides recycle the report tagline as the action title, forcing insight into callouts and breaking the Storymakers principle of 'read the titles, get the story'
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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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POPULISM IN 2024
“A rigorous data report dressed as a deck — strong sample and a useful proprietary index, but it reads as a crosstab parade with no recommendation, so it's a counter-example for Storymakers titling and closing rather than an exemplar.”
↓ No recommendation or 'so what' slide — deck ends at p47 on a spending crosstab and then drifts into methodology and corporate boilerplate (p48-51)
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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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International Women's Day 2023 full report
“A clean, well-segmented IPSOS research report that leads with findings but ends without a recommendation — useful as a teaching example of disciplined section architecture and well-written callouts, but a cautionary example of titles-as-survey-questions and missing 'so what' resolution.”
↓ Action titles are survey questions, not insights — p.16, p.17, p.18, p.19, p.20 all share the title 'To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statement?'
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Banking and capital markets trends 2020: Laying the foundations for growth
“A reference catalog masquerading as a deck — useful as a topic checklist for an internal audit team but a poor Storymakers exemplar; cite it only as a counter-example of how topic-labels and pagination suffixes erase narrative.”
↓ Titles are topic labels, not action titles — 88 slides and not one declarative finding in the title bar
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Dissecting the 2021/22 Annual Budget Speech
“A reference-style budget recap with comprehensive data but no story, no point of view, and topic-label titles — useful as a counter-example of analytical dumping, not as a Storymakers exemplar.”
↓ Repetitive boilerplate titles: 17 of 19 slides start with '2022/23 Annual Budget Speech:' — zero declarative action titles
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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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mi guide to alternatives
“A best-in-class market reference compendium that is structurally the opposite of a Storymakers deck — use it to teach chart density and MECE asset-class coverage, but cite it as a counter-example for action titles, SCQA openings, and closing recommendations.”
↓ No SCQA opening — slides 1–5 are cover/team/TOC/two charts, with no thesis or stakes established
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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 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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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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enhaced data extraction using gen ai ey collaboration with wlastic
“A research-paper-styled EY/Elastic case study with a real quantitative payoff buried under topic-label titles and a vacuous conclusion — useful as a counter-example of what action titles and a closing 'R' should fix, not as a Storymakers exemplar.”
↓ Seven consecutive slides titled 'Use case implementation evaluation (Cont'd)' (p.8–13) — the canonical anti-pattern for action titles and section structure
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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)