AI critiques

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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78 title quality
Bain · 2023 · 14p
e-Conomy SEA 2023 report: Vietnam
“A descriptive country-brief excerpt with strong action titles but no resolution act — useful as a teaching example for insight-bearing titles and market-sizing pacing, not for full Storymakers arc structure.”
↓ No recommendation or CTA — the deck ends on a funding data point (p.7) rather than an implication or next move
78 title quality
Bain · 2017 · 21p
Fast Forward Route to Consumers
“A well-argued Bain point-of-view on luxury design retail with strong action titles and a clear tension-to-framework build, but it fizzles at the close with no recommendation — use slides 2-10 as a teaching example of analytical setup, not the ending.”
↓ No closing recommendation slide — p.21 is just the Bain logo, so the framework on p.19-20 has no 'therefore, do X' payoff.
78 title quality
Bain · 2019 · 17p
Engaging Your Organization to Deliver Results
“A competent thought-leadership talk with strong declarative titles and well-placed stats, but it lacks section dividers and a prescriptive close — use its action titles and stat-anchored slides as teaching examples, not its overall skeleton.”
↓ No section dividers across 17 pages — the MECE pillars of the engagement model are implicit and the reader has to reconstruct the structure
78 title quality
Deloitte · 2024 · 13p
Private company outlook: Productivity
“A competent but inert survey-findings report with above-average action titles and a strong opening stat — use it as a teaching example of declarative titling, not of narrative arc, because it has no Resolution act and ends on boilerplate.”
↓ No closing recommendation or 'so what' — p.12 is just another finding, then p.13 is boilerplate
78 title quality
LEK · 2020 · 189p
Infrastructure beyond COVID-19
“A well-titled, metric-rich sectoral reference document whose analytical sections would make a strong Storymakers teaching example for action titles and mini-arcs — but it fails as an argument because it ends on 'Future directions: Waste' instead of a unified national recommendation.”
↓ No overall closing synthesis — the deck terminates on 'Future directions: Waste' (p.187) then a disclaimer, burying the national recommendation that p.6-7 promised
78 title quality
LEK · 2024 · 32p
Mergers and Acquisitions in LatAm: Evolution and prospects
“A well-sourced LatAm M&A market scan with strong action titles and credible data, but it reads as an analytical report rather than a Storymakers deck — use it as an example of declarative titling and country deep-dive structure, not as a model for narrative arc or closing.”
↓ No closing recommendation, outlook, or 'so what' slide — deck terminates on Peru analysis (p.30) then bio + disclaimer
78 title quality
LEK · 2024 · 12p
Perspectives on US Healthcare Inflation Insights from L.E.K. Consulting
“A competent analytical perspective piece with strong action titles and a clean stakeholder-cut recommendation block, but missing the SCQA opening and synthesizing close that would make it a Storymakers exemplar — use p.4/p.6/p.9-11 as title-writing examples, not the overall structure.”
↓ No SCQA setup: the deck jumps from agenda (p.2) straight to a data observation (p.3) with no stated question, stakes, or hypothesis
78 title quality
LEK · 2017 · 9p
Steering Clear of the IT Danger Zones
“A competent short-form Executive Insights brief with strong action titles and a clean recommendation, but the bullish opening undercuts the 'danger zones' thesis — useful as an example of tight title craft, less so as a model of SCQA tension-setting.”
↓ Opening slides (p.2-4) lead with optimism and bury the 'danger' thesis the cover promises until p.5-6
78 title quality
McKinsey · 2023 · 54p
Quantum Technology Monitor
“A high-quality industry monitor with strong action-titled charts, but as a Storymakers exemplar it teaches slide craft (declarative titles, parallel sub-structures) rather than narrative architecture — use individual slides as examples, not the deck as a whole.”
↓ No recommendation or 'next moves' slide — the deck ends at p.50 on a data point, then methodology
78 title quality
McKinsey · 2024 · 15p
Taking Action on Nature Webinar
“A solid analytical webinar deck with quantified action titles in the middle, but it buries the thesis behind front-matter and ends in a tools reference + 'Thank you' instead of a recommendation — useful as an exemplar of declarative chart titles, not of full SCQA structure.”
↓ No recommendation or next-steps slide — closes on 'Thank you!' (p.15) after a tools dump
78 title quality
McKinsey · 2014 · 11p
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
78 title quality
McKinsey · 2014 · 8p
Mining Investment Fragile Conflict
“Compact 8-page executive brief with a coherent S→C→A→R spine and strong numeric titles, but it asks questions instead of leading with the answer and ends on a metaphor rather than a decision — useful as a short-form arc example, not as an opening or closing exemplar.”
↓ P.2 'Central questions' delays the thesis — opening should lead with the answer, not the questions
78 title quality
McKinsey · 2018 · 16p
Outperformers High-Growth Emerging Economies
“A solid MGI-style analytical build with strong action titles and quantified callouts, but it leads with description instead of stakes and ends on a URL — use the title-writing and case-study integration as a teaching example, not the overall arc.”
↓ No explicit complication/tension act — the deck moves from 'here is a fact' to 'here is the framework' without a 'why this matters now' beat
78 title quality
McKinsey · 2022 · 40p
Global Hydrogen Flows
“A well-structured McKinsey analytical report with quantified action titles and a clean section spine, but it buries the recommendation behind framing language and trails into appendix — use the analytical middle (p.10-25) as a Storymakers exemplar, not the closing.”
↓ No explicit recommendation or call-to-action slide near the close — p.34-36 settle for framing ('regions have key roles', LNG parallels) instead of 'do these three things'
78 title quality
OliverWyman · 2018 · 30p
Assessing the Impact of Big Tech on Venture Investment
“A disciplined, evidence-led diagnostic deck with strong MECE pillars and declarative titles, but it buries the recommendation and ends without a call to action — useful as a teaching example for analytical build-up and action titles, not for narrative landing.”
↓ No recommendation or 'so what' slide — the deck ends at p.27 finding and then jumps to appendix, with zero call-to-action or implications slide
78 title quality
RolandBerger · 2016 · 23p
Automated Trucks The next big disruptor in the automotive industry?
“Solid analytical Roland Berger short-version with strong quantified action titles in the economics section, but it withholds the thesis up front and dribbles out the recommendation — use p.11-15 as a teaching example for action titles, not the overall arc.”
↓ No leading 'answer slide' — the core recommendation is never stated in the first 3 pages; p.2 'THE BIG 3' withholds rather than reveals
78 title quality
RolandBerger · 2016 · 34p
Bike Sharing 4.0
“A competent thought-leadership deck with above-average action titles and a real recommendation, but the missing six-factor scaffolding and absent section dividers keep it from being a Storymakers exemplar — useful as a teaching case for action-title writing, not for narrative architecture.”
↓ The 'six factors' promised on p.3 are never explicitly enumerated or used as section dividers, so the analytical core (p.19-26) loses MECE clarity
78 title quality
RolandBerger · 2023 · 12p
Destination unknown: The future of long-distance travel
“A competent analytical brief with crisp action titles and a strong opening contradiction, but it stops at 'analysis' and never delivers the Resolution — useful as a teaching example for action-title contrast structure, not for full SCQA arc.”
↓ No closing recommendation: the deck ends on p.11 data and an authors page, with the implication that 'providers need digital tools' never expanded into a Resolution act
78 title quality
RolandBerger · 2021 · 59p
Megatrend 2 Health & Care
“A well-titled, evidence-rich trend compendium with a clean SCQA setup and a real recommendation close — useful as a teaching example for action titles and quantitative callouts, but its 40-slide undivided analytical middle makes it a weak structural exemplar of MECE pillar architecture.”
↓ 40+ consecutive analyze_data / industry_trends slides (pp.12-54) with no breather, summary, or pillar divider — reads as a topic dump rather than a story
78 title quality
RolandBerger · 2021 · 17p
Romanian E Mobility Index REI 4 (Fourth Edition)
“A competent index-update deck with strong action titles and answer-first opening, but it stops at analysis and never lands a recommendation — useful as a teaching example for declarative titles, not for full Storymakers arc.”
↓ No recommendation or 'so what' slide — deck ends on a methodology explainer (p.15) and authors (p.16)
78 title quality
RolandBerger · 2017 · 86p
The overall positive sentiment was also reflected in the supplier valuation levels that still trade above their long-ter
“Strong analytical build-up and disciplined 5-pillar challenge section, but the recommendation is buried until p60 and the deck tapers into a contact slide — use sections 1 and 3 as Storymakers exemplars, not the overall arc.”
↓ Buries the recommendation — 'answer-first' is violated at deck level: the 8-element transformation framework only appears at p60/86 and the executive summary on p3-4 doesn't preview it
78 title quality
RolandBerger · 2021 · 11p
What if inflation rates remain at current levels? Roland Berger Institute
“A well-titled, coherent thought-leadership paper with a clear point of view at the end, but it reads as an analyst's essay rather than a Storymakers deck — use pp.2-6 as a teaching example for action titles, not as a structural template.”
↓ No 'so what' for a business audience — the deck diagnoses inflation but never translates implications into client actions
78 title quality
SimonKucher · 2023 · 74p
Global Automotive Study 2023
“A well-titled, evidence-rich research-report deck whose per-slide craft is exemplary but whose overall arc is a parallel-themed survey rather than a Storymakers SCQA build — use the action titles and per-section 'How to act?' pattern as teaching examples, not the opening or closing.”
↓ Opening buries the lede — pages 1-5 are admin/methodology before the first insight on p.6
78 title quality
Strategy_and · 2024 · 10p
South Africa Economic Outlook 2024 Turning short-term crises into opportunities for business value creation and societal
“Solid thematic-essay deck with disciplined action titles but no closing synthesis — useful as a teaching example for sentence-style titles, not for end-to-end narrative architecture.”
↓ No closing synthesis or explicit call-to-action — p.10 is a contacts page, not a 'so what' slide