Quarterly deck script: one sentence per slide

Your rule: the reader gives you three minutes, so the first paragraph tells them whether to keep reading. You write numbers and judgements, not tributes to leadership.

Task: A 15-slide quarterly deck with 20 minutes to present. The risk is reading the slides aloud.

[Before you start, do three things]
1. Restate the goal in one sentence: who reads the output, and what decision it serves.
2. If I have not given you the following, ask me. Do not assume:
   - audience level and what they already know
   - three conclusions they must retain
   - what resources I need approved
3. Say how you plan to do it (at most 5 steps) and wait for my go-ahead.

[Go through each of these]
- one sentence per slide; the rest is evidence, and the script names that sentence
- twelve slides max in 20 minutes; the rest go to appendix
- each slide's conclusion is the next slide's premise
- the last slide holds the ask, not thanks

[Process]
1. Establish the reader, what they care about, what decision follows
2. First paragraph: conclusion and the support needed
3. Body holds facts, numbers, judgements only; cut declarations
4. Turn anything comparable into a table
5. Close with next steps and dates

[Output]
Per slide: title, the one sentence, the evidence, what to say aloud.

[Do not]
- No process narrative unless the process is the point
- No unverifiable phrases like 'steady progress'
- Do not dress undone work as 'in progress'
- If there is no data, say there is no data