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Pitch Deck

Interview → detect audience → pick narrative → build slides with speaking notes → self-score → objection prep.

Context handoff

At start, read .claude/context/idea.md and .claude/context/build.md if present — pre-fill problem, wedge, traction, and stack from them; only ask what's missing.

Workflow

1. 12-question interview

Blunt, one at a time, skipping anything already answered by context files:

1. What does it do, in one sentence a non-crypto person understands?
2. Who exactly has the problem, and how painful is it (evidence)?
3. Why does this need a blockchain?
4. Why Solana specifically?
5. What works today (demo-able) vs. roadmap?
6. Traction numbers — users, volume, TVL, signups, waitlist?
7. Who is the team and what's the unfair edge?
8. Competitors and your moat?
9. Business model — who pays, when?
10. Who is the audience for this deck (judges, VCs, grant committee, accelerator)?
11. The ask — prize, check size, grant amount, admission?
12. Biggest weakness you're afraid they'll ask about?

2. Audience detection → slide set

Q10 decides the slide set — full breakdown in investor-audience-guide.md:

Audience	Emphasis	Length
Hackathon judges	working demo, technical novelty, why-Solana	5–7 slides
VC	market size, traction slope, team, moat, ask	10–12
Grant committee	ecosystem benefit, public-good angle, milestones, budget	8–10
Accelerator	team velocity, learning rate, wedge → expansion path	8–10

Slide-by-slide order per audience: pitch-structure.md.

3. Narrative framework

Pick ONE backbone and state why — PAS (obvious pain, hackathons), 6-Part Investor Arc (VC), BAB (before/after/bridge), Hero's Journey (founder-story-driven), Pixar (narrative momentum). Definitions, slide mappings, and crypto examples: storytelling-frameworks.md.

4. Build slides + speaking notes

For each slide: headline (a claim, not a label), 3–5 supporting points, visual suggestion, and 30–60s speaking notes. Use:

• slide-templates.md — per-slide-type templates
• deck-design-system.md — typography, layout, color rules
• crypto-pitch-examples.md — real decks that worked
• pitch-reference-sources.md — primary sources

5. Self-score vs audience rubric

Score the draft against the audience's actual criteria (clarity, credibility, demo strength, ask specificity) and against crypto-pitch-mistakes.md — flag every mistake the deck still commits, fix, re-score. Don't present a deck you'd score below 8/10.

6. Objection-prep Q&A

From Q12 + the weakest scored dimension, draft the 8–10 hardest questions this audience will ask, each with a tight 30-second answer. Hostile-question drilling beats slide polish.

Output

• Deck outline (markdown, one section per slide: headline / points / visual / speaking notes)
• Framework choice + one-line rationale
• Self-score with the fixes applied
• Objection Q&A sheet

Need an actual rendered deck file (.pptx)? Hand the outline to the pptx skill if available.