The prompt
Score 10 of 10, Excellent
Use it when You have a deck full of bullet points and charts and need a document people can read on their own, without the presenter in the room.
- {{document_type}}
- {{audience}}
- {{slides}}
- {{chart_descriptions}}
- {{length}}
- {{ask}}
Full prompt and why it works
Prompt
Turn the slide deck below into a written {{document_type}}, for {{audience}}, so that someone who never saw the presentation can read it on their own and understand the argument, the evidence and what is being asked of them. Slides rely on a presenter to connect the points; the document has to do that connecting in full sentences. Slide text, with speaker notes if there are any, slide by slide: """ {{slides}} """ What the charts and tables on the slides show, if the text above does not include it: """ {{chart_descriptions}} """ Length: {{length}} Decision or action the readers need to take, if any: {{ask}} Write it like this: 1. A summary of three to five sentences at the top: the main point, the key evidence and the ask. 2. The body in prose, organized by the argument rather than slide by slide. Merge slides that make one point, and turn bullet fragments into sentences that say how each point leads to the next. 3. Short headings where the topic changes, written as statements, for example "Returns fell after the sizing guide launched" rather than "Returns". That example shows the form only. 4. Numbers from the charts written into the text with their period and unit, and a table only where several figures need comparing. 5. The ask or next steps at the end, with owners and dates if the deck gives them. Leave out agenda slides, section dividers and "thank you" or "questions" slides. A good result reads as if it had been written as a document from the start, and every claim in it can be traced to a slide. Do not add facts, figures, causes or recommendations that are not in the slides or speaker notes, and do not turn a bullet into a stronger claim than it makes. Where a slide is too terse to turn into a sentence without guessing its meaning, such as a bullet that reads only "Q3 risk", write the closest faithful sentence, mark it [CHECK: slide number], and list all such places at the end. If a chart is mentioned but not described, write [CHART ON SLIDE number: what it shows] instead of inventing its numbers.
Variables
- {{document_type}}
- What to produce, for example "two-page memo" or "report for the board pack".
- {{audience}}
- Who will read it, for example "board members who missed the meeting".
- {{slides}}
- The text of every slide in order, with speaker notes, copied or exported from the deck.
- {{chart_descriptions}}
- What each chart or table shows, with its numbers, if the slide text does not include them. Write "included above" if it does.
- {{length}}
- For example "under 1,200 words" or "two pages".
- {{ask}}
- What readers need to decide or do, or "none, for information only".
Why it works
- What good looks like. The result has to read as if it were written as a document and still trace every claim to a slide, which stops the edit from inventing the links a presenter used to supply.
- If unsure. Terse bullets and undescribed charts are marked [CHECK] or [CHART ON SLIDE] instead of being expanded into guesses.
- Format. A summary up front, prose organized by argument and headings that state the point turn a deck into something people can read without the speaker.