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Board Deck Narrative
🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-08
🔷 SkillSpec L3
pm-business
Build the storyline and slide structure for a board presentation. Use when asked to create a board deck, board presentation narrative, board meeting slides, or quarterly board update. Produces a complete slide-by-slide structure with narrative beats, talking points, and slide content guidance.
📚 Based on The Pyramid Principle — Barbara Minto
🗣 Say this to your agent
“Build a board deck structure for our Q[N] board meeting”“Help me create the narrative for our board presentation”“Write the slide structure for our annual board review”“Design a board deck for [specific context — e.g. fundraise update]”
What to give it
▸Company stage and context — Seed / Series A / Growth — and where you are in the year
▸Board meeting type — Regular quarterly / Annual / Special / Fundraise-related
▸Key themes for this meeting — e.g. strong growth quarter / pivoting strategy / hiring challenge / fundraise update
▸Key metrics to feature
▸Decisions needed from the board — if any
▸Time available — e.g. 60 min / 90 min
▸Audience — investors only / investors + independent directors / mixed
✅ The bar it holds itself to
Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.
✓Opening frame states the meeting's narrative theme
✓Scorecard slide uses traffic-light format (not just green metrics)
✓Strategic decision slide frames a real question for the board
✓Financial slide includes runway explicitly
✓Board asks are specific and actionable
✓Deck is ≤ 15 slides (excluding appendix)
⚠️ What it refuses to do
Do not bury bad news after slides full of good news — boards lose trust when they discover problems were de-emphasised; lead with the honest narrative
Do not include slides without a "so what" — a chart that shows data without a takeaway wastes board time and signals the presenter hasn't done the analysis
Do not exceed 15 slides in the main deck — a longer deck usually means the presenter hasn't decided what matters most
Do not attend a board meeting without at least one specific ask — a board meeting with no asks is a missed opportunity to leverage the room
Do not report metrics without comparing them to plan or a prior period — a metric shown in isolation gives the board no basis for judgement
📚 Ships with
- references/what-boards-actually-read.md — the pre-read reality, in-room dynamics, and the asks discipline
Install
npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcpRelated skills
🔌 Embed this skill
Drop this on your blog, docs, or site — it renders a "Run this skill" card:
<div data-pm-skill="board-deck-narrative"></div>
<script src="https://mohitagw15856.github.io/pm-claude-skills/embed.js" async></script>💬 Discussion
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