What do I need to use Exec Vs Working Deck?

The working deck (or analysis); The answer, committed:; The executives' currencies; The likely hard questions.

Is Exec Vs Working Deck free to use?

Yes — run it free in the browser playground (no API key needed for the sponsored trial, or bring any provider key), or install it into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and more via npx pm-claude-skills. MIT-licensed and open source.

Exec Vs Working Deck

Q: How do I know the Exec Vs Working Deck output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: The answer lands by slide 2, unhedged; Exactly three evidence pieces survived, chosen in the audience's currency; Methodology compressed to assertion-plus-pointer (unless it's the controversy); The cut ends in risks and a specific ask.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-19 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-cowork

Stop presenting the working deck to executives — the two-deck split (answer-first exec cut vs. exploration-rich working deck), the compression rules from 40 slides to 8, and the appendix strategy that keeps the depth one click away. Use when asked turn this analysis into an exec version, my leadership readout went badly, how do I compress 40 slides to 10 minutes, or what do execs actually want in a deck. Produces the exec cut with the answer-first order, the compression map (what survived, where the rest went), and the Q&A appendix plan.

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What to give it

▸The working deck (or analysis) — the source material; the cut is extraction, not new writing

▸The answer, committed: — the exec cut requires the author to *have* a conclusion — "here's what we found, you decide" working decks first need the conclusion conversation ([executive-summary](../executive-summary/SKILL.md) BLUF discipline; no cut can rescue an uncommitted analysis)

▸The executives' currencies — what this audience weighs (growth? risk? cost?) — the three surviving evidence pieces are chosen in their currency

▸The likely hard questions — each one gets its appendix slide, pre-ordered by likelihood

✅ 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.

✓The answer lands by slide 2, unhedged

✓Exactly three evidence pieces survived, chosen in the audience's currency

✓Methodology compressed to assertion-plus-pointer (unless it's the controversy)

✓The cut ends in risks and a specific ask

✓The appendix is question-ordered and indexed for live retrieval

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not present the diary — the journey structure is for the team that took it

Do not hedge the answer to seem balanced — the risks slide is where balance lives; slide 2 is where the answer does

Do not delete the depth — appendixed rigor answers Q&A; deleted rigor becomes "we'll get back to you"

Do not walk through methodology uninvited — assert, evidence on demand

Do not build the exec cut before committing to the answer — compression can't rescue an analysis that won't conclude

Install

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