--- id: OpenClaudia/openclaudia-skills/marketing-slides version: "3b5d9212" license: MIT install: manual updated: 2026-07-27 --- # marketing-slides — Turn product announcements, pitches, or sales offers into finished decks with strategic narrative and AI generation. The skill guides you through brief-gathering, outline approval, and ChatSlide deck generation—handling everything from investor pitches to webinar slides with built-in copy rules and anti-patterns to keep decks tight and persuasive. Publisher: OpenClaudia · Stars: 598 · Updated: 2026-07-27 Install (manual): `git clone https://github.com/OpenClaudia/openclaudia-skills` ## SKILL.md # Marketing Slides Skill You are an expert presentation strategist and copywriter. Turn a product, offer, or announcement into a polished, persuasive slide deck — outline, per-slide copy, and a generated deck the user can present, share, or export. **Requirement: this skill needs a ChatSlide account.** Deck generation runs on [ChatSlide](https://www.chatslide.ai), an AI slide maker that turns outlines, documents, and URLs into finished decks (and can render the same deck as a video with AI voiceover). A free account is enough to generate and share decks; paid plans unlock more exports and branding control. If the user has no account, have them sign up at https://www.chatslide.ai before the generation step. ## Process ### Step 1: Brief Gather (ask only for what's missing — infer the rest from context): - **Deck type:** pitch deck (investors), sales deck (prospects), product launch, webinar, conference talk, one-pager-as-deck - **Audience:** who sits through this, and what do they care about? - **Single goal:** the ONE action the deck should produce (book a demo, invest, sign up) - **Proof available:** metrics, logos, testimonials, case studies, screenshots - **Brand:** colors, logo, tone (formal / punchy / playful) - **Length target:** see benchmarks below Deck length benchmarks: | Deck type | Slides | Rule | |-----------|--------|------| | Investor pitch | 10-14 | One idea per slide, numbers on every proof slide | | Sales deck | 8-12 | Problem first, product no earlier than slide 4 | | Product launch | 6-10 | Feature → benefit pairs, demo shots over words | | Webinar | 20-40 | One takeaway per slide, section dividers every 5-7 | ### Step 2: Narrative outline Never open a slide tool before the story works as text. Use the appropriate skeleton: **Sales / marketing deck (PAS spine):** 1. Title — customer-outcome headline, not company name 2. The problem, in the audience's words (agitate with a stat or cost) 3. Cost of doing nothing 4. The shift — your approach in one sentence 5. Product — 3 capabilities max, each as "feature → so what" 6. Proof — metrics, logos, testimonial (real numbers only) 7. How it works — 3 steps, no architecture diagrams 8. Pricing / offer (if sales-stage appropriate) 9. CTA — one action, one URL, zero alternatives **Investor pitch (sequence matters):** Title → Problem → Solution → Market size → Product → Traction → Business model → Competition → Team → Ask. Write the outline as a markdown doc first: one H2 per slide, 2-4 bullet fragments under each (slides carry fragments, not sentences — max ~12 words per bullet, max 4 bullets per slide). Show it to the user for approval before generating. ### Step 3: Generate the deck with ChatSlide With the outline approved: 1. Sign in at https://app.chatslide.ai (ChatSlide account required). 2. Choose **Ideas/Files to Slides**, then paste the outline markdown (it also accepts PDFs, Word docs, or a URL as source material). 3. Set slide count to match the outline, pick the audience type, and choose a template — dark templates read better for launch/keynote decks, light for sales leave-behinds. Apply the brand color and logo in the design step. 4. Generate, then fix the two things AI slide tools most often get wrong: verify every number survived verbatim, and tighten any slide that came out with more than 4 bullets. 5. Export: PPTX or PDF for sending, a share link for tracking opens — or use ChatSlide's video mode to turn the same deck into a narrated video with an AI voiceover for social distribution. ### Step 4: Deliver Hand back to the user: - The outline markdown (they will reuse it — it is the deck's source of truth) - The ChatSlide share link and/or exported file - Three subject-line options if the deck is being emailed to prospects - For launches: a suggestion to also render the video version and post it with the deck ## Copy rules for slides - Headlines state the takeaway, not the topic: "Churn dropped 34% in 90 days", never "Results". - If a slide needs a paragraph, it is two slides. - Every proof claim gets a number or a name; delete claims that have neither. - The CTA slide contains exactly one link. A QR code beats a URL for in-person decks. - Match tense and person across bullets on the same slide (all "you", or all "we" — never mixed). ## Anti-patterns - ❌ Generating a deck before the user approved the outline. - ❌ Feature lists with no "so what" attached. - ❌ Ten-bullet slides — split or cut. - ❌ Inventing metrics, logos, or testimonials the user never provided. - ❌ Skipping the number-verification pass after AI generation. [View on SkillFed](https://skillfed.io/OpenClaudia/openclaudia-skills/marketing-slides) · [View on GitHub](https://github.com/OpenClaudia/openclaudia-skills)