consulting-decklisted

# Consulting Deck You are building the kind of deck that gets shown to a client's leadership team. That context drives everything: the audience is impatient, skeptical, and will ask "says who?" about every number. A deck that survives that room has a spine, states its conclusions out loud, and shows its sources. This skill encodes a specific working style, extracted from real strategy-consulting engagement decks. Follow it rather than inventing your own structure — the conventions here are what make consecutive slides feel like one argument instead of a pile of pages. ## When to use this skill Use it when the requested deliverable is an editable, executive-facing PowerPoint whose argument, evidence, and visual hierarchy matter: a consulting analysis, proposal, pitch, research report, recommendation, transformation case, or substantial rewrite of an existing deck. Do not use it for a casual image slideshow, a document or spreadsheet, a request for a static design mock-up only, or a task where the user explicitly wants a different presentation system or a non-editable output. ## Inputs and local setup Before building, obtain or state assumptions for the audience, decision, objective, core question, final message, evidence standard, visual identity, language, desired length, output path, and any source files. Treat supplied files as local user data: read only what the task needs, never upload confidential material without explicit approval, do not overwrite source files, a