Business & Operations · 20 prompts

The Pitch Deck Builder

A clear story for investors, partners and grant panels.

20 prompts for startup founders: problem and solution framing, market sizing logic, business model, slide-by-slide deck, one-pager, investor emails, Q&A prep and pitch rehearsal. No promise of funding; the prompts sharpen your story.

What's inside

Every prompt in the PDF, listed by section.

Story

  1. 01One-liner
  2. 02Problem slide
  3. 03Solution and why now
  4. 04Market sizing logic
  5. 05Business model
  6. 06Competition
  7. 07Traction slide
  8. 08Team slide
  9. 09The ask

Deck

  1. 10Slide-by-slide deck
  2. 11Design notes
  3. 12Demo slide

Outreach

  1. 13One-pager
  2. 14Cold investor email
  3. 15Warm intro request
  4. 16Investor update

Pressure test

  1. 17Investor Q&A
  2. 18Weakest slide
  3. 19Pitch script
  4. 20Grant/accelerator version

Sample prompts

Three of the 20, so you can see how specific they are. The PDF has the rest, plus a short introduction.

Story

One-liner

Write 10 one-line descriptions of [startup] in the format '[product] helps [customer] [do something] by [how]'.

Story

Problem slide

Help me describe the problem for [customer] with a short story, a fact I should source, and why existing solutions fall short.

Story

Solution and why now

Explain our solution [description] and why now is the right time, in 3 sentences each.

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