Consulting · 9 slides
A consulting presentation takes a client from a problem to a decision: it gives the answer first, backs it with analysis and ends with what the client has to decide. This template has nine slides: a cover, an executive summary, the situation in one chart, the causes, a prioritization of measures, three options compared, a roadmap, the business case and the decisions you ask for. Every content slide has an action title, a full sentence that states the finding.
For consultants, advisory firms and freelancers who present findings to a client's management, and for internal strategy and finance teams who work the same way.
9 slides
What each slide has to achieve and what to put on it. Scroll through, or open the deck and present it.
A consulting deck travels. The client forwards it to colleagues who were not in the room, so the cover names the project, the audience and the date and says who wrote it.
Decisions are made on the first pages. Situation, problem, recommendation and the ask belong on one slide, so a board member who reads only this slide can still decide. The rest of the deck is the proof.
Before anyone argues about causes or fixes, the room has to share the facts. One chart, ideally a bridge or a trend, shows the problem. The title says what the chart shows, so nobody has to read the axes first.
Each bar of the situation chart gets one cause, and each cause gets an owner. A cause nobody can change is background, not a finding. Three or four causes that add up to the problem convince more than ten that do not.
Shows how many ideas were considered and why a few were kept. The reader sees the whole field, including what you dropped, so the question “did you look at X” is answered before it is asked.
A board decides between options, not between opinions. Three complete options, scored on the same criteria and with your recommendation marked, make the choice visible. Options that differ only in size are not options.
Turns the recommendation into a plan the client can hold you to. Parallel workstreams on one time axis show dependencies, and a first checkpoint after 90 days gives the board a point to stop or adjust.
The CFO tests this slide hardest. Four numbers and the assumptions behind them let the CFO challenge the model instead of the conclusion.
A consulting deck ends on the decision, not on a summary. Each ask has to be specific enough to answer with yes or no in the meeting: an amount, a name or a date.
Brief
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Create a 9-slide consulting presentation for the management board of [client], presented by [firm] on [date]. Slide 1: cover with the project name, the audience and the date. Slide 2: executive summary with the recommendation in one sentence including its number, the situation in two sentences and the decision we ask for. Slide 3: a waterfall chart that bridges [metric] from [year] to [year] across [four drivers], with a two-sentence takeaway. Slide 4: the four causes behind those drivers, each with one number and what [client] can change. Slide 5: a matrix of [number] candidate measures by impact and effort, with the selected ones highlighted. Slide 6: a table comparing three options (A, B, C) on [effect], [one-off cost], [payback], ease of execution and customer risk, with B marked as the recommendation. Slide 7: a roadmap with the workstreams over [number] quarters and a checkpoint after 90 days. Slide 8: the business case with one-off cost, yearly effect, payback and the effect on [margin], with the assumptions in a note. Slide 9: the decisions we ask for today, each with an amount, a name or a date. Write every title as a full sentence that states the finding. Use my real figures; where one is missing, mark it as an assumption instead of inventing it.
Take only the slide titles and read them one after another. If they do not tell the story, rewrite them. A good title is a full sentence with the finding and, where possible, a number: “EBITDA fell €4.7m since 2023 although volume added €3.4m”, not “EBITDA development”.
Clients with little time stop after the summary, so put the recommendation there and use the rest of the deck as proof. Keep each level of the argument to three or four items; ten causes are a list, not an argument.
If a slide needs two titles, split it. Pick the chart that carries the message: a bridge for a change, a line for growth, a matrix for a choice, a table with the same criteria for an options comparison. Delete every element that does not support the title.
The bridge total, the sum of the measures, the one-off cost and the payback should come from one model. A board member who finds one mismatch stops trusting the rest. Add the numbers up again before the deck leaves your hands.
Give the AI your analysis, your numbers or an Excel file and read the result against it. The first result is a complete first version to refine, not a deck to send unread. The AI labels its assumptions, and you stay in charge of every figure, so check the numbers against your analysis before the deck goes out.
FAQ
Give the answer first: an executive summary with the recommendation, then the situation, the causes, the options, the plan and the business case, and end on the decision you ask for. This is the pyramid principle: the conclusion on top, grouped arguments below it, data underneath. The opening slide often follows SCQA, which stands for situation, complication, question, answer. Eight to twelve main slides fit a decision meeting; this template has nine.
An action title is a slide title written as a full sentence that states the finding, such as “EBITDA fell €4.7m since 2023 although volume added €3.4m”. Read in a row, the titles of a deck should tell its story without the slide bodies. A label such as “EBITDA development” names the topic and leaves the finding to the reader.
A chat assistant can draft a storyline and action titles, but the analysis and the client's numbers have to come from you. The AI builds the slides themselves as an editable PowerPoint file from a brief like the one above; it plans the pages with you and builds them once you approve the plan. AI makes mistakes, so check every figure, name and claim against your own analysis before the deck goes to the client.
Yes. Upload your .pptx and the AI reads the theme fonts, colors, layouts and footers. New and changed slides come back as ordinary, editable text boxes, shapes and pictures.
Check your client contract first. To create or change a document, Slaide sends your request and the content it needs through OpenRouter to language-model providers in the USA. Use of your content to train models is excluded by contract. If the contract does not allow processing in the USA, build the deck with placeholders and enter the real figures in PowerPoint afterwards.
No. Tessmar Packaging, Linden Row Advisory and all figures are fictional. The arithmetic is consistent: the bridge adds up to the 2025 EBITDA, the four measures add up to the €4.2m effect and the payback follows from the cost and the ramp-up, so the deck works as a model for your own numbers.
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The pyramid principle by Barbara Minto: give the answer first, group the support and order it. With a worked example and an outline you can reuse for a deck.
Start from this structure, add your numbers and your company's PowerPoint template, and get an editable .pptx.
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