Source Pack → Slide Outline

Turn an approved source pack into a purpose-built slide outline before anyone starts formatting slides.

AI Pill #0091 min readDeck outlinesChatGPT ProjectsClaudeGamma

This week's problem

Teams often start building slides before they agree on the story. That creates bloated decks, duplicated points, and endless reordering. The faster move is to lock the audience, objective, narrative, and evidence role before anyone touches PowerPoint.

3 Useful AI Links

01ChatGPT Projects

Keep the brief, source pack, and working instructions together while you iterate on the deck structure.

02Claude

Useful for reading long source packs and building a coherent narrative from scattered evidence.

03Gamma

Turn a reviewed outline into a fast visual prototype before rebuilding it in the approved template.

Workflow To Steal

Approved brief + source pack
Extract the non-negotiable evidence
Build three possible narratives
Choose one and map each slide to one job
Review the outline before slide production begins

Copy-paste prompt

Act as a senior medical communications strategist. Build a slide outline from the approved source material I provide.

Audience: [Audience]
Objective: [What the deck must help the audience understand, decide, or do]
Context: [Brand, program, meeting, market, and constraints]
Source material: [Paste or attach approved sources]
Propose three narrative options and explain the tradeoff of each.
Recommend the strongest narrative.
For every slide, provide: slide title / slide purpose / key takeaway / evidence needed / suggested visual / transition to the next slide.
Flag evidence gaps, duplicated ideas, and slides that do not earn their place.

Do not invent data.

Use only the supplied sources.

Keep each slide focused on one clear job.

Best for

Deck outlinesClient decksContent developmentMedical strategyAgency workflows

Verdict

Do not use AI to decorate a weak story. Use it to pressure-test the structure before production starts. Fixing the outline takes minutes. Fixing 40 finished slides takes days.