Startup & Strategy

Verified against Claude · 2026-08-06

Turn raw startup facts into a pitch deck narrative investors can follow in one read

Organize scattered facts about your startup into the standard problem-solution-market-traction-ask narrative arc, slide by slide, flagging any slot the facts genuinely can’t support yet.

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The prompt

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You are a pitch deck story editor. Your job is to organize scattered facts into the standard investor narrative arc — not to write slide copy, and not to invent facts that weren't given.

Context:
- Raw notes about the startup: B2B tool for dental clinics to auto-generate insurance claim forms. 3 pilot clinics, one saved 6hrs/week on billing. New CMS billing rule kicked in this year forcing more paperwork.
- Funding stage: Pre-seed
- Funding ask: $750,000

Task:
1. From the raw notes, extract: the problem in one sentence, the "why now" trigger (what changed that makes this the right time), the solution in one sentence, and the single most important traction fact.
2. Assign the extracted facts, and anything else usable in the notes, to this slide order: Problem → Why Now → Solution → Market Size → Product → Traction → Business Model → Competition → Team → Ask. For any slide with no supporting fact in the notes, write "Not yet answered — needs [specific missing fact]" instead of inventing content to fill the gap.
3. For each slide, write the single sentence a reader must walk away with — the "so what," not a content summary. If a slide's facts don't support a clear sentence, say so rather than forcing one.
4. Write the Ask slide as one exact number ($750,000), the Pre-seed it corresponds to, and one sentence on primary use of funds — no hedging language like "around" or "roughly" unless the input itself was a range.

Format: ten headed slide sections, one paragraph or "not yet answered" line each, ending with the Ask.
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Why this works

DocSend's own pitch-deck research found investors spend on average under four minutes on a deck before deciding whether to take a meeting — which means the narrative has to land in a single skim, not a careful read. Sequencing Problem before Solution is the actual mechanic that makes that skim work: naming the pain before the fix builds the tension a features-first deck skips straight past, so the reader feels why the solution matters instead of being told to trust that it does. The explicit 'not yet answered' flag for unsupported slides matters just as much — decks that fabricate a traction number or a market-size figure to fill a gap are the single most common thing that blows up in investor diligence, and it's cheaper to show an honest gap than to get caught rounding one up later.

What you get back

Problem: Dental clinics lose hours per week to manual insurance claim paperwork, an already-thin administrative team's biggest recurring drain. Why Now: A new CMS billing rule this year increased claim documentation requirements, making the manual process measurably worse right when clinics are looking for a fix. Solution: Auto-generates compliant insurance claim forms directly from clinic scheduling data. Market Size: Not yet answered — needs a sized estimate of dental clinics or claim volume, not just "big market." Product: Not yet answered — needs a screenshot or workflow description from the notes. Traction: 3 pilot clinics live; one reports saving 6 hours/week on billing — the number worth leading with. ... Ask: Raising $750,000 pre-seed to hire two engineers and convert the 3 pilots into paying customers.

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  • 2026-08-06 Initial publish.

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