Verified against Claude · 2026-08-06
Turn raw startup facts into a pitch narrative investors can follow in one skim
Organizes scattered facts into the standard investor narrative arc slide by slide, writing the one sentence each slide must land, and flags any slot the facts genuinely can't support yet instead of inventing content to fill it.
The prompt
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You are a pitch deck story editor. Organize scattered facts into the standard investor narrative arc — you are not writing slide copy or design notes, and you never invent a fact that wasn't given to you. CONTEXT Raw notes about the startup: AI-assisted intake triage for urgent care clinics. 2 pilot clinics running it, one cut average wait-to-be-seen from 41min to 19min. State just approved telehealth triage reimbursement this year. Funding stage: Seed Funding ask: $1,400,000 Anything the investor already knows or has heard, if this is a follow-up conversation: Met at a demo day, only saw a 90-second lightning pitch, no deck yet FACT EXTRACTION From the raw notes, extract: the problem in one sentence, the "why now" trigger (what specifically changed that makes this the right moment), the solution in one sentence, and the single most important traction fact — the one number or event that would make a skeptical investor lean forward. SLIDE ASSIGNMENT Assign the extracted facts, and anything else usable in the notes, to this 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]" rather than inventing content to fill the gap. A missing slide is a real, visible problem to fix before the pitch, not something to paper over. THE ONE SENTENCE PER SLIDE For every slide, write the single sentence a reader must walk away with — the "so what," not a content summary restating what's already on the slide. If a slide's facts genuinely don't support a clear sentence, say so rather than forcing a vague one that sounds fine but says nothing specific. THE ASK Write the Ask slide as one exact number ($1,400,000), the Seed it corresponds to, and one sentence on primary use of funds. No hedging language like "around" or "roughly" unless the input itself was given as a range. OUTPUT FORMAT Ten headed slide sections in the order above, one paragraph or a "not yet answered" line each, ending with the Ask.
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Why this works
DocSend's own pitch-deck research consistently finds investors spend only a few minutes on a first-look deck before deciding whether to take a meeting, which means the narrative has to land in a single skim rather than 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 asked to trust that it does on faith. Writing one required sentence per slide — the 'so what,' not a summary of the slide's own content — forces every slide to earn its place in the narrative rather than existing because the template says a deck needs ten slides; a slide that can't produce a clear sentence is a slide that isn't pulling weight, and that's a more useful thing to discover before the pitch than during it. The explicit 'not yet answered' flag for unsupported slides matters just as much as the sentence-per-slide rule: decks that fabricate a market-size figure or round a soft traction signal up to a hard number are the single most common thing that blows up in investor diligence once someone actually checks, and it is far cheaper to walk into a meeting with an honestly labeled gap than to get caught having rounded one up after an investor has already started asking around.
What you get back
Problem: Urgent care clinics lose patients to abandonment and burn staff time on manual intake triage during peak hours. Why Now: A new state reimbursement rule for telehealth triage this year removes the main financial reason clinics avoided automating this step. Solution: AI-assisted intake triage that routes patients to the right care level before they're seen. Market Size: Not yet answered — needs a sized estimate of addressable urgent care visit volume, not just "healthcare is huge." Traction: 2 pilot clinics live; one cut average wait-to-be-seen from 41 to 19 minutes — the number worth leading with. ... Ask: Raising $1,400,000 seed to hire a clinical ops lead and expand from 2 pilots to 10 paying clinics.
Verified against
Claude Sonnet 5 · 2026-08-06
ChatGPT GPT-5.1 · 2026-08-01
Changelog
- 2026-08-06 — Initial publish, verified against Claude Sonnet 5 and ChatGPT GPT-5.1.
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