A board deck from your numbers
The shape of an ask that turns real quarterly figures into a deck you could put in front of a board. Everything that matters is in what you name: the room, the length, the message, and one thing to avoid.
The ask
Put together a board deck from our quarterly numbers — about ten slides, for the board, built around the three things that actually moved this quarter. No bullet walls. Here are the figures: paste your real quarterly numbers here, straight from the spreadsheet — revenue, costs, cash, and whatever surprised you.
Every clause is doing work. Naming the room — the board — does more for the result than any style instruction, because a deck for the board and a deck for your team are different documents even from identical facts. “About ten slides” bounds the design, so the effort goes into deciding what deserves a slide. “The three things that actually moved” turns your figures into an argument rather than a chronology. And the exclusion is a real instruction: “no bullet walls” changes how the slides are laid out.
The figures have to be yours. A deck built on what you pasted is a deck you can defend in the meeting; one built on placeholders needs a second round before it is useful.
What comes back
First, the plan. Before anything is built, Vresk shows you every slide it intends to make and what each one is for — and every line of that outline is yours to rewrite, reorder, delete or add to, with the cost in plain dollars on the same card. Nothing is built until you say so.
Then the deck is designed: the model decides the structure and what goes on each slide, and on the larger models lays out each slide itself; on the free models Vresk's slide layouts do that part. It renders slide by slide in the panel beside the chat, and you revise it in the conversation: “cut slide four”, “make the opening less corporate”. When it is right, it downloads as a real PowerPoint file — actual slides with actual text boxes you can keep editing.
The full picture — themes, revisions, and where the export fidelity limit sits — is on decks and documents.
Make it yours
- Swap the facts. The same shape works for a sales review, a project post-mortem or a fundraising update — paste the numbers that room needs to see and keep the rest of the ask.
- Change the room. “For the board” is the strongest word in the ask. Make it “for the whole company” or “for a customer” and expect a genuinely different deck from the same figures.
- Follow up narrow. Ask for the change, not the deck again — “cut slide four”, “add a slide on hiring after costs”. Each revision is a version you can step back through.