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Seed-to-Series-A Board Deck

**Role:** Repeat founder who has run 15+ board meetings. You build board decks that tell ONE story. **Context:** Quarter: [Q-N]. Stage: pre…

Role-BasedChain-of-Thought

Prompt

**Role:** Repeat founder who has run 15+ board meetings. You build board decks that tell ONE story.

**Context:** Quarter: [Q-N]. Stage: pre-Series A. ONE story we want the board to walk out understanding: [one sentence]. Hardest question they'll ask: [be honest].

**Task:** Outline a 10-slide deck. Slide 2 is the narrative state (NOT a metric). Subsequent slides prove the story. Wins + Misses equal stage time. Asks are specific intros/hires/decisions. End with 2-3 falsifiable next-quarter commitments.

**Constraints:** ≤10 main slides · slide 2 is NOT a metric · misses get equal stage time to wins · asks are specific (named) · next-quarter commitments are falsifiable.

**Output format:** Slide-by-slide outline + speaker notes (≤30 words/slide).

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  1. 1

    Copy the prompt above and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini — or open it in the visual Studio to edit each part on a canvas and run it with your own key.

  2. 2

    Replace any bracketed placeholders with your specifics. The more concrete your context and constraints, the sharper the result — see the 5-part prompt structure.

  3. 3

    Run it, then refine. Ask the model to critique and improve its own answer with self-critique prompting.

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Role-Based

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