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Pitch Deck · mkurman | DecimalAI

financeby mkurman

Pitch Deck

mkurman/pitch-deck

Source mkurman/zorai ↗License MIT

When the user wants to create, review, or restructure a fundraising pitch deck for seed or Series A. Also activates when the user mentions "deck", "pitch", "investor presentation", or "slide structure".

SkillScore96Maintained

Automatic

Sales & GTM pack

Last verified 8/21/2026

What it changes

Passed 24 of 25 test cases with the skill, and 20 of 25 without it.

Without skill80%

With skill96%

Checks it passed that the model alone missed

Places Market Size at slide 5 and Traction at slide 7 in the slide sequence.
Uses assertion headlines for slide titles instead of generic category labels.
Places Market Size at slide 5 before Business Model at slide 6 and Traction at slide 7.

and 5 more in the full report

4 fixed20 passed either way1 still failing0 broke

Pass-rate lift: +16 pp
Tokens: +39%
Agent turns: 0%
Response time: -7%

Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 8/21/2026v124 of 25 cases passed with skill

Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.

Use this skill

Save it into your project's skills folder. Claude Code picks it up in its next session.

curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/mkurman-pitch-deck/SKILL.md https://app.decimal.ai/s/mkurman-pitch-deck/SKILL.md

Want it pinned and updatable? pip install "decimalai>=0.15", then decimalai skills add mkurman-pitch-deck, and start Claude Code with claude --plugin-dir "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/.agents"

1 · One-time — install the CLI (docs ↗)

pip install "decimalai>=0.15"

2 · Get the skill — writes .agents/skills/mkurman-pitch-deck/ and pins it in .decimal/skills.lock

decimalai skills add mkurman-pitch-deck

No CLI? Get the same file — curl · raw file

curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/mkurman-pitch-deck/SKILL.md https://app.decimal.ai/s/mkurman-pitch-deck/SKILL.md

Raw file: /s/mkurman-pitch-deck/SKILL.md ↗ · machine-readable summary at /s/mkurman-pitch-deck.json ↗

Safety checks: 3 of 3 passed

Code scan CleanIntent PassedContent Clean

See it in action

One of 4 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.

1 of 4

Prompt

Which specific section of the pitch deck (by slide numbers) is responsible for establishing credibility with investors, and what core elements belong in that block?

What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked	Without skill	With skill
Identifies Slides 4 through 7 as the credibility-building section of the narrative arc.	Missed	Passed
Outlines product, market size, business model, and traction as the elements covered in Slides 4 through 7.	Missed	Passed

case-25 · gemini-3.6-flash · 8/21/2026 · answers are capped and redacted

What's inside

The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.

SKILL.md59 linessingle file

----|---------|-----------------| | 1 | Title / Hook | Company name, one-liner, and a memorable hook stat or image | Burying the one-liner; using a generic tagline | | 2 | Problem | Make the pain visceral and specific to your ICP | Being too abstract; citing a problem everyone already knows | | 3 | Solution | Show what you built and how it eliminates the pain | Feature-dumping; not connecting back to the problem | | 4 | Demo / Product | Screenshot, GIF, or live product walkthrough | Showing the admin panel instead of the user-facing magic | | 5 | Market Size | TAM/SAM/SOM with a credible bottoms-up calculation | Using only top-down "the market is $X trillion" numbers | | 6 | Business Model | How you make money, unit economics, pricing | Not showing actual or projected unit economics | | 7 | Traction | The chart that goes up and to the right | Vanity metrics; hiding the Y-axis; mixing timeframes | | 8 | Competition | Why you win — positioning matrix or comparison table | Claiming "no competitors"; using a 2x2 where you magically own the top-right | | 9 | Team | Founders + key hires, relevant backgrounds | Listing every employee; not explaining founder-market fit | | 10 | Go-to-Market | How you acquire customers today and at scale | Saying "we'll go viral" without a concrete channel strategy | | 11 | Financials / Ask | How much you're raising, use of funds, key projections | Not specifying what milestones the money unlocks | | 12 | Closing / Vision | The big dream — where this goes in 5-10 years | Being too conservative; forgetting contact info |

Narrative Arc Rules

Slide 1-3: Establish tension. The audience should feel the problem before you show the answer.
Slide 4-7: Build credibility. Prove you have a real product with real traction in a real market.
Slide 8-10: Prove defensibility. Show you can win against alternatives and scale.
Slide 11-12: Make the ask and paint the vision. End with ambition, not logistics.

Stage-Specific Guidance

Pre-seed / Seed: Emphasize problem depth, founder-market fit, and early signals (waitlist, LOIs, design partners). Financial projections can be lighter.
Series A: Emphasize repeatable go-to-market, unit economics, and a clear path from current traction to 3-5x growth. Investors expect real revenue data.

Principles

Every slide title should be an assertion, not a label. "We grew 30% MoM for 6 months" beats "Traction".
Remove any slide that does not advance the narrative. If you cannot articulate why a slide exists, cut it.
The deck should be understandable by a partner who reads it at 11pm on their iPad without you presenting.
Use no more than 3 fonts and 2 brand colors. Clutter kills credibility.
Data beats adjectives. Replace "fast-growing" with "3x YoY".

Related Skills

investor-research — use before building the deck to tailor the narrative to specific investor interests
data-room — prepare the backup materials investors will request after seeing the deck
fundraising-email — write the outreach email that accompanies the deck

Track record

Benchmark

24 / 25

test cases passed, vs 20 / 25 without

Adoption

Users: 2
Times used: 24

Safety and source details

SkillSafety

✓ 3 of 3 passed

Code scan15 of 15 checks clean

0 critical · 0 warning · 0 info — scanner v4 — 8/3/2026

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IntentSafe

LLM judge · does the skill do what it claims

ContentClean

LLM judge · policy & harmful-content review

Source

Imported

mkurman / zorai

skills/nontechnical/startup-founder-skills/pitch-deck/SKILL.md

View on GitHub ↗

License MITImported 8/3/2026Version v1

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