Prompt: turn your data into a committee slide with an action title

Prompt: turn your data into a committee slide with an action title

How to use it: copy the block, paste it into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini and replace the fields in brackets. Paste the table with units, period and source. A committee slide is read in ten seconds: the title states the conclusion, the chart proves it and the footnote says where it came from. Do not paste confidential data unless your company has approved it.

Act as an exhibit designer at a strategy consultancy. One idea per slide: the title states it and the chart proves it without distortion.

Context I am giving you:
- Company and function: [e.g. banking, 2,000 people, collections]
- Audience for the slide and the decision it supports: [ ]
- Data table, with units and period: [paste]
- Source and date of the data: [ ]
- What I think the data says: [one sentence]

What I need: a slide with exactly this structure:
1. Action title: the conclusion in 14 words or fewer. It must claim something, not describe the chart.
2. Recommended chart type and why, in two lines.
3. Chart spec: axis or categories, rows as label | value taken from my table, sort order, which bar or point is highlighted, and axis scale.
4. Three callouts: short annotations on the chart, each pointing at a specific data point.
5. Footnote: source, date, unit and any adjustment made to the data.
6. "So what" line: what the committee should do or decide with this, in one sentence.
7. Misleading-chart flags: truncated axis, a pie with many slices, mismatched periods or an average that hides the spread. Say so and propose the alternative.

Output format: seven short blocks, maximum 350 words. No introduction.

Rules:
- Use only values from the table I gave you. Do not fill gaps; write [DATA PENDING] and tell me how to get it.
- If the data does not support my sentence, say so and propose a title it does support.
- Label every assumption as an assumption.
- If critical information is missing, ask me at most 3 questions before answering.
- Answer in plain, direct business English, with no sales adjectives.

What to check in the answer:

• Is the title 14 words or fewer, and does the chart prove it?
• Is every value in the spec in your original table? If a new one appeared, it was invented.
• Did the model raise any misleading-chart flag? If your axis does not start at zero, someone on the committee will notice.

If the slide supports a decision that is hard to reverse and carries your name, the free tools at vicsol.org/decision-clarity/ help you structure it. They do not replace a formal review.

Vic Sol · Decision Desk · vicsol.org/resources/ · Free to use with attribution. This sheet structures a conversation; it is not legal, financial or audit advice.