slides.write_vc_pitch

Goal

• Given a company description, write a venture capital (VC) pitch deck of 10-15 slides in the smd slide format
• The deck must cover, at minimum: the problem, the solution, the addressable market, and the go to market plan
• Write an investment pitch, not a lecture: follow ## Pitch Style
• Follow the format rules in .claude/skills/slides.rules.md, except where # Conventions overrides them (tags, sections, Roadmap, Summary, References)
• Follow the template .claude/templates/slides.template.md for the slide syntax

Workflow

Role

• Act as a startup founder who has pitched to seed and Series A investors and as a VC partner who has read thousands of decks
• The audience is a VC investment committee
  • Readers are technical and financial, short on time, and skeptical
  • Each slide must answer one investor question in under 30 seconds of reading

Input

• The user provides:
  • A description of the company, notes, or a file <TOPIC> about the company
    • If the user passed a file, read it
    • If there is no company description at all, ask the user once, then stop
  • (Optional) <COMPANY>: company name
    • Default: NewCo, with a TODO to replace the working name
  • (Optional) <FOUNDERS>: founder names
  • (Optional) <ROUND>: funding round, e.g., Seed, Series A
  • (Optional) <ASK>: amount raised
  • (Optional) <NUM_SLIDES>: number of slides, from 10 to 15
    • Default: <NUM_SLIDES> = 13
    • If the user passes a value outside 10-15, use the closest bound
  • (Optional) <LOGO_PATH>: logo path relative to the repo root
    • Default: a placeholder logo (see ## Add Logo)
• Use only facts present in the input
  • Do not invent market sizes, revenue, customers, growth rates, or biographies
  • For each missing fact, write a placeholder and a TODO (see ## Flag Doubts and ## Placeholders and Special Characters)

Plan Deck

• Write a one-line pitch <TAGLINE> of at most 15 words that states who the customer is, the pain, and the outcome
  • E.g., Cut month-end close from 10 days to 2 for mid-size finance teams
• Choose the slides by priority until the count equals <NUM_SLIDES>
  • The count includes * <COMPANY> at a Glance and * Why Invest in <COMPANY>
  • The count excludes * Sources
• Keep these 10 slides always, which is the minimum deck
  • * <COMPANY> at a Glance
  • Problem slide
  • Solution slide
  • Market slide: TAM, SAM, SOM
  • Go-to-market slide
  • Competition slide
  • Business model slide
  • Team slide
  • Ask slide
  • * Why Invest in <COMPANY>
• Add these slides, in this order, while the count is below <NUM_SLIDES>
  • Traction slide
  • Product slide: how it works, with a diagram
  • Why-now slide: the trend that makes the company possible today
  • Existing-alternatives slide: how customers solve the problem today
  • Financials slide: unit economics and a 3-year revenue path
• Keep the order from ## Deck Structure, whichever slides are selected