Presentation

Presentation

Contents: Ideal State · Intent Routing · Data & Config · Gotchas · Examples

Talks, the slides behind them, and sales pitches, in three modes.

• Lecture mode is a talk the speaker reads aloud from start to finish. The text is the content and the slides are there for pacing: a new slide every 15 to 30 seconds keeps the room watching, and each visual either supports the sentence being read or stays quiet. The source is a talk file (READ.md or SCRIPT.md); the deck is Keynote or HTML and is regenerated from it.

• Deck mode is a deck where the slides carry the argument and the speaker glances at short cues. One claim per slide, the archetype chosen from the content, built as an HTML deck on the install's template and served with speaker view.

• Pitch mode turns product documentation into a sales pitch: a first-person value story a buyer can retell, talking points, an elevator pitch, and for a full package a charcoal sketch (Intents/Pitch.md, which absorbed the retired Sales skill).

Pick lecture mode when the speaker says they will read it, or hands over a talk file or dictation to turn into a talk. Pick deck mode for "make me a deck on X". Pick pitch mode for a sales pitch, narrative or package. When it is unclear, ask once.

Ideal State

• Every talk has an ISA before its slides do (principal, 2026-10-21). Its L3 names what the audience believes or does by the end, its criteria hold the time budget (spoken words at about 135 per minute, slide count) and the arc, and every cut, move or added slide traces to L3. A change of thesis updates the ISA first, then the order and the script.
• The speaker gets a deck they can present from: in lecture mode the notes are the talk file word for word, in deck mode every slide carries one claim and glanceable notes, and the talk file or script stays the one source the deck is rebuilt from.
• Everything real the talk names is on screen as itself: the speaker's registered things (RealThings.json) with their registered picture, everything else sourced through Intents/MediaSourcing.md. Every outside picture and clip has rounded corners (12 pt in Keynote, 12 px in an HTML deck) and its credit (film and year, site, publisher) in the small bottom-left source line, never the subtitle.
• Generated art appears only where it carries something words cannot, and every number on a chart was verified this session or its source line says "illustrative". In lecture mode, on-slide text is a few words that echo the line being read, and where a visual adds nothing a plain text slide is right.
• Every slide passes the layout and playback checks in code (balanced, pictures filling the space they were given and never crowding the title, nothing overlapping, no large empty band, nothing waiting for a click) and was looked at as rendered pixels.
• A pitch tells one value story a buyer can retell, every product claim traced to a line in the source docs, with no feature-list sentence, and its sketch carries the same register and idea (Intents/Pitch.md).
• No deck reaches the speaker as a first draft: its slides passed a slides critique (References/QualityLoop.md) and it arrives through Deliver.ts or as a served URL with the human-only keys stated.