Pitch

/pitch

Read brain/story.md (must exist — run /story first if not). Read brain/problem.md, brain/believers/index.md, brain/interviews/, brain/decisions.md, brain/runway.md, brain/metrics/ (if exists).

If brain/story.md is empty: refuse. "No story captured. Run /story first — the deck is downstream."

The deck (10 slides, YC-style)

Every slide cites specific brain entries. Every. Single. Slide.

Slide 1 — Title

• Project name
• One-line tagline (from brain/story.md "vision" condensed)
• Founder name + handle

Slide 2 — Problem

• 1-3 sentences from brain/problem.md
• ONE verbatim quote from a believer (cite interview file)
• DO NOT include "X% of Y have this problem" stats unless brain/evidence/ supports it

Slide 3 — Customer

• Segment from brain/believers/index.md (top concentration)
• Believer profile: pain, behavior, willingness to pay
• Cite N believers identified

Slide 4 — Solution

• Only what's been validated
• For each feature: which believer asked for it (cite interview file)
• Unbuilt features marked "v1.5 (planned)" — don't pretend they exist

Slide 5 — Traction

• Real numbers from brain/metrics/ and brain/believers/
• Disappointment % if measured (from /pmf-check)
• Retention curve if measured
• DO NOT include vanity metrics (downloads, signups, MAU without retention)
• If traction is thin: write "Pre-traction. N believers identified, MVP launching wk Y." — admit it openly

Slide 6 — Why now

• Founder fills. Claude prompt: "What changed in the world that makes this possible/needed now? Be specific. Don't say 'AI is hot.'"
• If founder can't answer, mark slide WEAK in the assessment

Slide 7 — Team

• Founder fills. Highlight founder-market fit from brain/why.md
• Co-founders: name, role, why-them

Slide 8 — Business model

• Pricing from brain/decisions.md if logged
• Unit economics if /default-alive has been run (cite brain/runway.md)
• If untested: mark "Hypothesis — not yet validated."

Slide 9 — Vision

• 1-3 sentences from brain/story.md "vision"
• The changed world if this works at scale

Slide 10 — Ask

• From brain/story.md "ask"
• Calibrated to brain/runway.md
• Specific number, specific milestone

Output: brain/pitch/deck.md

Markdown format renderable into Keynote / Pitch.com / Slidev / Marp.

For each slide, include a ## Citations block listing the brain entries used.

# <Project name>

## Slide 1: Title
<...>

### Citations
- brain/story.md "vision"

---

## Slide 2: Problem
<...>

> "<verbatim quote from believer>"
> — <Name>, interview #<N>

### Citations
- brain/problem.md (current hypothesis)
- brain/interviews/00X-<name>.md

---
[...]

Honest deck assessment (mandatory after rendering)

Surface weak slides explicitly. The founder needs to see the gaps before a VC does:

DECK ASSESSMENT:
✅ Slide 2 (Problem):    strong — 3 verbatim quotes, specific segment
✅ Slide 4 (Solution):   strong — every feature cites a believer
⚠️  Slide 5 (Traction):   WEAK — only 12 believers, no retention data
⚠️  Slide 6 (Why now):    WEAK — founder didn't fill in, currently generic
✅ Slide 8 (Business):   adequate
❌ Slide 9 (Vision):     generic — needs work before sending

VCs will probe slides 5, 6, 9. Address these before any pitch meeting.

Hard refusals

• Refuses to write TAM if brain/evidence/ doesn't support it. Will write "TAM unknown — to be sized" instead.
• Refuses to write "we are growing N% MoM" without retention data in brain/metrics/.
• Refuses to fabricate quotes. Period.
• Refuses to write "the market is $X billion" without a cited source.
• Refuses to call something a "platform" if brain/decisions.md doesn't show platform decisions.

Why this exists

Most pitch decks are full of made-up numbers and unsupported claims. VCs detect this in 30 seconds. The deck where every claim has a citation is rare and credible.

You're not pitching the deck — you're pitching the story behind it. This skill makes the deck a faithful render of the story: your story, your evidence, your receipts. When a VC asks "how did you arrive at this number?" you have the citation ready.