executive-slide-skill

Executive Slide Generator

Management-consulting-grade slides and decks, rendered as interactive React artifacts in Claude.ai and written as .jsx files in Claude Code.

An Agent Skill for Claude Code and Claude.ai that produces .jsx slide decks to MBB consulting-academy standards: pyramid-structured storylines, action titles, Chart.js charts with labeled axes and sources, and flat WSJ-style layouts. Built on the Agent Skills standard.

What It Does

Give Claude a strategic insight, dataset, or business question — and it storylines, plans, and renders a consulting deck:

• Storyline first: governing thought, MECE argument branches, and an action-title list that passes the headline-flow test before any slide is designed
• Per-slide planning: message, evidence, layout pattern, and chart type declared and checked against hard rules before rendering
• Real charts: every chart is Chart.js — correct type for the comparison, labeled axes and units, benchmark lines labeled on the chart, sources cited
• Executive copy: a mandatory humanizer pass strips AI-isms and filler; titles are complete "so what" sentences
• Hard self-check: a per-slide checklist (fonts, sources, chart standards, palette roles) runs before anything is delivered

Architecture

executive-slide/
  SKILL.md                 # Hard rules, workflow, worked examples, self-check
  reference/
    storylining.md         # Pyramid Principle, MECE trees, deck types, headline-flow test
    layout.md              # 1280x720 canvas, grid, title block, 9 layout patterns
    charts.md              # Chart selection matrix, labeling rules, Chart.js patterns
    typography.md          # Integer type scale (15px floor), palette roles
    language.md            # Action-title craft, copy rules, humanizer pass

SKILL.md requires the model to read all five reference files before building anything.

The Standard

• Flat consulting style: white background, brand-color action title with a thin rule, aligned columns, ≥20% whitespace — no cards, shadows, or gradients
• Action titles: every slide title is a complete sentence stating the conclusion ("50% annual growth with declining profitability is unsustainable…"), never a label ("Growth Trends")
• Pyramid + MECE: conclusion first; deck titles alone tell the complete story; 4+ slide decks get a title slide and executive summary automatically
• Chart discipline: chart type matched to the comparison (component/item/time-series/frequency/correlation/waterfall), axes labeled horizontally with units, sources on every slide
• Typography: integer sizes from a fixed scale, nothing below 15px (11pt) anywhere — including inside charts
• Palette roles: primary / secondary / highlight brand colors with assigned jobs, greyscale for context; brand kits adopted when provided, maroon fallback otherwise

Installation

For Claude Code (Personal Skill)

git clone https://github.com/trev0rr/executive-slide-skill.git
cp -r executive-slide-skill/executive-slide ~/.claude/skills/executive-slide

For Claude Code (Project Skill)

mkdir -p .claude/skills
cp -r path/to/executive-slide-skill/executive-slide .claude/skills/executive-slide

For Claude.ai (Custom Skills)

Upload the executive-slide/ folder (SKILL.md + reference files) as a custom skill.

Trigger Phrases

• "executive slide" / "strategy slide" / "consulting slide" / "MBB-style slide"
• "executive deck" / "strategy deck" / "board deck"
• "boardroom-ready" / "partner presentation"

Skill Spec

Contributing

Issues and PRs welcome. If you've found a layout pattern or rule that makes slides better, open a PR.

License

Apache 2.0 — see LICENSE for details.

Created by Trevor James — MBA candidate at Indiana University Kelley School of Business, builder of OPAL.