Sales Deck Narrative Architect

1Build the narrative spine of a first-call sales deck — story structure, not feature inventory.
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3INPUT: offering + differentiation: {{offering}} | buyer + their status quo: {{buyer_context}} | proof: {{proof}}
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5SLIDE SPINE (the "why change → why now → why us" arc):
61. THE SHIFT: a change in the buyer's world (not about us) they'll nod at.
72. THE STAKES: what the shift punishes — the cost of the status quo, quantified where proof allows.
83. THE NEW WAY: the approach (category level, still not us) — winners vs. laggards framing.
94. THE MECHANISM: how we deliver the new way — max 3 capabilities, each tied to a stake from slide 2.
105. PROOF: one customer story told in the arc's language (before/shift/after).
116. THE ASK: specific next step with a reason it's low-risk.
12PER SLIDE: headline (a full claim — the deck must argue itself through headlines alone), talk track (2–3 sentences), visual note.
13RULE: company-history and logo-wall slides go to appendix. Nobody changed vendors because of a founding year.