About this design
Where the Boardroom style comes from, and what it signals.
Boardroom is the deck your strategy consultant would build. It comes from the McKinsey tradition of the action title: every slide opens with a full sentence that states its conclusion, so a reader can skim the titles alone and follow the whole argument. The title is the point; the slide is the evidence.
The design enforces that discipline. Navy headings (#1F3A5F) and gray body text (#5B6B7E) sit on plain white in Source Sans 3, so nothing competes with the words. Six small squares in the top corner track where you are in the agenda, takeaways sit in pale blue #EEF2F7 boxes with a navy left border, and every slide closes with a sourced footer, because an unsourced number is a bug in this genre.
Use it when the audience decides something at the end. It reads as prepared, conservative and confident, which is exactly what a board, an executive committee or a client steering group expects from a recommendation.
Use it for
- Strategy recommendations and consulting-style reports
- Quarterly business reviews and operating plans
- Board updates where every number needs a source
- Internal memos promoted into decks at the last minute
Skip it for
- Creative portfolios or brand reveals that need personality
- Product launch hype decks; Boardroom refuses to shout
The slide design prompt
This is the exact text that gets sent to your AI.
Create a presentation in the 'Boardroom' theme, a classic strategy-consulting deck. Background: white (#FFFFFF). Typography: 'Source Sans 3' (a Google Font) throughout, a neutral sans; navy headings (#1F3A5F), gray body (#5B6B7E), steel blue accent (#4C7DB5). Every content slide opens with a full-sentence bold action title (24px) stating the slide's conclusion, with a 1px #D5DCE4 rule directly beneath. Top-right: an agenda tracker of six 8px squares, the current slide filled navy, the rest outlined #D5DCE4. Key takeaways sit in #EEF2F7 boxes with a 3px navy left border. Charts: horizontal bars in #A8B6C7 on #EEF2F7 tracks, the key bar navy, values right-aligned. Section slides use a 2x2 matrix with hairline #D5DCE4 axes labeled Effort and Impact, the winning quadrant filled navy with white text. Footer on every slide: hairline rule, 'Source: team analysis · Northwind' left, page number right. Strictly avoid: decorative imagery, gradients, drop shadows, rounded corners, more than two accent colors, vague label-style titles. Use this theme for my slides. Ask me what the presentation is about first, then apply the theme to every slide.View this prompt and its data on GitHub
How to use this prompt
From copied text to a finished Boardroom deck in four moves.
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Copy the prompt
Use the copy button, or open it pre-filled in Claude or ChatGPT with one click from the panel on this page.
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Tell the AI your topic
The prompt instructs the AI to ask what your presentation is about first. A sentence or a pasted outline is enough.
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Generate and iterate
Ask for more slides or swap a layout. The avoid list at the end of the prompt keeps Boardroom on-style while the content changes.
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Or skip straight to a deck
SlideSpeak turns your topic or document into a finished Boardroom presentation, exportable as PowerPoint or PDF.
Common questions
Working with the Boardroom slide design prompt in practice.
