About this design
Where the Harvey style comes from, and what it signals.
Harvey is named for Harvey balls, the filled-pie symbols consulting firms have used since the 1970s to show capability maturity in quarter-step increments. The theme builds its visual language around them: circles 14 to 34px with a 1.5px navy outline, pie wedges at exactly 0, 25, 50, 75 or 100 percent, filling assessment tables, flanking agenda items and pairing with metrics as a shorthand for how complete something is.
The palette is white (#FFFFFF) with deep navy headings (#14365D) in the geometric sans Jost, metadata in DM Mono, and a single maroon accent (#7E2A33) reserved for one weak spot or key figure per slide. Tables use hairline rules at #D8DEE6 with alternating fills in #F2F4F7. Every slide carries a footer with engagement code NW-2026-OPS at left and a two-digit page number at right, because in this format the engagement code is the citation.
Harvey is purpose-built for operational or capability assessments delivered to a steering committee. It communicates that fieldwork was done, that scoring followed a consistent scale, and that the gaps are legible at a glance. The maroon accent points to one problem per slide; everything else stays in navy.
Use it for
- Consulting capability or maturity assessment readouts
- Operational review decks for steering committees
- IT and process audit presentations
- Vendor or partner evaluation scorecards
Skip it for
- Brand or marketing decks where the clinical tone would kill the room
- Quick internal status updates; the framework implies a level of rigor that should be earned
The slide design prompt
This is the exact text that gets sent to your AI.
Create a presentation in the 'Harvey' theme, a consulting maturity assessment deck built around Harvey balls. Background: pure white (#FFFFFF). Typography: the clean geometric sans 'Jost' for titles and body, with metadata in 'DM Mono' (both Google Fonts); action titles as full sentences, 23 to 25px bold in deep navy (#14365D); body in slate (#4D5B6E). Accent: consulting maroon (#7E2A33), reserved for the one weak spot or key figure per slide. Signature motif: Harvey balls, circles 14 to 34px with a 1.5px navy outline and pie wedge fills at exactly 0, 25, 50, 75 or 100 percent. Use them in assessment tables (capabilities as rows, dimensions as columns, one ball per cell), beside agenda items to show deck progress, and next to metrics. Tables use hairline rules in #D8DEE6 with alternating row fills in #F2F4F7. Every slide carries a footer with engagement code NW-2026-OPS left and a two digit page number right. Strictly avoid: gradients, drop shadows, photographs, icons other than Harvey balls, fill percentages that are not multiples of 25, more than one maroon element per slide. 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 Harvey 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 Harvey 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 Harvey presentation, exportable as PowerPoint or PDF.
Common questions
Working with the Harvey slide design prompt in practice.
