About this design
Where the Operator style comes from, and what it signals.
Operator is a weekly status report given a fixed visual grammar, drawn from the internal dashboards that ops and growth teams actually use: light gray #F8F9FA canvas, white cards with a 1px #E3E7EB border and 8px radius, no shadows. Nothing decorates; everything reports.
Two IBM type families do the work. IBM Plex Sans for headings and body copy in near-black #23292F, and IBM Plex Mono for every number in the deck, right-aligned. The RAG chips, small rounded pills with a 6px dot and an uppercase bold label, use green #12B76A, amber #F79009 and red #F04438 on a 10-percent tint of the same color. Status color appears only for status: in a chart or decoration, it trains the reader to stop trusting the chips.
Pick Operator when the meeting has a decision to reach in the next 30 minutes and the audience already knows the context. It is not a persuasion deck. It is the output of a system, formatted so that nothing hides.
Use it for
- Weekly ops reviews and growth-program status meetings
- Engineering incident postmortems with RAG status
- Cross-functional program tracking across multiple owners
- Internal reporting where reading speed matters more than visual polish
Skip it for
- External client or investor presentations where impression matters
- Topics with qualitative or narrative content that needs room to breathe
The slide design prompt
This is the exact text that gets sent to your AI.
Create a presentation in the 'Operator' theme, a weekly ops status report. Background: light gray (#F8F9FA) with white (#FFFFFF) cards, 8px radius, 1px #E3E7EB borders, no shadows. Typography: headings and body in clean 'IBM Plex Sans' with near-black ink (#23292F) headings; every number in 'IBM Plex Mono' (both Google Fonts), right-aligned. Signature motifs: RAG status chips, small rounded pills holding a 6px dot plus an uppercase bold label, ON TRACK in green #12B76A, AT RISK in amber #F79009, BLOCKED in red #F04438, each chip on a 10% tint of its color; compact data tables with zebra rows alternating white and #F8F9FA; slim 8px rounded progress bars colored by status with mono percentage labels; KPI tiles pairing a large mono value and a green or red delta with a tiny bar sparkline whose latest bar is blue #2E90FA. Header on every slide: title left, mono reference code right, hairline rule beneath. Strictly avoid: gradients, drop shadows, decorative illustration, serif fonts, centered body text, status colors used for anything except status. 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 Operator 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 Operator 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 Operator presentation, exportable as PowerPoint or PDF.
Common questions
Working with the Operator slide design prompt in practice.
