About this design
Where the QBR style comes from, and what it signals.
QBR distills the conventions of the enterprise quarterly business review, the deck a vendor's customer success team walks an account's executives through four times a year. The research behind it is blunt: a number without a comparison is decoration, so every KPI tile carries a target and a variance chip; a status without accountability is theater, so every at-risk row names an owner and a due date; and titles state the takeaway ('Adoption up 23%, two integrations at risk'), never the topic.
Inter carries headings and prose while IBM Plex Mono sets every numeral in tiles, tables and axis labels so digits align down the column. The palette is a disciplined navy: #1d4f91 primary on a cool #f6f8fb background with #0f2344 headings, and charts draw only from the blue ramp #1d4f91, #4f8fd0 and #8ab6e6, with neutral #98a6ba reserved for prior-period series. Green #1e8e3e, amber #e8a13d and red #c93b3b exist solely as RAG status marks and never appear as chart colors.
This is a format for account managers and customer success teams presenting to customer executives, and for anyone running an internal business review where targets, actuals and risks have to survive scrutiny. The KPI scorecard row is the anchor exhibit; the swimlane roadmap and the renewal timeline carry the forward-looking half of the meeting.
Use it for
- Vendor-side quarterly business reviews with enterprise accounts
- Customer success health checks ahead of a renewal conversation
- Internal monthly or quarterly business reviews with a leadership team
- Account plans that need targets, actuals and risks on the record
Skip it for
- Investor pitches; a scorecard reads as reporting, not a story. Use Midnight Pitch or Traction for fundraising.
- Strategy arguments that build to a recommendation; BCG Style or McKinsey Style handles thesis-driven decks better.
- Creative, brand or campaign reviews; the navy dashboard look is deliberately sober. Lookbook or Memphis gives that work room.
The presentation design prompt
This is the exact text that gets sent to your AI.
Create a presentation in the 'QBR' theme, a customer-success quarterly business review deck built on scorecard discipline. Background: cool off-white (#f6f8fb) with white cards, 40px padding, 16-20px gaps, 8px radius, shadows max 0 1px 2px rgba(15,35,68,.06). Typography: 'Inter' for headings and prose, 'IBM Plex Mono' for every numeral in tiles, tables and axis labels so figures align (both Google Fonts). Every content slide shares one header: a one-line takeaway title in Inter 600 at ~28px in #0f2344 ('Adoption up 23%, two integrations at risk', never 'Usage update'), a soft-blue #e4edf8 chip top-right with the quarter tag in #1d4f91 11px caps, and a 1px #d9e1ec rule; footer: a 10px #66748c line, account name left, 'Confidential' center, page number right. The signature exhibit is the KPI tile row: four white cards (1px #d9e1ec border, 8px radius), stacking an 11px caps #66748c label, a ~34px IBM Plex Mono actual in #0f2344, a 'Target: X' subline, and a variance chip (#1e8e3e on #e6f4ea, or #c93b3b on #fbeaea). RAG status is strict semantics: green #1e8e3e, amber #e8a13d, red #c93b3b as 10px dots or pills ('On track'/'At risk'/'Off track') on tints #e6f4ea/#fdf3e3/#fbeaea, never as chart colors. Charts use only the blue ramp #1d4f91, #4f8fd0, #8ab6e6 with #98a6ba for prior-period series: flat fills, 1px #e7edf5 gridlines, 11px #66748c axis labels. Tables get a #1d4f91 header row in white 12px caps, zebra rows in #f6f8fb, a leftmost RAG-dot column, and Owner and Due on every action row. Title slide is the one dark moment: full-bleed #1d4f91, white Inter 700 'Quarterly Business Review', an account-and-vendor lockup, quarter, date and presenter in #8ab6e6. Executive summary: a 3-zone one-pager, highlights and risks-and-asks cards with 4px #1d4f91 left borders, plus a health scorecard with a ~48px IBM Plex Mono score and a RAG pill. Roadmaps are swimlanes: 140px #e4edf8 lane labels, dashed #d9e1ec month dividers, rounded 6px bars in the blue ramp, navy milestone diamonds; the closer pairs an action table with a renewal card and a navy ask strip. Strictly avoid: red, amber or green as chart series colors; over 6 KPI tiles per slide or tiles without a target and variance line; rainbow or gradient charts, 3D bars, pie charts for trends; topic-only titles; status pills without owner and due date on the row; stock photos, clipart or icon soup; dark backgrounds on content slides; proportional-figure fonts for numbers; heavy borders, drop shadows or corners rounded above 8px.
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 GitHubHow to use this prompt
From copied text to a finished QBR 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 QBR 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 QBR presentation, exportable as PowerPoint or PDF.
Common questions
Working with the QBR presentation design prompt in practice.
