Officecli Pitch Deck

OfficeCLI Pitch Deck Skill

This skill is a scene layer on top of officecli-pptx. Every pptx hard rule — visual delivery floor (title ≥ 36pt / body ≥ 18pt / title ≥ 2× body), 12-column grid on 33.87×19.05cm, 4 canonical palettes, chart-choice decision table, connector canon (shape / from / to / tailEnd=triangle), shell escape, resident + batch, Delivery Gate 1–5a — is inherited, not re-taught. This file adds only what fundraising needs on top: stage diagnosis (A / B / C), 5 赛道 arc templates, 10 key-slide recipes (cover / problem / solution / market / product / model / traction / team / financials / ask), pitch-specific numbers convention, a VC ship-check, and a pitch-specific fresh-eyes Gate 6.

When the pptx base rules cover it, the text here says → see pptx v2 §X. Read skills/officecli-pptx/SKILL.md first if you have not.

Setup

If officecli is missing:

• macOS / Linux: curl -fsSL https://d.officecli.ai/install.sh | bash
• Windows (PowerShell): irm https://d.officecli.ai/install.ps1 | iex

Verify with officecli --version (open a new terminal if PATH hasn't picked up). If install fails, download a binary from https://github.com/iOfficeAI/OfficeCLI/releases.

⚠️ Help-First Rule

This skill teaches what a fundraising deck requires, not every command flag. When a prop name, enum value, or preset is uncertain, consult help BEFORE guessing.

officecli help pptx                          # All pptx elements
officecli help pptx                 # Full schema (e.g. chart, shape, connector, picture)
officecli help pptx  --json         # Machine-readable

Help reflects the installed CLI version. When this skill and help disagree, help wins. Every --prop X= in this file has been grep-verified against officecli help pptx — if help adds / renames a prop in a later version, trust help.

Mental Model & Inheritance

Inherits pptx v2. You should have read skills/officecli-pptx/SKILL.md first. This skill assumes you know how to: add slides + shapes + charts + connectors; address by @name= / @id=; quote paths; use batch heredocs; write --prop tailEnd=triangle on every flow connector; and run the 5-gate Delivery Gate. If any of those are unfamiliar, open a pptx v2 session before continuing.

Shell & Execution Discipline

Shell quoting, incremental execution, $FILE convention → see pptx v2 §Shell & Execution Discipline. Same rules verbatim — quote [N] paths, single-quote values containing $ (including $35M, $1.2B TAM in a cover or ask slide), never hand-write \$ \t \n in executable examples, one command at a time. Examples below use $FILE (FILE="deck.pptx").

Single-quote every shape text containing $. --prop text="Series B · $35M" (double quotes) is WRONG — zsh expands $35M → empty, deck renders Series B · M silently. --prop text='Series B · $35M' (single quotes) is right. This is the #1 pitch-deck shell-escape failure mode ($35M, $18M ARR, $1.2B TAM appear on cover/ask/financials/milestones). Gate 2 cannot detect a stripped $35M — no residue. Gate 2b catches common strip patterns; single-quoting PREVENTS them.

What "pitch deck" means here (identity)

A pitch deck is a pptx with a fundraising layer on top: VC-oriented narrative arc, verifiable metrics, stage-appropriate data density, founder-credibility surface. Slides are consumed at ~3 seconds per slide in a live room — the pptx v2 rule. Pitch decks add a second constraint on top: every slide carries one investable proposition. If a slide is "interesting background" that doesn't move the ask forward, cut it. VCs will not. The base pptx rules still apply; pitch decks add six deltas:

1. Stage determines everything. Series A / B / C each dictates slide count, narrative weight, which metrics are must-haves, and tolerance for unit-econ sophistication. A Series A deck with 6 pages of CAC/LTV math reads as over-packaged; a Series B deck missing unit econ reads as incomplete. Pick the stage first — everything downstream follows.
2. Narrative arc beats feature dump. 10 essential slides in a fixed order: cover → problem → solution → market → product → model → traction → team → financials → ask. Out of order = VCs disengage.
3. Numbers are a contract. TAM/SAM/SOM must be clean three-layer; CAC/LTV must have a payback line; ARR ≠ revenue; Use-of-Funds must be a four-bucket pie. Sloppy numbers = round dies.
4. Team slide carries prior companies. Avatar grid alone reads as a student project. Add prior-company logos / names + one-line role. Without this, first-time founders look exactly like first-time founders.
5. Traction chart y-axis starts at 0. A "hockey stick" starting at y_min = 80% of current is a visual lie — VCs who have seen 10,000 decks spot it in 110%, low churn), bottom-up TAM/SAM, pipeline / pilots converted | Bottom-up TAM feels fabricated; CAC not yet meaningful but shown anyway |

| Series B | $5 – $30M ARR | 30 – 100 FTE | 18 – 22 | Traction + Unit econ (30%) + Market + Product + Team + Financials (ask) | ARR curve starting at 0; NRR, CAC, LTV, payback ( 24mo without explanation; Use-of-Funds missing % | | Series C | $30M+ ARR | 100+ FTE | 20 – 24 | Financials + Scale + Moat (40%) + Market expansion + Team depth | Multi-year GAAP, rule-of-40, GM trajectory, international expansion plan, defensibility | No moat slide; revenue growth without margin story; team slide has no prior CEO / CFO | | Bridge / SAFE | any | any | 8 – 10 | Specific bridge reason + runway math + commitments | Prior round context; specific milestone the bridge funds; committed investor amount | Treating a bridge like a Series A — too many slides dilutes the ask |

Decision procedure. From one or two user sentences ("Series B, $18M ARR, 120 customers, $35M raise"), pick exactly one stage row. All later choices in this skill reference your stage: which 赛道 template to pull, which recipes are mandatory vs optional, and which Delivery Gate 6 checks fire.

Corner cases. Bridge rounds & convertibles between A → B are closer to A or B depending on whether the bridge milestone is "finish PMF" (A shape) or "hit unit-econ target" (B shape). "Extension" rounds at the same stage reuse the earlier stage's skeleton and add a one-slide "progress since last round" update.

Non-SaaS stage overrides. The ARR / unit-econ shape of Series B fits SaaS. For other verticals, substitute revenue band + unit-econ equivalent + Gate 6.3 grep:

| Vertical | Revenue "band" at Series B | "Unit econ" equivalent | Gate 6.3 substitute | |---|---|---|---| | Bio / Clinical-stage | pre-rev, 20–60 FTE | burn rate + runway to next milestone (IND / Ph1 readout / BLA) | shape:contains("ORR") OR contains("Pipeline") OR contains("BLA") OR contains("runway") ≥ 1 | | Deep Tech / Frontier | pre-rev or early pilot rev | technical milestones + TRL level + benchmark vs SoTA | shape:contains("TRL") OR contains("benchmark") ≥ 1 | | Marketplace / Network | GMV $10–100M | take rate + cohort retention + liquidity | shape:contains("GMV") + contains("take rate") ≥ 1 | | Consumer hardware | $2–15M revenue (shipped units) | contribution margin + repeat rate + blended CAC | shape:contains("repeat") OR contains("contribution") ≥ 1 |

Substitute the analogue grep when running Gate 6.3 on these verticals. False WARN on SaaS CAC/LTV = expected; real concern = vertical-specific analogue present. Bio Series B decks especially: burn + runway-to-milestone IS the "unit econ" story.

赛道 arc templates (5 families)

5 mainstream verticals. Each one has different slide weights because what VCs require as proof-of-concept differs. Pick the vertical row; the slide skeleton is a copy-able starting point. Slide counts assume the matching stage row above.

(1) B2B SaaS / Enterprise software

Canonical arc — the template most of VC muscle memory is built on. Series B example (20 slides): cover · TL;DR · problem · problem evidence · solution · product loop · market TAM/SAM/SOM · unit economics (CAC / LTV / payback / GM) · ARR trajectory · retention cohort · logo wall · team · competitors · financials 4-year · ask. Must-have: unit-econ slide from Series A onward; logo wall from Series B onward.

(2) Consumer (B2C app / consumer hardware / D2C)

Narrative-driven. Early-stage decks lean on product-experience screenshots + founding story + "why now" market timing; lighter on unit econ (which are usually weaker than SaaS). Series A example (14 slides): cover · hook (30-second product demo or 1-line vision) · problem (lived experience) · solution (product shots) · product-experience flow · "why now" market window · pre-order / crowdfunding / early-sales evidence · retention / engagement (DAU, D30) · market (top-down ok if bottom-up unreliable) · competitive positioning · founder story + team · press / endorsements · financials · ask. Must-have: product visuals on ≥ 3 slides; "why now" slide (window justification); engagement metric not just revenue.

(3) Deep Tech / Frontier tech (AI foundation models, quantum, climate hardware, robotics)

Technology credibility is the sell. Pre-revenue deep tech replaces "traction" with technical milestones + defensibility. Series B example (22 slides): cover · thesis (one-line "what changes if this works") · problem (current state of art) · solution (technical approach) · technology architecture · benchmarks vs SoTA · pipeline / TRL levels · market (long-tail) · business model · early commercial traction (pilots, LOIs) · IP / patents · team (usually PhD / ex-FAANG-research) · partners · financials · ask. Must-have: benchmark slide; IP slide; team slide dense with PhDs / prior-lab names.

(4) Marketplace / Network business (two-sided platform, social, commerce)

Liquidity is the metric. Replace "unit econ" with GMV + take rate + cohort retention + supply / demand balance. Series A example (15 slides): cover · problem (friction in current supply-demand) · solution · product demo (both sides) · network effects diagram · early liquidity (first-week GMV, time-to-match) · cohort retention · geographic / category expansion plan · competitive positioning vs incumbents · take-rate model · team · financials · ask. Must-have: liquidity metric slide; cohort retention chart; network-effect diagram.

(5) Bio / Life sciences / Healthtech

Regulatory pipeline IS the business. Replace "product roadmap" with clinical pipeline + regulatory path + scientific evidence. Series B example (22 slides): cover · unmet medical need · scientific rationale (mechanism of action) · preclinical / clinical data (ORR, safety, endpoints) · pipeline chart (candidates × stages × dates) · differentiation vs standard of care · IP / exclusivity · regulatory strategy (IND, BTD, fast-track) · market (prevalence × pricing) · commercial strategy (orphan / specialty / biosimilar) · partnerships / collaborations · team (CSO / CMO with prior FDA wins) · financials (burn to next milestone) · ask. Must-have: pipeline chart; clinical data slide; team slide with prior regulatory wins.

Cross-vertical rule. You can mix elements across templates, but never drop a must-have from your primary vertical. A SaaS deck missing unit econ, a bio deck missing a pipeline chart, a marketplace deck missing a liquidity metric — each is an instant VC disqualification.

Slide Patterns (layout canon)

Patterns are layout geometry; recipes below are narrative intent. A slide picks one pattern for its visual shape (6 canonical ones below) and one recipe for what it argues (cover / problem / traction / ...). Multiple recipes can share one pattern — Problem / Why-Now / Traction-callout all lean on the 3-stat row (C.2). Pick the pattern first, then fill it with recipe content.

Speaker notes rule. Every content slide (non-cover, non-closing) MUST carry speaker notes via officecli add "$FILE" /slide[N] --type notes --prop text='…'. Missing notes = not shippable — inherits pptx v2 §Hard rules (H7). Run officecli help pptx notes to confirm prop names before building.

Pattern reuse discipline. Never run the same pattern on two consecutive slides — even with different data, two identical geometries in a row read as a template loop. Alternate C.2 with C.4 or C.5b to break rhythm.

Vertical centering. When a slide carries fewer elements than the pattern's maximum, nudge y-positions down 2–3cm to center the visual weight. Tables below assume full content.

C.1 Title / Cover (dark gradient)

3–4 text shapes on a gradient fill. Slide 1 in every deck.

+----------------------------------+
|                                  |
|          TITLE (centered)        |
|          tagline                 |
|                                  |
|   round · amount · date          |
|  ________________________        |   **Wrap warning.** At 60pt in 7cm width, dollar patterns with both `$` and `.` fail: `$9.4M` is 5 glyphs but the wide `$` and `.` in a serif bold make it wrap to 2 lines and destroy the callout. Safe dollar shapes at 60pt/7cm: `$9M`, `$96B`, `$4K` (3–4 chars). Non-dollar shapes: `340%`, `4.2x`, `12.3` safe up to 5 chars. Values ≥ 6 chars (`197min`, `3 Days`) will wrap — either (a) drop font to 44–48pt, (b) abbreviate (`197m`, `$9M`), or (c) shift to C.2 (9cm per stat). Single tokens only, no internal spaces.

### C.4 Chart + Context (chart left, stats right)

Chart takes left 55%, 2–3 stacked callouts on the right. The default for Traction / Financials / Market-sizing-with-context.

+-------------------------------------+ | Title | | | | +---------------+ +--------+ | | | | | Stat 1 | | | | chart | +--------+ | | | | | Stat 2 | | | +---------------+ +--------+ | +-------------------------------------+

| Element | X | Y | Width | Height |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Title | 2cm | 1cm | 29.87cm | 3cm |
| Chart | 2cm | 4cm | 17cm | 13cm |
| Stats column | 21cm | 4cm+ | 11cm | 2.5cm number + 1.5cm label (~3.7cm per pair) |

Sub-labels ≥ 16pt (H4 floor). For 5 stats stacked, drop number size to 44pt; 6+ stats means pick a different pattern. Post-batch for column/bar charts: `officecli set "$FILE" "/slide[N]/chart[1]" --prop gap=80` to tighten bar spacing.

**Use this when** one primary chart drives the story and 2–3 numeric anchors reinforce it — Traction (ARR curve + current ARR + YoY + NRR), Financials (4-year column chart + assumption callouts), Market (bar chart + SOM / CAGR / methodology).

### C.5 Icon-in-circle grid (3-row vertical)

3 vertical rows, each = circle icon on the left + title + 1-line description.

+---------------------------------------+ | Title | | | | (o) Label one | | description one | | | | (o) Label two | | description two | | | | (o) Label three | | description three | +---------------------------------------+

| Element | X | Y positions | Width | Height | Font / size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Icon circle | 2cm | 4.5 / 8.5 / 12.5cm | 2.5cm | 2.5cm | ellipse, accent fill |
| Label | 5.5cm | (icon Y + 0) | 25cm | 1.2cm | sans bold 18pt |
| Description | 5.5cm | (icon Y + 1.3cm) | 25cm | 1.8cm | sans ≥ 16pt (H4 floor), muted |

**Use this when** you have 3 short vertical points that benefit from a visual anchor per row — Solution mechanism, Value pillars, Product loop. Choose C.5b (2×2 grid) when items are parallel and you have exactly 4; choose a horizontal 5-across variant when icons should read side-by-side (e.g. 5-step process).

### C.5b 2×2

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## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [zhu1090093659](https://github.com/zhu1090093659)
- **Source:** [zhu1090093659/deepseek-pp](https://github.com/zhu1090093659/deepseek-pp)
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Homepage:** https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/deepseek++/kdmpkkahkhdmdhfkdihkopikgcocbpbf?hl=zh-CN&authuser=0

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.