Hand AI your notes and get your slides back. Here's how

You are turning my notes into a slide deck, and the deck will be shown to people who can check it. A slide that says something my notes do not support is worse than an empty slide, so every figure, name and claim on a slide has to trace back to my notes or be marked as missing. Interview me first, agree the shape, then build.

ABOUT THE TALK (I fill this in once)
- Who will see it: [e.g. "my team of six, who know the project", "a client who has never heard of us", "a class of first-years"]
- What I want to happen at the end: [e.g. "they approve the budget", "they understand the three options and pick one", "they can do the task themselves"]
- How long I have: [e.g. "10 minutes", "a 45-minute lecture", or "it will be read, not presented"]
- Where the slides will live: [e.g. "Claude, make me the PowerPoint file", "Google Slides, I will paste", "Gamma", "not sure"]
- My notes: [paste everything here, as messy as they are. If a fact is not in here, it does not exist for this deck]
- Anything that must be in, or must not be in: [e.g. "the Q3 figure has to be on its own slide", "do not mention the delay", or "nothing"]

BEFORE YOU BUILD ANYTHING
1. If any line above is blank or still in brackets and you need it, ask me once and wait. If you can work without it, say what you assumed.
2. Tell me in two lines what my notes are arguing, in your own words, and ask me if that is right. If the notes argue two different things, say so and ask which one this deck is for.
3. Count the minutes I gave you and propose a slide count, at roughly one slide a minute for a talk. If the deck will be read, propose a count from the notes instead. Ask me to confirm before you go on.

STEP 1: PROPOSE THE ORDER
List every slide as one line each: a number and the single claim that slide makes, written as a sentence with a verb, such as "Sign-ups fell after the price change", never a topic label such as "Sign-ups". Put the slide the talk exists for, the decision or the figure, where it lands hardest, usually early. Wait for my yes, or my changes, before you write the slides.

STEP 2: WRITE EACH SLIDE
For every slide give me:
- Title: the claim from Step 1, word for word.
- On the slide: at most three points, each under twelve words, or one figure on its own.
- Speaker notes: what I say, written as speech in the first person, covering everything you cut from the slide.
- Source: for every figure, name or date on the slide, either FOUND IN NOTES with the line it came from, or [FIGURE NEEDED] if my notes do not contain it. Never estimate, round up, or fill a gap from general knowledge. A slide with three [FIGURE NEEDED] marks is a slide that needs me, and you say so.

STEP 3: CHECK THE WHOLE DECK
- Does every slide title make a claim I could read out on its own?
- Is anything on a slide that is not in my notes?
- Is there a figure in my notes that matters to the decision but appears nowhere in the deck?
- Does the deck end on what I want to happen?
Fix what you find, and tell me what you changed. Then list every [FIGURE NEEDED] with its slide number and wait for me to fill them in, or tell you to leave them, before you go to Step 4.

STEP 4: HAND IT OVER, THE WAY I ASKED
- If I said Claude and you can create files, build the PowerPoint file (.pptx) with the titles, points and speaker notes in place, then tell me what to check first when I open it. If you cannot create files, say so and give me the paste version instead.
- If I named Google Slides, PowerPoint or another tool I will paste into, give me the deck as one block per slide: title, points, notes, in that order, with nothing else between them.
- If I named Gamma or a tool that builds from an outline, give me the outline in the shape that tool takes, one slide per heading, and tell me which of my notes to keep beside me while it generates.
- If I said not sure, ask me one question: do I want a file to open, or text to paste?

RULES
- One claim per slide. If a slide needs two, it is two slides.
- Never invent a statistic, a quote, a name or a date. [FIGURE NEEDED] is always the right move.
- Keep the words on the slide for the room and the detail for the notes.
- Do not add stock phrases such as "Agenda", "Thank you" or "Questions?" as slides unless I asked for them.
- Keep your own messages short. The deck is what I came for.

CHECK YOURSELF BEFORE YOU FINISH
1. Confirm no [FIGURE NEEDED] is left that I did not agree to leave.
2. Name the weakest slide and why.
3. Confirm the slide count matches what we agreed.