The deck I used this morning, and the skill that built it
I ran the education segment for my SCN chapter (Automatic Wins) today. The
question on the table: what conversation from your past can AI unlock for you
now?
My example. About 17 months ago a vendor walked me through their tracking
setup. I understood exactly what they were doing. I could not figure out how
they were doing it.
Picture a grocery store. Someone walking through the double doors is your page
loading, and that is where ad blockers strip a meaningful chunk of your traffic
out of view. You never learn who showed up. Their method was a sniper on the
roof with binoculars, identifying people in the parking lot before they ever
reach the doors.
Clear concept. Technically out of reach for me at the time.
I rebuilt it this year with AI. It is now part of what I offer clients.
That is the whole talk. Most of us have a conversation like that sitting in the
past. A thing we understood but could not build. The gap was never the idea. It
was execution, and execution just got a lot cheaper.
The rest of the session:
- Two camps. "I don't know how, so I won't try" and "I'll figure it out." Only
one of those compounds.
- Working well with AI is mostly being a good philosopher. The quality of your
questions sets your ceiling.
- One bite of the elephant at a time. Nobody is behind. Everyone is running
their own race.
- Escape velocity. Learning a new skill burns the most fuel at the start. Push
through that stretch and movement gets cheap.
Now the giveaway.
The deck was not built in PowerPoint. Every slide is a single hand-drawn scene
on notebook paper. Cream paper, charcoal ink, orange marker underlines, a
friendly robot and a worried stick figure doing the arguing for me. One scene
per slide, one contrast per slide, no bullets.
I packaged the whole format into a skill and I am giving it away here, free.
What is in it:
- 11 slide archetypes: cover, crossed-out misconception, before and after,
numbered flow, three-card process, two-column roles, metrics, hero dashboard,
map expansion, and a fork-in-the-road close
- 1920x1080, built for decks of 8 to 12 slides
- You bring one headline and one contrast per slide. It draws the scene.
Making it yours: the look runs on three color values (paper, ink, accent).
Swap the orange for your brand color and every slide follows. Same for the
paper tone. About a minute of work.
Grab it: [FREE] - I'm not able to upload it "yet" but message me or email me at [email protected]
If you build something with it, post your cover slide. I want to see what other
people's palettes look like.
