# Brief: Deck

> Target downstream skills: `slide-outliner` → `deck-builder` (and `audience-profile` for the structural rules)

## Topic / working title
{One line} [explicit|implied|inferred|missing]
> "{verbatim snippet}"

## Audience
- **Free-form description from source:** {as quoted} [explicit|implied|inferred|missing]
- **Mapped archetype:** {exec | board | technical | sales | investor | internal | partner | customer} [inferred]
- **If mixed audience:** least-technical archetype above + appendix for the rest

## Time budget
- **Speaking time:** {minutes} [explicit|implied|inferred|missing]
- **Reading time (if pre-read):** {minutes} [explicit|implied|inferred|missing]
- **Implied slide count:** {derived from time × audience archetype}

## The one thing the audience should leave with
{Single sentence — the headline message} [explicit|implied|inferred|missing]

## Key messages (3–5)
1. {Message} [explicit|implied|inferred|missing]
2. {Message}
3. {Message}

## Evidence available
- **Quantified data:** {numbers the source provides — for `big_number` slides} [explicit|implied|inferred|missing]
- **Quotes:** {customer / exec / analyst quotes for `quote` slides} [explicit|implied|inferred|missing]
- **Diagrams:** {existing diagrams that should be embedded} [explicit|implied|inferred|missing]

## Brand / palette
- **Palette source:** {named preset | hex values | "use our brand colors"} [explicit|implied|inferred|missing]
- **Specific colors mentioned:** {hex / role} [explicit|implied|inferred|missing]

## Constraints
- {e.g. "no logos other than ours", "must include compliance disclaimer", "30s pre-roll for the cover"} [explicit|implied|inferred|missing]

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## 🚩 Missing for downstream
- {e.g. "Audience not specified — deck-builder will refuse to start"}
- {e.g. "No palette — deck-builder will ask before building"}