An Agent Skill for McKinsey-style consulting decks with traceable evidence, analytical charts, and natively editable PowerPoint output.
Consulting Deck is an Agent Skill for creating, revising, and auditing McKinsey-style consulting presentations. It can work from reports, documents, spreadsheets, web pages, research topics, or an existing PPTX. It organizes the evidence and argument before designing charts and slides, then produces a PowerPoint file that remains editable.
The delivery standard is practical: sources remain checkable, reasoning can be challenged, charts stay editable, and the full presentation is ready for formal business use.
Created by Peng · 智珠在睿. “Neutral” refers only to the brand layer: the public Skill does not place the author's logo, name, or color system into a user's deck. Its analytical and visual direction remains explicitly McKinsey-style.
This image previews the visual and chart language of the Research Analytical direction: restrained color, clear comparisons, and an information-dense analytical layout. It uses simulated data and is shown only as a visual example. Actual delivery is a natively editable PPTX, not a flattened slide image.
| Typical AI slide tool | Consulting Deck | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting point | A topic and a page template | The audience, decision, and available evidence |
| Titles | Describe the slide topic | State the conclusion the reader should take away |
| Charts | Pick a visual style, then insert data | Define the analytical question, then choose and annotate the chart |
| Evidence | Sources are easily lost | Material claims retain their source, page, and evidence type |
| Delivery | Images, HTML, or hard-to-edit slides | Text, charts, tables, and simple diagrams remain native whenever practical |
| Revision | Regenerate the whole deck | Keep a project workspace and rebuild only affected slides |
Consulting Deck establishes the governing thought first, then gives every slide one communication job. It checks the horizontal logic across the deck and the vertical “conclusion–evidence–implication” logic within each slide.
Charts are selected from the business question: comparison, trend, composition, change, distribution, or relationship. Every material exhibit receives a separate specification covering its data, takeaway, annotations, and source before it is rendered in PowerPoint.
The chart system draws on public consulting research and the visual vocabulary of McKinsey's open-source Vizro project. The final standard is a clear, restrained, and editable PowerPoint chart.
Facts, calculations, source interpretations, and hypotheses are kept separate. Material claims can point back to a source file, page, or data table, avoiding the familiar problem of a polished slide with an untraceable number.
Text stays text. Tables stay tables. Common charts use native PowerPoint charts whenever practical. Matrices, processes, and timelines use editable shapes where possible. Users can change a title, update data, or replace a color without rebuilding a flattened screenshot.
- Create a new deck from PDF, Word, Markdown, spreadsheets, CSV, URLs, or a research topic.
- Revise selected slides from the saved project workspace and recheck the affected content.
- Template the deck with a user-owned brand system or licensed PPTX template.
- Audit an existing presentation without changing it, covering storyline, evidence, charts, editability, layout, and rendered quality.
File generation is not the finish line. Consulting Deck checks whether sources are complete, titles state conclusions, charts answer the intended questions, objects remain editable, and typography and layout are consistent. It also renders every slide to catch overflow, collisions, and readability problems.
Define the audience, decision, and page count
→ Organize evidence and, when needed, falsifiable hypotheses
→ Build the storyline and answer-first titles
→ Specify the data, annotations, and sources for material charts
→ Choose the visual direction and slide blueprint
→ Produce a natively editable PPTX
→ Render every slide and review the deck as a whole
→ Deliver the file with any remaining uncertainties
The Skill supports three presentation directions:
- Research Analytical — evidence-dense, chart-led, and footnoted for research reports and formal business reviews.
- Executive Story — tighter conclusions for management decisions, strategy proposals, and client work.
- Editorial Keynote — fewer slides and stronger pacing for talks, launches, and point-of-view presentations.
Each direction can use a reading-first or speaker-led density.
- A natively editable
.pptx - A reusable project workspace containing evidence, chart data, slide blueprints, and review records
- A short delivery note listing source gaps, font substitutions, compatibility issues, or other unverified items
Intermediate files stay in the project workspace instead of cluttering the final delivery folder.
Review the code and permission boundaries before enabling any third-party Skill.
git clone https://github.com/zairuilab/consulting-deck.gitThen copy or link the repository into the Skill directory used by your Agent host. Common locations include:
~/.agents/skills/consulting-deck
~/.codex/skills/consulting-deck
~/.claude/skills/consulting-deck
Consulting Deck does not bundle a presentation engine. It uses the host Agent's
native PowerPoint capability when available. If the host cannot create editable
PPTX objects, choose a fallback described in
references/runtime-adapters.md.
Use Consulting Deck to turn this industry report into a 12-slide,
reading-first Research Analytical presentation. Establish the governing
thought first, then rebuild the material charts that affect the decision.
Keep important charts natively editable and cite the source and page in notes.
Use Consulting Deck to create a board-level strategy presentation for this
business problem. Define the boundary, build falsifiable hypotheses, and record
supporting and contrary evidence. Confirm the storyline and chart plan before
producing slides.
Use Consulting Deck to audit this PPTX without changing the original file.
Check deck-level logic, slide-level reasoning, source traceability, chart
choice, editability, layout consistency, and full-slide rendering. Rank the
findings by severity.
The default output uses a McKinsey-style consulting visual language while keeping the brand layer neutral. It does not place the “智珠在睿” identity in user decks. The Peng preset is enabled only when explicitly selected. Other users can apply their own logo, type, colors, or PPTX template without changing the core Skill.
Consulting Deck is an independent open-source project. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by McKinsey & Company, BCG, Bain, or any other consultancy. It learns from analytical communication methods visible in public consulting research; it does not copy consultancy logos, proprietary templates, or protected brand assets.
The included scripts operate only on local project files and PPTX packages. They contain no telemetry, credential collection, persistence hooks, or automatic network calls. See SECURITY.md for the runtime boundaries.
Apache License 2.0. See LICENSE.