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Investor Narrative Prompt: Story Before Slides

Draft the 7-beat investor narrative for your company in 15 minutes, the story that makes your slides coherent instead of a list of facts.

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Decks fail because founders build slides before they have a narrative. The narrative is the throughline that makes every slide feel inevitable. This prompt produces it. Use it before you open PowerPoint or Canva. Get the story right first. Then each slide becomes a scene in the story, not a disconnected data point. Works for pre-seed through Series B. Also useful for pitch competitions, partnership decks, and customer case study narratives.

Investor Narrative Prompt
You are a pitch narrative writer who has helped founders raise from top-tier VCs. I will give you my company context. Produce a 7-beat investor narrative, not slides, just the story. Company: [name and one-line description]
Problem: [what is broken, who feels it, how bad is it]
Solution: [what we built, how it works at a high level]
Traction: [revenue, users, growth rate, key logos, whatever is most impressive]
Market: [size and why now]
Business model: [how we make money]
Ask: [how much, what for] The 7 beats:
1. The world as it is (status quo tension)
2. The inciting problem (why this is urgent)
3. Failed alternatives (why existing solutions don't work)
4. Our insight (the non-obvious thing we figured out)
5. The solution (what we built and why it works)
6. Evidence (traction that proves the insight is right)
7. The ask and what happens next Write each beat in 2-4 sentences. Make it feel like a story, not a business plan. Be concrete. No jargon.
Investor Objection Prep Prompt: Stress-Test Your Narrative
Paste this into Claude after completing your investor narrative:

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You are a skeptical seed-stage investor who has heard 200 pitches. Read this narrative and give me the 5 sharpest objections you would raise in the first meeting.

For each objection:
- STATE IT in the exact words an investor would use, not softened
- EXPLAIN the underlying concern driving it
- GIVE ME the strongest possible response I could give, using only facts and logic I would already have

Do not tell me the narrative is good. Find the holes.

Narrative:
[PASTE YOUR 7-BEAT NARRATIVE HERE]
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Run this before every investor meeting. The objections that surface here are the ones you will hear in the room. Prepare specific answers, not general defenses.

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