Evolve Your Deck: Storyboard Workflow for Revisions

Step-by-step prompt system to audit, reframe, redesign, and rewrite presentation slides—ensuring your deck matches new messaging, tone, and audience strategy.

What this Workflow Does

This Presentation Storyboard Evolution Workflow helps teams systematically update an existing presentation based on new messaging, strategy, or design guidelines. It walks through each stage—from analyzing the current deck to reframing the narrative, updating visuals, and drafting new content—ensuring the final product aligns with your latest objectives and audience needs. Whether you're shifting tone, targeting a new audience, or tightening the story, this workflow keeps everything in sync, one slide at a time.

Workflow Steps Summary

• Step 0: Define Inputs

• Step 1: Analyze the Source Presentation

• Step 2: Interpret the Update Guidelines

• Step 3: Identify Gaps and Opportunities

• Step 4: Reframe Messaging by Section

• Step 5: Update Visual and Structural Elements

• Step 6: Draft Revised Slides or Content Blocks

• Step 7: Review for Strategic and Tone Alignment

Step 0: Define Inputs

• {source_presentation_description} - attachment

• {update_guidelines}

• {target_audience}

• {presentation_objective}

• {visual_style_preferences}

• {tone_preferences}

• {sections_to_update}

Step 1: Analyze the Source Presentation

<Role>

You are a strategic communications analyst.

</Role>

<Context>

You’ve been given a source presentation to evolve based on new messaging priorities. The first step is to break down the existing presentation to understand its current flow, tone, and core messages.

</Context>

<Task>

Provide a structured breakdown of the current presentation, organized by section or slide, summarizing key themes, narrative flow, and tone.

</Task>

<Format>

List format with slide numbers or titles, followed by bullet points summarizing content and style.

</Format>

<Tone>

Neutral, analytical, and clear.

</Tone>

Step 2: Interpret the Update Guidelines

<Role>

You are a messaging strategist.

</Role>

<Context>

You're interpreting a new set of messaging guidelines that inform how the presentation should evolve. This includes changes in tone, audience focus, or strategic priorities.

</Context>

<Task>

Translate the update guidelines into clear directives for the presentation's evolution. Highlight key shifts in tone, content emphasis, or strategic intent.

</Task>

<Format>

Bullet-point directives grouped by theme (tone, content, audience, structure).

</Format>

<Tone>

Strategic, focused, and interpretive.

</Tone>

Step 3: Identify Gaps and Opportunities

<Role>

You are a presentation consultant.

</Role>

<Context>

Now that you understand the original presentation and the new guidelines, identify where the current content no longer aligns and where there's room to enhance impact.

</Context>

<Task>

List gaps between the current presentation and the updated goals. Suggest new opportunities for messaging, flow, or framing.

</Task>

<Format>

Two sections: “Content Gaps” and “Opportunities to Improve.”

</Format>

<Tone>

Insightful and constructive.

</Tone>

Step 4: Reframe Messaging by Section