OPF Tone

Authoritative

Adopt the perspective of someone who's seen the full landscape and is willing to call it. Use plain declaratives — strong claims with the receipts to back them. Step back from internal-only context and frame in terms the wider industry would recognize.

authoritative4 voice cues3 sample phrases

Tone

Authoritative

cues

avoid

“Agent latency is the bottleneck of the next AI cycle.”

Generation cue

Use declarative sentences; trust the reader to follow.

Summary

Expert, declarative voice for category-defining and analyst-style decks.

OPF Field

tone

Schema

https://openpresentation.org/schema/opf-tone/v1

Voice Cues

1
Use declarative sentences; trust the reader to follow.
2
Frame in industry-wide terms, not company-internal language.
3
Cite outside sources — analysts, benchmarks, public peers.
4
Take a position; avoid 'on the other hand' symmetry without a verdict.

Avoid

1
Hedging ('we believe', 'in our view') unless deliberately contrasting.
2
Internal jargon and unexplained acronyms.
3
First-person plural overload — speak for the work, not the team.
4
Tentative phrasing that softens strong claims.

Sample Phrases

“Agent latency is the bottleneck of the next AI cycle.”

“Three categories will absorb 80% of enterprise budget; we're built for the second.”

“The benchmarks are public; the gap holds across every comparable workload.”

Recommended Narrative IDs

strategic-narrativepitch-deckconference-talkmarketing-strategy

OPF Config

tones:authoritative

Open Presentation Format

{
  "$schema": "https://openpresentation.org/schema/opf/v1",
  "name": "PPTX.gallery — tones/authoritative",
  "tone": "authoritative",
  "tags": [
    "gallery:tones/authoritative"
  ],
  "slides": [
    {
      "id": "gallery-preview-1",
      "layout": "title-slide",
      "title": "Tone preview",
      "subtitle": "Voice tuned to the \"authoritative\" tone.",
      "design": {
        "contentBox": false,
        "contentAlignment": "center",
        "titleAlignment": "center"
      }
    }
  ],
  "catalogs": {
    "layouts": {
      "records": [
        {
          "$schema": "https://openpresentation.org/schema/opf-layout/v1",
          "id": "title-slide",
          "name": "Title_Slide",
          "label": "Title Slide",
          "summary": "Bold, centered typography with minimal elements. Perfect for opening your presentation with impact.",
          "description": "Bold, centered typography with minimal elements. Perfect for opening your presentation with impact.",
          "tags": [
            "Opening",
            "Impact",
            "Minimal"
          ],
          "master": "Gallery",
          "masterSlideIndex": 0,
          "groupHash": "ddf3a920a68b7a0316802c6a646bb4bb481c6f5a288d236ab3021b4b990d25c2",
          "groupDefault": true,
          "contentType": "Title",
          "contentMultiple": "None",
          "contentAlignment": "Center",
          "contentBox": false,
          "contentTypeChartPrimary": "None",
          "contentTypeImageFill": "None",
          "contentTypeListBullet": "None",
          "contentTypeListHeading": false,
          "slideTitle": true,
          "slideTitleAlignment": "Center",
          "slideImage": false,
          "slideImageAlignment": "None",
          "slideLayoutDirection": "None",
          "zones": [
            {
              "role": "title",
              "placeholder": "title"
            },
            {
              "role": "subtitle",
              "placeholder": "subtitle"
            }
          ],
          "preview": {},
          "details": "Bold, centered typography with minimal elements. Perfect for opening your presentation with impact. OPF placeholders: title, subtitle.",
          "category": "opening-closing",
          "spatialCategory": "hero",
          "contentTypeTags": [
            "mixed",
            "title"
          ],
          "placeholders": [
            {
              "type": "title"
            },
            {
              "type": "subtitle"
            }
          ],
          "slideSubtitle": true
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

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