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

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

“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",
  "version": "1.0",
  "meta": {
    "title": "PPTX.gallery — tones/authoritative"
  },
  "tone": "authoritative",
  "design": {},
  "slides": [
    {
      "id": "gallery-preview-1",
      "layout": "title-slide",
      "elements": []
    }
  ]
}

Open in OPF Playground

Preview this config live at pptx.dev/playground.