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.
Tone
Authoritative
4
cues
4
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-strategyTags
OPF Config
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"summary": "Expert, declarative voice for category-defining and analyst-style decks.",
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"Use declarative sentences; trust the reader to follow.",
"Frame in industry-wide terms, not company-internal language.",
"Cite outside sources — analysts, benchmarks, public peers.",
"Take a position; avoid 'on the other hand' symmetry without a verdict."
],
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"Hedging ('we believe', 'in our view') unless deliberately contrasting.",
"Internal jargon and unexplained acronyms.",
"First-person plural overload — speak for the work, not the team.",
"Tentative phrasing that softens strong claims."
],
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"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."
],
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"strategic-narrative",
"pitch-deck",
"conference-talk",
"marketing-strategy"
],
"tags": [
"industry",
"category",
"analyst"
]
}
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"layouts": {
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"tags": [
"Text"
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{
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}
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}
}Load this config in the gallery's visual editor, or in the Inspector at pptx.dev.