IB Deck Checker

Perform comprehensive QC on the presentation across four dimensions. Read every slide, then report findings.

Environment check

This skill works in both the PowerPoint add-in and chat. Identify which you're in before starting:

• Add-in, read from the live open deck.
• Chat, read from the uploaded .pptx file.

This is read-and-report only, no edits, so the workflow is identical in both.

Workflow

Read the deck

Pull text from every slide, keeping track of which slide each line came from. You'll need slide-level attribution for every finding ("$500M appears on slides 3 and 8, but slide 15 shows $485M"). A deck with 30 slides is too much to hold in working memory reliably, write the extracted text to a file so the number-checking script can process it.

The script expects markdown-ish input with slide markers. Format as:

## Slide 1
[slide 1 text content]

## Slide 2
[slide 2 text content]

1. Number consistency

Run the extraction script on what you collected:

python scripts/extract_numbers.py /tmp/deck_content.md --check

It normalizes units ($500M vs $500MM vs $500,000,000 → same number), categorizes values (revenue, EBITDA, multiples, margins), and flags when the same metric category shows conflicting values on different slides. This is the part most likely to catch something a human missed on the fifth read-through.

Beyond what the script flags, verify:

• Calculations are correct (totals sum, percentages add up, growth rates match the endpoints)
• Unit style is consistent, the deck should pick one of $M or $MM and stick with it
• Time periods are aligned, FY vs LTM vs quarterly, explicitly labeled

2. Data-narrative alignment

Map claims to the data that's supposed to support them. This is where decks go wrong quietly, someone edits the chart on slide 7 and forgets the narrative on slide 4.