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The One Sentence
Four questions, about six minutes. At the end you have the sentence you want repeated after you leave the room — and everything else you prepare can be built backwards from it.
Nothing is sent anywhere. Your answers stay in this browser, and you can clear them at any point.
Who actually decides?
Not everyone attending — the one or two people whose yes makes this happen. If you are unsure, ask who could stop it on their own.
What do you want them to do?
A specific action, with a number and a date where there is one. "Support the project" is not an action. "Release the second tranche before March" is.
What do they have to believe to say yes?
One thing. Usually it is the objection you are quietly worried about, stated as its opposite. This is the sentence your evidence has to earn.
What do you want repeated when you have left the room?
Say it to someone who was not there. In their words, not yours. Short enough to survive being passed on twice.
This is what you are actually walking in to do.
What to do with it
- Read the last line out loud. If it does not survive one breath, cut it until it does.
- Open your deck. Anything that does not serve that sentence goes in the appendix.
- Say the sentence in your first ninety seconds, and again in your last thirty.
Stored in this browser only — never sent to us.
This is one step. There are nine.
The tool above is the part people find hardest, so it is the part I give away. The Planner is the full order of questions, and it keeps every presentation you prepare rather than one at a time — the opening you built, what you decided to cut, how it actually went, and what to do differently next time.
One HTML file. It works offline, on a plane, with no account and no subscription, and what you write in it never leaves your machine.