Title / hook
Open the room with one reason this meeting exists.
Related: Section divider
When to use
Use as slide 1 when the audience does not yet share the problem. Do not use a title slide to list agenda, team, or logos. Do not use Consulting density here.
Guidelines
The board is a hook: one sentence the CEO can repeat in the hallway. Subtitle, if any, is a kicker (audience + forum), not a paragraph.
Example
Northline board · Q3
Harbor is the last mile we still run on clipboards.
Dark executive board; one claim. Steal the kicker + single sentence, not decoration.
Rules
- Exactly one sentence of body-scale type; it is the title.
- No bullets, tables, or diagrams on this pattern.
- Family is Executive sparse unless the rest of the deck is locked to another family and the title must match — still no table.
User recipe
Goal: open a deck.
Inputs: audience, forum, the one problem.
Constraints: Title / hook Rules.
Prompt skeleton: “Make a title/hook slide in family executive-sparse using the Title / hook rules. Problem: [problem]. Audience: [audience].”
Anti-patterns
- “Harbor project update” as the title.
- Logo wall and a confidential footer as the only content.
- Reading the agenda on the title slide.