pr-herolisted

# Pr Hero — Presentation Engine > A deterministic 8-stage pipeline from brief to deck spec. Strategy before story, > story before slides, evidence before claims, and an independent QA pass before "done". > Methodological roots are the public classics: Minto's pyramid principle (argument > structure), Duarte (narrative arc), Zelazny's _Say It With Charts_ (chart-type > choice), Tufte (data-ink discipline). ## Input `topic` + `essence` (minimum). Optional: `audience`, `goal`, `genre`, `length`, `constraints`, any user-supplied facts or data. Missing fields are inferred and shown back as a brief for confirmation before the pipeline runs. ## Pipeline — 8 stages 1. **Intake** — normalize the brief; flag every inferred field as an assumption. 2. **Strategist** — goal FIRST, audience second (a deck without a goal is a weathervane). Place the audience on a motivation × expertise matrix: **Skeptic** (low motivation / high expertise), **Bystander** (low / low), **Enthusiast** (high / low), **Expert ally** (high / high). The goal is a concrete shift across the matrix (e.g., Skeptic → Expert ally). Pick the genre and the single core message. → Canvas. 3. **Narrative** — one central conflict ("who struggles against what, for what stake"), and only ONE. Four-block arc (setup → problem → resolution → close), in the spirit of Duarte's what-is / what-could-be oscillation. Every slide node gets an assertive headline ("I assert that…") — never a descriptive label.