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Write an executive decision deck using answer-first structure.

Decision needed: [THE SPECIFIC APPROVAL, BUDGET, OR CHOICE YOU ARE ASKING FOR]
Decision makers: [WHO, THEIR PRIORITIES, AND ANY KNOWN POSITIONS FOR OR AGAINST]
Situation: [THE FACTS OF THE CURRENT STATE THAT EVERYONE AGREES ON]
Complication: [WHAT CHANGED OR WHAT BREAKS IF NOTHING IS DONE]
My recommendation and its cost: [WHAT YOU PROPOSE, WHAT IT COSTS, WHAT IT RETURNS]
Options considered and rejected: [ALTERNATIVES AND WHY YOU REJECTED EACH]
Evidence available: [PASTE THE DATA, FIGURES, AND FACTS YOU CAN USE]

Structure requirements:
- Slide 1 carries the full recommendation and the ask, including the cost. Executives read the answer before the argument, never after.
- Slide 2 summarizes the supporting logic: three grouped reasons, each stated as a sentence, each mapped to the slide that proves it. This slide alone must be able to win the decision if the meeting is cut short.
- Each supporting slide proves exactly one of those reasons using only the evidence I supplied. Headline is the claim; body is the proof; speaker notes anticipate the pushback that slide will draw and give the response.
- Include one slide that treats the rejected options fairly. A decision maker who favors an alternative must see it was seriously weighed.
- Close with the ask restated as a concrete motion: what approval, from whom, by when, and what happens in the first 30 days after a yes.
- Ten slides maximum before the appendix. Move detail no one will read live into a labeled appendix, and tell me which appendix slides to have ready for likely questions.

Where my evidence cannot support a claim the argument needs, say so explicitly and list what data would close the gap. Do not soften the claim silently and do not invent support.

Write it so someone can paste it straight into Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini and fill the [BRACKETS].