template_pitch_deck: Reproducible, Validated Pitch-Deck Generation

Research groups routinely need to pitch their work — to funders, partners, or
collaborators — yet pitch decks are almost never treated as reproducible
research artifacts: they are hand-assembled in proprietary slide tools,
contain unverifiable claims, and cannot be regenerated when the underlying
facts change. template_pitch_deck closes that gap. It generates six
artifacts from one token-resolved content source — short, medium, and long
decks, each in both PDF and PPTX — with every numeric claim traced back to a
live introspection of the repository it describes, every {{TOKEN}}
substitution verified to have actually landed, and every sentence checked
against a denylist of pitch-deck clichés.

The flagship content pitches template_template (../../template_template/), this
monorepo's own autopoietic meta-project, to a meta-science and
science-integrity audience — the kind of pitch an organization like the
Active Inference Institute or COGSEC would actually hand to a funder. The
rendering engine itself is new, reusable infrastructure:
infrastructure/rendering/slide_deck.py (ReportLab, PDF) and
infrastructure/rendering/pptx_deck.py (python-pptx) both consume the same
DeckContent model, so a PDF and a PPTX built from identical content carry
identical slide counts and identical text — verified by direct read-back of
both file formats, not by inspection.

Keywords: pitch deck, slide generation, reproducible research
communication, meta-science infrastructure, token validation, PPTX, PDF
rendering.

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Associated artifacts
GitHub release: v1.0.0 (https://github.com/docxology/template-pitch-deck/releases/tag/v1.0.0)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21281509
Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/21281509
PDF SHA-256: 66941950e2307d1e9717c0045f3db3196d7d2542c3f5ffceced00438f653c55b

Overview source: Curated paper metadata.