jbaruch/speaker-toolkit

Six-skill presentation system: ingest talks into a rhetoric vault, run interactive clarification, generate a speaker profile, create presentations that match your documented patterns, produce the deck illustrations + thumbnail visual layer, and publish talk pages to a Jekyll shownotes site. Includes a 102-entry Presentation Patterns taxonomy (91 observable, 11 unobservable go-live items) for scoring, brainstorming, and go-live preparation.

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Choose an Image Model for a Build-Heavy Deck on a Budget

Name: jbaruch/speaker-toolkit
Rating: 86.63 (1 reviews)
Author: jbaruch

Situation

A speaker is in the illustration-strategy stage for a talk. The outline has slides and several progressive-reveal sequences (elements appear one at a time across consecutive slides), but no illustration style or model has been chosen yet. The speaker wants help picking which image-generation model to use.

Outline Setup

Create the talk directory and outline.yaml:

mkdir -p talk-dir

cat > talk-dir/outline.yaml <<'EOF'
talk:
  title: "Shipping Under Pressure"
  slug: "internal-tech-talk-shipping"
  speakers: ["Speaker"]
  duration_min: 25
  audience: "Internal engineering team"
  mode: "talklet"
  venue: "Internal Tech Talk"
  slide_budget: 28
  pacing_wpm: [135, 145]
  architecture: "talklet"

chapters:
  - id: ch1
    title: "The Pipeline"
    target_min: 25
    argument_beats:
      - text: "Reveal the deploy pipeline stage by stage."
        slide_refs: [4, 9]

slides:
  - n: 4
    chapter: ch1
    title: "The Deploy Pipeline"
    format: FULL
    visual: "A horizontal pipeline diagram that fills in stage by stage."
    text_overlay: "The Pipeline"
    builds:
      - "Show only the empty pipeline track."
      - "Add the build stage."
      - "Add the test stage."
      - "Add the deploy stage."
    big_idea: true
    applied_patterns:
      - id: call-to-adventure
        big_idea_text: "Every stage earns the next."

  - n: 9
    chapter: ch1
    title: "The Rollback Path"
    format: FULL
    visual: "The same pipeline, with a rollback arrow drawn in progressively."
    text_overlay: "Rollback"
    builds:
      - "Show the full pipeline."
      - "Add the rollback arrow from deploy back to build."
EOF

What the Speaker Asks

"Help me pick an image-generation model for this deck. Money's tight this quarter, so I want to keep generation costs as low as possible. Which one should we go with?"

Constraints

The speaker has not yet defined an illustration style or chosen a model.
The reveal sequences in slides 4 and 9 are core to the talk and must be preserved.