Speaking & Panel Prep

A slot is borrowed time — arrive with one argument, a cut plan, and an answer to the question you hope nobody asks.

What it is

The invitation, treated as a working commitment rather than an honour. Settles what the audience should do differently, forces the talk into one contestable sentence, builds three movements with a cut plan for the ten minutes that always disappear, drills the panel disciplines — the sixty-second answer, the honest disagreement, the question actually asked — and banks the hostile and feared questions in advance. For founders, executives and anyone handed a microphone and a slot.

What you receive

a talk or panel appearance prepared to be worth the room's time — the one argument in a contestable sentence, a three-movement structure with the cut plan written before the slot shrinks, the material timed aloud against the minutes you really get at the microphone, a question bank answering the hostile, the vague and the one you hope nobody asks, and the follow-through that converts the room once it empties

Delivered as a single, complete .md skill file — open it, paste it into any capable chat model, and work. No installation, no account with anyone but us.

Supported models

• Claude (Opus/Sonnet)
• ChatGPT (GPT-4o/5)
• Gemini
• any capable chat model

People reach for it when

• “how to prepare for a panel discussion I was invited to”
• “what do I cut if my talk gets shortened from 30 minutes to 15”
• “how to answer a hostile question from the audience”
• “conference talk structure when I have one point to make”
• “how to prepare for a panel when nobody sends the questions in advance”

Record

In the collection. The sale room is being fitted; this work goes on sale when it opens.

License

Free-shelf works ship under the DolceDrago House License — use the outputs freely, personal or commercial; the work file itself stays with the house.