DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: Responsive repairs: in-house team or renewed contract

For the board of trustees of a housing association, including two tenant board members. The decision it supports: whether to approve £1.2m to set up an in-house repairs team or renew the contract.

Verdict: Not presentable
Deck rating: 1,145
Slides: 8 (brief: 6-9)
Design quality: 69%

Why it is not presentable

Layout defect: something off the slide, colliding, too small or too faint to read
A slide the judges rated as needing work

In detail

Slide 2: A text box set at 9 pt, too small to read
Slide 2: Two text boxes overlap
Slide 3: A text box set at 9 pt, too small to read
Slide 4: A text box set at 9 pt, too small to read
Slide 5: A text box set at 9 pt, too small to read
Slide 5: Two text boxes overlap
Slide 6: A text box set at 9 pt, too small to read
Slide 7: A text box set at 9 pt, too small to read

Slide 1Download slide imagePolished
Slide 2Download slide imageNeeds work The title wraps onto a second line and overlaps the subtitle, obscuring both.Title wraps to a second line and 'bridge' overlaps the subtitle 'Decision sought from the board', making both hard to read
Slide 3Download slide imagePolished Headline numbers are inconsistent in size: '9 → 17' is set larger than the other two figures
Slide 4Download slide imageAcceptable The right-hand panel is text-heavy, while the left-hand panel has substantial unused space.Left card is mostly empty while the right card is dense with five bullets, so the columns feel unbalanced
Slide 5Download slide imageAcceptable The two-line title leaves little breathing room above the subtitle.Long title wraps and leaves the orphan 'years', which sits jammed against the subtitle with almost no spacing
Slide 6Download slide imagePolished
Slide 7Download slide imagePolished
Slide 8Download slide imageAcceptable The title identifies the appendix topic but provides no takeaway, and the table has no highlighted trend or key values.Dense table set in small type that will be hard to read when projected