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  "name": "Core Message Extraction",
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  "description": "The discipline of distilling raw analysis, data, or content into a single declarative sentence — the slide's core message — that the audience would walk away with if they remembered nothing else. Process, not artefact: extraction questions run on the raw content until one sentence falls out.",
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  "agent": "Architect",
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  "whyItWorks": "Solves the two failure modes of slide writing simultaneously: the topic title (which outsources interpretation to the audience and produces three different conclusions in three different heads) and the multi-thesis stapler (which exceeds working memory and gets remembered as fragments). Aligns with how readers actually consume decks — Heath & Heath's Find the Core, the journalist's nut graf, and Minto's governing thought all converge on the same cognitive economics.",
  "narrativePurpose": "Forces the slide author to do the interpretive work before the slide ships, so the audience does not have to do it during the meeting. Wins the WYSIATI battle on purpose — the loudest fragment on the page becomes the author's chosen sentence rather than whichever chart label happens to be largest.",
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    "the takeaway",
    "in essence",
    "in short",
    "core finding",
    "the point is",
    "tl;dr",
    "nut graf",
    "find the core",
    "commander's intent",
    "the one thing"
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    "title": "Action-title style headline carrying a single declarative sentence with a verb — the home of the extracted core.",
    "tl;dr": "Native-internet form of the nut graf; same artefact in a different register.",
    "callout": "Highlighted text block (often boxed or coloured) that surfaces the extracted sentence above the supporting evidence.",
    "in short": "Same family as in-essence — signals an attempted distillation, frequently the core.",
    "nut graf": "Journalism's canonical name for the same discipline — the paragraph that says what this is about and why.",
    "subtitle": "Deck or section apex sentence; the extracted core at section or deck level rather than per slide.",
    "paragraph": "Prose block where a nut-graf-style sentence appears, especially as the lede of a memo or section opener.",
    "in essence": "Compression marker that often precedes the extracted sentence; flag for so-what climbing.",
    "bottom line": "Classic executive shorthand for the extracted core — the sentence the reader keeps if they keep nothing else.",
    "key insight": "Common slide callout label that gates the extracted sentence; signals an explicit core-message slot.",
    "core finding": "Self-labelling phrase used in research and consulting decks for the extracted sentence.",
    "the point is": "Verbal extraction marker; the speaker has done the work and is naming the core out loud.",
    "the takeaway": "Audience-facing framing for the core; what the deck wants the reader to walk away holding.",
    "find the core": "Heath & Heath's primary-source phrase for the extraction discipline; cite-worthy keyword.",
    "the one thing": "Vernacular form of the extraction question — if they remember one thing, what is it?",
    "commander's intent": "Heath & Heath's military analogue — the one sentence that survives plan collapse."
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