Write an answer-first executive decision deck

Write an executive decision deck using answer-first structure.

Decision needed: [THE SPECIFIC APPROVAL, BUDGET, OR CHOICE YOU ARE ASKING FOR]
Decision makers: [WHO, THEIR PRIORITIES, AND ANY KNOWN POSITIONS FOR OR AGAINST]
Situation: [THE FACTS OF THE CURRENT STATE THAT EVERYONE AGREES ON]
Complication: [WHAT CHANGED OR WHAT BREAKS IF NOTHING IS DONE]
My recommendation and its cost: [WHAT YOU PROPOSE, WHAT IT COSTS, WHAT IT RETURNS]
Options considered and rejected: [ALTERNATIVES AND WHY YOU REJECTED EACH]
Evidence available: [PASTE THE DATA, FIGURES, AND FACTS YOU CAN USE]

Structure requirements:
- Slide 1 carries the full recommendation and the ask, including the cost. Executives read the answer before the argument, never after.
- Slide 2 summarizes the supporting logic: three grouped reasons, each stated as a sentence, each mapped to the slide that proves it. This slide alone must be able to win the decision if the meeting is cut short.
- Each supporting slide proves exactly one of those reasons using only the evidence I supplied. Headline is the claim; body is the proof; speaker notes anticipate the pushback that slide will draw and give the response.
- Include one slide that treats the rejected options fairly. A decision maker who favors an alternative must see it was seriously weighed.
- Close with the ask restated as a concrete motion: what approval, from whom, by when, and what happens in the first 30 days after a yes.
- Ten slides maximum before the appendix. Move detail no one will read live into a labeled appendix, and tell me which appendix slides to have ready for likely questions.

Where my evidence cannot support a claim the argument needs, say so explicitly and list what data would close the gap. Do not soften the claim silently and do not invent support.