Pitch Deck - Financial Comps AI Superprompt
Thanks for grabbing this! Here's the exact AI prompt I'd use to build a financial comps page for a pitch deck.
All you need to do is paste the superprompt below, attach your screenplay (or a detailed synopsis or logline), and type in your approximate budget. The AI will analyze your creative to pull comparable films on its own.
Copy it into Claude, ChatGPT, or Perplexity and you'll walk away with a table you can paste straight into your deck.
I'm an independent filmmaker building a pitch deck to raise financing for my film. I need you to build me a financial comps page.
I've attached my screenplay. UPLOAD YOUR SCRIPT PDF, OR PASTE YOUR SYNOPSIS OR LOGLINE HERE
My approximate production budget is: YOUR APPROX BUDGET
Read my script and figure out the following yourself:
- Genre and sub-genre
- Tone and visual style
- A 1 to 2 sentence logline
- Target audience
- Cast requirements (ensemble vs. star-driven, name talent vs. unknown)
Then find 4 to 6 real films that match as closely as possible across budget range, genre, tone, cast level, and target audience. Prioritize films from the last 15 years.
For each comp, give me:
- Title
- Year
- Production Budget (verified or best available estimate)
- Worldwide Box Office Gross (or acquisition/licensing deal value if no theatrical release)
- ROI Multiplier (gross divided by budget)
Then calculate the AVERAGE ROI across all comps.
Rules:
1. Stay within my budget range. If my budget is $500K, do not include films above $1.5M. Stay within 0.5x to 3x of my stated budget.
2. Do not cherry-pick outliers or breakout hits. Give me the realistic middle of the bell curve.
3. Cite sources for budget and box office data where possible (The Numbers, Box Office Mojo, IMDb Pro).
4. If exact budget data is not public, note that it is an estimate and explain your reasoning.
5. Format the output as a clean table I can paste into a pitch deck slide.
Verify every number.
AI pulls from public data and can get numbers wrong. Cross-check every budget and box office figure on The Numbers (free), Box Office Mojo (free), or IMDb Pro (paid) before it goes in your deck.
Match your budget, not your ambition.
If your budget is $500K, your comps should be $500K films. Not GET OUT. Not MOONLIGHT. Investors, producers, and execs will notice if you're cherry-picking unrealistic outliers.
Hi, I'm Thomas!
I'm Thomas Percy Kim, a Sundance/TIFF writer-director who raised $1.6 million from complete strangers using something called "Crowd-Equity" to write and direct my debut feature film, ISLE CHILD, releasing in theaters later this year.
I built The Vandalist to teach other filmmakers how to do the same thing - raise money without permission, make your film without gatekeepers, and get it out into the world on your own terms.
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