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Should you use synthetic users?

We spent 4 weeks experimenting and building synthetic personas from our own research data, and publishing the surprising insights we found. Catch up on all 4 parts by subscribing and getting it sent straight to your inbox.

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What you'll get in The Synthetic User Series

  1. 01

    Terminology & hypothesis

    The vocabulary, the ways to build a synthetic version of your customer, and the priors going in.

  2. 02

    The build

    The data audit, the rigor framework, and the step-by-step build from 726 transcripts.

  3. 03

    The experiment that broke

    We tried to grade synthetic against real, couldn't, and it changed what we think they're for.

  4. 04

    The skill & wrap-up

    Our top findings on synthetic users, when to use them, plus the Claude skill you can run yourself.

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