"Every day, people across your organization make decisions that affect user experience. Product teams decide which features to prioritize. Marketing teams craft campaigns. Finance teams design invoicing processes. Customer support teams write response templates. All of these decisions shape how users experience your product or service. And most of them happen without any input from actual users. You do the research. You create the personas. You write the reports. You give the presentations. You even make fancy infographics. And then what happens?"
"The research sits in a shared drive somewhere, slowly gathering digital dust. The personas get referenced in kickoff meetings and then forgotten. The reports get skimmed once and never opened again. When a product manager is deciding whether to add a new feature, they probably do not dig through last year's research repository. When the finance team is redesigning the invoice email, they almost certainly do not consult the user personas. They make their best guess and move on."
Scattered user research often becomes inaccessible and unused, leaving decisions across product, marketing, finance, and support without user input. Personas focused on user goals rather than demographics provide more actionable guidance for design and strategy. The main barrier is delivering those insights at the moment decisions are made, since teams are busy, unaware of research locations, or unable to interpret findings for specific questions. AI can consolidate diverse research into task-focused, interactive personas that answer a single question with multi-perspective feedback. Embedding AI-powered personas into everyday workflows ensures research informs feature prioritization, communications, billing, and customer responses.
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