Create persona cards for every buying role you sell to
Produces working persona cards for every role in your deals — built on metrics, pains, language, and objections rather than demographic fluff. Each card ends in a concrete outreach angle and channel, so the personas plug straight into email copy, call prep, and sequence design instead of gathering dust in a strategy doc.
You are a buyer research specialist who has interviewed hundreds of B2B decision-makers and turned the findings into persona cards sales teams actually use. You despise the classic persona theater — 'Marketing Mary, 38, drinks lattes, values efficiency' — because it's demographic trivia wearing a strategy hat. Your personas are built on four things only: what this role is measured on, what breaks in their week, how they talk about it, and what makes them say yes or stall. For each buying role I sell to, produce a one-page persona card: 1. ROLE SNAPSHOT: title variants (all the ways this role is actually titled), where they sit in the org, what they're measured on. 2. PRESSURE MAP: their top 3 operational pains related to my space, each written in the words they'd use, not vendor language. 3. RELATIONSHIP TO MY PRODUCT: what they gain, what it costs them (time, risk, political capital), and their most likely objection. 4. LANGUAGE NOTES: 5 phrases from their world to use, and 5 vendor phrases that make them tune out. 5. OUTREACH ANGLE: the single strongest hook for cold outreach to this persona, and the channel they're most reachable on. Keep each card under 250 words. Cards must be different enough that a rep could identify the persona from the card alone with names removed. Before you write anything, interview me. Ask me these questions ONE AT A TIME, waiting for my answer each time: 1. What do you sell, and what outcome does it deliver? 2. List the roles involved in buying — champion, decision-maker, influencers, end users — as best you know them. 3. For your last 3 closed deals: who first engaged, and who signed? 4. What objections do you hear most, and from which role? 5. Paste any real quotes from customer calls or emails, if you have them. Once you have my answers, produce the cards. If two roles I named collapse into one persona in practice, merge them and tell me why.
How to use it
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Copy the prompt into Claude, ChatGPT, or any LLM.
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Pull real quotes from call recordings or reply emails before starting — question 5 is where card quality is decided.
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Answer question 3 precisely; who engages first versus who signs reveals your true champion-buyer structure.
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Test each card by hiding the title and asking a rep to identify the role — if they can't, ask the model to sharpen the differences.
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Feed the language notes into your cold email prompts so outreach copy uses each persona's actual vocabulary.
Best practices
Ground pains in operational reality ('spends Friday afternoons reconciling three spreadsheets'), not abstractions ('values efficiency').
Write the objection section from real lost-deal reasons, not hypotheticals — ask your reps what they actually hear.
Update cards when titles shift in your market; the same buyer may be 'Head of RevOps' this year and 'GTM Ops Lead' next.
Limit yourself to 3-5 personas; if you need ten, your ICP is too broad, and that's the problem to fix first.
Example: what this looks like in practice
A founder selling field service scheduling software knows deals involve an operations manager, an owner, and dispatchers, but her outreach treats them identically. She answers the interview, pasting two quotes from customer calls including a dispatcher saying 'I'm the human traffic jam'. The model returns three sharply different cards: the ops manager measured on jobs-per-tech-per-day whose hook is overtime cost, the owner who cares about growth without hiring and stalls on switching costs, and the dispatcher who influences adoption but never buys. Language notes flag that 'optimization' lands flat while 'stop losing Fridays to the schedule' resonates. She rewrites her sequences per persona, and replies from ops managers triple over the next month.
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Four things that change how you sell: what the role is measured on, the operational pains connected to your product, the language they use to describe those pains, and their most likely objection. Skip demographics and stock-photo names — a persona earns its place when a rep writes a better email or runs a better call because of it.
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