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Proto Persona

Skill Verified Active

Create a proto-persona from current research, market signals, and team knowledge. Use when you need a working customer profile before deeper validation.

Purpose

To quickly generate a working customer profile hypothesis that aligns teams and guides early product decisions before extensive validation.

Features

  • Create proto-personas from research and team knowledge
  • Structure persona details (bio, demographics, quotes, pains, goals)
  • Guide user research planning with persona gaps
  • Provide examples and common pitfalls for persona creation

Use Cases

  • Early-stage product development before deep research
  • Aligning stakeholders on target users
  • Identifying research gaps
  • Framing product hypotheses

Non-Goals

  • Creating validated, research-backed personas
  • Replacing user research entirely
  • Providing demographic data alone without behavioral context
  • Serving as a permanent persona document

Practices

  • Persona Development
  • Customer Research
  • Product Strategy

Installation

First, add the marketplace

/plugin marketplace add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills
/plugin install proto-persona@pm-skills

Quality Score

Verified
98 /100
Analyzed about 16 hours ago

Trust Signals

Last commit16 days ago
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LicenseCC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
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