Your users aren't in the room.
Interview them anyway.

PersonaLab builds a pool of personas grounded in real U.S. demographics, interviews the ones that fit what you're building — up to ten at once — and hands you a report where every insight is traced back to who said it.

30 free credits when you sign up · building your pool is free · a study costs 1 credit per persona · how it works ↓

How it works

Three steps. About five minutes.

No research background needed. You describe, the personas talk, you get something you can act on.

1
Build a pool

Your product + your target

Say what you're building and who you want to learn from. We narrow to that demographic and rank every persona by fit — strong, moderate, weak — so you can see who's worth asking. Up to 100 in a pool.

2
Interview

Ask up to ten at once

One question goes to every persona you picked. Their answers land side by side, in their own voice — built to disagree, not to please you. Up to ten questions per study.

3
Report

A report you can use

How many would actually use it (19 of 30, not a projection), common ground, key differences, recommended actions — and every line links back to the exact answer it came from.

Why you can trust it

Synthetic, but not made up.

The fair question about AI personas is “why would I believe them?” Here's the honest answer.

Grounded, not invented
Personas come from real U.S. demographic distributions (NVIDIA Nemotron-Personas) — age, occupation, location, education — not improvised by a chatbot on the spot.
Cited, not vibes
Every insight in the report links to the actual answer it came from. Click it, read the raw response, decide for yourself. No “trust me.”
Directional, honestly
We never dress this up as statistics. It's a fast, structured way to pressure-test a direction before you spend weeks building the wrong thing.

In your editor

Or ask them without leaving Claude.

Already working in Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex? Connect PersonaLab over MCP and your personas become people you can talk to mid-build. Casual interviews are free; a full study costs the same 1 credit per persona it does here.

claude mcp add --transport http --scope user personalab https://personalab.aimgonna.com/api/mcp

See what your users would say.

PersonaLab — interview your users before you build