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How Claude builds personas for synthetic focus groups

Hosted by Lee Henshaw and Dino Myers-Lamptey

125 students

In this video

What you'll learn

Learn how backward market research saves time

Start with decisions not knowledge gaps, and watch Claude build a mock report revealing what you need to discover

See Claude generate a complete research foundation

Watch one prompt create a 15-page report analysing pain points, economics and competition in under an hour

Build synthetic personas ready for interview

Transform research gaps into 12 personas and targeted questions before speaking to real people in your target market

Why this topic matters

This is one of 15 AI workflows we teach on The Marketer in The Loop, the popular AI Marketing Certification course on Maven rated 4.4/5 by our students. Let us teach you how to apply AI workflows confidently across market research, marketing strategy and tactical execution, reflecting what CMOs now expect from their marketing teams. Join us to get your AI skills recognised and certified in 2026.

You'll learn from

Lee Henshaw

Marketing Entrepreneur & Author

Lee is a serial marketing entrepreneur who has launched, grown and sold two marketing agencies. He founded Way to Blue and Silence Media, selling the latter to Canopy Media. Lee taught over 1,000 founders with Dino on their Marketing for Startups Masterclass. He now runs Into-it, which transforms advertising into a loyalty channel for retailers using technology that replaces banner ads on news websites with notifications. He's also the author of the novel Queer Fish in God's Waiting Room (2008) and an Oasis biography (1996) and worked as a music journalist in the 90's for The Manchester Evening News. 

Dino Myers-Lamptey

Marketing Strategist & Agency Founder

Voted a Top 10 UK Media Planner in 2025 for the sixth time in a row by Campaign, Dino is the founder of the media agency The Barbershop, which delivered full-service campaigns for ExpressVPN in 2024, building a new 'performance meets brand' model for the online privacy service for multiple markets. For Sky Media, Dino led Sky's new brand positioning, Connections Mean Everything, which they debuted at Cannes this year. Dino also sits on MG OMD's leadership advisory board and is a regular on Campaign's judging circuit.

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The Marketer in The Loop - AI Marketing Certification
Dino Myers-Lamptey and Lee Henshaw
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