Valerio Zanini
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Synthetic users in action

30 min
Oct 29, 2026 2:30 PM

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What you'll learn

Leverage AI for user research

Where AI works and where it fails

Create synthetic users that you can interview

Learn how to create effective synthetic users and how to run discovery interviews

Remove the barrier to interview your customers

Now you can leverage synthetic users when finding customers is difficult

Effective techniques to make syn users work

Just throwing a prompt is not enough. Learn how to distinguish the algorithmic average

Create a synthetic user

Practice creating a synthetic user in your own AI system

Why this topic matters

Part 2 of the "User Research with AI" mini-series, you'll learn how to create a synthetic user and what the evidence really says about synthetic users, where AI stand-ins help, where they mislead, and how to validate. A practical, hands-on session for product managers: one big actionable idea you can apply right away, plus live Q&A with Valerio.

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Valerio Zanini

Valerio Zanini

4000+ students (Google, Capital One, eBay, Microsoft, Wesco, Cisco and more)

Transformed Product Teams at
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