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[User Research AI 2/3] Synthetic users: the evidence

30 min
Oct 29, 2026 1:00 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

Why this topic matters

In this free 30-minute live lesson, part of the "User Research with AI" mini-series, you'll learn 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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Spark Engine by Valerio Zanini

Spark Engine by Valerio Zanini

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

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