Make the most of CRAFT personas

CRAFT Tutorials · Advanced

You already know you can call on a persona for focused help. The next step is making them your own — creating new specialist helpers, tailoring an existing one to your project, and putting several on a task to get more than one point of view.

Create your own persona

If you keep wishing for a particular kind of specialist — an editor with a specific voice, a numbers-focused reviewer, a skeptical sounding board — you can create one. Describe who you want and what they’re good at:

›Create a persona named “Quinn” — a plain-spoken copy editor who tightens my writing and flags jargon.

CRAFT writes up a persona profile you can call on by name from then on, just like the built-in ones.

✓ You’ll know it worked when CRAFT confirms your persona is saved and you can summon them by name.

Tailor an existing persona to your project

Sometimes you don’t need a brand-new persona — just a tweak to one that already exists, for this project. You can give a persona a project-specific adjustment without changing the original:

›For this project, customize the editor persona to use British spelling and a more formal tone.

Good to know: a customization like this is a local overlay — it applies in your project only and leaves the original persona untouched everywhere else. Your tweak can’t break the standard version.

✓ You’ll know it worked when the persona behaves your way in this project, while staying standard elsewhere.

Get more than one perspective

For anything important, a single viewpoint can have blind spots. You can put several personas on the same piece of work and have them weigh in together:

›Have a panel of personas review this plan and give me their different perspectives.

You can also run a simple two-role quality loop — one persona creates, another checks the work — which is great for catching mistakes before you ship something:

›Draft this with one persona, then have a second persona validate it and flag any problems.

✓ You’ll know it worked when you get distinct, named viewpoints — agreements, disagreements, and a clearer decision than one voice alone.

Troubleshooting

  • You forgot which personas you’ve made — ask CRAFT to “list the personas I can use.”
  • A customization isn’t sticking — make sure you framed it as “for this project”; a project tweak only applies where you set it.
  • A panel feels like overkill — it’s optional. For quick tasks, one persona (or none) is perfectly fine; save the panel for higher-stakes work.

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