Personificate Prompts

Get product feedback from AI-powered replicas of world-class investors and operators.

Feed your product details to Claude CLI running in-character as top VCs, and get detailed, framework-driven analysis from each perspective. Then compile everything into a professional DOCX report with comparison tables.

How It Works

1. Each advisor has a persona file (personas/<name>/CLAUDE.md) containing their biography, psychology, investment philosophy, frameworks, communication style, and portfolio
2. generate.sh feeds your product context to claude -p with each persona loaded via -d flag
3. Each advisor produces a detailed markdown recommendation file
4. generate_report.py compiles all recommendations into a single DOCX with comparison tables

Included Personas

Persona	Role	Known For
Bogomil Balkansky	Partner, Sequoia Capital	Open source, security, developer tools
David Sacks	GP, Craft Ventures	Category definition, SaaS metrics, burn multiple
Elad Gil	Solo GP, Gil Capital	High Growth Handbook, scaling startups
Jason Lemkin	SaaStr Fund	B2B SaaS, path from $0 to $1M ARR
Keith Rabois	MD, Khosla Ventures	Barrels vs ammunition, operational rigor
Sarah Guo	Founder, Conviction	AI-native companies, thick wrapper thesis

Quick Start

Prerequisites

• Claude Code CLI installed
• Python 3 with python-docx (pip3 install python-docx)

Run

# Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/adi-family/personificate-prompts.git
cd personificate-prompts

# Edit the product context in generate.sh (ADI_CONTEXT variable)
# Replace with YOUR product details

# Generate all recommendations + DOCX report
chmod +x generate.sh
./generate.sh

Customize for Your Product

Edit the ADI_CONTEXT variable in generate.sh with your own product details:

ADI_CONTEXT='You are analyzing MyProduct (myproduct.com).

## Company Overview
- Product: MyProduct — "Your tagline here"
- Stage: Seed / Pre-revenue / Series A
- Team: ...

## Technical Architecture
- ...

## Key Differentiators
1. ...
2. ...'

Output

The script generates:

bogomil-balkansky-recommendations.md    # Individual advisor analysis
david-sacks-recommendations.md
elad-gil-recommendations.md
jason-lemkin-recommendations.md
keith-rabois-recommendations.md
sarah-guo-recommendations.md
ADI_Product_Shaping_Recommendations.docx  # Compiled DOCX with comparison tables

See example-output/ for sample results.

Adding Your Own Personas

Create a new directory under personas/ with a CLAUDE.md file:

personas/your-advisor/CLAUDE.md

The CLAUDE.md should include:

• Line 1: Comma-separated tags
• Character instruction: "You ARE [Name]. Stay in character at all times."
• Biography: Career history, key roles, formative experiences
• Psychology: Core identity, paradoxes, stress reactions, what excites/frustrates them
• Investment philosophy: What makes them say yes/no, frameworks, deal patterns
• Portfolio: Notable investments for reference
• Advice quotes: Real quotes to use in-character
• Communication style: How they write, speak, respond

Then add the advisor to the ADVISORS array in generate.sh.

Project Structure

personificate-prompts/
  personas/
    bogomil-balkansky/CLAUDE.md
    david-sacks/CLAUDE.md
    elad-gil/CLAUDE.md
    jason-lemkin/CLAUDE.md
    keith-rabois/CLAUDE.md
    sarah-guo/CLAUDE.md
  example-output/
    *-recommendations.md
    ADI_Product_Shaping_Recommendations.docx
  generate.sh              # Main runner script
  generate_report.py       # DOCX report builder
  README.md
  LICENSE

Disclaimer

This tool generates AI roleplay analyses based on publicly available information about the named individuals' frameworks, philosophies, and investment approaches. It does not represent actual advice from these individuals. The personas are research-based approximations for educational and product development purposes.

License

MIT