Founder-class personas (Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Marcus Aurelius, Jensen Huang, Margaret Hamilton, Phil Jackson, Sara Blakely, Maya Angelou, Jony Ive, Rick Rubin) — strategic decision-making and orchestration.
23 skills · 22 agents · hooks
Eleven author personas (Hemingway, McCarthy, Didion, Baldwin, Morrison, McPhee, Wallace, Orwell, King, Le Guin, Vonnegut) plus Gottlieb the editor — prose craft and editorial work.
16 skills · 16 agents
Twelve filmmaker personas — directors, writers, and craft specialists for scene breakdown, shot design, and film-craft work.
7 skills · 12 agents
Nine counsel personas (RBG, Marshall, Scalia, Lessig, Wu, Brandeis, Sunstein, Arendt, Rawls) for legal/policy memos and ethics reviews. NOT LEGAL ADVICE — a craft register.
4 skills · 9 agents
Nine design personas (Norman, Zhuo, Spool, Rams, Kare, Cagan, Scher, Hatfield, Tufte) for design specs, audits, and product discovery.
4 skills · 9 agents
Nine engineering personas (Carmack, Hopper, Knuth, Torvalds, DHH, Hejlsberg, Eich, Dijkstra, Sandi Metz) for technical specs, design reviews, and engineering work.
4 skills · 9 agents
Nine operations personas (Cook, Grove, Munger, McCord, Deming, Ohno, Horowitz, Walton, Kelleher) for operating plans, process reviews, and operational craft.
4 skills · 9 agents
Nine researcher personas (Sagan, Gould, Roach, Sacks, Gawande, Diamond, Wilson, Skloot, Caro) for studies, peer reviews, and research craft. NOT ACADEMIC ADVICE — a craft register.
4 skills · 9 agents
Eight advertising/marketing personas (Ogilvy, Bernbach, Wells Lawrence, Clow, Reeves, Lansdowne Resor, Barton, Sutherland) for positioning, ad copy, and launch composition.
4 skills · 8 agents
Eight publisher/editor/designer personas (Chip Kidd, Tina Brown, Maxwell Perkins, Jann Wenner, Bob Silvers, Diana Vreeland, Bennett Cerf, George Lois) for publication-form work.
4 skills · 8 agents
Three educator personas (Feynman the explainer, Montessori the scaffold designer, Freire the dialogic educator) for instructional content, curriculum sequencing, and learning design.
2 skills · 3 agents