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Write for the homeowner planning a year out and for the developer counting area.

A buyer persona for an architecture practice describes one kind of client in enough detail to write pages and fee notes they recognise: the homeowner planning a build a year ahead, the small developer, the family building from abroad on ancestral land. GullySales builds these from the projects you have actually signed.

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Scope, fee, reporting and term are agreed in writing after we have read your brief and spoken to you.

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What buyer persona means

A buyer persona is a plain description of the kind of customer who actually buys from you. It includes what they search, what worries them and who else they ask before deciding. GullySales builds this from real enquiries and past sales rather than a generic template, then uses it to write every page and advert.

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For architecture firms

Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.

  • “The homeowner has been planning for a year before they call”

    They arrive with a folder of saved images, a relative with strong opinions and a rough number in their head. What they want answered first is cost per square foot and how the sanction works, not style.

  • “The developer is counting saleable area and sanction time”

    A builder putting up a small apartment block reads your portfolio for efficiency and approvals, not for the courtyard. One project page cannot speak to both readers, so you write two.

  • “The family building from abroad decides on a video call”

    An owner in Dubai building on ancestral land needs site photographs, a relative kept informed and a way to approve drawings across time zones. That changes how the fee note and the site updates are agreed.

What we do

What we deliver for architecture firms.

Every deliverable, what it covers for you, and the result it is there to produce. Nothing here is an extra.

  1. A brief for the homeowner planning a year ahead

    Who they are, what they have already read, the questions they ask first and the words they use for them, written as one page the studio can refer to.

    Result: Your pages answer the question they came with.

  2. A developer brief written around area and approvals

    What a small builder judges a practice on, from saleable area to how a sanction moved on your last project of that size.

    Result: A developer reading your portfolio finds their own concerns addressed.

  3. A brief for the client building from overseas

    How a family abroad makes the decision, who represents them on site and what they need to see before releasing a stage payment.

    Result: The enquiry from abroad stops being handled as a special case.

  4. Persona wording carried into the portfolio pages

    Project pages rewritten so each speaks to the client most likely to read it, with the cost and approval questions answered plainly.

    Result: A visitor recognises themselves within a few lines.

  5. A check of the personas against signed projects

    Each persona tested against who has actually paid you, so the practice is not writing for a client it never wins.

    Result: You write for the clients you get, not the ones you picture.

How the result is measured

  • Enquiry match to persona
  • Conversion rate by persona
  • Content aligned to persona

Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.

Read the full B2B and B2C buyer persona development page

A persona card for this client

Here is a typical card for the plot owner who has been planning a home for years.

An example, not a fact about your clients. Read each line against your own signed projects and change whatever does not match.

Who they are
Typical: a couple who own a plot and have saved for years. One partner leads on the brief and the other holds the budget. Check against your last signed residential clients.
What starts the search
Typical: the plot registration is done, or a friend's house has just been finished. Ask each new client what happened in the month before they called.
What worries them
Typical: a design they love that the municipal office will not sanction, and a budget that doubles midway. Listen for these words on enquiry calls.
What they compare you with
Typical: a builder who offers a free plan, an interior designer who also draws, and a cousin who is an engineer. Ask who else they have spoken to.
Who else decides
Typical: parents who will live on the ground floor, a spouse, and a contractor friend whose opinion counts. Ask who will read the proposal before it is signed.
What makes them say yes
Typical: a finished home on a similar plot and a plain note on the sanction steps. Look at your signed jobs for the project each client asked to see first.

Who it is for

This is written for these architecture firms.

  • Residential and villa architecture practices
  • Commercial and corporate campus architecture firms
  • Hospitality architecture practices
  • Institutional architecture firms, schools and hospitals
  • Interior-architecture hybrid practices
  • Sustainable and green building specialists
  • Practices working on government and public sector tenders
  • Boutique single-principal practices

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • You have signed too few projects to see a pattern in who hires you, so a persona would repeat what you assume
  • You hope a persona will choose your clients for you, but the choice has to come from the projects you want to build
  • Your practice has one kind of client and every enquiry arrives the same way, so separate personas would change no reply

How it works

How the buyer persona work runs

The work itself, in order. How an engagement starts, from your brief to a written scope, is set out on our method page.

  1. 1

    Understand the current view

    We start with how your team currently describes the customer, since the gap between belief and reality is the finding itself.

  2. 2

    Audit past enquiries and sales

    We look at recent enquiries and closed deals to see who actually bought, not who was assumed to buy.

  3. 3

    Interview customers and staff

    Structured conversations with recent buyers, held as talk about the last purchase and not a questionnaire. We ask what happened before they called, who else was involved and what they compared. Customers agree before we contact them, and their answers are reported without names.

  4. 4

    Build the personas

    Findings are written into short, usable persona documents rather than a long report.

  5. 5

    Apply to your marketing

    We show where each persona should change a page, an ad or a script you already have. The sales team reads the drafts and says which ring true. A persona they do not recognise is rewritten.

Where this fits

Three pieces of sales work, in this order.

This work sits inside sales process design, at stage 0, foundation. The audit comes before it, and sales management keeps it running.

  1. Step 1

    Sales audit

    Find where deals are being lost and what to fix first.

    Start here if you cannot say where orders are lost.

  2. Step 2 · you are here

    Sales process design

    One written way to sell, from first enquiry to repeat order.

    Start here if every salesperson sells differently.

  3. Step 3

    Sales management

    A target, a review routine and someone who owns the number.

    Start here if the team has targets and no routine.

Tell us what you need Your brief is read before we call. Scope, fee and term in writing.

FAQ

Questions owners ask before they call.

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How many personas does a small practice need?
Two or three. One of them is usually not the buyer at all but the builder or interior designer who recommends you, and they judge a practice on drawings issued on time rather than on design.
Is the person paying the person deciding?
Not always. On a house it is often the spouse or the parent who owns the plot; on an institutional project it is a committee. A persona names who has to be convinced as well as who signs.
How do we check a persona against our signed projects?
Take the last few signed clients and write down what each asked first, who joined the meetings and which project they wanted to see. Where the card and the records disagree, change the card. A persona that no signed client matches is a guess, so drop it or mark it clearly as one.
Should the developer's brief sit on the same page as the homeowner's?
Usually not. A developer reads area, approvals and past tender work, while a homeowner reads rooms, family needs and who will draw the plans. Separate pages let each reader find their own questions, and the portfolio can point to both by project type.
How much does it cost?
There is no price list, because the work differs by business. The fee is scoped after we have read your brief and spoken to you, and put in writing before anything starts, split into our time, your media spend and production.
How long is the contract?
The term is agreed in writing after we have spoken, along with the fee and the reporting. It is never a default twelve months, and renewal is decided on the numbers against the baseline recorded at the start.
How soon will we see results?
It depends on the trade, the channel and what is already in place. After we have read your brief and spoken to you, we say what we would expect to move first and how it will be measured against the baseline. Nothing here is guaranteed.
Who will actually do the work?
The person you speak to before anything starts. We work from one office in Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru, with no account managers in between.
What do you need from us?
Your brief, and a conversation. After that, access to whatever this work touches, such as your website, your accounts or your enquiry record, and time with the people who handle your enquiries.
What if we are not happy with the work?
Tell us and the plan changes. Everything is reported against the baseline, so a number that is not moving is visible to both sides. The term is in your written scope, and the refund and cancellation policy sets out the rest.

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