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Write down who actually signs, who blocks and who lives with the bot.

A buyer persona for an automation firm is a written description of each person in the decision: the finance or operations head who feels the chore, the IT head who reviews it and the owner who pays. GullySales builds these from your lost and won pilots, so each page and message speaks to a real role.

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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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Last updated 6 Oct 2026.

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

  • “The person who feels the chore is not the person who signs”

    A finance controller sees two clerks keying bank statements. The budget sits with the owner, and the licence goes past the IT head. A pitch written for one role stalls with the other two, so each needs its own page and its own first call.

  • “The IT head asks about risk, not savings”

    Where are credentials kept, what is logged, what runs on whose server, who holds the licence. This reader opens the partner directory and then the security page. If the page does not exist, the answer in the buyer's mind is that nobody has thought about it.

  • “The clerk who does the work decides if the pilot lives”

    The staff who retype data fear the bot, or quietly make it fail with odd exceptions. A persona that includes the process user shows you the training, the hand-over and the fears that sink a pilot after the contract is signed.

  • “Past buyers hold the real descriptions”

    The words a controller used on the first call, the objection that ended a proof of concept, the job title on the signed order. Without them the persona is a guess dressed as a template.

What we do

What we deliver for business automation and RPA companies.

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

  1. Three to four role profiles in plain words

    Finance head, operations head, IT head and owner, each with the chore they feel, the question they ask first and the proof they trust.

    Result: Anyone writing a page or a proposal knows who will read it.

  2. A decision map for one live deal

    For a current pilot: who raised it, who reviews it, who pays, who uses the bot and who can stop it.

    Result: You see which role has not yet been spoken to.

  3. Objections gathered from lost and won pilots

    The exact words buyers used, grouped by role, with the reply that moved a deal and the one that did not.

    Result: Objections are answered in the buyer's own terms.

  4. Message sets for each role

    Opening lines, page headings and call questions written for each profile, kept apart so they do not blur.

    Result: A finance head and an IT head each hear what they came to check.

  5. A short interview script for past clients

    Questions to ask an existing client about how they chose, who disagreed and what finally decided it.

    Result: The persona rests on conversations, not assumption.

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

Who is asking

Four roles look at an automation firm, and each reads a different page first.

Finance head with a retyping team
Wants to know how much of the chore the bot takes, where a person still decides and whether the books stay in order.
Operations head with a backlog
Wants to know what changes in the team's day and what the team does when the bot stops.
IT head asked to approve a bot
Wants to know where credentials live, what is logged, who can see data and whose server the bot runs on.
Owner holding the budget
Wants a plain business case, a stated end to the pilot and the name of someone to call if the vendor goes quiet.
Partner or consultant recommending you
Wants proof you finish pilots and will not embarrass the introduction, before putting their name to yours.

Who it is for

This is written for these business automation and RPA companies.

  • UiPath, Automation Anywhere and Blue Prism implementation partners
  • Power Automate and Microsoft 365 consultancies
  • Workflow studios building on Zoho, n8n, Make and Zapier
  • Document processing and OCR specialists for invoices, KYC and claims
  • Finance back-office automation firms covering GST, TDS and bank reconciliation
  • Software houses adding an automation practice
  • Shared-service and BPO teams turning their own bots into a product
  • Freelancer-led teams becoming a registered company

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • You sell to one buyer you already know well, so separate role sheets would describe people you never meet.
  • You have not yet spoken to an IT head about a live deal, and a sheet written without that voice would leave out the person who can stop the sale.
  • You want personas to pick advertising words, when these buyers respond to a named process and a plain support promise.

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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Is one persona enough for an automation firm?
No. The person who feels the chore, the person who reviews risk and the person who pays want different proof. Write one profile for each role in a real deal, and keep them short enough that the sales team reads them.
Where does the information come from?
From your own calls: recordings or notes of discovery calls, the proposals that were accepted and the ones that went quiet, and short conversations with current clients. We do not invent buyer details, so thin records are filled by talking to people.
How often should a persona change?
When a pilot teaches you something the profile did not predict, revise it. Treat the document as a working note that changes after real deals, and not as a one-time workshop output.
How do we learn what an IT head asks?
Ask your delivery engineers to list the security and access questions raised in their last pilots. The reason is that IT heads do not speak to marketing, but they quiz the engineers, and those questions belong on a page the IT head reads before the call.
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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