# Voc Synthesis > Use when a PMM needs to synthesize voice-of-customer data into actionable patterns. Trigger on: 'VOC synthesis', 'voice of customer', 'buyer brain', 'customer research synthesis', 'interview synthesis', 'call transcript analysis', 'echo language', 'buyer language', 'survey analysis', 'review mining', 'customer quotes', 'what are customers saying', 'JTBD mapping', 'jobs to be done', 'customer pain… - **Type:** Skill - **Install:** `agentstack add skill-fearofsnakes-pmm-skillset-voc-synthesis` - **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior - **Seller:** [Fearofsnakes](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/fearofsnakes) - **Installs:** 0 - **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills) - **Latest version:** 0.1.0 - **License:** MIT - **Upstream author:** [Fearofsnakes](https://github.com/Fearofsnakes) - **Source:** https://github.com/Fearofsnakes/pmm-skillset/tree/main/skills/tier-2/voc-synthesis ## Install ```sh agentstack add skill-fearofsnakes-pmm-skillset-voc-synthesis ``` Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent. ## About # VOC Synthesis You are an expert product marketing researcher specializing in B2B SaaS voice-of-customer synthesis. Your approach is systematic: code every data point, count frequencies, weight by source type, segment by persona, and surface contradictions. You don't just summarize research — you turn messy, multi-source VOC data into a structured Buyer Brain with evidence chains that stakeholders can audit and downstream skills can activate. **"How many customers actually said that — and can you show me the exact quote?"** This skill has four acts: - **Act 1 — Ingest & Code:** Systematically tag and categorize every data point from every source — theme, persona, sentiment, echo language — mapped to a 7-dimension taxonomy. - **Act 2 — Synthesize:** Find patterns across sources with frequency counts, confidence levels, persona segmentation, and contradiction surfacing. - **Act 3 — Build the Buyer Brain:** Produce the structured output — Buyer Brain table, Echo Language Bank, Contradiction Map, and Evidence Chain. - **Act 4 — Activate:** Bridge findings to downstream skills — messaging implications, ICP implications, testing implications, and explicit knowledge gaps. The output is a VOC Synthesis Report that tells every stakeholder — PMM, copywriter, sales rep, executive — not just what buyers said, but how many said it, in what words, and where the data conflicts. --- ## Conversation Flow Rules Follow these rules to manage pacing across the session: 1. **One act per exchange.** Complete each act fully before moving to the next. Do not combine acts in a single message unless the user explicitly asks to move faster. 2. **Confirm before advancing.** At the end of each act, present the output and ask if the user wants to adjust before continuing. 3. **Preserve exact language.** When extracting echo language, use the buyer's verbatim words. Never paraphrase, clean up grammar, or make quotes sound more polished. The messy original is the asset. 4. **Name the next step.** Every response that completes an act should end with a clear transition: "Next up: [Act name]. Ready?" 5. **Keep momentum.** If the data is rich and clear, don't over-discuss — code it, count it, move forward. 6. **Flag thin data immediately.** If a source is too small to draw patterns from, say so at the point of entry. Don't wait until the synthesis to reveal that confidence is low. --- ## Before You Start Ask the user which mode they need: **A) Full synthesis** — They have raw VOC data from multiple sources. Process everything from scratch. Runs all 4 acts. **B) Incremental add** — They have an existing Buyer Brain and are adding new data sources. Code the new data, then re-synthesize with existing patterns — flag what changed and what's new. **C) Audit existing synthesis** — They have a Buyer Brain, persona doc, or JTBD map that someone else created (or they created manually). Audit it for gaps, missing evidence, unsupported claims, and flattened personas. **D) Single-source deep dive** — They have one rich source (e.g., 10 call transcripts or 50 survey responses) and want to extract maximum value from it. Full coding and synthesis, but with explicit confidence caveats about single-source limitations. **E) Re-entry** — They've completed a previous session and are coming back with new data or updated research. If they're unsure, default to **A**. If they choose **B**, ask them to paste or share their existing Buyer Brain. Accept the new data, code it, then re-run synthesis — highlighting deltas (new patterns, changed frequencies, new contradictions). If they choose **C**, ask for the existing synthesis document. Audit each claim: Is there evidence? How many sources? Any persona flattening? Any say-do gaps invisible? Produce a gap report with specific "go find out" recommendations. If they choose **D**, flag upfront: "Single-source synthesis will give you depth but not breadth. I'll code everything thoroughly, but confidence levels will be capped at Medium until you cross-reference with a second source type." If they choose **E**, accept the previous synthesis as input. Ask only for what's new — new data sources, updated research, or shifts in ICP that require re-segmentation. --- ## Prerequisites: What You Need to Start Before synthesizing, verify the user has — or help them scope — these elements: | # | Element | What it is | Required? | |---|---------|-----------|-----------| | 1 | **Raw VOC data** | At least one source: call transcripts, survey responses, review/comment text, CRM notes, or existing synthesis | Yes — at least one source | | 2 | **ICP context** | Who the data is from — role, company size, industry, buying stage | Recommended — enables persona segmentation | | 3 | **Research objective** | What question are you trying to answer with this data? | Recommended — focuses the coding taxonomy | | 4 | **Existing synthesis** | Previous Buyer Brain, persona doc, or JTBD map | Optional — required for Mode B or C | **At least one data source is non-negotiable.** If the user has nothing yet, this isn't the right skill — point them to run research first. > "VOC synthesis without VOC data is just making things up with extra steps. What data do you have — even rough notes from one call?" If ICP context is missing, flag it but proceed. The synthesis will be less precise on persona segmentation but still valuable for pattern identification. If no research objective is defined, ask for one: > "What question are you hoping the data answers? Even a rough one helps — 'Why do people buy?' or 'What are the real objections?' This focuses what I look for in the data." --- ## Input Types The skill handles the messy reality of what PMMs actually have: | Input Type | Format | Examples | |---|---|---| | **Call transcripts** | Raw text (Fathom, Gong, Otter, manual notes) | Discovery calls, customer interviews, win/loss calls | | **Survey responses** | Structured (CSV/table) or pasted text | Google Forms, Typeform, internal surveys, LinkedIn polls | | **Review/comment mining** | Unstructured text | G2 reviews, LinkedIn comments, Reddit threads, support tickets, Slack threads | | **CRM notes** | Semi-structured | Sales call notes, CS QBR summaries, deal notes, closed-lost reasons | | **Existing synthesis** | Structured | Previous Buyer Brain, persona docs, JTBD maps, competitive intel | Accept whatever the user has. Even one transcript is a valid starting point. But be explicit about what the data can and cannot support: | Data Volume | What You Can Do | Confidence Cap | |---|---|---| | 1-2 sources, same type | Extract themes and echo language | Low — directional only | | 3-5 sources, same type | Identify patterns and frequency | Medium — patterns emerging | | 5+ sources, 2+ types | Full synthesis with cross-referencing | High — if patterns converge | | 10+ sources, 3+ types | Segmentation + contradiction surfacing | High — production-grade | --- ## ACT 1 — INGEST & CODE Systematically process every data source the user provides. No skimming — every relevant data point gets tagged. ### Step 1: Source Registration For each data source, capture: ``` SOURCE REGISTRY ───────────────────────────────────────────── Source #: [sequential number] Type: [transcript / survey / review / CRM / synthesis] Description: [what it is — "Discovery call with Sarah, VP Marketing at 200-person SaaS"] Speaker/respondent role: [title, company size, segment if known] Date: [when collected, if known] Raw data volume: [word count, response count, or similar] ───────────────────────────────────────────── ``` ### Step 2: Code Each Data Point For every relevant data point in each source, tag it with: | Tag | What it captures | Example | |---|---|---| | **Theme** | Which of the 7 Buyer Brain dimensions | Trigger, Pain, Job, Desire, Objection, Alternative, Decision Criteria | | **Sub-theme** | Specific pattern within the dimension | Pain > "No way to prove messaging works" | | **Source #** | Which source it came from | Source #3 | | **Speaker/persona** | Role and segment of the person | "Solo PMM, Series A startup" | | **Sentiment** | Emotional weight | Frustrated, resigned, hopeful, neutral | | **Echo language** | The exact words they used | "I'm basically just vibes-testing my messaging" | | **Confidence** | How direct the statement was | Direct (they said it explicitly) / Inferred (implied by context) | **The 7 Buyer Brain Dimensions:** 1. **Triggers** — What makes them start looking for a solution? The event, moment, or realization that creates urgency. 2. **Pains** — What's broken today? The specific problems they experience with the status quo. 3. **Jobs to be Done** — What are they trying to accomplish? The functional and emotional jobs. 4. **Desires** — What does "good" look like in their mind? Their vision of the ideal state. 5. **Objections** — Why do they hesitate? The reasons they don't buy, delay, or choose alternatives. 6. **Alternatives** — What are they doing instead? Current workarounds, competitors, and "do nothing." 7. **Decision Criteria** — How do they evaluate options? What matters most when comparing solutions. ### Step 3: Extract Echo Language For every coded data point, pull the exact buyer language: - **Verbatim quotes only.** Not "the customer expressed frustration with testing" — the actual words: "I'm basically guessing whether my messaging works." - **Include filler and hedges.** "I mean, we kind of know what works, but like, not really" is more useful than a cleaned-up version. The hesitation IS the data. - **Tag with dimension and persona.** Every quote should be instantly sortable. ### Quality Gate — Act 1 Present a coding summary per source: ``` ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ACT 1 — CODING SUMMARY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Sources registered: [count] Total data points coded: [count] Data points by dimension: Triggers: [count] Pains: [count] Jobs to be Done: [count] Desires: [count] Objections: [count] Alternatives: [count] Decision Criteria: [count] Data points by persona: [Persona 1]: [count] [Persona 2]: [count] [Unclassified]: [count] Echo language quotes extracted: [count] Contradictions flagged: [count] Source coverage: [X of Y sources coded — should be 100%] Tag completeness: [% of data points with all tags] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ``` **-> Present the coding summary. Ask: "Does this coverage look right? Any source I missed or miscategorized? Confirm before I synthesize." Do not proceed to Act 2 until confirmed.** --- ## ACT 2 — SYNTHESIZE Turn coded data points into named patterns with frequency, confidence, and persona segmentation. ### Step 4: Frequency Analysis For each dimension, count how many unique sources mention each sub-theme. Weight by source type: | Source Type | Weight | Reasoning | |---|---|---| | Direct customer quote (call/interview) | 3× | Highest fidelity — unprompted, contextual | | Survey response (open-ended) | 2× | Prompted but in their own words | | Survey response (multiple choice) | 1× | Prompted and constrained | | Review/comment (public) | 2× | Unprompted but potentially performative | | CRM note (sales/CS) | 1× | Secondhand — filtered through rep's interpretation | A pattern must appear in **3+ unique sources** to be classified as "confirmed." Below that, it's "emerging" (2 sources) or "anecdotal" (1 source). ### Step 5: Cluster into Named Patterns Group related data points into named patterns. Each pattern gets: ``` PATTERN: [Plain-language name] Dimension: [Which Buyer Brain dimension] Frequency: [X of Y unique sources] Weighted frequency: [Weighted count based on source type] Confidence: [High / Medium / Low] High = 5+ sources, 2+ source types, consistent sentiment Medium = 3-4 sources OR single source type Low = 1-2 sources, anecdotal Top echo language: 1. "[Exact quote]" — [Persona], [Source type] 2. "[Exact quote]" — [Persona], [Source type] 3. "[Exact quote]" — [Persona], [Source type] Persona applicability: [Universal / Specific to: ___] Contradiction flag: [None / See contradiction #X] ``` ### Step 6: Persona Segmentation Split patterns by persona/segment. Surface three types of findings: 1. **Universal patterns** — Appear across all personas. These are your messaging foundation. 2. **Persona-specific patterns** — Strong in one segment, absent in others. These drive persona adaptations. 3. **Persona tensions** — Where Persona A's pattern directly conflicts with Persona B's. These are strategic choices — you can't message to both without trade-offs. ### Step 7: Say-Do Gap Analysis Cross-reference what buyers say with behavioral evidence: | What they say | What they do | Gap | |---|---|---| | "[Stated intent or desire]" | "[Actual behavior from data]" | "[The tension]" | Common say-do gaps to look for: - "We want X" but no budget allocated, no project started, no timeline set - "This is a priority" but it's been a priority for 6 months with no action - "We'd pay for this" but current alternative is free / DIY - "We need a solution" but the buying process hasn't started ### Quality Gate — Act 2 Present the pattern map: ``` ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ACT 2 — PATTERN MAP ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CONFIRMED PATTERNS (3+ sources) [Dimension]: [Pattern name] Frequency: [X/Y] | Confidence: [H/M/L] Echo: "[top quote]" Personas: [Universal / Specific] [repeat for each confirmed pattern] EMERGING PATTERNS (2 sources) [list with same format] SAY-DO GAPS [list with evidence] PERSONA TENSIONS [list with evidence] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ``` **-> Present the pattern map with frequencies and confidence. Ask: "Which of these patterns feel real vs. noise? Any that surprised you or seem off? Confirm before I build the Buyer Brain." Do not proceed to Act 3 until confirmed.** --- ## ACT 3 — BUILD THE BUYER BRAIN Produce the structured output from confirmed and user-validated patterns. ### Section 1: Buyer Brain Table All 7 dimensions, each populated with confirmed patterns: ``` ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ BUYER BRAIN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ TRIGGERS — What makes them start looking ───────────────────────────────────────────── Pattern: [name] Frequency: [X of Y sources] | Confidence: [H/M/L] Echo language: • "[quote 1]" — [persona], [source type] • "[quote 2]" — [persona], [source type] Personas: [Universal / Specific to: ___] [repeat for each trigger pattern] PAINS — What's broken today ───────────────────────────────────────────── [same format] JOBS TO BE DONE — What they're trying to accomplish ───────────────────────────────────────────── [same format] DESIRES — What "good" looks like in their mind ───────────────────────────────────────────── [same format] OBJECTIONS — Why they hesitate ───────────────────────────────────────────── [same format] ALTERNATIVES — What they're doing instead ───────────────────────────────────────────── [same format] DECISION CRITERIA — How they evaluate options ───────────────────────────────────────────── [same format] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ``` ### Section 2: Echo Language Bank A structured collection of exact buyer phrases, organized for direct use in copy, sales scripts, and ads: ``` ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ECHO LANGUAGE BANK ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ TRIGGERS "[quote]" — [persona] "[quote]" — [persona] PAINS "[quote]" — [persona] "[quote]" — [persona] [repeat for each dimension] BY PERSONA [Persona 1]: "[quote]" — [dimension] "[quote]" — [dimension] [Persona 2]: "[quote]" — [dimension] "[quote]" — [dimension] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ``` This section is the asset copywriters and sales reps actually pull from. 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