Create user personas your team actually uses.
Stop guessing what your customers want. Userforge helps you generate AI-assisted user personas, write user stories, and map journeys — all in one workspace that keeps your whole team aligned.
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Your team builds for people. Does everyone agree who those people are?
Most teams operate on assumptions. Different stakeholders picture different customers, and decisions drift toward whoever has the loudest opinion. Userforge replaces gut-feel with a shared, living picture of your audience — so every decision starts from the same truth.
Without Userforge
- ✗Personas live in a stale deck nobody opens
- ✗Teams debate whose mental model is correct
- ✗Marketing targets one customer, product builds for another
- ✗New hires spend weeks figuring out the audience
With Userforge
- ✓A living persona library everyone edits and references
- ✓Stories and maps connected directly to personas
- ✓AI assists without replacing your team's judgment
- ✓One link shares full context with every stakeholder
The outcome
- ✓Faster alignment across product, design, and marketing
- ✓Features built to real needs, not imaginary users
- ✓Onboard new team members in minutes, not weeks
- ✓More confident, defensible design decisions
Generate user personas in four simple steps
No UX certification required. Userforge guides you through the whole process.
Describe your context
Add a brief summary of your organisation, offerings, and audience — this seeds the AI with real context about your business.
Generate personas
Our AI proposes user archetypes based on your context. You stay in the director's chair — pick, remix, and enrich every detail.
Write user stories
Describe every action in your product in human terms, mapped to each persona and to the screens where they occur.
Share and align
Invite colleagues, share public read-only links, or export to CSV. One workspace keeps every stakeholder on the same page.
User persona profiles that are rich, visual, and actually useful
Great personas go beyond demographics. Userforge structures each profile around the things that drive decisions — goals, frustrations, values, motivators, habits, and pain points — with icons, images, and beautifully formatted sections.
- ✓AI-assisted first drafts — context-aware archetypes generated from your org summary
- ✓Flexible sections — Quote, Goals, Story, Needs, Frustrations, Values, Pain Points, Habits, Motivators, and more
- ✓1,000+ icons — add tasteful visual polish to every section with Tabler icons
- ✓Integrated image library — search thousands of photos or upload your own
- ✓Demographics bar — age, location, income, education at a glance
- ✓Multilingual support — all text is customisable; build personas in any language
Put those personas to work — map every user action
Userforge makes user story writing fast, consistent, and traceable. Every story links back to a persona so developers, designers, and stakeholders always know who they're building for and why it matters.
- ✓User Story & Job Story formats supported side by side
- ✓Map stories to locations — tie actions to specific screens or touchpoints in your product
- ✓Tags and filters — organise by epic, sprint, status, persona, and more
- ✓CSV export — download your full story catalogue at any time
- ✓Jira sync — push well-formatted stories directly into Jira Software ⚡ Power
- ✓Customisable labels — rename every field so the format fits your team's vocabulary
See the full picture. Spot the gaps.
A story list tells you what exists — a map tells you what's missing. Visualise how your personas flow through your product with an interactive journey map, and immediately see which touchpoints lack coverage.
- ✓Visual user journey map — lay out every screen and action across your product's touchpoints
- ✓Connected to user stories — every story on the map links back to the full story catalogue
- ✓Filter by persona — see the journey from any single user group's perspective
- ✓Shared with your team — the map is always up to date as stories are added or changed
Everything you need to create and share user personas
Every feature is designed to reduce friction and reinforce good habits — not add complexity to your process.
Context-aware AI
Our multi-step AI workflow uses your real org context — not generic prompts. You direct each step and override anything that doesn't fit.
Team collaboration
Invite colleagues and stakeholders to your workspace. Share read-only links for clients and executives who don't need an account.
Tags & organisation
Tag personas and stories by epic, phase, or any dimension your team uses. Filter and search across everything in seconds.
Multilingual & customisable
Build personas and stories in any language. Every label, section title, and story format field is fully customisable to match your team's vocabulary.
Integrated image library
Search thousands of curated photos to give personas a human face. Upload your own headshots, backgrounds, or section illustrations.
Powerful export
Export stories to CSV. Share persona profiles via public link. Keep your data portable, accessible, and under your control at all times.
Jira integration
Connect your Atlassian account and sync user stories as properly formatted Jira issues — with persona, scenario, action, and rationale intact.
1,000+ icons
Give every persona section a clear, beautiful icon from the Tabler icon library — communicating content type without visual noise.
Multiple workspaces
Manage multiple clients or products under one account. Each workspace has its own personas, stories, map, and team members.
Pricing to fit your needs.
Plans from $8/m for lite persona projects all the way to ⚡ Power plans for large product teams running ambitious digital initiatives.
Try the core persona tools and see how Userforge fits your workflow — no time limit, no card needed.
- ✓Create personas instantly
- ✓Invite a collaborator
- ✓Shareable persona links
- ✗User stories & mapping
- ✗Jira integration
Billed yearly
Build a professional persona library and share it with your team. Perfect for marketing teams and agencies.
- ✓Up to 5 personas
- ✓Up to 5 collaborators
- ✓AI persona generation
- ✓Image library
- ✗User stories & Jira sync
Professional plans from $24/mo
The full Userforge toolkit — for product teams running real digital initiatives with user stories and journey maps.
- ✓Lots of personas
- ✓User story template & management
- ✓Visual journey map
- ✓CSV export
- ⚡ Jira sync Power plan
Need help rolling out personas at your organisation?
Sign up for our ⚡ "Power" annual plan and we'll schedule a call to connect with your team in real time, help you uncover research strategies, and plan a clear path forward.
Sign up on the ⚡ Power annual plan →All plans include a free trial · No credit card required to start · Questions? Contact us
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Deep-dive guides on every aspect of building and using personas effectively.
Personas 101: The Complete Guide
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