Persona Graph System

Current Features

• Rich Persona Profiles: Skills, tools, scopes, pain points, fears, content sources — all as first-class graph nodes
• Team Management: Teams with shared skills, tools, and scopes; team-to-persona relationships
• Directional Relationship Strength: Per-end scoring (-3 to +3) with context-sensitive labels (expertise/importance, proficiency/reliance, etc.)
• Task Journey Editor: Real-time collaborative swimlane with per-actor attitudes, content sources, and graph promotion
• Research Campaigns: Invite participants to complete journey boards; aggregate findings; promote pains, fears, and confidence to graph
• Graph Visualisation: Sibling highlight for shared content sources, relationship weight tip circles, tri-state legend filtering
• Category-based Node Management: Skills and tools organised into 12-category taxonomies with filterable dropdowns
• Inline Content Source Creation: Researchers can add unlisted sources directly from the journey map
• Dark / Light Theme: Carbon Design System with full dark mode support
• RESTful API: Full CRUD with interactive Swagger docs at /docs

Planned Enhancements

• Persona → Airtable Campaign Bridge: PII-safe audience selection — researchers pick criteria, backend resolves matching participants without exposing contact data
• PII Strategy: GDPR-compliant, IBM-sanctioned approach to research subject contact data — currently in proposal stage for CIO review
• Relationship Attribute Visual Encoding: Edge appearance driven by from/to weight values once sufficient data is populated
• Data Normalisation: Schema cleanup pass — canonical model audit, duplicate consolidation, safe migration scripts
• Open Source: Plugin architecture to allow external contributors to add new research types — no decision made yet
• AI Portrait Generation: Royalty-free persona portraits via Stable Diffusion — deferred pending model quality improvements
• Natural Language Queries: LLM-powered conversational interface over the graph
• Persona Similarity Analysis: ML clustering to identify similar personas across teams and organisations

Quick Start

1. Create a persona with role, skills, and tools
2. Add skills, tools, and content sources to the library
3. Create relationships and set directional strength scores
4. Explore connections in the graph — click edges to edit weights inline
5. Open Task Journeys to run a facilitated research session

Interaction