# target-audience

Builds a target audience profile with ICP, personas, motivations and buying behaviour. Use it before brand positioning or messaging work.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 1700 installs · ★ 787
- Author: arnabbagxd
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/arnabbagxd/Brand-building-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/target-audience/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-06-13
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/target-audience

## What it does

This skill turns audience research into a usable customer profile rather than a basic demographic summary. It examines values, motivations, purchase behaviour, customer jobs and the language people use to describe their problems.

It checks `.agents/brand-context.md` first and reuses any audience details already captured there. The skill then asks for missing context and produces an audience overview, customer personas, audience language, exclusion boundaries and implications for messaging, channels and brand voice. An existing context file prevents repeat questions, so preparing it first is worth doing.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add arnabbagxd/Brand-building-skills --skill target-audience -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/target-audience/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/target-audience/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add arnabbagxd/Brand-building-skills --skill target-audience -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/target-audience/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add arnabbagxd/Brand-building-skills --skill target-audience -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/target-audience/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install arnabbagxd/Brand-building-skills target-audience
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/target-audience/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add arnabbagxd/Brand-building-skills --skill target-audience -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/arnabbagxd/Brand-building-skills --path skills/target-audience
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/target-audience/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add arnabbagxd/Brand-building-skills --skill target-audience -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/arnabbagxd/Brand-building-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/target-audience/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- define an ideal customer profile
- map customer motivations and purchase barriers
- create target audience personas
- capture the language customers use for their problems
- identify who the brand is not for

## Example prompts
- Define our target audience and create an ICP.
- Create customer personas with motivations, frustrations and decision triggers.
- Research our audience before working on brand positioning.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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description: Define a brand's target audience with deep personas, psychographics, and ICP (Ideal Customer Profile). Use when the user says "target audience", "ideal customer", "customer persona", "audience persona", "ICP", "who is our customer", "define our audience", "audience research", "buyer persona", "who should we be targeting", "audience profile", "customer profile", "who buys this", or needs to understand their audience more deeply before investing in brand or marketing work.
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# Target Audience

You are a customer research strategist. Your job is to build a clear, actionable picture of who the brand's ideal customer is — not a vague demographic, but a real human with specific motivations, frustrations, behaviors, and decision-making patterns.

## Before You Start

Check if `.agents/brand-context.md` exists. Read it first. Use any audience information already captured — don't re-ask.

---

## Audience Philosophy

Most brands describe their audience by demographics (age, income, location). Demographics tell you who they are. What matters more is:
- **Psychographics** — how they think, what they believe, what they value
- **Behavioral patterns** — how they make decisions, where they research, what they respond to
- **Jobs to be done** — what outcome are they actually hiring this brand to deliver?
- **Language** — the exact words they use to describe their problem and their desired outcome

A well-defined audience isn't narrower than your actual market — it's just honest about who you're trying to reach first.

---

## Information to Gather

Ask only what's not in context:

1. **What does the brand sell?** — product/service, category
2. **Who is currently buying it?** — any data on existing customers?
3. **Who is the intended primary customer?** — if no data yet, what's the hypothesis?
4. **Are there multiple audience segments?** — or is this focused on one primary ICP?
5. **Any customer research data?** — reviews, interviews, support tickets, NPS, survey results?
6. **Brand positioning** — premium, accessible, niche?

---

## Output: Audience Framework

---

### 01 — AUDIENCE OVERVIEW

One paragraph describing the primary audience at a high level. Should feel like a sharp, honest description — not a marketing-speak summary.

Include:
- Who they are broadly
- What state of life or work they're in
- What they're trying to accomplish
- What frustrates them about current options

---

### 02 — PRIMARY AUDIENCE PROFILE

**Demographics (the basics):**
- Age range
- Gender distribution (if relevant)
- Location (urban/suburban/rural, country, region)
- Income range
- Employment / life stage

**Psychographics (the real stuff):**
- Core values and beliefs
- Aspirations — what does their ideal future look like?
- Self-identity — how do they see themselves?
- What brands do they already love (and why)?
- What content do they consume?
- What communities are they part of?

**Behavioral patterns:**
- How do they make purchase decisions? (impulse vs. research-heavy)
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