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Meet the buyers before you build

Every persona here is drawn from live market demand: who is asking, what they keep asking for, and what already ships for them. Pick a buyer, follow their needs, find the opening.

  • 30 buyer personas
  • 591 recurring needs
  • 30 product categories
Buyers

Who is buying right now

Personas built from how buyers describe themselves and their situation. Each one carries the needs they bring and how well the market already serves them.

The always-on ad creative buyer

Performance-led e-commerce operator

Mixed

Runs paid social every day of the year and needs a steady stream of fresh creative, judged only on what converts.

5%Share of all buyers
#1 of 30Rank
18%Requests that involve AI

Industry mix

  • Marketing agencies20.1%
  • E-commerce13.1%
  • Healthcare4.9%

What they are asking for

  • Ad campaign optimisation
  • Social media content strategy
  • Social media management
Full buyer profile
Crowded

Has the concept, the runway and the pitch. Buys the first version in milestones because there is no engineering bench to build it.

4.5%Share of all buyers
#3 of 30Rank
30%Requests that involve AI

Industry mix

  • AI and machine learning9.5%
  • SaaS9%
  • Manufacturing7.1%

What they are asking for

  • B2B SaaS platform build
  • Mobile app built from scratch
  • Real users testing the prototype
Full buyer profile

The pre-launch consumer brand

Founder-led, before the first sale

Open gap

Needs an identity that looks established from day one, bought once, on a budget that says otherwise.

4.4%Share of all buyers
#4 of 30Rank
20.8%Requests that involve AI

Industry mix

  • Media and entertainment40.2%
  • Fashion and apparel12.4%
  • E-commerce7.4%

What they are asking for

  • Logo refinement and production files
  • Apparel graphics ready for manufacturing
  • A cohesive brand identity
Full buyer profile

The owner-run firm with no specialist on staff

Small and mid-sized business, owner-operated

Mixed

Has live systems and real revenue, and nobody in-house who owns finance, reporting or the email that stops landing.

4.4%Share of all buyers
#5 of 30Rank
27.7%Requests that involve AI

Industry mix

  • Marketing agencies18.6%
  • E-commerce13.4%
  • Healthcare7.9%

What they are asking for

  • Manual workflows that do not scale
  • Email that lands in the inbox
  • Local search visibility
Full buyer profile

The B2B firm that needs pipeline, not headcount

Small B2B services firm with a working sales motion

Crowded

The offer converts and the sales team is ready. What is missing is the top of the funnel: lists, outreach, booked meetings.

4.1%Share of all buyers
#7 of 30Rank
16.1%Requests that involve AI

Industry mix

  • Marketing agencies19.1%
  • Real estate14.7%
  • Professional services8.8%

What they are asking for

  • Qualified leads and booked meetings
  • Verified contact lists
  • Outbound appointment setting at scale
Full buyer profile

The creator publishing faster than they can edit

Solo creator with a monetised audience

Crowded

The channel is monetised and growing faster than one person can edit. Publishing cadence is the whole business.

4.1%Share of all buyers
#8 of 30Rank
27.5%Requests that involve AI

Industry mix

  • Media and entertainment37.3%
  • Marketing agencies25.6%
  • Publishing7.4%

What they are asking for

  • Raw footage edited into finished video
  • Short-form clips for social
  • Video output that scales with the channel
Full buyer profile

The micro-business buying back its owner's time

Owner-operator, one to five people

Crowded

Enquiries, bookings, records and follow-ups have outgrown the owner's hours, but not enough to justify the first admin role.

4%Share of all buyers
#10 of 30Rank
22.4%Requests that involve AI

Industry mix

  • Marketing agencies18.4%
  • Professional services14.8%
  • Real estate9%

What they are asking for

  • Daily administrative support
  • Consistent social media presence
  • Local search visibility
Full buyer profile

The owner with a live website and no developer

Small business with a site nobody maintains

Mixed

The site is live, it earns, and nobody on staff can touch it. They want it kept alive, not rebuilt.

3.9%Share of all buyers
#12 of 30Rank
20.9%Requests that involve AI

Industry mix

  • Media and entertainment36.1%
  • Marketing agencies9.5%
  • Publishing8.2%

What they are asking for

  • Domain, email and site setup
  • An outdated website modernised
  • A new site built and launched
Full buyer profile
Demand

What they keep asking for

Needs that arrive again and again, in the buyers' own words, with a read on whether products already exist for them.

Supply

What is being built for them

Categories of products launching right now, who ships them, and which of the needs above they sit closest to.

Crowded

Ad creative on demand

AI ad creative generation, testing and scaling

Products that turn winning ads into new variants, run the campaigns, and produce the product photography, for teams that never had a designer.

2.2%Share of all launches
40.1%Launched in the last quarter

For example AdAnt AI, Goose Ads Remixer, Adomate

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Crowded

Video editing without an editor

AI video editing automation

Products that turn raw footage into shorts, captions, b-roll and finished videos by transcript, by prompt or by canvas.

2.5%Share of all launches
39.5%Launched in the last quarter

For example CapCut Video Studio, ClipDone, ClipMatch

See what ships
Crowded

Outbound that runs itself

Automated sales prospecting

Agents that build the buyer profile, find the accounts, write the outreach and book the meeting, so a small revenue team scales without adding people.

3%Share of all launches
41.2%Launched in the last quarter

For example Ormedo, Clara AI SDR, Avina

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Active

Showing up in AI answers

AI search visibility tracking

A category that did not exist a year ago: products that measure how ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity describe a brand, and which competitors get named instead.

1.8%Share of all launches
34.6%Launched in the last quarter

For example PromptScout, AI Visibility, Visiby

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Crowded

Brand assets without a designer

AI design asset generation

Products that generate a whole brand kit, keep every generated asset on brand, and produce the product shots and mockups a small team never had.

2.8%Share of all launches
39.4%Launched in the last quarter

For example Branda, Genspark Design, Reve 2.0

See what ships

Every persona here is live in Growhold

This page shows a curated slice. Inside Growhold the same intelligence is searchable across every buyer, every need and every product category, and the agents turn a reading into a product brief, a scope or a positioning statement you own.

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