Hugo Alves
Chief Product Officer at Synthetic Users, leading a team of engineers, designers, and researchers to build and scale a platform that leverages artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and behavioral science to create realistic and engaging synthetic users.
12 guides by Hugo Alves
AI customer discovery practice exercise for product managers
This exercise has you run one full AI-accelerated discovery loop: turn a belief you are carrying about your users into...
Andre Albuquerque & Hugo AlvesWhat Is Research Synthesis in Product Discovery
Research synthesis is the process of analyzing and organizing raw qualitative data, interview transcripts, notes, and...
Andre Albuquerque & Hugo AlvesHow to Run Customer Interviews
Running a customer interview well means treating it as a continuous habit, at least one a week, not an occasional...
Andre Albuquerque & Hugo AlvesBest AI Resources for Product Managers
This is the AI reading list Builders Camp's AI Prompting for Customer Discovery and 10x Productivity with AI bootcamps...
Andre Albuquerque & Hugo AlvesDiscovery Interview Script Template
A discovery interview script starts with a testable hypothesis (who, what, why, and what evidence would change your...
Andre Albuquerque & Hugo AlvesHow to use AI for customer interviews without handing it the room
AI belongs in three slots around a customer interview and in none of them during it: drafting and de-biasing the guide...
Andre Albuquerque +2How to use AI for jobs to be done research on real transcripts
A job statement is only as good as the struggling moment behind it, and that is the exact part a model invents first...
Andre Albuquerque +2How to use AI for persona research that survives its first challenge
A persona built by AI is only as good as the transcripts behind it, and the useful discipline is one extra column: for...
Andre Albuquerque +2What AI for product discovery actually speeds up, and what it quietly breaks
AI safely speeds three parts of a discovery loop and should not touch the other two. Recruiting messages, interview...
Andre Albuquerque +2Which AI tools for user research fit which kind of research?
Pick the tool from the research type, not the other way round: transcription plus a general model covers moderated...
Andre Albuquerque +2Best AI tools for market research for product discovery
Perplexity is the best pick for fast, cited desk research: its help center lists "10x as many citations per answer" as...
Andre Albuquerque & Hugo AlvesNotebookLM for product managers
NotebookLM answers questions strictly from the sources you upload, citing the exact passage each answer draws from...
Andre Albuquerque & Hugo Alves