ChatSKU by Virtina - prospect briefing

Persona & job-to-be-done Metal Fabrication

Prepared for a metals service center. Every question below is a real thing a real buyer would type into ChatSKU - grouped by who's asking and why, not just what they typed.

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A

ICP category - the four dark switches below. This is the buyer's relationship to the service center: are they a first-time buyer, an existing customer, the distributor's own sales team, or someone outside the company (a reseller, OEM sourcing agent, or engineer) who influences a sale.

R

Role - the tags in a row under the switches (e.g. "Fab Shop Buyer"). A more specific type of person within the selected category. Click one to filter the cards below to just their questions.

Q

Sample query - the italic quoted line on each card. A real, representative question that type of person would actually type into ChatSKU.

J

The job (JTBD) - the green block. Not what they typed, but the underlying goal behind it - what they're actually trying to accomplish or avoid. Two different questions can share the same job, and the same question can hide different jobs depending on who's asking.

8

Impact score (1–10) - the number in the top right of each card, with a fill bar underneath. A rough estimate of how much that use case matters to conversion, retention, or deal size - higher means it's more likely to make or break a sale if ChatSKU gets it right or wrong.

*

"Lead with this" ribbon - flags the single highest-priority use case for this vertical: confirming a piece of metal actually matches the buyer's spec on alloy and grade, temper, form, dimensions, and finish, not just that it exists in the catalog. The recommended starting point for a first conversation, rather than showing everything at once.

i

Caption at the bottom of each card - the reasoning behind why that use case was included: what it's based on (a service center's own catalog content, a comparable prospect conversation, or a reasonable inference worth confirming).