SwarmLite

Documentation

How Swarm Lite works

Workflows, patterns, and usage guides for getting the most out of AI persona swarms.

Core Workflow

Step 01

Define your market

Start by creating a Market. Add competitors, watch items (trends to monitor), and a scan interval. This gives the system context for understanding your competitive landscape. Markets are the foundation — they inform persona generation and provide the backdrop against which your proposals are evaluated.

Step 02

Create personas

Build your persona panel. Each persona has a demographic profile, psychographic traits, goals, pain points, and archetype tags. You can create them manually (custom), define internal stakeholders, or use auto-generation to fill gaps based on your market data. A good panel covers 4–6 distinct archetypes.

Step 03

Create a project

A project encapsulates a business question or proposal you want to test. Link it to a market, write a manifest (hypothesis + success criteria), and select which personas will participate. Projects can have multiple sessions and branches.

Step 04

Run a huddle session

Submit your question to the persona panel. Each persona responds based on their profile — goals, pain points, and psychographic traits shape their reaction. The system produces a threaded conversation showing each persona's perspective, concerns, and level of support.

Step 05

Review the artefact

Every completed session generates a structured artefact — a report summarising overall sentiment (positive/negative/mixed), per-persona breakdowns, key themes, and prioritised recommended actions. Reports can be viewed in report mode or presentation (slide) mode, and exported as Markdown.

Step 06

Share and iterate

Share projects, markets, and personas with team members or make them globally available. Branch from any session to test variations — different personas, adjusted queries, follow-up questions. Each branch preserves the original context while exploring alternatives.

Slash Commands

Type / in the chat drawer to access quick commands. These are available on every section.

/generate-reportGenerate a structured report from the current session data
/create-personaStart creating a new persona (opens the form or guides via chat)
/scan-marketTrigger a market scan to check for new competitor signals
/helpShow all available commands and usage tips

Session Branching

Real strategy is not linear. When a persona raises a concern — say, Marcus flags a security blocker — you may want to follow up with just the enterprise personas, or re-ask with a modified question. Branching lets you do this without losing the original session.

How branching works:

  1. Click “Create Branch” on any completed session
  2. Select which personas to include (deselect any you want to exclude)
  3. Write a new question or follow-up query
  4. Add an optional branch note explaining the variation
  5. The branch creates a new session with its own conversation thread
  6. Both the original and branch are visible in the project timeline

Branches can also be created conversationally via the Project Assistant chat drawer — describe what you want to explore and the assistant will help set it up.

Sharing & Collaboration

Swarm Lite is designed for teams. Every entity — markets, personas, and projects — can be shared.

Share with specific people

Search for team members by name, email, or role. Select one or more people to share with.

Make globally available

Toggle global sharing to make the item available to your entire organisation.

Project scope control

When sharing a project, choose to share everything or scope it to specific branches and/or personas.

Action approval workflow

Shared projects surface pending actions to all stakeholders. Anyone with access can approve or reject.

AI Assistant

Every section has a dedicated AI assistant available via the chat drawer at the bottom of the main content area. Each section maintains its own conversation thread.

MarketsAsk about market trends, get suggestions for watch items, request competitor analysis
PersonasGet help structuring persona profiles, auto-generate personas from market data, identify archetype gaps
ProjectsDiscuss project strategy, get suggestions for session queries, summarise results
Project detailTalk with the project — ask follow-up questions, request branches, discuss artefact findings

Artefacts & Export

Artefacts are the structured outputs of Swarm Lite. Every completed session can produce artefacts.

Report

Full written analysis with sentiment scoring, per-persona breakdown, key themes table, and recommended actions.

Presentation

Slide-style view of the same content — each section becomes a card. Useful for stakeholder reviews.

Markdown export

Download any artefact as a .md file for use in documents, PRDs, or version-controlled decision logs.