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ICPs (Ideal Customer Profiles) tell zued who your content is addressing. zued uses them to generate more realistic audit prompts — prompts that reflect the context and intent real users carry into AI conversations, rather than generic, one-size-fits-all queries.

How zued builds ICPs

zued doesn’t ask you to create ICPs from scratch. It extracts them from your page content automatically:
  1. Signal extraction — as each URL is crawled, zued identifies who the page is written for: the situation it addresses, the pain points it speaks to, the language and vocabulary it uses, and the level of background knowledge it assumes. A single page can contribute multiple persona signals.
  2. Profile merging — similar personas detected across different pages are merged into unified profiles. For example, “Marketing-Leiter im B2B” and “B2B marketing manager” are recognized as the same persona regardless of language or wording.
  3. URL mapping — each ICP is linked to the specific pages whose signals contributed to it. This mapping determines which ICPs are used when generating prompts for a specific URL. A URL with strong signal contribution to an ICP gets that ICP’s context embedded in its prompts.
  4. Confirmation — you review and confirm (or edit) the generated ICPs before any prompts are created.
The strength of an ICP is indicated by how many pages contributed to it. An ICP backed by signals from 3+ pages is more reliable than one from a single page.

What each ICP contains

FieldWhat it captures
ContextWho the profile represents — the role or situation
Core situationWhat’s driving their search
Primary pain pointThe specific problem or question
Emotional driverThe motivation behind the search (urgency, aspiration, frustration, etc.)
Language styleHow they communicate — casual, professional, technical, or analytical
Search behaviorHow they approach finding solutions
Key needsThe specific outcomes they’re looking for

Editing ICPs

You can edit the following fields on any ICP before or after confirmation:
  • Context — free text
  • Core situation — free text
  • Primary pain point — free text
  • Emotional driver — select: Urgency, Pressure, Frustration, Aspiration, Curiosity, Fear
  • Language style — select: Casual, Professional, Technical, Analytical
  • Search behavior — select: Thorough Researcher, Quick Decision Maker, Analytical Validator, Network-Driven
  • Key needs — comma-separated list
You cannot add ICPs beyond the 5–6 that zued generates from your content.
Keep edits close to the original — the ICP is linked to specific URLs based on how it was generated. Major changes may make the ICP-to-URL mapping less meaningful, which reduces prompt precision.
Editing ICPs after prompts have been created requires re-generating prompts, which resets the week-over-week comparison baseline.