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Onboarding Questions — the Persona Builder — are the short guided interview completed the first time a Digital Twin is personalized, either by an admin on the Digital Twin’s Onboarding Questions tab or by a user in the create-a-twin wizard. The answers are saved with the Digital Twin and, through Generate Prompt, become its Digital Twin Instructions, so the twin knows who it is and who it serves from turn one. Praxis AI Onboarding Questions

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The Persona Builder bank

Every Digital Twin is personalized through one shared interview: a fixed set of 15 questions grouped into five sections. This replaces the older “build your own question set per Digital Twin” model — the curated bank is tuned to produce a strong twin persona with no authoring effort, and it is identical across the admin onboarding tab and the user wizard. The five sections:
  1. Basic Identity — who the twin is and what it’s called
  2. Role and Primary Use Case — what the twin represents and helps with
  3. Audience — who interacts with the twin and what they ask
  4. Communication Style — tone, energy, and personality
  5. Advice Style and Guardrails — how the twin advises and what it avoids

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The 15 questions

Six questions are required (1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 13). The remaining nine are optional but improve persona quality. Required questions must be answered before the wizard advances; on the admin tab, Generate Prompt is available as soon as one question is answered.

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Question types

The Persona Builder uses richer answer controls than plain text boxes:
  • Text — a free-text answer (most questions). Email (Q2) prefills from your signed-in account; the twin-name question (Q4) prefills from, and writes back to, the Digital Twin’s name. Editing the email answer never changes your login email.
  • Single choice (Q13, “When giving advice…”) — a set of selectable tiles; pick one. The chosen label is what feeds the prompt (e.g. Direct — say it straight, Encouraging — supportive and positive, Analytical — thorough and reasoned, Balanced — adapt to the situation).
  • Slider group (Q11, personality) — one row per trait, each a 1-to-7 scale of seven squares with a descriptor at each end. Click one square per scale. The seven traits are tone, energy, detail, feedback, humor, thinking, and warmth (e.g. tone runs from Very direct and practical to Highly expressive and animated). A square near an end carries that end’s descriptor into the prompt; the middle stays neutral.
Selected tiles and squares are highlighted with the Praxis brand gradient so the current choice is always obvious. Generated Prompt

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How answers are used

When the interview is completed, the answers are:
  1. Turned into prompt text — every answer (including slider and choice selections) is written out for the generator. For example, a slider answer becomes “Tone: 6/7 (Highly expressive and animated)”, and a single-choice answer becomes its label.
  2. Used to draft the Digital Twin Instructions — the Generate Prompt action reads the questions and answers and drafts an instruction summary for the Digital Twin. Click Use Prompt to copy the draft into the Instructions field on the Personalization and AI Models tab (under Personalization → Content & Behavior), then save the Digital Twin.
  3. Editable later — answers can be revisited and changed; run Generate Prompt and Use Prompt again and save for the change to reach conversations. The answers themselves are not read during conversations.
Use Prompt Answers are not public. They are visible to the Digital Twin’s admins and used only to shape that twin’s behaviour.

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The first-time personalization popup

The first time an admin who can edit a Digital Twin opens one that is not yet personalized, Pria offers to run the Persona Builder. This prompt is now skipped automatically for twins that are already personalized — if it already has Digital Twin Instructions, the popup does not appear, so established twins are never nagged to re-run onboarding. (The popup is also suppressed once it has been shown and dismissed, and it always yields to the Canvas authentication prompt where that applies.)

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Where to edit

  • Admin → Instances → edit a Digital Twin → Onboarding Questions tab — complete or revise the Persona Builder for an existing Digital Twin (Start Questions, Previous / Next, I’m Done), then Generate Prompt and Use Prompt to refine the Instructions; Analyze reviews a draft against the same checklist.
  • Create-a-twin wizard — new twins walk through the same 15-question interview as part of setup.
The interview is the same bank in both places; there is no per-Digital-Twin bank picker.

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The question library

The Praxis AI team maintains the questions, and a change applies to every Digital Twin that uses them. To suggest a new question or a change, contact the Praxis AI team at humans@praxis-ai.com.