A controls engineer at a $100M manufacturing company searches very differently from a controls engineer at a 50-person system integrator, and both search differently from a plant automation manager standardizing across five factory locations, and all three search differently from an IT director managing OT convergence. Persona Lens generates the actual queries each persona uses — their pain language, their internal terminology, the way they describe problems before they describe solutions. Feed it 'Controls Engineer at 100M OEM' and 'Plant Automation Manager at 50M manufacturer' and Persona Lens returns the actual queries those personas type — not marketing personas, but real search queries extracted from industry data and domain knowledge. For controls, output might be: Controls Engineers search for protocol names and specific software environments ('Studio 5000 AOI library for Modbus'), Plant Managers search for platform-standardization language ('EtherNet/IP infrastructure for multi-plant scale'), OT/IT Convergence Leads search for data-flow language ('OPC-UA cloud integration for predictive maintenance'). Persona Lens outputs these grouped, so you can build separate campaigns and ad groups per persona. Recommendation: run Persona Lens with your three primary personas — Controls Engineer, Plant Automation Manager, OT/IT Convergence Lead. Use the output to build separate landing pages and ad copy for each persona. Refresh quarterly when you see Signal flagging rising terms that do not match your current persona copy.
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Persona Lens for industrial controls
How a job title actually searches, applied to industrial controls & automation.
About Persona Lens
Tell it the job title and industry. Persona Lens generates the actual queries that persona uses — including their pain language, internal terminology, and the way they describe problems before they describe solutions. Built for the gap between marketing personas and the queries those personas actually type.
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Industrial controls is the most technically nuanced B2B vertical in paid media. Buyers are control engineers who think in protocols (Modbus, Profinet, EtherNet/IP) and runtime modes (real-time, hard real-time, deterministic).
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