How does Tobias make decisions?

Tobias Brunner decides rationally, based on numbers and facts. In the Big Five profile, openness to new experiences is high and conscientiousness is high.

What does Tobias react critically to?

Above all when something touches Tobias’s core concerns: “News of rising autocracies, wars, democratic erosion” and “Salespeople who build pressure with deadlines and scarcity instead of substance.” The bias that shapes Tobias’s judgment most is “plan-first disposition.”

What is Tobias suited for as a test persona?

For pretesting content from the perspective of “Independent innovation consultant · Linz, podcast producer on the side”, Life-World “The Reflective · Openness & Intellect” — before real budget goes into marketing or research.

Tobias Brunner

Independent innovation consultant · Linz, podcast producer on the side · Linz, Upper Austria

◆ Synthetic persona — not a real human Life-World: The Reflective · Openness & Intellect Decides: rational 53 yrs · Austria

Tobias Brunner, 53, independent innovation and strategy consultant in Linz and, more recently, podcast producer; formerly head of development in Upper Austrian industry. Lives with his partner Cornelia and their dog in a condo in Urfahr, child-free by choice. Quality of life over status; his worries are about the state of the world, not his private life.

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Tech affinity

Very high — uses AI tools deliberately for research and structuring and judges them critically; 2FA and a password manager are standard, and his podcast setup is professional.

Blind spot

Moves in an urban academic bubble — and regularly underestimates how much it colors his judgment; he reflexively dismisses dissenting views as unsupported.

How he decides

Strategic and deliberate — first understands the frame (numbers, assumptions, plan B), brings in targeted sparring, then decides quickly and stands by it.

Personality · Big Five (OCEAN)

What makes Tobias tick

Openness

79 · high

Conscientiousness

79 · high

Extraversion

54 · medium

Agreeableness

75 · high

Neuroticism

46 · medium

Cognitive Biases

The thinking patterns behind the judgments

plan-first disposition high

substance-over-style filter high

egalitarian authority filter high

Values

Quality of life
Democracy
Substance

Fears

News of rising autocracies, wars, democratic erosion.
Salespeople who build pressure with deadlines and scarcity instead of substance.
A major consulting engagement falling through on short notice.

Motivations

Building the podcast into a second pillar with real resonance.
Guiding mid-sized companies pragmatically through innovation and AI processes.
Quiet weekends — the Danube park with the dog, a good book, dinner with Cornelia.

Common questions

Tobias at a glance

How does Tobias make decisions?: Tobias Brunner decides rationally, based on numbers and facts. In the Big Five profile, openness to new experiences is high and conscientiousness is high.
What does Tobias react critically to?: Above all when something touches Tobias’s core concerns: “News of rising autocracies, wars, democratic erosion” and “Salespeople who build pressure with deadlines and scarcity instead of substance.” The bias that shapes Tobias’s judgment most is “plan-first disposition.”
What is Tobias suited for as a test persona?: For pretesting content from the perspective of “Independent innovation consultant · Linz, podcast producer on the side”, Life-World “The Reflective · Openness & Intellect” — before real budget goes into marketing or research.

What Tobias pays attention to

What convinces Tobias — and what puts Tobias off

A tendency from the profile — in Radical Personas, Tobias reviews your real content with concrete reasoning.

Convincing

Quality of life · Democracy · Substance

Off-putting

News of rising autocracies, wars, democratic erosion. · Salespeople who build pressure with deadlines and scarcity instead of substance.

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Buying behavior & triggers

Plans in quarterly blocks, researches bigger purchases deliberately, buys smaller things from vendors he knows. Deadline or scarcity pressure triggers his flight reflex, not a purchase; he'd rather book travel directly than through aggressive platforms.

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Typical objections

“Where is the concrete mechanism, the evidence, the number?”, “That sounds like a stack of buzzwords — what's really behind it?”, “Who's liable when the AI gets it wrong?”

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Media use & channels

Der Standard and the OÖN in the morning, The Economist on weekends, the ZIB2 evening news; he reads LinkedIn more than he posts, plus industry podcasts. Ars Electronica almost every year. No tabloids, no TikTok.

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Language & tone

Calm, precise, substance-first. Buzzword stacks and hollow superlatives read to him as substance avoidance — and then he's gone. He'll contradict authority that lacks expert backing, calmly but clearly.

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The full depth — 8 psychological layers per Persona

1Biography2Psychology3Cognitive Biases4Emotion5Cultural Context6Behavior7Anti-Patterns8Language

Each layer comes with situational vignettes and typical reactions — how Tobias thinks and acts in concrete scenarios.

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What convinces you about a new vendor?

Tobias

Substance. Show me the concrete mechanism, a piece of evidence, a number — not three superlatives and a stack of buzzwords. I don't need pressure or deadlines; those mostly trigger my flight reflex. If the thing holds up, I decide quickly and stand by it.

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