{
  "title": "Independent Barbwire AI persona visit to Vercel",
  "date": "2026-10-15",
  "site": "https://vercel.com",
  "method": "One real browser visit by a manually configured fictional AI persona. Vercel did not commission or endorse this example.",
  "persona": {
    "name": "Mara Vlkova",
    "fictional": true,
    "role": "Technical cofounder at a four-developer B2B SaaS",
    "goal": "Evaluate hosting costs and a path to production for a commercial web app."
  },
  "status": "done",
  "model": "claude-haiku-5-5",
  "step_count": 10,
  "steps": [
    {
      "step": 1,
      "at_utc": "2026-10-15T06:53:27Z",
      "url": "https://vercel.com/",
      "action": "click"
    },
    {
      "step": 2,
      "at_utc": "2026-10-15T06:53:35Z",
      "url": "https://vercel.com/pricing",
      "action": "jump"
    },
    {
      "step": 3,
      "at_utc": "2026-10-15T06:53:41Z",
      "url": "https://vercel.com/pricing",
      "action": "click"
    },
    {
      "step": 4,
      "at_utc": "2026-10-15T06:53:49Z",
      "url": "https://vercel.com/docs/spend-management",
      "action": "jump"
    },
    {
      "step": 5,
      "at_utc": "2026-10-15T06:53:56Z",
      "url": "https://vercel.com/docs/spend-management",
      "action": "jump"
    },
    {
      "step": 6,
      "at_utc": "2026-10-15T06:54:03Z",
      "url": "https://vercel.com/docs/spend-management",
      "action": "scroll"
    },
    {
      "step": 7,
      "at_utc": "2026-10-15T06:54:08Z",
      "url": "https://vercel.com/docs/spend-management",
      "action": "scroll"
    },
    {
      "step": 8,
      "at_utc": "2026-10-15T06:54:14Z",
      "url": "https://vercel.com/docs/spend-management",
      "action": "scroll"
    },
    {
      "step": 9,
      "at_utc": "2026-10-15T06:54:19Z",
      "url": "https://vercel.com/docs/spend-management",
      "action": "scroll"
    },
    {
      "step": 10,
      "at_utc": "2026-10-15T06:54:29Z",
      "url": "https://vercel.com/docs/spend-management",
      "action": "verdict"
    }
  ],
  "observations": [
    {
      "steps": [
        2,
        3
      ],
      "summary": "Pricing and the link to spending controls encouraged the persona to investigate further."
    },
    {
      "steps": [
        6
      ],
      "summary": "The persona understood that optional production pausing would interrupt customer traffic."
    },
    {
      "steps": [
        8,
        9,
        10
      ],
      "summary": "The model remained uncertain about which products contributed to spending and ended without choosing a trial."
    }
  ],
  "model_decision": "no",
  "editorial_review": {
    "status": "Model conclusion partly contradicted by its own evidence",
    "correction": "Step 6 visibly explains that AI Gateway and v0 usage continue to count toward the spend amount. The model later treated that point as unanswered. This is a model error, not evidence of missing documentation.",
    "screenshot": "/examples/vercel-2026-10-15/step-6.jpg",
    "source": "https://vercel.com/docs/spend-management"
  },
  "limitations": "One synthetic visitor, not a customer testimonial or conversion forecast. The persona did not test deployment or sign up. Site content can change."
}