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Synthetic Users lets you predict human behavior before the market does. Think of us like a recruitment agency for research participants, only faster and far more insightful.

“The AI feedback lined up with human feedback over 95% of the time.”

Adam King

Behavioural Scientist

“What you are building will radically democratize access to qualitative research within companies.”

Johan Van Langendonck

Director of Strategy, Bridgestone Mobility Solutions

Trusted by teams at

TikTokJ.P. MorganSamsungComcastCapgeminiAB InBevJoinVitraSquare

85 — 92%

Synthetic-organic parity in independent comparison studies. Measured across thematic overlap, depth & qualitative alignment.

21+

Peer-reviewed papers supporting the synthetic research thesis. Incl. Science Magazine, The Atlantic, SAGE Journals.

$2-60

Per interview, versus $100+ with traditional research agencies. No recruitment fees, no scheduling overhead.

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Your data is private and belongs to you alone. Measured across thematic overlap, depth & qualitative alignment.

Use cases

Where synthetic research
fits your workflow

Synthetic Users is designed as a discovery co-pilot, not a replacement for real research. Use it to front-load the problem space, fine-tune your questions, and spend your organic research budget where it matters most.

01

Early exploration & problem discovery

Map the problem space before committing to a full study. Run Problem Exploration interviews to surface user behaviors, pain points, and context — and arrive at organic research with better questions.

02

Concept & messaging testing

Test ideas, product concepts, and campaign messaging before launch. Use Concept Testing and Custom Script Interviews to get structured feedback on multiple directions in parallel — in minutes, not weeks.

03

Continuous insight between research phases

Fill the gaps when traditional research is too slow, too expensive, or impossible to schedule. Run iterative validation studies throughout the product lifecycle — not just at milestone moments.

Who it’s for

Built for anyone who needs to understand people faster

Synthetic Users isn’t a researchers-only tool. Our demo calls include PMs, marketing leads, agency owners, innovation managers, and engineering leads anyone whose decisions depend on understanding users.

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Researchers front-loading the problem space

Run problem-exploration interviews to surface user behaviors, pain points, and context — then arrive at organic research with sharper questions and stronger hypotheses. Spend your participant budget where nuance matters most.

How it works

A research workflow.
Not a chat interface.

Synthetic Users uses a multi-agent architecture where AI participants develop individual personality profiles based on the OCEAN model and maintain full context and continuity across every interview — the thing general AI tools can’t do.

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The science

We obsess over synthetic-organic parity

The most common question we get is: how do we know it’s accurate? We’re very open about how we measure it, where we fall short, and how we improve. Here’s how we think about it.

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Synthetic users, an intro

A quick video walkthrough introducing the Synthetic Users platform — covering key navigation and core features for new users getting started.

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Introducing Iris

Introducing Iris, Synthetic Users' research agent. A tutorial on how to work alongside Iris to define study parameters, run interviews, and get precisely structured insight reports.

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Multi-study planner: plan and run multiple studies with different audiences

PRISMA is Synthetic Users' multi-study planner — a single interface to design, manage, and run multiple studies with different audiences simultaneously, without juggling separate projects.

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Enrich your Synthetic Users with your data. RAG tutorial.

Learn how to enrich Synthetic Users with your own data using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to make AI participants more context-aware and accurate.

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Synthetic Users Leadership Webinar: Mapping the Synthetic Research Industry

Recap of the Synthetic Users Leadership Webinar featuring Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales — covering the state of AI, synthetic research risks, differentiators, and the road ahead.

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Help! How do I go beyond the average with Synthetic Users?

How to move past generic insights with Synthetic Users by changing your research mindset, framing better goals, and probing deeper — just like you would with organic participants.

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Features: Knowledge Graph, Cloning Research, Exporting Annotations, Searching inside History...

A roundup of four new Synthetic Users features: Knowledge Graph for visualising interview themes, Research Cloning, Annotation Exporting, and searching inside your research history.

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Do annotations matter to researchers?

Why annotations are essential to research — from medieval monks marking manuscripts to modern researchers highlighting insights. How Synthetic Users brings annotation into AI-powered research.

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The transition to Continuous Insight and where we excel

A look at four new Synthetic Users features: a Research Assistant UI, expanded language support, and more — designed to help teams run better research faster.

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What's new? 4 new features

A look at four new Synthetic Users features: a Research Assistant UI, expanded language support, and more — designed to help teams run better research faster.

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Which interview type should I pick?

A guide to Synthetic Users' three interview types — dynamic script, custom script, and concept testing — and how to choose the right one based on your research goal.

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What to do when you feel your Synthetic Users are being too generalist

Three practical steps to get more specific, nuanced insights from Synthetic Users — including how to probe deeper, ask better questions, and when to complement with organic research.

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Running a workshop to showcase the potential of Synthetic Users

How to run a workshop that demonstrates the potential of Synthetic Users — a guide to showcasing AI-powered research to stakeholders and teams in a hands-on session.

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Products creating products

A reflection on how AI is transforming product development — and how Synthetic Users fits into a future where products help create better products through real-time synthetic feedback loops.

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Press for Synthetic Users

A collection of press coverage for Synthetic Users, including a mention in The Atlantic on AI and the future of polling and public opinion research.

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Generating, Running and Sharing Synthetic Research. Really?

A step-by-step walkthrough of how to generate your Synthetic User panel, run interviews, and share your research — from setup to insights report

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Don’t fall into the: “It’s not real. It’s just programming.“ fallacy.

Why dismissing AI-generated feedback as "just programming" is a mistake. The value of synthetic research lies in the insights it generates — not in the origin of the participant.

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Synthetic Users: Merging Qualitative and Quantitative Research, in seconds.

How Synthetic Users blurs the line between qualitative and quantitative research — enabling teams to get the depth of qual at the scale and speed of quant, in seconds.

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Our first weeks with Synthetic Users

A candid look at the first weeks after launching Synthetic Users — what it feels like to create a new product category, and what early traction revealed about the market ahead.

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Synthetic Users — a start

An introduction to Synthetic Users — what it is, why it was built, and how it helps product teams get research-grade insights without the time and cost of traditional user recruitment.

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Synthetic Users — the summer of 2023 and the road ahead

A summer update from the Synthetic Users team — highlights, product progress, and what the team learned from users over the season.

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What people say

From the people
using it every day

What you are building is absolutely massive. This is a breakthrough for people wanting to validate an idea, look at how to solve a problem and accelerate the validation of hypotheses.

Henrick Farías

Founding Team @Jeeves

I just tried your product and I’m honestly scared. This reminded me of an episode of black mirror.

Diego Jorge

Product Manager @Jeeves

What you are building will radically democratize access to qualitative research within companies.

Johan Van Langendonck

Director of Strategy, M&A and Partnerships at Bridgestone Mobility Solutions

Oh! And I’m also someone who’s used Synthetic Users to give me starting intelligence to then go and confirm that feedback with real life people. And guess what? The AI feedback lined up with human feedback over 95% of the time.

Adam King

Behavioural Scientist

Sample output

What you actually
get back

The report includes an executive summary, key themes, verbatim participant quotes, and recommendations — formatted for stakeholder sharing. You can also drill into individual transcripts, ask follow-up questions, and annotate specific moments.

Interview ResultReport

James Rivera

Age 29 · Austin, TX · Product Manager

Q1: Can you describe what a typical night shift looks like for you from start to finish?

shifts slightly in chair

Right, so I get to the ward around 9:45pm, bit early to get myself sorted before handover at 10. The day staff fill us in on what’s been happening with each patient — who’s had a rough day, new admissions, any special instructions from the doctors. Takes about twenty minutes usually.

FAQ

The questions we hear on every demo call

Is this meant to replace real user research?

No. Synthetic Users is a discovery co-pilot. It helps you front-load the problem space, sharpen your questions, and decide where to spend organic research budget. Real user research stays essential for validation and edge-case work.

How accurate are the synthetic participants?

Across our independent comparison studies, parity sits between 85% and 92% depending on audience type, measured across thematic overlap, depth, and qualitative alignment. We publish the methodology and the gaps openly in our /science section.

How is this different from asking ChatGPT?

ChatGPT is a single agent without continuity, audience definition, or interview structure. Synthetic Users runs a multi-agent architecture where each participant develops a stable personality profile (OCEAN-grounded) and maintains full context across every question.

Is 10 participants enough? We normally need statistical significance.

For qualitative work, 10–12 well-defined participants typically reach saturation — and our saturation score lets you see when new participants stop adding novel themes. For quantitative confidence, you can scale to hundreds in the same study.

Can we use our own proprietary data to enrich the participants?

Yes — RAG-grounded studies let you feed transcripts, support tickets, customer conversations, and any other proprietary data into the participant model. Your data stays yours; we don't train shared models on it.

What are the security and compliance requirements?

We're SOC 2 compliant, run regional infra (EU + US), and offer a Data Processing Addendum. See /dpa for the legal detail.

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