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Launch HN: Societies.io (YC W25) – AI simulations of your target audience | Hacker News

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Marketers always say that half their spend will be wasted - they just don’t know which half. Real-world experiments help, but they’re too slow and expensive to run at scale. So, we’re building simulations that let you test rapidly and cheaply to find the best version of your message. How it works: - We create AI personas based on real-world data from actual individuals, collected from publicly available social media profiles and web sources. - For each audience, we retrieve relevant personas from our database and map them out on an interactive social network graph, which is designed to replicate patterns of social influence. - Once you’ve drafted your message, each experiment runs a multi-agent simulation where the personas react to your content and interact with each other - these take 30s to 2 minutes to run. Then, we then surface results and insights to help you improve your messaging. Our two biggest challenges are accuracy and UI. We’ve tested our performance at predicting how Lin

Launch HN: Societies.io (YC W25) – AI simulations of your target audience | Hacker News Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login Launch HN: Societies.io (YC W25) – AI simulations of your target audience 114 points by p-sharpe 10 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 58 comments Hi HN, we’re Patrick and James! Artificial Societies ( https://societies.io ) lets you simulate your target audience so you can test marketing, messaging and content before you launch them. Here’s a quick product demo: https://www.loom.com/share/c0ce8ab860c044c58

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