The idea of a synthetic audience is exciting instant feedback, scalable testing, and insights across countless personas at the click of a button. But just like any new research tool, it’s essential to understand both its strengths and its limits. This article is a follow on for our previous
The potential of synthetic users is exciting—on-demand consumer feedback, instant insights, scalable testing across hundreds of personas. But to use them effectively, it's just as important to understand what they can't do as it is to know what they can. This chapter is about setting
The Gut-Driven Trap "We think this message will work." If you've sat in enough marketing meetings, you've heard this phrase—or said it yourself. And to be fair, experienced marketers often have good instincts. Years of pattern recognition, audience understanding, and creative intuition do
TL;DR - A new method called Semantic Similarity Rating (SSR) makes synthetic respondents far more realistic, delivering human-like rankings, lifelike distributions, and explainable insights—so teams can iterate fast and validate smarter. Introduction For years, the idea of synthetic respondents—AI agents that mimic human survey participants has hovered
Brand messaging is where art meets consequence. Get it right, and you build emotional connection and loyalty. Get it wrong, and months of work—and millions in spend—fall flat. For brands launching products, entering new markets, or repositioning lines, the stakes are high. You’re not just selling a
Your team has three campaign concepts ready to test. In the traditional playbook, you'd either trust your gut and launch one, or spend weeks and thousands of dollars running focus groups. For marketing teams at retail and CPG brands, this tension between speed and confidence is constant—you
The Current Problem: Waiting to Know What Works Marketing teams especially at consumer focused companies can relate to this: you’ve spent weeks perfecting a seasonal campaign—the creative’s sharp, the budget’s locked, and launch day is here. But one question lingers: will it actually resonate? So you
AI is quietly reshaping the way consumer and market research happens — from finding participants to synthesizing insights and even simulating audiences that don’t exist yet. For CPG, retail, and consumer brands, research is no longer just about surveys and focus groups. It’s about connecting every part of the
Let’s address the elephant in the room. You’re a trained researcher—skilled in study design, spotting bias, and separating signal from noise. You’ve seen too many insights derailed by bad data or flawed methodology. So when someone claims an AI can simulate consumer responses and deliver reliable
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Picture this: You’re a brand manager at a CPG company with three new packaging concepts for your flagship cereal. You need consumer feedback before next week’s leadership presentation—but your research team says it’ll take nearly a month to recruit participants, run the study, and analyze results.