Hello World, we’re James and Patrick - founders of Artificial Societies 👋

We simulate 1000s of stakeholders and how they react to information. We help Fortune 500 enterprises simulate how their most important audiences - policy influencers, investors, buyer committees, etc. - react to their most important marketing and comms decisions. Find out more at societies.io.

Our Story

We’re both behavioral scientists, but took different paths - James used machines to predict humans, while Patrick ran experiments in large organizations.

In 2023, James started tinkering with a crazy idea: what would a society of 33,000 AI bots look like? He wrote this into the first-ever large-scale academic study on AI societies, and started turning it into a product.

One day in a London coffee shop in 2024, James used a simulation to recreate an experiment Patrick had spent two months on… in just ten minutes. That same week, Patrick quit his consulting job to co-found Artificial Societies with James.

We started by simulating a network of 1,000 VCs, and used it to raise a pre-seed and get into YC. Next, we built Reach, a tool that let anyone create an AI simulation of their own LinkedIn audience, to test posts before hitting publish.

Now, we are focusing on enterprise customers and consulting partners who are demanding us to build a more exceptional technology:

Introducing Radiant

We help marketing and strategic comms teams build bespoke AI simulations of high-value audiences, for insights on questions no one else can answer.

Radiant has already delivered over 18 million responses to global F100 enterprises, that helped shape over 100 million dollars’ worth of decisions ranging from investor relations, high-value advertising, crisis communications, reputation management, and corporate strategy positioning.

Here’s Radiant in action.

To power Radiant, we’ve built over 2.5 million AI personas that are all grounded in real human behaviour – not just what people say, but also what they do, and who they are influenced by.

But our enterprise partners choose us not just because we have achieved 1) 95% distribution accuracy against human self-replication, and 2) 90% persona internal coherence, both on empirically and theory-grounded evaluations.

More importantly, they choose us because of our ability to deliver impossible research projects - such as having insights backed by millions of responses within 24 hours, such as being able to test sensitive strategies on high-value audiences with 100% security, without human risk.

What’s next?

Our vision of Artificial Societies is a Societal World Model that enables infinite experimentation, so that every organisation can have awareness of outcomes, before making a decision.

No planes fly without a wind-tunnel; no medicines are approved without clinical trials; and yet, the biggest decision societies face today are taken as bets.

We see Artificial Societies as a historically inevitable technology, and see it as our lives' mission to bring it to life.

Our Ask 🙏

We are rolling out Radiant at marketing & comms teams globally. If you are someone / know someone who lead strategic comms consultancies or enterprise marketing firms, please reach out or introduce us at founders@societies.io.