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Test your positioning, concepts, and launch plans against calibrated AI audiences in 48 hours. Not a replacement for real research -- the pre-decision intelligence that tells you what to take forward, what to kill, and what to validate with real people.

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48hrs
Brief to report
7
Testing dimensions
12+
Calibrated personas per study

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The board meeting is Thursday.
Get answers by Wednesday.

That's the entire business. When the decision can't wait for an 8-week research programme, you need directional insight with methodology you can stand behind.

Stage What you need Best tool
Early thinking Which direction has legs? What are the risks? SyntheticQual (48 hours)
Validation Real human reactions. Depth. Nuance. Qualitative research agency (6--8 weeks)
Scale testing Statistical confidence. Market sizing. Quantitative research (4--6 weeks)
Ongoing tracking Brand health. NPS. Sentiment. Brand tracking platforms

From brief to client-ready report in 7 structured stages

Each study follows a rigorous pipeline with built-in quality gates. No shortcuts. Full transparency on methodology and limitations.

01

Brief Intake

We define the stimulus, audience, context, success criteria, and known risks. A sharp brief produces sharp research.

02

Audience Creation

10-12 calibrated personas with attitudinal diversity, voice profiles, knowledge boundaries, and behavioural contradictions.

03

Panel Calibration

The panel is tested against a known case with documented real-world outcomes before your study begins.

04

Audience Testing

Every persona reacts across 7 dimensions. Consistency checks catch anomalies. A realism gate audits every response.

05

Scenario Modelling

Hold the panel constant. Inject a market shift, competitor action, or economic change. See what holds and what breaks.

06

Focus Group Debate

Personas argue with each other. A Devil's Advocate challenges the majority. Three rounds surface the tensions the testing missed.

07

Research Synthesis

A client-ready report with executive summary, confidence-scored findings, segment analysis, bias disclosure, and ranked recommendations.

QA

Evaluator Gate

Every study is audited by an independent evaluator. Did we lead the witness? Are the findings commercially valuable? Nothing ships without passing.

How teams are using SyntheticQual

Whether you're sharpening a brief, screening concepts, or stress-testing a strategy, the pipeline adapts to the question.

Agency Strategy

Sharpen your agency brief before it costs you

Run your concepts past a calibrated panel before briefing your research agency. Know which hypotheses to prioritise, which segments to probe, and which ideas to kill early. Better briefs produce better research.

Concept Screening

Test 3 positioning territories in 48 hours

Brand positioning, campaign concepts, naming options, messaging variants. See how different audience segments react across 7 dimensions. With scenario modelling to stress-test what holds under pressure.

Rapid Insight

The board meeting is Thursday. Get answers by Wednesday.

When the decision can't wait for an 8-week research programme. A Pulse Check gives you directional insight with methodology you can stand behind. Not a guess. Not a survey. Structured qualitative thinking.

Research Augmentation

Make every research pound work harder

Use synthetic qual to scope your real qual. Identify the right questions, the likely fault lines, and the segments worth recruiting. Your agency will thank you for the sharpest brief they've ever received.

Transparent by design, not by accident

Every report includes full methodology notes so you can evaluate the evidence yourself. We tell you what we found, how confident we are, and what we might have got wrong.

Panel Calibration

Before testing your concept, we validate the panel against a known case with documented real-world outcomes. You see the calibration score.

Consistency Checks

Randomly selected personas are retested with rephrased stimulus. If they say something different, we flag it. You see the consistency score.

Realism Gate

Every persona response is audited for knowledge boundary violations and articulation that doesn't match the persona's profile. Failures are rewritten.

Confidence Scoring

Every finding is scored HIGH, MEDIUM, or LOW based on convergence, consistency, and context stability. No ambiguity about what we're sure of and what we're not.

Bias Disclosure

We tell you what the panel over-represents, what known AI biases apply, and where the findings might lean in one direction. Every report. Every time.

Evaluator QA

An independent audit asks the hard questions: Did we lead the witness? Did we answer the actual brief? Is this commercially useful? Nothing ships without passing.

What this is, and what it isn't

We're transparent about methodology because that's how trust gets built. Here's what you should know.

This IS structured hypothesis generation

Calibrated AI personas react to your stimulus across multiple dimensions with consistency checks and quality gates. The output is directional insight with explicit confidence scoring.

This is NOT a replacement for human qual

Real humans surprise you in ways AI cannot. Synthetic qual is best used as pre-work, rapid screening, or a complement to primary research. We say so in every report.

Every report includes limitations

No hand-waving. No fine print. A dedicated section explaining what the research can and cannot tell you, what the panel over- or under-represents, and where findings need real-world validation.

The methodology is the product

Anyone can ask ChatGPT what consumers think. The difference is calibration, consistency, structured testing, scenario modelling, and an independent audit. That's what you're paying for.

Validated against real-world outcomes

See what we predicted, what we got right, where we were wrong, and what we learned. Full transparency on methodology and accuracy.

Brand Positioning

Liquid Death: Why Death Metal Water Works

A synthetic qualitative study of brand identity, positioning effectiveness, and market expansion risk. We predicted a structural cultural gap in UK entry -- validated when the brand pulled out entirely in Feb 2025.

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Product & Privacy

Ring Search Party: Before Launch

A study of trust fragility, privacy design flaws, and emotional manipulation in surveillance products. We identified scope creep risk -- validated when an internal email leak destroyed consumer trust entirely.

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A payroll platform was considering three positioning territories for HCM market entry. We tested all three against two calibrated panels. One territory was killed outright -- the panel showed it only worked under recession conditions and collapsed under competitive pressure. A second was narrowed to a specific buyer segment the client hadn't considered. The third was validated with conditions attached.

Total time: 38 hours. The output shaped the client's primary research brief, saving an estimated 6 weeks of exploratory fieldwork and focusing budget on the two territories worth validating with real buyers.

(And when it doesn't)

We tell you what we can and can't do. Not as a weakness, but as professional integrity. That's how trust gets built.

Good use cases

  • Brand positioning validation -- Testing whether a message resonates with different segments before major investment
  • Concept screening -- Testing 2-3 ideas before committing real budget
  • Risk identification -- Surfacing objections and backlash before launch
  • Brief sharpening -- Refining research questions before commissioning primary qual
  • Scenario stress-testing -- How does reception change under different market conditions

Not recommended

  • Hyper-specific niche audiences -- "Mexican chihuahua owners in Battersea" -- the model can't generate authentic attitudes for segments this narrow
  • Product experience testing -- Taste, texture, physical UX -- things that require real sensory interaction
  • Quantitative prediction -- Exact purchase intent percentages, conversion rates, NPS scores
  • Legal or regulatory compliance -- Use real legal review, not synthetic thinking
  • Presented as consumer research -- Without clear disclosure that this is synthetic methodology

The rubric for a good study

  1. The audience is broad enough that attitudinal diversity can be meaningfully modelled (minimum: a market segment with millions of potential consumers)
  2. The stimulus is a concept, message, or positioning -- not a physical product experience
  3. You need directional insight, not statistical precision
  4. The findings will be validated or supplemented with real-world data before major commitments

Clear pricing. No surprises.

Two tiers. Pick the depth that matches the decision. Both include full methodology transparency and evaluator QA.

Decision Pack
$1,950
per decision
  • 2--3 concepts or directions tested
  • 10--12 calibrated personas
  • Key risks and failure points identified
  • Clear recommendation: what to take forward, what to kill
  • Delivered in 48 hours
  • Full methodology transparency
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Need volume or white-label? Let's talk about a programme.

What decision are you making this week?

Tell us what you're deciding. We'll tell you if synthetic qual is the right tool for it -- and if it's not, we'll say so.

No commitment. No sales call. Just the report.