May 2026 Update

This post is part of our monthly supporter updates and reflects product development and thinking at the time it was written. Here is our latest update.

Hi all,

Here's what's new this month from Artificial Societies:

We had a record-breaking month

We doubled our committed revenue target this month. This is a meaningful milestone, especially considering we started focusing on our enterprise offering less than 100 days ago. The momentum is building - it reflects growing customer trust, and we're scaling our capacity to go after larger, more ambitious opportunities.

Our biggest-ever simulation study: 1.25m AI persona responses

We ran the largest simulation study in our history this month, generating 1.25 million responses from AI personas built on investor and market influencer profiles across 8 global markets.

To meet this demand, we've expanded our compute capacity significantly. We can now spin up 150 GPUs on demand to power our simulations, unlocking faster turnarounds and even more ambitious projects for our clients.

A major leap in persona coherence

We deployed a new post-trained model this month that delivers a 65% reduction in persona coherence errors. Our personas now stay truer to character across longer, more complex interactions. This meaningfully improves the quality and reliability of every simulation we run.

Which brings us to our ask

We want to apply our simulations beyond the limits of market research - to informing decisions at the points of capital deployment. That's why we're now looking for Client Strategy Leads - consultants with experience at top firms working with high profile customers on their most consequential problems. If someone exceptional comes to mind, we'd love an introduction.

Again, thank you for being part of our journey at Artificial Societies.

Our best,

The AS Team

PS: James, Patrick, and Tom are now Forbes 30U30.