November 2024
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:
Patrick has spent five years as an Applied Behavioural Scientist and Researcher, helping global F500 enterprises with their toughest customer and employee challenges. We both believe in the underestimated power of social networks in behaviour change, and share the frustration with how existing methods ignore collective dynamics. Patrick is now leading user research and product design as we grow.
Since soft-launching 37 days ago, we've scaled from 100-agent to 300-agent societies and compressed run-time from 15 minutes to roughly 5. Across three releases this month, we've improved clarity of message comparison and positivity/negativity analysis, added better visualisations of who spreads messages best, made interview results easier to digest, added onboarding guidance for first-time users, and introduced a conclusion section to result emails in response to popular demand. Try it at societies.io.
We are closing our pre-seed round of $1.5m, led by Kindred Capital. With this 18-to-24-month runway, we plan to grow our team and find initial product-market fit, spending time in SF, NYC, and London to absorb the best innovation and bring on the best global talent.
We drafted our team values — curiosity, humility, accountability, and pragmatism — and started putting them into practice through weekly rituals, including end-of-week reflections where we share achievements, learnings, and shout each other out for embodying our principles. Great cultures build great teams, great teams build great products.