Overview
Simulate decisions that matter.
Artificial Societies builds a foundational model of human societies so enterprises and sovereigns can explore how people may respond before making consequential decisions. We combine behavioural science with simulations grounded in real-world behaviour to understand individual perspectives and how opinions develop across connected groups.
Teams use our simulations to test communications, prepare for crises, explore new markets, and assess investor and public-policy reactions. They can run surveys, focus groups, interviews and experiments with simulated audiences, including stakeholders who are difficult to reach through traditional research, and decisions too sensitive to test otherwise.
Our mission is to pioneer socially intelligent technology that shape the decisions that shape the world.
Founders & team
James He
Founder/CEOCEO at Artificial Societies. Ex-Cambridge computational social science. Ex Yonder.
At 16, James was offered $600k to fund his ed-tech startup but chose to attend Cambridge instead. After graduating, James turned down a PhD offer to join Yonder - a credit card startup - and built the entirety of their lending ML systems. He then started his own scholarship at age 21, and led the largest-scale study of an LLM society in his spare time. He co-founded Artificial Societies in Oct 2024.
Patrick Sharpe
Founder/CPOLeading Product at Artificial Societies. Background in applied behavioural science.
Patrick completed an MSc in behavioural econ, and left academia to lead behavioural science and CX projects at iptiQ - an insurtech startup owned by Swiss Re, the largest Reinsurer in the world. He joined Unconventional Wisdom, a specialised behavioural science consultancy, and scaled the client-base 3x within a year, before co-founding Artificial Societies in 2024.
Founded 2024 · Source ↗
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