Sales & marketing

Sapien

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Founded 2025Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Surveys ask people what they think they’ll do. Focus groups ask a handful of people to explain behavior they often don’t understand themselves.

Sapien simulates entire populations instead. We create AI agents that model how real audiences behave, letting companies, governments, and investors test decisions in minutes: what product to launch, what price to set, what campaign to run, what policy will work, or how a market will move.

The output is not another dashboard. It’s a prediction of what will happen, which segments will drive it, and what decision is most likely to win.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
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Founders & team

Previously Outrove

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

Saif Elhager

Founder/CEO

Previously built AiHello, an ad tech SaaS that hit 7 figures. Currently working on simulating humans. saif@outrove.ai

LinkedIn
Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Ahmed ElShireef

Founder/CTO

Cofounder at Outrove. Prev. cofounder at Lothgha ($500k ARR) and Cira Robot (UN recognized robot doctor)

LinkedIn X
Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
2team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2025 · Source

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Y Combinator

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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
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Maturity: Not assessed · 3 of 6 areas documented

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