Tutorials | Synthetic Users

Audience crafter

You now have more control over your Synthetic Users' parameters. You can also save and reuse audiences in a more granular way as well as have visibility over population sizes.

How to generate a report in a study

You can create custom reports using an outline. Rearrange your sections accordingly. You have full control.

Synthetic users, an intro

A quick video walkthrough introducing the Synthetic Users platform — covering key navigation and core features for new users getting started.

Introducing Iris

Introducing Iris, Synthetic Users' research agent. A tutorial on how to work alongside Iris to define study parameters, run interviews, and get precisely structured insight reports.

Multi-study planner: plan and run multiple studies with different audiences

PRISMA is Synthetic Users' multi-study planner — a single interface to design, manage, and run multiple studies with different audiences simultaneously, without juggling separate projects.

Enrich your Synthetic Users with your data. RAG tutorial.

Learn how to enrich Synthetic Users with your own data using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to make AI participants more context-aware and accurate.

Synthetic Users Leadership Webinar: Mapping the Synthetic Research Industry

Recap of the Synthetic Users Leadership Webinar featuring Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales — covering the state of AI, synthetic research risks, differentiators, and the road ahead.

Help! How do I go beyond the average with Synthetic Users?

How to move past generic insights with Synthetic Users by changing your research mindset, framing better goals, and probing deeper — just like you would with organic participants.

Features: Knowledge Graph, Cloning Research, Exporting Annotations, Searching inside History...

A roundup of four new Synthetic Users features: Knowledge Graph for visualising interview themes, Research Cloning, Annotation Exporting, and searching inside your research history.

Do annotations matter to researchers?

Why annotations are essential to research — from medieval monks marking manuscripts to modern researchers highlighting insights. How Synthetic Users brings annotation into AI-powered research.

The transition to Continuous Insight and where we excel

A look at four new Synthetic Users features: a Research Assistant UI, expanded language support, and more — designed to help teams run better research faster.

What's new? 4 new features

A look at four new Synthetic Users features: a Research Assistant UI, expanded language support, and more — designed to help teams run better research faster.

Which interview type should I pick?

A guide to Synthetic Users' three interview types — dynamic script, custom script, and concept testing — and how to choose the right one based on your research goal.

What to do when you feel your Synthetic Users are being too generalist

Three practical steps to get more specific, nuanced insights from Synthetic Users — including how to probe deeper, ask better questions, and when to complement with organic research.

Products creating products

A reflection on how AI is transforming product development — and how Synthetic Users fits into a future where products help create better products through real-time synthetic feedback loops.

Press for Synthetic Users

A collection of press coverage for Synthetic Users, including a mention in The Atlantic on AI and the future of polling and public opinion research.

Generating, Running and Sharing Synthetic Research. Really?

A step-by-step walkthrough of how to generate your Synthetic User panel, run interviews, and share your research — from setup to insights report

Don’t fall into the: “It’s not real. It’s just programming.“ fallacy.

Why dismissing AI-generated feedback as "just programming" is a mistake. The value of synthetic research lies in the insights it generates — not in the origin of the participant.

Synthetic Users: Merging Qualitative and Quantitative Research, in seconds.

How Synthetic Users blurs the line between qualitative and quantitative research — enabling teams to get the depth of qual at the scale and speed of quant, in seconds.

Synthetic Users — the summer of 2023 and the road ahead

A summer update from the Synthetic Users team — highlights, product progress, and what the team learned from users over the season.