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Synthetic Research

Generate synthetic personas grounded in your real data to run focus groups, test concepts, and simulate journeys, so you validate ideas in hours without the cost, time, or privacy barriers of fielding, and only when the synthetic provably behaves like the real.

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Synthetic panel 92% AVG MATCH TO REAL VS Value Seekers Price-driven · 38% of base 94% PL Premium Loyalists Brand-driven · 27% of base 90% SW Switchers At-risk · 21% of base 83% SK Skeptics Hard to win · 14% of base 76%

What it does

Validate ideas with synthetic personas, in hours not weeks.

Build grounded personas

Generate synthetic respondents grounded in your real customer data, so the personas reflect your market, not a generic model.

Run synthetic studies

Field focus groups, interviews, and concept tests against synthetic audiences in hours, so early ideas get feedback fast.

Simulate journeys

Model how segments react across a journey, so you see where a concept lands or loses people before you build it.

Prove the copy holds

Validate that the synthetic behaves like the original, so results are trustworthy, not just fast.

How it works

A clear path from start to result

01

Ground the model

Train synthetic personas on your real data and segments.

02

Design the study

Define the concepts, questions, and journeys to test.

03

Field synthetically

Run focus groups, interviews, and concept tests in hours.

04

Validate

Check that synthetic responses track real-world behavior.

05

Decide

Hand back validated direction and where to confirm with real fielding.

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Run it continuously, on web and mobile

  • Synthetic personas grounded in your real data
  • Synthetic focus groups, interviews, and concept tests
  • Journey simulation and reaction modeling
  • Validity checks that prove the synthetic behaves like the real
  • Results in hours, with no fielding cost or privacy exposure
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What you get

Deliverables you can act on

Synthetic panel 92% AVG MATCH TO REAL VS Value Seekers Price-driven · 38% of base 94% PL Premium Loyalists Brand-driven · 27% of base 90% SW Switchers At-risk · 21% of base 83% SK Skeptics Hard to win · 14% of base 76%

Synthetic persona panel

The personas generated from your real data, each with the segment it represents and how closely it matches real-world responses.

Time to insight
4 hrs
From brief to tested concept, versus weeks to field a live study
Match to real data
92%
How closely synthetic responses tracked validated real results
CONFIDENCE BY METHOD Personas 92% Focus groups 84% Concept tests 78%

Validation snapshot

How fast you reach a decision, and how closely the synthetic tracked validated real-world results.

Concept Appeal Concept A 0.81 Concept B 0.63 Concept C 0.50 Concept D 0.36

Concept test results

Concepts ranked by appeal across the synthetic panel, so the strongest direction is clear before you build.

6 STUDIES Concept test: pricing Done Focus group: onboarding Done Journey sim: checkout Running Persona refresh Queued

Study tracker

The synthetic studies run and their status, so a full research cycle takes hours, not weeks.

Methodology

Waiting weeks to field a study kills the idea

Traditional fielding is slow, costly, and gated by recruiting. We build research personas from your stakeholder profiles and market context, run them through the LLM, and return concept and message reactions in hours, with per-persona scores, themes, and sentiment.

Traditional fielding

  • Weeks to recruit, field, and analyze
  • Expensive panels and incentives
  • Gated by recruiting and consent
  • Too slow to iterate across many ideas

Intellimark Synthetic Research

  • Personas built from your stakeholder profiles and market context
  • Concept and message tests in hours, not weeks
  • No panel recruiting or fielding cost
  • Per-persona scores, theme extraction, and sentiment summaries

Verified against established practice and research: NIQ, the rise of synthetic respondents · Market research participant incentives (Drive Research) · Synthetic respondents: grounding and validation (SYMAR)

Market reality

Why this matters now

60%

of the data used for AI and analytics projects will be synthetically generated

Gartner

70%

of the time, models built on synthetic data matched the results of real data

MIT

Common
questions

What is Synthetic Research? +

A Hub capability that generates synthetic personas from your real data to run focus groups, concept tests, and journey simulations in hours instead of weeks.

Is synthetic data trustworthy? +

It earns its place when real data is too scarce, sensitive, or slow, and only when the copy provably behaves like the original. We validate before we rely on it.

When should we use it? +

For early-stage validation, sensitive audiences, or fast iteration, with real fielding reserved for the decisions that warrant it.

What do you get? +

A synthetic persona library, concept and message test results, journey simulations, and validated direction in hours.

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