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Artificial Societies

We build networks of AI personas that simulate stakeholder opinions

Y CombinatorWinter 2025ActiveB2BAnalyticsArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSaaSB2B

What they do

Problem

We build networks of AI personas that simulate stakeholder opinions

Founders

James He
Founder

CEO 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

Leading 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.

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