The engine
BDI: Beliefs, Desires, Intentions
Most tools built on large language models ask the model for a summary judgement. The Synthe
Suite does something different. Each agent holds a structured set of beliefs, desires and
intentions, calibrated from demographic and cultural data, and deliberates over them before
responding. What comes back is not a single averaged answer but a population of individual
positions, each with a reasoning trace attached.
The practical consequence: when a result surprises you, you can open it and see why a
particular segment reached it. A result you cannot interrogate is a result you cannot act on.
What it is for
Synthe Suite platforms are designed to work with expert judgement, not around
it.
A traditional expert panel gives you depth, accountability and domain intuition that no
simulation reproduces. What it does not give you easily is fifteen segments tested in an
afternoon, or the same question re-run after you change one variable, or coverage of a
demographic you have no panel access to. That is the gap these platforms fill.
The intended pattern is straightforward: use the simulation to explore the space quickly
and narrow it, then commit fieldwork budget to the two or three questions that survived.
The output is an input to expert deliberation.
Validation
Eight studies. 4,800 participants.
Platform output has been assessed against published empirical research across eight
validation studies covering 4,800 participants in total. The criterion is
directional convergence — whether the simulation identifies the same
direction of effect as the validated study, and ranks options in the same order.
We report it that way deliberately. Directional convergence is what the method supports
and what the studies measured. Where a study showed divergence, that is part of the corpus
too; knowing the boundary of a method is a condition of using it responsibly.