AI-powered customer research

What if you could talk to your customers before they exist?

Perplica creates AI personas with real psychology — 18 dimensions of personality, persistent memory, and emotions that evolve. Not chatbots. Something deeper.

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See what’s happening inside their head

Every response comes with a window into the persona’s psychology — their emotions, internal thoughts, cognitive biases, and the memories driving their reaction.

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Sarah Chen, 32
Product Manager · San Francisco
Skeptical
Sarah, I'm thinking about launching a premium tier at $49/month. What's your honest reaction?
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Honestly? My first instinct is resistance. I already feel like I'm paying for too many subscriptions. But if I think about it more carefully... it depends entirely on what "premium" means to me personally. If it's just removing limits I'll feel nickel-and-dimed. If it genuinely unlocks something I can't get elsewhere — like deeper analytics or team features — I'd consider it. But $49 is right at my threshold where I'd need to justify it to myself.

The Inner World panel — emotions, thoughts, and biases — is visible on larger screens.

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Internal Monologue
See the unspoken thoughts behind every response.
Emotional State
Track how trust, skepticism, and curiosity shift in real time.
Activated Memories
Know which past experiences are influencing this moment.
Focus groups

Run a focus group
in minutes, not months

Put 2-8 personas in a room and watch them discuss your product, challenge each other’s assumptions, and surface insights you didn’t expect. Each persona brings their own psychology, memory, and emotional state.

Moderated or autonomous discussion modes
Each persona reacts based on their unique psychology
Emotional contagion between participants
Export full transcripts with emotional trajectories
Product Research
Moderated
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MJ
PP
3 personas
What would make you switch from your current research tool?
SC
Sarah Chen
If it could actually predict how my users would react before I ship. I'm tired of post-launch surveys telling me what I already suspected.
MJ
Marcus Johnson
Price. Pure and simple. I'm bootstrapped. But honestly, if it saved me even one failed product iteration, it'd pay for itself ten times over.
PP
Dr. Priya Patel
I'd need to see the methodology. "AI personas" could mean anything from a chatbot with a name tag to something with real psychological validity. Show me the framework.
Ask the group a question...
Turn 1/10
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Sarah Chen
Editing psychological profile
OCEANValuesThinkingEmotionalSocialNarrative
OCEAN Personality Model
Openness
82
Fantasy
75
Aesthetics
88
Feelings
79
Actions
85
Ideas
90
Values
72
Conscientiousness
71
Competence
78
Order
65
Dutifulness
70
Achievement
82
Self-Discipline
68
Deliberation
63
Extraversion
45
Agreeableness
68
Neuroticism
35

Narrative identity panel — life story, beliefs, and wounds — is visible on larger screens.

Persona builder

Build a mind,
not just a profile

Go beyond demographics. Define personality with 30 OCEAN sub-facets, shape their values and cognitive biases, then write the life narrative that makes them who they are — wounds, beliefs, and all.

OCEAN personality with 30 individually adjustable sub-facets
Schwartz values, moral foundations, and cognitive biases
Narrative identity: life story, core beliefs, wounds, and turning points
AI-assisted generation from a simple description or document
15 research-backed templates to start from
Use cases

Built for people who need to understand people

Product Managers

Test positioning, validate feature ideas, and understand objections before building.

Founders & Entrepreneurs

Validate business ideas and customer segments without spending months on interviews.

UX Researchers

Run rapid focus groups, stress-test user flows, and uncover hidden pain points.

Marketing Teams

Craft messaging that resonates by testing it against psychologically realistic personas.

Under the hood

Not a chatbot with a name tag.
A psychological simulation.

Every persona response flows through a multi-stage AI pipeline that models cognition, memory, and emotion — the same way a real person processes a conversation.

18 Psychological Dimensions
OCEAN personality with 30 sub-facets, Schwartz values, cognitive biases, moral foundations, and narrative identity.
6 Memory Types
Episodic, semantic, emotional, procedural, prospective, and associative — each conversation builds on the last.
Dynamic Emotional State
Trust, curiosity, skepticism — emotions evolve naturally with realistic decay and context-dependent shifts.
7-Node AI Pipeline
Social context, cognitive processing, memory retrieval, emotional updates, narrative coherence, synthesis, and storage — every response.

Built with LangGraph, Claude AI, pgvector, and Supabase.·332 unit tests + 42 integration tests.

I spent years watching companies make decisions about people based on flat demographic profiles and gut feelings. Traditional research is slow, expensive, and often tells you what people say — not how they think.

Perplica is my attempt to bridge that gap. By modelling the actual psychology behind decisions, we can have honest conversations with realistic personas before committing resources.

It’s early. We’re in beta. But the conversations are already surprising people in the right ways.

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Ikou Soufyane
Founder & developer

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