# Articos

- Link: https://100xfounder.com/startup/articos/
- Published: 2026-10-15T11:31:17+05:30
- Author: Lovish Madaan

Articos is a synthetic user research tool. Instead of recruiting real people, you
describe your audience and Articos interviews simulated personas matched to your
ideal customer, one at a time, to answer a research question. It offers four kinds
of study: user interviews, message testing, landing-page tests and A/B tests of 
copy or pages. Each produces a report, and Articos says a study takes about 30 minutes.
It is aimed at SaaS teams, agencies, consultants and founders who would otherwise
skip research because a traditional study costs thousands of dollars and takes weeks.

The company’s central claim is accuracy: Articos says that across 46 studies its
findings matched published research from the Baymard Institute and Nielsen Norman
Group about 86% of the time, and it publishes its methodology. That is Articos’s
own benchmark; we have not checked it. Simulated buyers can tell you which way to
lean, but its makers said on Product Hunt that this is not a replacement for a real
test once you are live.

Articos launched on Product Hunt on 2 September 2026 and finished #3 for the day
with 394 points. A second launch, Articos MCP, followed on 13 October 2026 and finished#
1 with 313 points and 91 comments. It lets you run the same simulated audiences 
from inside Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other AI assistants, and is included in 
the paid plans. Founder and CEO Shaheer Gadit and Owais Khan are the makers listed
on Product Hunt.

_We have not tested Articos ourselves. This page brings together its official site,
its Product Hunt page and the public pages of the products it is compared with, 
and says where each fact comes from._