Articos helps SaaS teams, agencies, and founders test messaging, positioning, and landing pages against simulated personas matched to your ICP. Real audience signal in under 30 minutes. Peer-reviewed at 86% human accuracy vs Baymard and Nielsen Norman.
I am Shaheer, founder of Articos. I spent years in product at Cloudways (acquired for $350M) and at DigitalOcean. Every time we planned a launch, positioning, or new angle, the same thing happened: real audience input cost thousands of dollars and took 4 to 8 weeks, sometimes more. So teams shipped on gut after a Slack debate.
Articos helps SaaS teams, agencies, and founders launch with confidence, not gut. Get structured user insights and feedback in under 30 minutes at a fraction of cost
Here's how it works:
Pick your research type (message testing, landing page testing, user interview, A/B test)
Share what you're testing, where it will run, and who it's for
Get findings from simulated personas matched to your ICP
Why teams use Articos:
Peer-reviewed methodology across 46 studies in 9 industries, 86% accurate against Baymard and Nielsen Norman
7.5x more accurate than ChatGPT or Claude for the same research task
Every finding traces back to specific persona reasoning
White-label reports for agencies presenting to clients
Used by PMMs, growth teams, agencies, and founders at Instacart, HiJiffy, and DealHub, plus hundreds of teams shipping without a research budget.
We just shipped live calls with personas. You can now talk to your simulated audience in real time.
For Product Hunt makers: PH40 gets you 40% off Starter and Pro monthly plans, launch week only. Or try free with 2 researches, no card required.
We'd love your honest feedback. What decision would you test first?
Huge thanks to our hunter Chris Messina for hunting us today. — Shaheer
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@shaheergadit Curious about the metric how exactly are you quantifying that Articos is 7.5x more accurate than ChatGPT or Claude for research tasks? What benchmark or ground truth is being used to measure that?
The 7.5× is based on theme-recovery F1. Articos scored 0.619 F1 vs. 0.082 for bare GPT, using published findings from Baymard, Nielsen Norman Group, and peer-reviewed research as the ground truth. Themes were matched semantically against those expert findings and scored on precision + recall, with the full system recovering 86.3% of reference themes at 49.2% precision.
you can read more about this on our /science-and-methodology page on website
@shaheergadit I have used Articos at Cloudways to validate our messaging for some of our campaigns. The turn around time is super fast and helped us improve our messaging a lot. Without Articos, it wouldn't have been possible to test and iterate this fast. Congrats Shaheer and team on launch!
the 4-8 weeks thing is the real problem. most teams i work with don't skip research because they don't value it, they skip it because nobody's waiting six weeks to name a feature. so they argue in slack and ship on gut instead.
getting to structured input in half an hour changes what you'd even bother testing. and the live calls with personas is a nice touch.
good luck today.
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@shaheergadit Owais and Shaheer, congratulations on the launch of Articos!
I hunted @Userology last year, and that’s where I first learned about synthetic personas.
Articos feels like a really refreshing product and a great fit for the Product Hunt community, since so many builders are looking to gather feedback early.
Do you have a demo or sample report I could take a look at?
Wellows has been an early user of Articos. We have used Articos to conduct user interviews and find unmet needs of our potential target audience. The insights really helped us shape our ICP and positioning.
Amazing work done by Articos and team. Good luck:)
Seems like a really interesting use case for CRO, especially as a pre-validation layer before putting real traffic behind an A/B test. Could save a lot of testing cycles. Congrats Shaheer and team!
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Hey Product Hunt
I am Shaheer, founder of Articos. I spent years in product at Cloudways (acquired for $350M) and at DigitalOcean. Every time we planned a launch, positioning, or new angle, the same thing happened: real audience input cost thousands of dollars and took 4 to 8 weeks, sometimes more. So teams shipped on gut after a Slack debate.
Articos helps SaaS teams, agencies, and founders launch with confidence, not gut. Get structured user insights and feedback in under 30 minutes at a fraction of cost
Here's how it works:
Pick your research type (message testing, landing page testing, user interview, A/B test)
Share what you're testing, where it will run, and who it's for
Get findings from simulated personas matched to your ICP
Why teams use Articos:
Peer-reviewed methodology across 46 studies in 9 industries, 86% accurate against Baymard and Nielsen Norman
7.5x more accurate than ChatGPT or Claude for the same research task
Every finding traces back to specific persona reasoning
White-label reports for agencies presenting to clients
Used by PMMs, growth teams, agencies, and founders at Instacart, HiJiffy, and DealHub, plus hundreds of teams shipping without a research budget.
We just shipped live calls with personas. You can now talk to your simulated audience in real time.
For Product Hunt makers: PH40 gets you 40% off Starter and Pro monthly plans, launch week only. Or try free with 2 researches, no card required.
We'd love your honest feedback. What decision would you test first?
Huge thanks to our hunter Chris Messina for hunting us today.
— Shaheer
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@tehreem_fatima5 Hi - Tehreem
The 7.5× is based on theme-recovery F1. Articos scored 0.619 F1 vs. 0.082 for bare GPT, using published findings from Baymard, Nielsen Norman Group, and peer-reviewed research as the ground truth. Themes were matched semantically against those expert findings and scored on precision + recall, with the full system recovering 86.3% of reference themes at 49.2% precision.
you can read more about this on our /science-and-methodology page on website
Cloudways by DigitalOcean
@shaheergadit I have used Articos at Cloudways to validate our messaging for some of our campaigns. The turn around time is super fast and helped us improve our messaging a lot. Without Articos, it wouldn't have been possible to test and iterate this fast. Congrats Shaheer and team on launch!
rakam
@shaheergadit congrats on the launch.
the 4-8 weeks thing is the real problem. most teams i work with don't skip research because they don't value it, they skip it because nobody's waiting six weeks to name a feature. so they argue in slack and ship on gut instead.
getting to structured input in half an hour changes what you'd even bother testing. and the live calls with personas is a nice touch.
good luck today.
@shaheergadit Owais and Shaheer, congratulations on the launch of Articos!
I hunted @Userology last year, and that’s where I first learned about synthetic personas.
Articos feels like a really refreshing product and a great fit for the Product Hunt community, since so many builders are looking to gather feedback early.
Do you have a demo or sample report I could take a look at?
KIVA (By Wellows)
Wellows has been an early user of Articos. We have used Articos to conduct user interviews and find unmet needs of our potential target audience. The insights really helped us shape our ICP and positioning.
Amazing work done by Articos and team. Good luck:)
Cloudways by DigitalOcean
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@i_sajjad thx sajjad!