Articos MCP launched yesterday and ended the day at #1. 327 upvotes and a wall of thoughtful comments.
For a bootstrapped team, that caught us off guard, especially in a field this strong. We launched the same day as some great teams, @opencode , @Fina @Kai, and the folks behind them, @thdxr, @clay_raterman, @jim_hartung. Good day for all of us
Big thanks to @chrismessina for hunting us again. The pre-launch calls shaped the whole thing, the story, the flow, the maker comment. Chris pushed us to lead with the actual value instead of just it s an MCP now, and that reframe is a big reason yesterday worked.
@agzee Hey - yes it can!
@agzee 100% test it and share feedback :)
Loved how you’ve evolved this since the last launch! Curious, how does the MCP integration help with market research? Congrats on the launch, Shaheer!
@suryansh_tiwari2 Hey - yes it does!
I used to work as a tester, and we used to run tests like this, but it used to take many times longer. It's great that it's so quick and easy now.
Good luck with the launch today!
@maria_anosova Appreciate it. Coming from someone who’s done it the old way, thats good to hear.
@owais_khan22 Good luck with the launch today!
@maria_anosova thx!
been using Articos MCP for a couple of my clients to validate their ideas and message - absolutely love how fast and useful the responses are
@charan_t_m great to see a testimonial :)
@charan_t_m Thx for being an early user and sharing feedback!
Hello PH community!
I'm Shaheer, founder of Articos. We launched earlier this year and brought it to Product Hunt last month: a way to simulate your target audience and get instant user feedback and insights on your messaging, positioning, strategy and product ideas in under 30 minutes instead of weeks. Thousands of teams have run with it since.
Since then we have been hearing from customers and prospects:
Can I use Articos inside Claude? Can I talk to my audience in my agent?
Can I test it right where I'm already writing the copy?
So today we are launching Articos MCP.
Now you can test your decisions right inside Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any MCP client, without leaving the chat. Ask Articos to test a headline, find your ICP, or compare two ads, and your simulated buyers react, pick the winner, and tell you why, grounded in real reasoning, not a model guessing on its own.
What you can actually do with it:
Know if your messaging lands before you spend a dollar running it
Find the ICP and the segments you're not speaking to yet
See which ad or landing page version wins, and the reasoning behind it
Build it into your workflow, so testing a decision is one prompt, not a project
The part that matters: every finding traces back to peer-reviewed personas, 46 studies across 9 domains, 86% theme recall against Baymard and Nielsen Norman, and 7.5x more accurate than a raw model on the same task. Agencies can white-label the reports for clients.
Used by PMMs, growth teams, agencies, and founders at Instacart, HiJiffy, and DealHub, plus hundreds of teams shipping without a research budget.
For the PH community: use PHBONUS for bonus credits on us, 15 studies on Pro, 6 on Starter, launch week only. New to Articos? Start free with 2 studies, no card.
We'd love your honest feedback. What decision would you test first?
Huge thanks to our hunter @chrismessina for his support and hunting us today!
@shaheergadit @owais_khan22 Many congratulations on the launch of Articos MCP! :)
Bringing Articos directly into Claude, ChatGPT, and other MCP clients would help builders at Product Hunt test before they ship. Testing the headline, positioning, or landing page can now be part of the same workflow where you’re actually creating it. For me, that's inside Claude Code.
enjoying with Articos a lot especially on Paid marketing side! It helps a lot on experimentation to making sure we do allocate budgets and test many things on landing pages, good luck with the launch guys!
@owais_khan22
@nkirkan thanks for the support.