To find out what customers think, this $2bn startup asks their AI twins
THE SO WHAT
Agentic ‘consumer twins’ at a $2B valuation means market research is being treated as a simulation problem, not a survey problem. Treat these tools as hypothesis generators—then budget real-world experiments to validate before you bet product or pricing on synthetic sentiment.
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