Synthetic consumers engineered on real-world data.

JaredIQ builds custom, synthetic consumers for each test, using a proprietary mix of data and research.

68
consumer segments with full behavioral profiles
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US media markets, mapped to Census data
32,691
ZIP codes resolvable to a market
100
prewritten, debiased questions
JaredIQ’s foundation

Seven layers of real research behind every panelist.

01
U.S. Census and ACS data

Across US media markets

02
Consumer segmentation data

Income, lifestyle, brand psychology

03
Geodemographic classification

Where people live shapes how they shop

04
Behavioral marketing models

How segments decide and buy

05
Schwartz Values model

What each person holds important

06
OCEAN personality traits

Aligned with each person’s values

07
Plutchik’s emotional baseline

What they respond to and disengage from

Publishing depth is a decision: how much detail builds trust without handing competitors the recipe.
No two consumers are exactly alike

Building a panelist, step by step.

Each one is built through a multistep, cascading process to be coherent, internally consistent, and true to life. You won’t get a 19-year-old doctor. You’ll find yourself saying, “I know that guy.”

Illustration: a woman holding a phone beside a bar chart, representing a real consumer segment
01
Start with a real segment

A real geodemographic segment with its own income level, lifestyle, and shopping preferences.

Illustration: a woman at a laptop with demographic icons for age, education, household, and location
02
Build someone who could exist

Age, education, household, and location drawn as a set from Census data.

Illustration: a woman examining a list of core values with a magnifying glass
03
Anchor what they value

Their own mix of core values, weighted to match their segment.

Illustration: a woman with a thoughtful gesture, representing personality and temperament
04
Give them a personality

Five OCEAN traits and an emotional baseline, aligned with their values.

Illustration: a panelist bio card for Emily with a short narrative and demographic icons
05
Write the bio

A short narrative so you can see exactly who answered.

Sample output

Open any panelist and see exactly who answered.

Virginia 42, female
4 questions · 24 responses
Demographics
Educationhigh-school
Locationurban
RegionSoutheast
IncomeLower Middle
HouseholdCouples
PersonalityPersonality (OCEAN)
Openness
2.4
Conscientiousness
5.5
Extraversion
4.4
Agreeableness
4.1
Neuroticism
5.0
Core values
StabilityFamilyFaithHealth
Description

Virginia prefers familiar routines, highly organized and detail-oriented, outgoing and energized by people, cooperative and trusting, emotionally sensitive. Living in the Southeast region, values Stability and Family and Faith and Health above all else. Currently feeling neutral and moderate.

Emotional baseline
Default valence neutral
Approach triggers working-class respect, honest value, American work pride
Trust disposition moderate
Skepticism triggers white-collar condescension, ivory-tower positioning
Sample panelist · From a JaredIQ session report

Built to remove bias.

Bias is the boogeyman of consumer testing in general, and synthetic panels in particular. Left unchecked, it skews your results.

Fighting it took more development time than any other part of JaredIQ.

Question design

Wording is the biggest source of false results. 100 prewritten, debiased questions, and an audit of any question you write.

Sycophancy

Panelists are asked to find weaknesses and failure points, not just give approval.

Placement bias

Responses that favor whatever comes first are spotted and removed.

Agreement bias

Two opposing statements side by side, so there’s no easy answer to nod along to.

Forced tradeoffs

“Both are nice” isn’t an acceptable answer. Panelists say what they’d give up.

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