How it works

A simple flow. A rigorous engine.

A one-line audience brief becomes a calibrated population, a stimulus becomes a multi-persona response, and reasoning becomes a chart you can defend.

How it works

A research engine. Not a chatbot.

Curated panels, weighted sampling, per-persona reasoning, and an audit on every run.

Step 01

Start with a research-grade panel.

Curated US populations weighted to ACS, US Census, Pew, BLS, and BRFSS. Or define your own. Calibration sources visible on every panel.

Panel library6 curated · or define your own
Calibrated to
ACS 2023 + Census 2020 + Pew ATP
Age
18–29 21%30–44 26%45–64 32%65+ 21%
Income (HHI)
<$50k 38%$50–100k 34%$100k+ 28%
Region
NE 17%MW 21%S 38%W 24%
Step 02

Condition. Sample. Audit.

Zippy conditions the panel on your brief, samples N personas, and runs a per-axis distribution check against the target. The audit ships with the result.

Sample · target audit
1,284 personas drawn · ACS-weighted
Within ±2pp
Age 25–4541.6%/42%-0.4
Female50.4%/50.8%-0.4
HHI ≥ $60k57.3%/58%-0.7
Urban82.1%/83%-0.9
College+39.4%/39%+0.4
this run±2pp bandtarget
Step 03

Every answer ships with its reasoning.

Each persona answers with a traceable chain: context, priors, weighing. Click any number to see who said yes, and why.

Reasoning · 1 of 3
Question
Would you switch to a 4-hour coffee delivery option for $2 more?
Maya Chen
29 · Product Designer · Brooklyn, NY
  1. 1
    Context
    Brooklyn · designer · premium taste · time-poor weekdays
  2. 2
    Priors
    Pays for convenience; sensitive to packaging cues; already on subscription
  3. 3
    Weighing
    $2 is below her coffee-out delta. 4hr means she can replace tomorrow's run.
  4. Answer
    Probably yes
Step 04

Benchmarked against real studies.

Per-domain correlations against published survey panels: strengths, confidence intervals, and the misses we're transparent about.

Validation status · per domain
How Zippy holds up against published US studies
Continuously benchmarkedfull methodology on request
Pricing concept testsStrong
Message & tagline testsStrong
Brand affinity & creativeModerate
B2B feature priorityModerate
Long-form ad recallInvestigating
Where we're cautious

Niche regulated domains (specialist clinical workflows, narrow luxury verticals) sit in the “investigating” band until we have enough published US studies to benchmark against. We'll tell you when a study is in a domain we don't confidently cover yet.

From a questionto evidence,this week.

Bring a question. We'll walk through a live audience, a focus group, and a survey, in 30 minutes.

Enterprise-ready · CCPA/CPRA · onboarded in a single session