Auxos GTM brain

Auxos builds interview-grounded digital customer twins for product, marketing and research teams to test decisions quickly.

category

Synthetic customer research

market profile

  • text: Traditional panels can take weeks to recruit and analyze, restricting research to major decisions.
  • text: Synthetic research vendors compete on data grounding and validation; predicted responses require empirical testing.

personas

  • title: Head of consumer insights
    pains:
    • Panel recruitment and analysis slow down decisions
    • Research budgets leave routine questions unanswered
  • title: Product or UX research lead
    pains:
    • Concept and usability questions arise faster than studies can be commissioned
    • Teams need evidence before committing engineering resources
  • title: Brand marketing lead
    pains:
    • Positioning and campaign decisions move before live audience feedback arrives
    • Repeated creative iterations make conventional research costly

icp

  • text: Consumer brands and digital product companies with identifiable customer segments and frequent concept or pricing decisions.
  • text: Organizations with dedicated insights, product, UX, brand or strategy functions and recurring research spend.

message pillars

  • text: Test decisions before exposing real customers to them.
  • text: Ground each simulated respondent in a real target customer.
  • text: Make research accessible within everyday decisions.

objections

  • objection: Can a simulated audience predict real customer behavior?
    response: Run a blinded comparison against an existing human study, inspect segment-level errors and use results as directional until validated.
  • objection: Building a bespoke audience sounds slow.
    response: Confirm recruitment and interview turnaround for the specific ICP before committing to a study timeline.
  • objection: We already have survey tools.
    response: Compare repeated concept iterations and follow-up questions against the cost and turnaround of the existing panel.

competitors

  • name: Evidenza
    why: Offers synthetic B2B buyer research and surveys.
  • name: Fairgen
    why: Offers simulated audiences grounded in prior research.
  • name: Electric Twin
    why: Builds reusable synthetic audiences from customer research.

influencers

  • name: Ashton Daniel
    url: https://www.useauxos.com/about
    why: Cofounder and CEO, and an identifiable voice for the customer research thesis.
  • name: Jerry Wu
    url: https://www.useauxos.com/about
    why: Cofounder and CPO.

keywords

  • AI customer twins
  • synthetic market research
  • digital twin focus group
  • AI consumer insights
  • concept testing platform
  • synthetic survey panel
  • pricing research

voice

  • direct and optimistic
  • research-led
  • decision-focused

signals

  • text: A brand is preparing a rebrand, product launch or pricing change and needs rapid concept feedback.
  • text: Research hiring or frequent panel procurement suggests recurring demand for customer feedback.

pricing

model: unknown

motion

sales_led

channels

  • LinkedIn
  • X
  • SEO

confidence

medium

Founders

  • name: Ashton Daniel
    title: Founder/CEO
    role: CEO
    bio: Co-founder and CEO @ Auxos, Simulate every decision before it reaches a real customer Before Auxos, I was a consultant at BCG working on Agentic AI deployments for Fortune 500 companies, where I ran customer research surveys, panels, and interviews and watched them spend a fortune for insights. Previously studied CS at Columbia University. Individual NCAA Fencing Champion for Columbia University, ranked #1 in the nation, part of Team USA ranked #1 in the world.
  • name: Jerry Wu
    title: Founder/CPO
    role: CPO
    bio: Co-founder and CPO @ Auxos, Simulate every decision before it reaches a real customer Before Auxos, I was a senior software engineer at Meta and Instagram where I built the infra for models powering Instagram reels, ads, and Facebook feed, resulting in $100M+ of incremental revenue per year. There, I witnessed how waiting for A/B testing results became the bottleneck in the product development lifecycle. Fenced for Team USA. CS major and Division 1 athlete at UPenn.

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