Getting Started

Run your first social simulation and see how people react to your idea. This guide walks you through signing up, creating a simulation, and reading results.

Sign Up

CrowdProof uses passwordless authentication. Enter your email address and we will send you a magic link. Click the link to sign in instantly, no password required.

1. Go to crowdproof.xyz/login
2. Enter your email address
3. Check your inbox for the magic link
4. Click the link to access your dashboard

Understanding the Dashboard

After signing in, you land on your dashboard. Here you can see all your simulations, their status, and quick stats.

Simulation List

Each simulation card shows the seed content, audience type, agent count, and current status. Click a live run to watch it in God Mode. A finished crowd opens the report. A stopped or failed run has no report.

Quick Stats

The top of your dashboard shows your monthly usage and remaining simulations on your plan, plus a portfolio summary of your total simulations, completed runs, crowd reception, total LLM spend, and average validation alignment.

Create Your First Simulation

Click New Simulation in your dashboard or go directly to /sim/new. The wizard has three steps.

Step 1: What do you want to test?

The seed is what your simulated crowd will react to. This can be:

• Text: A tweet, announcement, product description, or any statement
• URL: A link to an article, landing page, or product page. CrowdProof reads up to the first three links before the run starts. A page it cannot fetch, and any extra link, stays as URL text. The report says which pages were read.
• Scenario: A hypothetical situation like "Company X raises prices by 20%"

Be specific. The more context you provide, the more realistic the reactions.

On the Team and Enterprise plans, this step also has an A/B test toggle: enter a Variant B and CrowdProof runs both versions against the same simulated crowd so you can compare the results side by side.

Step 2: Who should react?

Select who should react to your content. CrowdProof offers three built-in audience presets:

• General Public: 15 diverse archetypes representing a broad cross-section of people
• Tech Twitter: 12 archetypes including founders, engineers, VCs, and tech journalists
• Small Business Owners: 11 archetypes of entrepreneurs and local business operators

There is also a fourth option, Describe Your Own: describe your audience in plain text and CrowdProof builds a matching crowd. You can optionally ground it in real interview notes or survey verbatims, pasted directly or reused from a saved corpus.

Learn more about how these audiences work in the Audiences guide.

Step 3: Ready to launch?

Review your setup and choose the size and shape of the run:

• Simulated people: A slider from 25 up to your plan limit (up to 5,000 on Enterprise). More people produce more diverse reactions.
• Rounds: A slider for how many rounds of interaction to run. Each round lets agents react to each other; more rounds show how opinions evolve and factions form.
• Platforms: Chips to choose which of the five simulated social platforms (Pulse, Forum, Circle, Network, Board) the crowd posts on. Your plan sets how many you can enable (one on Free, three on Pro, all five on Team and Enterprise), and they are on by default up to that limit.
• Industry (optional): After you score the run, that tag groups it on the public accuracy page. An unscored run does not move any industry average.
• Email me when it finishes: When the crowd finishes, a report link by email. Watching in God Mode stays. A failed run emails that there is no report.

An Estimated LLM cost figure updates as you move the sliders, so you can see what the run will spend before you commit. When you are ready, click Launch Simulation to open God Mode, or Launch A/B Experiment to open the dashboard so you can watch both variants.

Reading Results

When the crowd finishes you get a synthesis report. A stopped or failed run has no report.

• Overall sentiment: Positive, negative, mixed, or divided. A crowd that split into opposing camps reads Divided, matching the report. Mixed is a crowd that stayed near the middle.
• Faction breakdown: How agents clustered into opinion groups
• Key arguments: The most compelling points for and against
• Viral moments: Content that spread rapidly through the crowd
• Notable quotes: Standout reactions from individual agents

A public link shows the live spectator feed while the crowd is running and the report when it finishes. A stopped or failed run has no report. When the crowd finishes, download the report as Markdown. A stopped or failed run has no report. Export the raw feed as CSV when the crowd has posted. Run a Variant draws a fresh crowd. Shared-crowd A/B stays on Team and Enterprise.

Next Steps

Now that you have run your first simulation, explore these guides:

• God Mode - Master the real-time visualization interface
• Simulations - Advanced configuration and interpretation
• API Reference - Integrate CrowdProof into your workflow