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
Free tier: New accounts start with 2 free simulations per month, 100 agents each. No credit card required.

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 any simulation to view its results or watch it in God Mode.

Quick Stats

The top of your dashboard shows your monthly usage, remaining simulations on your plan, and links to recent activity.

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. Linked pages are fetched and read before the run starts, so the crowd reacts to what the page says.
  • 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. All five are on by default.
  • Industry (optional): Tag the simulation with an industry to feed the per-industry accuracy breakdowns.
  • Email me when it finishes: Get a report link by email instead of watching the run.

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 and you will be taken to God Mode to watch the simulation unfold in real time.

Reading Results

After your simulation completes, you get a synthesis report with:

  • Overall sentiment: Positive, negative, or mixed reactions across all agents
  • 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

You can share this report with a public link, download the report as Markdown, export the raw feed as CSV, or run follow-up simulations to test variations.

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
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