About

We build a working simulation of the public.

Simulant is a research company at the frontier of multi-agent simulation. We recreate entire populations as grounded, questionable minds — so the people carrying the biggest decisions can see what happens next before it happens for real.

Why we exist

The most consequential decisions — a policy, a campaign, a message to a nation — get made on instinct and a handful of focus groups. We think that is a solvable problem. Simulant turns the question “what will people do?” into something you can run, interrogate, and re-run before you commit.

Founded
2024
Headquarters
Sydney, AU
Discipline
Multi-agent simulation
Grounding
Official data only
How we work

Research first. Always.

01

We model outcomes, not opinions

People are unreliable narrators of themselves. We optimise for what a population does, grounded in the measurable record — not what it claims in a survey.

02

We show our work

Every result traces back to the signals and settings behind it. Nothing depends on a black box, because our customers' work gets audited, FOI'd, and fact-checked.

03

We build for the operator

The people carrying the decision — campaigns, cabinets, and boardrooms — don't need another dashboard. They need an answer they can defend in the room.

The team

We're a small, senior team working across multi-agent simulation, behavioural modeling, and applied AI. We partner with a limited number of organisations at a time.