Clacton, Before the Count
A parliamentary by-election in Clacton-on-Sea — the kind of single-seat contest where national narratives collide with an intensely local mood. We built a synthetic electorate for the town and asked it what the by-election turns on.
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Five States, One Night: Reading Five Primaries at Once
On a single primary night, five states vote at the same time. We built a synthetic electorate for each and ran them in parallel — locking onto all five to compare what moves an electorate from one state to the next.
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A Synthetic Rio Weighs In
We took the method south of the equator: a synthetic electorate for the state of Rio de Janeiro, asked about a hypothetical transit-funding referendum. A first look at how the model reads a very different community.
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Reading a Town Hall Before It Happens
Elections are the loud case. The quieter, more useful one: simulating how a specific community reacts to a specific decision — a rezoning, a fare hike, a library closure — before anyone walks into the room.
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What 10,000 Synthetic Voters Said About the Colorado Governor Primary
We built a synthetic Colorado electorate and ran the 2026 Democratic gubernatorial primary — Michael Bennet against Phil Weiser — a hundred times. Here is what the simulation believes, and how we intend to grade it.
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Why Simulate an Electorate
Polls sample a few hundred people once. A synthetic electorate lets you ask ten thousand simulated citizens anything, as many times as you want — and then check yourself against reality.