UCLA × BIT · Economics + Computer Science

A company that forecasts the future.

Agent Society simulates how customers, investors, markets and regulators react to your decisions, so you can rehearse in a simulated society before you put real money on the line.

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01 · The status quo

Understanding a market still means asking people, one study at a time.

Today, companies that want to understand their markets and customers rely on a handful of methods. By the time the report lands, the decision has often already been made.

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Surveys

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In-depth interviews

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Focus groups

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Concept pre-tests

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Small-scale pilots

What they share → SlowExpensiveFew iterations
02 · AI-native decision layer

Find the deviation before you execute, not after.

We add an AI-native decision layer to financial institutions, embedding multi-agent simulation directly into the decision chain.

Traditional

Research, then hope

  1. Collect research data
  2. Manual analysis
  3. Publish a report
  4. Discover the deviation only after execution
Agent Society

Simulate, compare, then decide

  1. Input your data and assumptions
  2. Simulate customer, investor, market and policy reactions
  3. Compare multiple scenarios side by side
  4. Get decision recommendations

Trial and error in the real world is expensive. Validate the decision in a simulated society first, then commit real capital.

03 · Who buys first

Starting where judgment is the product.

Beachhead

Financial consulting firms

They make judgment calls for their clients every day, so they need a decision layer that can stress-test those judgments more than anyone.

Financial consulting→Banking→Asset management→Insurance
Then every market that deals with consumers
Financial consultingConsultingInternet platformsAutomotive financeInsurancePharma & healthEducationConsumer & retailTravel & hospitalityFilm & entertainmentReal estateRestaurant chainsPublic servicesPolicy researchAdvertising agenciesGamingLuxury
04 · Why now

Two curves just crossed.

Technology inflection

Models are capable

Large language models finally make multi-role, continuously interacting agent simulations usable.

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Market inflection

Budgets are tight

Tighter budgets push financial institutions toward lower-cost ways to validate decisions.

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The window

An AI-native decision layer

Social simulation is moving from a rough sketch toward something you can actually navigate by.

05 · Why us

Computer science and social science, on one team.

We turn social-science methods into simulation systems that can be run and validated.

Beijing Institute of Technology

Systems

A computer science background: we own the models, the systems and the engineering.

UCLA

Behavior

A social-science lens: we define the behavioral questions, the social mechanisms and the experimental design.

06 · Get in touch

Run your next decision through a simulated society.

We are working with a small number of early partners in financial consulting. Tell us about a decision you are facing.

justinzhuang@agentsociety.dev →