Methodology
AI personas are easy to fake and easy to over-trust. We built Communiti on established, peer-reviewed psychological and cross-cultural research — not vibes — so the populations you study behave like populations, not like one model wearing different hats.
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Countries with full demographic profiles — states/provinces, cities, occupations, income tiers, religions, name cultures
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Hofstede cultural dimensions scored per country, applied as context for every persona generated there
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Big Five personality traits, fixed per persona and held constant across every interaction
Every persona carries a fixed Big Five profile — openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism. It's the most widely validated personality framework in psychology, and it's what keeps a persona's voice, risk tolerance, and decision style consistent across every survey, interview, and follow-up question.
On top of individual personality, each of our 100 country profiles is scored across Hofstede's six dimensions — power distance, individualism, masculinity, uncertainty avoidance, long-term orientation, and indulgence. A persona in a high power-distance, collectivist country and one in a low power-distance, individualist country won't just have different facts on a profile — they'll reason about authority, family, and risk differently, the way real population research shows people do.
Age distributions, income brackets, occupations, education, religion, family structure, and lifestyle interests are all calibrated per country — not copy-pasted from a single template. A persona pool drawn from Lagos looks demographically different from one drawn from Tokyo or São Paulo, because the underlying distributions are different, just like the real populations.
Each persona starts as a structured demographic profile — location, age, occupation, income, education, family structure, religion, political leaning, and lifestyle — sampled from distributions calibrated to that country's real population data. A fixed Big Five personality profile is assigned. The country's Hofstede cultural scores are then used as a lens when the persona's life story, daily routine, and current concerns are written, so the narrative reflects that culture's tendencies around hierarchy, individualism, risk, and tradition.
The result is a fixed identity: the same persona, with the same personality, background, and cultural lens, every time you bring them into a survey, focus group, or consensus run.
Synthetic research is only useful if it tracks reality. As our population scales toward 10,000+ personas across all 100 countries, we're running parity studies — comparing Communiti panel responses against published survey and polling data on the same questions — and we'll publish the results. We'd rather show our numbers than just assert them.
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