A living Vancouver. Connor is walking dogs at the SPCA this morning
I've spent most of my career in marketing, which for the last few years has meant building consumer personas for campaigns. I wanted to see if I could make these real, living in real neighborhoods, had real weather, real budgets, real Saturday lunches. I always wanted to build a world, not a segment. This is that. 140 people so far, split across Vancouver (100), San Francisco (20), and Tokyo (20). Each one is about 1,000 lines of profile — family, finances, daily schedule, health, worldview, media diet, the channels you'd actually reach them through and the ones that will explicitly never…
A living Vancouver. Connor is walking dogs at the SPCA this morning launched on April 11, 2026 with 5 votes, #1,846 of 21,248 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
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simulis connects your ad platforms and analytics into one permanent, sourced library — and gives your AI access over MCP, so Claude and ChatGPT answer with your history, your numbers, your customers.
simulis keeps everything your marketing ever did. Your AI answers with your numbers. Platforms keep the numbers and quietly delete the history. The meaning — what you tried, what it cost, why it worked or died — lives in someone's head until they leave. Hourly syncs, recorded decisions, sourced answers — everything your marketing produces, filing itself. "How did the week go?" One call returns per-campaign totals, your best and worst cost per lead, the trend against last week, and what to check next — every number sourced , gaps stated as gaps. Ask for a creative brief and your AI gets brand rules as hard constraints , the hooks that actually worked, the numbers to beat, and a prompt…from brasilia-phi.vercel.app
In the maker’s words, at launch
I've spent most of my career in marketing, which for the last few years has meant building consumer personas for campaigns. I wanted to see if I could make these real, living in real neighborhoods, had real weather, real budgets, real Saturday lunches. I always wanted to build a world, not a segment. This is that.…
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