Scios.ai – Strategic Decision Intelligence for Consumer Markets
Scios.ai is a human-centric AI platform that models how people make choices to answer WHY, WHAT-IF, and HOW-TO questions in consumer markets. It combines predictive modeling, digital twins of markets, and trusted human-AI collaboration to help organizations run fast, data-backed strategic decisions across product launches, pricing, marketing, churn reduction, and more. The platform emphasizes confidence, experimentation, and rapid scenario testing with zero risk.
How it works
- Integrates multiple data sources and research into a parallel digital twin of the market, representing real consumers with values, perceptions, and decision drivers.
- Uses predictive and prescriptive analytics powered by extensive behavioral economics research.
- Enables enterprising experimentation: run several scenarios, compare outcomes, and make informed decisions with reduced risk.
- Focused on human-AI collaboration to promote trust and adoption of insights.
Use cases
- product launch: determine the optimal launch strategy
- product design: identify features that drive competitiveness
- product experience: improve experiences to fuel growth
- quantify strategy: assess impact of purpose-driven initiatives on the bottom line
- define strategy: balance short-term sales and long-term brand health
- goal optimization: plan the budget required to hit revenue targets
- pricing: simulate sales outcomes under price changes
- marketing investment: optimize marketing spend for results
- customer churn: reduce churn through informed interventions
- touchpoint effectiveness: evaluate channel and touchpoint impact
- promotions: analyze long-term effects on brand health
Core concepts
- PREDICTIVE MODEL-AS-A-SERVICE: Self-service models capturing the physics of consumer decision making to deliver actionable analytics quickly.
- DIGITAL CONSUMER TWINS: Virtual representations of consumers to configure and calibrate decision systems at market pace.
- TRUST and INSIGHT for human-AI collaboration: Build reliability in outcomes through a human-centric narrative of cause and effect.
- UNIFY: Harmonize data resources and embed your consumers into a digital market twin.
- UNDERSTAND: Explore multiple predictive models to answer WHAT-IF and HOW-TO questions and derive deep customer insights.
- GO AS FAR AS YOU CAN SEE AND YOU WILL SEE FURTHER: Run diverse options, spot problems early, and take proactive actions.
- Scale metrics: $20B+ in investment decisions supported, 300+ models across wide-ranging applications, 60+ Fortune 500 clients, 70 FTE-years of development.
How to use Scios (high level)
- Define the strategic question (e.g., optimal pricing, best product feature set, ideal marketing mix).
- Connect data sources and calibrate the market digital twin with virtual consumers.
- Run scenarios and compare outcomes across KPIs such as revenue, profitability, growth, and brand health.
- Select a course of action backed by predictive insights and risk-free experimentation.
- Implement decisions and monitor impact, refining models as needed.
Safety and governance
- Emphasizes human-centric decision making to promote trust and responsible AI adoption.
- Enables scenario testing with zero risk to real-world outcomes during exploration.
Core Features
- Predictive Model-as-a-Service with self-service access
- Digital Twin of the Market to simulate consumer behavior
- Virtual consumers representing human values, perceptions, and decision drivers
- Scenario planning and What-If analysis across multiple options
- Prescriptive analytics to guide optimal actions
- Human-AI collaboration framework to foster trust and adoption
- Data harmonization across multiple sources and research streams
- Rapid experimentation to accelerate planning and execution
- Solutions tailored for product launches, pricing analyses, and broad marketing decisions
- Support for strategic decision making at enterprise scale (Fortune 500 clients, large budgets, diverse industries)