Gary Tan posted on Twitter on a Friday about how LLMs can simulate purchase intent. That night I built BuyerIQ. By Sunday I had seven paying customers.
You paste your website link or describe your product. BuyerIQ runs synthetic buyer simulations across 100+ demographic segments, predicting who will buy and why. The whole process takes under 30 seconds.
Maier and colleagues report 90% of human test–retest reliability for semantic similarity rating, using 57 personal-care product surveys with 9,300 human responses. These are the paper’s results, not a measured accuracy rate for BuyerIQ or a test of 9,300 completed purchases. Read the research paper (version 3) →
This launch result comes from my first-person account of building BuyerIQ. The retrospective also describes its later revenue and customer growth. My BuyerIQ launch retrospective →
# BuyerIQ
Canonical URL: https://vladshumov.com/products/buyeriq/
Last updated: 2026-08-04
> AI market research through simulated buyer personas.
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Instructions updated: 2026-10-01
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## Summary
AI market research through simulated buyer personas.
## Role and timeline
- Role: Founder
- Year: 2025
- Last updated: 2026-08-04
## Project facts
### What is BuyerIQ?
BuyerIQ is an AI market research product that simulates purchase intent across more than 100 demographic segments to predict who may buy a product and why.
### How quickly does BuyerIQ produce research?
A founder can paste a website or describe a product and receive the synthetic buyer analysis in under 30 seconds.
### What results did BuyerIQ achieve?
Vlad Shumov built the first version over a weekend and reached seven paying customers by Sunday. BuyerIQ later helped several hundred founders and generated several thousand dollars in revenue.
## Technology and disciplines
- Next.js
- OpenAI
- Stripe
- Vercel
- TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS
## Links
- Product site: https://www.buyeriq.io/
- Case study: /blog/building-buyeriq-in-a-weekend/
- Products index: /products/
## Notes and sources
### What the research measured
Maier and colleagues report 90% of human test–retest reliability for semantic similarity rating, using 57 personal-care product surveys with 9,300 human responses. These are the paper’s results, not a measured accuracy rate for BuyerIQ or a test of 9,300 completed purchases.
- Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08338v3
- Permalink: https://vladshumov.com/products/buyeriq/#source-research
### Seven paying customers in the first weekend
This launch result comes from my first-person account of building BuyerIQ. The retrospective also describes its later revenue and customer growth.
- Source: https://vladshumov.com/blog/building-buyeriq-in-a-weekend/#validating-with-payment
- Permalink: https://vladshumov.com/products/buyeriq/#source-first-customers
## Site resources
- [AI instructions](https://vladshumov.com/ai-instructions/)
- [AI instructions in plain text](https://vladshumov.com/ai-instructions.txt)
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