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Minds Team

# **Getting Started with Minds**

Scientifically validated digital brains that think and respond like real humans. Test, iterate, and validate with the exact audience you care about — in minutes.

# Getting Started

## What is Minds?

Minds is a simulation platform for customer and expert panels. You create digital brains of real-world personas — a CMO at a mid-market SaaS, a Gen-Z student in Berlin, a specific industry expert — and ask them anything. You get side-by-side answers from a whole audience in minutes, not weeks.

## How it's different from a regular chatbot

A generic LLM gives you a plausible guess. A Mind gives you a real simulation.

Under the hood, every Mind is built by running roughly 100× deeper research across the public web than a standalone LLM query, then running that evidence through real psychological models — personality, values, motivations, buying behavior. The result is a profile that matches real human data with 80–95% accuracy, without any manual cleanup.

Practically, that means:

- **Validated, not improvised** — responses are grounded in the persona's actual worldview, sources, and psychometric profile, not a stylistic imitation.
- **Comparable at scale** — ask one question to 8, 15, or 100 Minds and get structured, aggregated answers with distribution charts.
- **Reusable** — the same panel you build today can be queried again next week with a new stimulus.

## Core concepts

### Minds

A Mind is a digital brain built from LinkedIn profiles, websites, PDFs, raw notes, or a plain description. Each one has its own knowledge base, personality, voice, and profile. You can edit everything from the context tab at any time.

### Groups

A Group is a panel of Minds queried together. Build one by picking existing Minds from your library, or describe your audience (e.g. _"enterprise CTOs in San Francisco, SaaS, 500+ employees"_) and let Minds generate a representative sample for you to iterate on.

### Chats

One unified chat is where you interact with everything. Mention a single Mind for a deep one-on-one, drop in a group for a panel, or run two groups side-by-side to see where segments agree and where they diverge. Drag in PDFs, screenshots, pitch decks, competitor creative — anything you want them to react to.

### Panels

When you query a Group, responses are auto-classified and aggregated:

- **Scale** (1–10 ratings) → distribution + group averages
- **Categorical** (yes/no, multiple choice) → percentage breakdowns
- **Qualitative** (open-ended) → clustered themes

## Who uses Minds for what

- **Marketing teams** paste in ad copy, positioning, and landing pages before they spend a dollar on media.
- **Agencies** drop in client briefs, competitor messaging, and concept work — validated insight in hours, sometimes demoed live in the pitch meeting.
- **Product teams** run feature specs, pricing tiers, and onboarding flows past target users before a single line of code. Validation cycles drop from 4–6 weeks to same-day.
- **Founders** query an expert panel directly: _should I expand to this market, is this pricing right, does this pitch land?_ Enterprise-grade advice at SMB budgets.

## Quick start

1. **Create a Mind** — click **+ Add** in the sidebar, paste a LinkedIn URL or describe the persona, hit create. Ready in ~30 seconds.
2. **Build a Group** — either pick existing Minds or describe your target audience and let us generate a representative panel.
3. **Open a chat** — mention your Group in the smart input, drop in any stimulus (PDF, image, text).
4. **Ask your question** — see all Minds respond in parallel with an aggregated breakdown.
5. **Go deep** — click any Mind in the response to pull them into a one-on-one and probe further.

## Next steps

- [Minds](https://getminds.ai/guide/minds) — how Minds are built and what makes them accurate
- [Creating a Mind](https://getminds.ai/guide/my-mind) — the full creation flow, knowledge base, voice, sharing
- [Chats](https://getminds.ai/guide/flows) — the unified chat interface and deep-dive pattern
- [Panels](https://getminds.ai/guide/panels) — running multi-group research and reading the results
- [Integrations](https://getminds.ai/guide/integrations) — ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Google Chat, embed widget
- [MCP reference](https://getminds.ai/mcp/overview) — use Minds from any MCP-compatible AI client