# What is a synthetic audience?

A **synthetic audience** is a set of AI personas used to approximate how different people might react to an idea — without recruiting humans for every draft.

**Kranth’s version is adversarial:** personas are not uniformly polite. Hostile reactions are expected and weighted. The goal is early objection discovery, not cheerleading.

Related: https://kranth.ai/content/adversarial-stress-test.md