Use Cases

How to use Capysan for early-stage idea validation.

Early Stage Idea Validation

Validate your assumptions with ICP-matched AI personas. Organize research in studyrooms, each with its own chat and personas. Ask questions, test pitches, and get unfiltered feedback—no scheduling, no surveys, no BS.

Message routingUse @mention at the start of your message to control who receives it:
  • @capysan — Sends to Capysan (orchestrator). Use for: recruiting, synthesis, release, or any request that needs Capysan’s tools.
  • @all_participants — Sends to all active personas at once. Use for: validation questions, surveys, pitch testing. Each persona replies individually.
  • @[persona_id] — Sends to one specific persona (e.g. @A1B2C3).
  • No mention — Defaults to Capysan. Safe when you want to recruit, summarize, or talk to the orchestrator.
1

Create or select a studyroom

What you do: A studyroom is a research project. Each room has its own chat history and persona group. Create one per idea, segment, or hypothesis you’re validating.

What Capysan does: The Studyrooms sidebar lists your rooms. Switch between them to work on different projects. Each room keeps its own conversation and recruited personas.

How to: Click + in the Studyrooms sidebar to create a new room. Click a room name to switch. Rename or delete from the sidebar.
2

Recruit personas

What you do: Describe your target audience in plain language. Capysan finds and activates personas that match.

Who to mention: No mention, or @capysan. Messages without a mention default to Capysan, who handles recruiting.

What Capysan does: Searches by demographics (age, location, profession) or semantic intent (e.g. “used carpooling to ski resort”). Activates personas and shows them in the Participants sidebar for that studyroom.

How to: Type in chat, e.g. “get me 10 personas in the US who used carpooling to get to a ski resort”
3

Ask validation questions

What you do: Ask questions to validate pain points, test assumptions, or gather opinions.

Who to mention: @all_participants. This routes your message to all active personas. Without it, your message would go to Capysan instead.

What happens: Each persona receives the question and replies in the chat with their own perspective. You see individual responses with sender labels.

How to: Type @all_participants then your question, e.g. “@all_participants what was the last time carpooling didn’t work?”
4

Get synthesis and pain points

What you do: Ask Capysan to summarize the feedback and highlight pain points.

Who to mention: No mention, or @capysan. Both route to Capysan, who performs the synthesis.

What happens: Capysan reviews the conversation, extracts pain points, and returns a concise summary with actionable items. Shown as a formatted response in the chat.

How to: Type @capysan then your request, e.g. “@capysan summarize and highlight painpoints”
5

Release personas (optional)

What you do: When you’re done with a group, ask Capysan to release personas. You can release all or specific ones.

Who to mention: No mention, or @capysan. Release is an orchestrator action, so the message goes to Capysan.

What happens: Capysan removes personas from the studyroom’s session. The Participants sidebar updates. You’re back to talking with Capysan only until you recruit again. You can switch to another studyroom or start a new recruitment in the same room.

How to: Type “release all” or “release persona X” in chat. Capysan will confirm who was released.