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Expected Parrot

Simulate your customers with AI agents

expectedparrot.com
HQ: Cambridge, MA, USA
1-10
B2B

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Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Jul 30, 2026

Overview

Expected Parrot is an open-source, model-agnostic AI research platform for simulating customers and stakeholders, running surveys/interviews with AI or humans, and validating results in a reproducible workflow.

Primary product

EDSL / Research Agent platform for AI-powered surveys, stakeholder simulations, and human validation

Founded

2024

Headquarters

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Team size

1-10 employees

Industry

Technology, Information and Internet

Sub-industry

AI-powered research / survey simulation

Offices

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Business model

SaaS
open-source software
freemium
usage-based credits
enterprise software

Funding

Stage

Seed VC

Total raised

$500K

Latest round

Seed VC · Dec 2025

Seed VC

Dec 2025 · gumi

Accelerator/Incubator

Oct 2025 · Y Combinator

Seed Round

Jan 2022

People & investors

Leadership

Robin Horton

Co-Founder & CEO

John Horton

Co-Founder & CTO

Investors

Bloomberg Beta
Eight Capital Group
gumi
Pioneer Fund
Rebel Fund
Y Combinator

Work & culture

Small, research-first team of engineers and researchers; strongly open-source, reproducibility-focused, and community-oriented, with support via docs, Discord, and a public blog.

Compensation

No public employee salary bands or compensation details found; public information focuses on product pricing, credits, and enterprise support.

Product & market

Pricing

Free Individual, Team, and Enterprise accounts; usage-based credits for inference and participant payments; users can also bring their own model API keys; enterprise plans add discounts and dedicated support.

Differentiators

  • —Open-source and model-agnostic
  • —AI simulation and human validation in one workflow
  • —Reproducible cached results
  • —Python library plus no-code web app
  • —Handles prompt engineering, async execution, structured parsing, and API management
  • —Supports many LLM providers
  • —Lets the same study be run with human respondents for validation

Technology

Python
EDSL (Expected Parrot Domain-Specific Language)
No-code web app
Remote inference server
Universal remote cache
GitHub
PyPI
LLM integrations
Prolific integration
Structured parsing / async execution
API key management

Customers

Upwork
A global consulting firm
Banking teams
Entertainment teams
Consumer products teams
Government statistical agencies
Non-profits
Universities
Research labs
Startups

Competitors

OpenAI Evals
LangSmith (LangChain)
Hugging Face Evaluate/Datasets/Inference Endpoints
Scale AI
Botium (Cyara)

Scale & contact

Estimated monthly visits

11.3K

info@expectedparrot.com

Latest news

gumi invests in Expected Parrot, a U.S. AI startup

gumi press release · Dec 2025

gumi announced an investment in Expected Parrot, describing it as an AI-powered market research and decision-support platform that simulates customer personas, supports reproducible studies, and helps manage hallucination risk.

Designing and Simulating Forecasting Questions with EDSL

Expected Parrot blog · Sep 2025

Shows how EDSL can generate structured forecasting datasets from LLM-powered agents, including range forecasts, rationales, and free-text answers.

Teaching AI simulations? Get free credits for your students and research projects.

Expected Parrot blog · Aug 2025

Announces teaching materials for LLM-based simulations, free credits for students/research projects, and notes the product’s use for survey simulation and reproducible research.

How to launch a survey with LLMs and humans

Expected Parrot blog · Jul 2025

Explains the workflow for running the same survey with AI agents and human respondents, then comparing the results in one system.

Why AI social simulations will be transformative

Expected Parrot blog · Jun 2025

Argues that AI social simulations can help explore many hypothetical decisions and emphasizes Expected Parrot’s role as tooling for exploration rather than selling answers.

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