Rhys Fisher
Get your social media reels seen by AI personas to answer "how might our audience react to this?", remove uncertainty, and walk away with a ready‑to‑share compilation of 8‑second reactions from lifelike AI personas.
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This workflow is a human reaction simulator that automatically generates video reel compilations of 8-second reaction clips. You set how many reactions you want to simulate, select an audience ID, then upload a reel so the workflow can run simulations with AskRally, propmt the veo3 reactions, and concatenate the results into ready-to-share video final sequence.
The power of this reaction simulator is in how it runs simulations using AskRally because this gives you some control over which audience you test against. The responses are more realistic than using GPT out of the box since we work hard to give bots empathy and remove a lot of the safety guardrails than makes LLMs too nice. Pair this with a video generator like Veo3 and you have a recipe to view dozens of simulated reactions in minutes to reduce the risk of your next banger reel.
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Rhys Fisher is the COO & Co-Founder of Rally. He previously co-founded a boutique analytics agency called Unvanity, crossed the Pyrenees coast-to-coast via paraglider, and now watches virtual crowds respond to memes. Follow him on Twitter @virtual_rf
