PRODUCT · RUNA WORKSPACE · TWO SERVICES ON ONE ENGINE

Meet RunaYour rehearsal room for every message that matters.

Describe who you need to reach, write the message, say what it should achieve, and test it on agents drawn from real data. You get back how it was understood, how far that drifted from your intent, and what to change. Then you run it again, until you can send it with confidence.

Contact us The two services ↓
WHAT RUNA SOLVES

The message you send can be understood in ways you didn’t intend.

Meaning shifts as a communication passes through people with different knowledge, beliefs and contexts. Finding out how has meant weeks of fieldwork per question — so most messages are sent on judgement alone. Runa gives you a tested answer before you commit.

TRADITIONAL RESEARCH
$20–50k
for a single round of focus groups, once recruiting, facility and moderation are counted.
TRADITIONAL RESEARCH
4–12 weeks
from brief to findings for a custom survey or focus group study. A message often changes several times in that period.
WITH RUNA
Minutes
to test a message against a modelled population. Change a word, run it again, compare.
WITH RUNA
One audience
held constant across every run. Two versions of a message are tested on the same people, so differences come from the message, not the sample.

The Workspace

OUR FIRST TWO SERVICES

Pick the question you want answered.

Both services run on the same engine and the same agents from ARDA. One tells you how a message is understood. The other estimates what it does to a measured outcome. Populations are available today for Argentina, with additional Latin American markets, and further services, to follow.

01 · DSI

Distortion Score Intelligence

Test a message on a simulated population and measure the gap between what you meant and what people took away.

WHAT YOU GET
  • A distortion score from 0 to 100, with its range across re-tests.
  • Perceived readings set against your intended outcome.
  • Dispersion by segment, and rewrite suggestions ready to retest on the same agents.
OPTIONAL · AUDIENCE OPPORTUNITYRead the same message beyond your primary target.
ANY SENDER · GOVERNMENT, COMPANIES, PUBLIC FIGURES
02 · QIA

Quantitative Impact Analysis

Measure how much a message, or a sequence of messages, moves a variable such as candidate approval over the next twelve weeks.

WHAT YOU GET
  • The change in the variable, with its range, over twelve weeks.
  • Effect by segment and by driver.
  • Sequences compared as alternative futures, on the same agents.
GOVERNMENT AND CAMPAIGNS
YOU DEFINESTEP 01

Describe the target.
ARDA brings the agents.

Write who you need to reach, the way you would brief a colleague: where they live, their age, their income, what they do. ARDA matches that description against real population data, currently for Argentina, and returns the agents who fit. Each agent is a member of your target audience, not a persona written for the occasion. How the agents are built →

Runa WorkspaceEnergy tariff reform / Tariff message / Step 01 · Target
Runa Workspace, step 1: describing the target audience, with the ARDA match and target geography

Target

The agents ARDA returns are your audience. Each one carries demographic, socioeconomic, geographic, political, cultural, informational and behavioural context at once: one person modelled horizontally, not a consumer here and a voter there. Adjust the filters if the match needs tightening.

If you already have an audience, bring it. Connect your Instagram insights, ad audiences, web analytics or a customer file, and ARDA weighs the agents it returns against the people who actually follow, buy from or read you. The result is an ARDA tuned to your audience, used for your tests only, inside your workspace.

YOU WRITESTEP 02

State the message.
Say what it should achieve.

The target is set. Now paste the communication and write the intended response: the reading you want and the action it should produce. Distortion is measured against that goal, not against how loud the reaction is.

Message

One communication, one intended response, one target. Runa holds the target constant so every rewrite is compared against the same agents.

Runa WorkspaceEnergy tariff reform / Tariff message / Step 02 · Brief
Runa Workspace, step 2: the brief, with the message and the intended outcome
YOU RECEIVESTEP 03

See how it lands.
The distortion returns.

Every agent reads the same message from its own position and returns a structured response.

Report

Dominant reading, where the audience split, which segments drifted furthest, and a rewrite to rerun against the same 400 agents. Each result ships with its range and its blind spots.

Runa WorkspaceEnergy tariff reform / Tariff message, final / Report #0140
Runa Workspace report summary: distortion score 27 of 100, 76% read as intended, what to do next
YOU CHANGE ITSTEP 04

Rewrite and retest.
The loop is the product.

Runa is not test → report. Change a word, a framing, the target or the intended response, and run it again against the same population. Every run is stored, so versions can be compared against each other rather than against a memory of the last round.

CHANGE THE WORDS

Swap a term, drop a clause, reorder the argument — and see which specific edit moved the reading.

CHANGE THE TARGET

Run the same message against a different geography or segment to find where it stops working.

CHANGE THE GOAL

Redefine the intended response and measure the same text against a different objective.

WHAT COMES BACK

Seven things you get from a single run — each with its range, its source and its limits.

01 · DISTORTION SCORE
How far it drifted

One number for the distance between your intended response and what the agents took away, always with its range and always placed on the same scale: under 25 is clear to send, 25 to 44 needs revision, 45 and above should not go out as it is. First drafts tested on Runa average 52, so a first result in the fifties is normal. What matters is where the rewrite lands.

58/100
RANGE 55–60
400 AGENTS · 4 RE-TESTS
0–24 SEND25–44 REVISE45+ DO NOT SEND
▮ THIS MESSAGE 58┆ FIRST DRAFTS AVERAGE 52
02 · INTERPRETATION MAP
Where the readings cluster

Every agent’s interpretation placed by proximity to your intent, so clusters and outliers are visible at a glance.

◦ OFF-TARGET · ● ON-TARGET
03 · DOMINANT READINGS
What they actually took away

The message as the population would repeat it, ranked by how much of the audience holds each version.

“They’re abandoning the poor.”45%
“Painful but necessary.”30%
“A shield for the vulnerable.”15%
04 · AUDIENCE DISPERSION
Agreed, or merely averaged

A tight distribution and a split one can produce the same average. Dispersion tells you which you have.

05 · SEGMENT DIFFERENCES
Who drifted furthest

The same message scored per segment, so you can see which groups the wording is losing.

Low income · metro
74
Mid income · metro
51
Mid income · outer region
39
06 · UNEXPECTED READINGS
The interpretations nobody drafted for

Low-frequency readings are reported rather than rounded away — small groups are often where a problem starts.

“They already know who will lose it.” · 4%
“This is about the cities, not us.” · 3%
07 · REWRITE RECOMMENDATIONS
What to change, and what it is likely to cost

Specific edits tied to the readings they are driving — each one a candidate for the next run.

“focused on” reads as withdrawal — name who keeps it, first.
“nobody who needs it” invites the question of who decides. Say how.
WHAT WE STAND BEHIND

A simulation informs a decision. It doesn’t make it.

Read the outputs as a reliable diagnosis of risk in the wording, not as a forecast of the public reaction. We say plainly what the method does and does not do — that is what makes the result something you can act on.

RUNS TODAYPopulation construction from ARDA for Argentina, the first implementation market, with provenance on every attribute; controlled, reproducible simulations and re-tests; distortion diagnostics at population and segment level with rewrite recommendations. Further Latin American markets are planned, each built and validated on its own evidence.
IN VALIDATIONPredictive reliability against observed outcomes, and incremental value over simpler baselines. Predictive validity is still being established. How we test it →
NOT IN SCOPERuna models populations, never identifiable individuals, and does not estimate what any specific person will do.
CONTACT US

Rehearse the message before the audience hears it. Send it knowing how it will land.

Contact us runaintelligence@gmail.com