Failure is the norm in human systems
Ninety percent of startups fail, half of marketing spend is wasted, eighty percent of government change efforts fail. The common thread is human systems: organisations, markets, communities, countries. When a project depends on understanding human behaviour, failure is the norm.Complexity taxes progress
Human systems are complex: behaviour emerges in real-time and cannot be predicted, flooding the system with uncertainty. Beyond very simple processes and very short timeframes, understanding what will happen and why is near-impossible. This places a fundamental limit on our ability to get things done.
The human element has held back computational models
Individual humans are complex systems themselves. Their internal biologies, mental processes, and personal histories continuously generate new and emergent feelings, thoughts, emotions, and actions. Computational models of human systems have so far failed to capture this individual-level complexity.LLMs are human simulators
LLMs learn deep predictive patterns about human behaviour from the largest set of anthropological data ever assembled—the internet. Through the modelling framework of human language, LLMs can generate and simulate any possible human, solving individual-level complexity for computational models of human systems.
Semilattice is a human world simulation platform
Leveraging LLMs and other AI, our products simulate the human world to make it more understandable and less uncertain. Starting with simulating people answering questions for research purposes, we'll climb the complexity stack towards our vision of a real-time synched human world model: always ready to simulate possible futures for any organisation, market, community, or country.Failure is the norm in human systems
Ninety percent of startups fail, half of marketing spend is wasted, eighty percent of government change efforts fail. The common thread is human systems: organisations, markets, communities, countries. When a project depends on understanding human behaviour, failure is the norm.Complexity taxes progress
Human systems are complex: behaviour emerges in real-time and cannot be predicted, flooding the system with uncertainty. Beyond very simple processes and very short timeframes, understanding what will happen and why is near-impossible. This places a fundamental limit on our ability to get things done.The human element has held back computational models
Individual humans are complex systems themselves. Their internal biologies, mental processes, and personal histories continuously generate new and emergent feelings, thoughts, emotions, and actions. Computational models of human systems have so far failed to capture this individual-level complexity.LLMs are human simulators
LLMs learn deep predictive patterns about human behaviour from the largest set of anthropological data ever assembled—the internet. Through the modelling framework of human language, LLMs can generate and simulate any possible human, solving individual-level complexity for computational models of human systems.Semilattice is a human world simulation platform
Leveraging LLMs and other AI, our products simulate the human world to make it more understandable and less uncertain. Starting with simulating people answering questions for research purposes, we'll climb the complexity stack towards our vision of a real-time synched human world model: always ready to simulate possible futures for any organisation, market, community, or country.FOUNDERS' LETTER
Humans + Time
Semilattice believes significant advances in decision-making, management, and governance are possible, but only if we can accurately model the complex human systems which run the world.Read the blog post →TEAM
Help us simulate the human world
Semilattice is founded by Joseph Wright and Fabian Teichmueller, ex-Googlers with over 30 years combined product, engineering, marketing, and commercial experience.
Open Positions
Semilattice is hiring founding engineers to join us on our mission to simulate the human world. We offer above-market equity and work in-person ~3 days a week from an office in central London.Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer - Human System SimulationLondon, UK
Senior Product Engineer - Human System SimulationLondon, UK
Senior ML Engineer - Human System SimulationLondon, UK
