AI Tools Launched This Week - August 31 to September 6, 2026

Articos is a synthetic user research platform that interviews AI personas instead of recruited participants and returns a structured research report in about 30 minutes. Launch pricing is $47/month for 10 researches (Starter, list $79) and $119/month for unlimited researches plus white-label reports (Pro, list $199), with a $29 one-time 2-research pack and a 7-day trial that includes 2 free researches and needs no credit card. There is no permanently free tier. Personas are built on the Big Five model with 30 facets, interviewed hypothesis-blind, and forced into a mix of champions, skeptics and blockers to suppress yes-man answers. Articos self-reports 86% recall against expert-published findings across 46 studies, a claim no independent party has verified.