create_audience_from_brief
Create a Grounded Audience from a Brief
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Supports operationId-only requests to read a previously accepted preview or creation job and retrieve its result without creating another Audience. Creates a grounded Audience of synthetic Minds from a population or audience brief. It can combine authoritative web research, supplied sources, research files, and reviewed spreadsheet distributions; persists provenance and allocation audits; supports balanced, segment-coverage, and benchmark-depth sizing; generates the same member portraits and Audience cover as in-app creation; can individually train every member of a large reviewed-dataset cohort in the background (trainMembers); is idempotent for identical inputs; and keeps the Audience private unless link sharing is enabled.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| operationId | string | no | Resume a queued preview or creation by its returned jobId. Reads its v1 operation status without creating or charging anything. Supply this alone; do not repeat the creation brief to check progress. |
| brief | string | no | Free-text brief describing the population the Audience should represent. E.g. "California high school students grades 9-12", "Berlin Späti customers", "Spanish lawyers", "management team of Coca Cola". The server runs deep web research on this brief to find demographic / psychographic distributions from authoritative sources, then generates personas that proportionally reflect those distributions. |
| text | string | no | Legacy alias for `brief`. Accepted for back-compat. |
| name | string | no | Optional Audience name override. When omitted, the server names the Audience from the brief or the LLM detection result. |
| links | array | no | Optional URLs scraped server-side for additional context (e.g. an article describing the population). |
| keywords | array | no | Optional Exa web-search seeds added alongside the brief. |
| files | array | no | Optional already-uploaded research files. MCP cannot read or upload a local file:// path. Use a fetchable HTTP(S) URL, a signed URL supplied by the client for the attached file, or an existing Minds workspace upload URL/path. Study tools import external file URLs into durable Minds storage before saving or running. A workspace upload reused as a Study asset must sit under chat/<userId>/: request the signed upload with folder "chat" and pass that storage path or its /api/uploads/chat/ URL. A temp/, portfolio/, or context/ path — and any /api/uploads/file-access/ URL — is refused as not belonging to the workspace owner and is never re-fetched; pass a plain external URL instead. The Study refuses to start if Minds cannot read the asset. The server analyzes these through the same extended screener/questionnaire path as the in-app New Audience uploader, including study roles, screening and quota rules, review distributions, and grounding provenance. |
| includeWebSearch | boolean | no | Set false to skip Exa web search and extraction completely. The Audience is then grounded only on the brief and supplied files, links, keywords, and structurally parsed respondent data. |
| memberCount | integer | no | Exact number of Minds to create. Pass this whenever the user states a size ("exactly 50 per region", "genau 50 Minds je Zelle") instead of relying on the server to parse the number out of the brief. When omitted, the size is inferred from the brief and, failing that, from the creation mode's evidence-based automatic sizing. Two separate refusals apply: 403 MODE_CAP above 20 in "balanced" mode (switch to segment_coverage or benchmark_depth), and 403 PLAN_LIMIT above your plan's per-Audience cap. The 6000 accepted here is the absolute system ceiling, not your allowance — call get_audience_limits for the real one. The Audience is never created at a partial size. |
| audienceCreationMode | string | no | How the Audience is sized. "balanced" (default): compact and representative for everyday research. It is the only mode with a hard wall on a size you state — a memberCount above 20 is refused with 403 MODE_CAP. "segment_coverage": two representatives per limiting grounded cell, from a 10-Mind floor; automatic sizing stops at 50, but a memberCount you state is bounded only by your plan. "benchmark_depth": repeated representation of limiting grounded cells for validation-ready segmentation; bounded by your plan allowance. The deeper two require a Team (enterprise) plan — on other plans the server SILENTLY downgrades to "balanced" and echoes the effective mode in structuredContent.audience.audienceCreationMode. Call get_audience_limits to see the ceilings that apply to your account. |
| groupCreationMode | string | no | Legacy alias for audienceCreationMode — same values, same behaviour. How the Audience is sized. "balanced" (default): compact and representative for everyday research. It is the only mode with a hard wall on a size you state — a memberCount above 20 is refused with 403 MODE_CAP. "segment_coverage": two representatives per limiting grounded cell, from a 10-Mind floor; automatic sizing stops at 50, but a memberCount you state is bounded only by your plan. "benchmark_depth": repeated representation of limiting grounded cells for validation-ready segmentation; bounded by your plan allowance. The deeper two require a Team (enterprise) plan — on other plans the server SILENTLY downgrades to "balanced" and echoes the effective mode in structuredContent.audience.audienceCreationMode. Call get_audience_limits to see the ceilings that apply to your account. |
| datasetSegmentation | object | no | Reviewed variable roles, distributions, and privacy-safe pairwise relationships returned by preview_audience_dataset_segmentation. Requires audienceCreationMode="benchmark_depth". Structural variables shape one generalizable representative cohort; outcomes remain held out and joint combinations remain audit evidence only. Copy `respondentCount` and `recommendedMindCount` through from the preview — they cap the cohort size. |
| trainMembers | boolean | no | Opt-in per-Mind training for large reviewed-dataset cohorts (default false). By default a reviewed-dataset Audience of more than ~40 Minds is bulk-created immediately ready: exact demographics, but no per-Mind research training (empty system prompt, no knowledge items). Set true to create those Minds untrained instead and enqueue each one through the same per-member training pipeline the in-app draft flow uses, preserving its deterministic cohort profile and the request locale. The tool still returns as soon as the Audience exists — training continues in the background (structuredContent.audience.memberTraining reports what was queued); poll each member with GET /api/v1/minds/{id}/training. Has no effect on Audiences whose members are already trained individually. |
| cohortAllocation | object | no | Deterministic allocation controls. Reviewed respondent datasets default to observed, which preserves the strongest privacy-safe structural relationships while keeping exact marginals; other sources default to independence. Use distributionNames/maxDistributions to choose axes, minSegmentCount for a feasible floor, and seed for reproducible external runs. |
| groundingPreview | boolean | no | Review the quota axes BEFORE any Mind exists. When true, the server runs research grounding and deterministic cohort allocation without creating an Audience or Minds or consuming a generation allowance. To revise a saved preview without repeating research, pass its unchanged reviewedGroundingJson/SHA pair together with groundingPreview and the revised exclusion/allocation options. Fresh research uses the same durable operation as the public REST API; this tool polls it to completion. The response includes effective target percentages and integer counts; explicit allocation targets that do not match grounded axes fail closed. Present the plan to the user, then call again without groundingPreview and pass reviewedGroundingJson plus reviewedGroundingSha256 unchanged with the same allocation options. |
| reviewedGroundingJson | string | no | Exact reviewedGroundingJson returned by groundingPreview or import_audience_sources. Pass it unchanged together with reviewedGroundingSha256 on a re-preview or creation call; the server reuses this reviewed snapshot instead of rerunning grounding research. |
| reviewedGroundingSha256 | string | no | SHA-256 returned by the same groundingPreview. Required together with reviewedGroundingJson; any mismatch is rejected before Audience or Mind materialisation. |
| excludeDistributions | array | no | Exact axis names whose composition quotas should be removed. Age remains as one eligibility range without within-range shares; explicit gender membership remains enforced. Include required eligibility axes in cohortAllocation.distributionNames. Original evidence stays in reviewDistributions. |
| isLinkSharingEnabled | boolean | no | Set true ONLY when the user explicitly asked for a public/shareable link. Defaults to false: the Audience is private to its owner and no share URL is generated. Enabling this publishes the Audience — including its grounding, sources and personas — at a world-readable URL that needs no login. Do not enable it to "be helpful". |
Raw JSON schema
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"description": "Exact number of Minds to create. Pass this whenever the user states a size (\"exactly 50 per region\", \"genau 50 Minds je Zelle\") instead of relying on the server to parse the number out of the brief. When omitted, the size is inferred from the brief and, failing that, from the creation mode's evidence-based automatic sizing. Two separate refusals apply: 403 MODE_CAP above 20 in \"balanced\" mode (switch to segment_coverage or benchmark_depth), and 403 PLAN_LIMIT above your plan's per-Audience cap. The 6000 accepted here is the absolute system ceiling, not your allowance — call get_audience_limits for the real one. The Audience is never created at a partial size.",
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"description": "Legacy alias for audienceCreationMode — same values, same behaviour. How the Audience is sized. \"balanced\" (default): compact and representative for everyday research. It is the only mode with a hard wall on a size you state — a memberCount above 20 is refused with 403 MODE_CAP. \"segment_coverage\": two representatives per limiting grounded cell, from a 10-Mind floor; automatic sizing stops at 50, but a memberCount you state is bounded only by your plan. \"benchmark_depth\": repeated representation of limiting grounded cells for validation-ready segmentation; bounded by your plan allowance. The deeper two require a Team (enterprise) plan — on other plans the server SILENTLY downgrades to \"balanced\" and echoes the effective mode in structuredContent.audience.audienceCreationMode. Call get_audience_limits to see the ceilings that apply to your account.",
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"description": "Opt-in per-Mind training for large reviewed-dataset cohorts (default false). By default a reviewed-dataset Audience of more than ~40 Minds is bulk-created immediately ready: exact demographics, but no per-Mind research training (empty system prompt, no knowledge items). Set true to create those Minds untrained instead and enqueue each one through the same per-member training pipeline the in-app draft flow uses, preserving its deterministic cohort profile and the request locale. The tool still returns as soon as the Audience exists — training continues in the background (structuredContent.audience.memberTraining reports what was queued); poll each member with GET /api/v1/minds/{id}/training. Has no effect on Audiences whose members are already trained individually.",
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"description": "Deterministic allocation controls. Reviewed respondent datasets default to observed, which preserves the strongest privacy-safe structural relationships while keeping exact marginals; other sources default to independence. Use distributionNames/maxDistributions to choose axes, minSegmentCount for a feasible floor, and seed for reproducible external runs.",
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"description": "Review the quota axes BEFORE any Mind exists. When true, the server runs research grounding and deterministic cohort allocation without creating an Audience or Minds or consuming a generation allowance. To revise a saved preview without repeating research, pass its unchanged reviewedGroundingJson/SHA pair together with groundingPreview and the revised exclusion/allocation options. Fresh research uses the same durable operation as the public REST API; this tool polls it to completion. The response includes effective target percentages and integer counts; explicit allocation targets that do not match grounded axes fail closed. Present the plan to the user, then call again without groundingPreview and pass reviewedGroundingJson plus reviewedGroundingSha256 unchanged with the same allocation options.",
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"description": "Exact reviewedGroundingJson returned by groundingPreview or import_audience_sources. Pass it unchanged together with reviewedGroundingSha256 on a re-preview or creation call; the server reuses this reviewed snapshot instead of rerunning grounding research.",
"type": "string",
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},
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},
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}
}