- What is lewn?
- lewn (lewn.ai) is the free quick-poll chat included with every Lewsearch account. It polls a panel of hundreds of demographically-grounded synthetic respondents and returns the full distribution of opinion — who agrees, who doesn't, and how it splits by age, region, and politics — benchmarked against real polls like Pew and Gallup.
- How is lewn different from ChatGPT?
- Ask ChatGPT what an audience thinks and you get one blended answer — its single best guess, with no notion of how many people or which people. lewn samples a population: hundreds of distinct respondents returned as a distribution, with subgroup splits and individual quotes, and the aggregate is benchmarked to real survey data (≈7.5% average error across 460 benchmark questions (10.7% on a fully held-out set)). ChatGPT gives you the average voice; lewn measures the room.
- How accurate is lewn?
- lewn runs on Lewis, the same calibrated model behind Lewsearch: ≈7.5% average error across 460 benchmark questions (10.7% on a fully held-out set), versus Pew, Gallup, PPIC, and official election results. Every result shows its own confidence; small-sample or un-benchmarked reads are labeled directional rather than dressed up as precise.
- Is lewn free?
- Yes — a free tier polls a panel of 100 respondents with no signup. Paid tiers poll larger panels (up to 2,500 respondents) for tighter margins and stable cross-tabs.
- What can I ask lewn?
- How an audience would react to a message, product idea, ad, or policy; which option a demographic prefers; or how opinion splits across age, region, income, and politics — answered in about ten seconds.
- When should I use Lewsearch instead?
- lewn is built for a fast, directional gut-check in chat. Step up to Lewsearch (the enterprise platform from the same team) when you need a client-ready PDF report, multi-question studies, panels up to 10,000 respondents, a private custom panel, an embeddable research API with an SLA, or seats for a team. Same calibrated engine — lewn is the quick read, Lewsearch is the deliverable.