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+# EchoSim
+
+**Research artifacts for simulation-first compatibility matching.**
+
+EchoSim studies a *simulation-first* approach to dating: instead of pushing two
+strangers through weeks of low-signal messaging, each person is represented by an
+AI persona (an "Echo") that pre-simulates first-contact conversations to estimate
+compatibility *before* any human interaction begins.
+
+This organization publishes the **open, non-sensitive** artifacts of that work —
+synthetic persona dialogues and conversational-AI resources. We deliberately do
+**not** release production matching logic, scoring models, or any user-derived data.
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+## What we publish
+
+- 📊 **Datasets** — fully synthetic persona-to-persona dialogue corpora (no real users, no PII).
+  - [`echosim-synthetic-dialogues`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/echo-sim/echosim-synthetic-dialogues) — synthetic first-contact dialogues annotated with persona traits (MBTI, attachment style, interests).
+- 🧪 **Spaces** — small interactive demonstrations of the simulation-first concept.
+  - [`echosim-first-contact-demo`](https://huggingface.co/spaces/echo-sim/echosim-first-contact-demo) — generate a synthetic first-contact dialogue from two personas.
+
+## Research focus
+
+Conversational AI · persona simulation · synthetic dialogue generation ·
+computational social science · human–AI interaction.
+
+## Scientific grounding
+
+Persona modeling draws on widely used descriptive frameworks — adult **attachment
+theory**, **MBTI** communication styles, and the **Big Five (OCEAN)** traits. These
+are used as descriptive tags for research, not as clinical or predictive claims.
+
+## Privacy & ethics
+
+All published data is **100% synthetic**, generated from sampled persona attributes.
+It contains no real conversations and no personally identifiable information. These
+artifacts are intended for research, prototyping, and education — **not** for
+real-world relationship, psychological, or hiring decisions.
+
+## Links
+
+- 🌐 Official site — https://echosim.ai
+- 📄 Specifications & whitepaper (GitHub) — https://github.com/echo-sim/Echo-Sim-Official-Specs
+- 📊 Dataset — https://huggingface.co/datasets/echo-sim/echosim-synthetic-dialogues
+- 🧪 Demo Space — https://huggingface.co/spaces/echo-sim/echosim-first-contact-demo
+
+*Content released under CC-BY-NC-4.0 unless noted otherwise.*
+
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