Answer · updated 2026-10-18

What is Sensus, and what is it for?

Sensus is a verified-human network for finding out what specific groups of people actually think: students at a particular school, engineers in a particular line of work, people on a particular block. Members answer in the open or anonymously inside spaces, every answer is counted, and the app shows measured readings instead of a feed of guesses.

How it works

• Spaces: a room for each school (Stanford, MIT, Harvard, CMU, Berkeley, Cornell, UChicago, Yale, Harvey Mudd) and for lines of work (harness, inference, eval and security engineers, frontier labs, hyperscalers, recruiting), plus niche rooms founded as they are needed.

• Verified people: membership in a space is gated, and a seal shows who is verified. Posts can be anonymous without the room becoming anonymous strangers.

• Measured, not guessed: a post is a question with selections; the shares you see are counted votes, and weekly highlights, rankings and readings are computed from them.

• Places: a map of real places near you with readings that move week to week, and a Nearby feed pinned to the building you are standing in.

• Reputable AI search: an answer to a question built only from what verified people chose, with what changed this week and why the leading view appeals.

Who it is for

People who want the honest read of a specific crowd: a student choosing a class or a dorm, an engineer choosing a model or a tool, a new arrival choosing where to go tonight, a candidate choosing which team to join.

Where it stands

Sensus launched in June 2026 and is an invite-only private beta on iOS. The waitlist is the way in.

Sensus is an invite-only private beta on iOS. The waitlist is the way in; members can also send an invite link.

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