Can an LLM replace your consumer data? We built an open-source clean room and ran the test
We ran a controlled, security-isolated head-to-head between Faraday and Anthropic's Claude (Opus 4.8) on the same real customer file. Given public census and Social Security birth databases, the model wrote its own statistical estimator—and still matched us on gender for pennies while missing age by more than a decade. Here's exactly how we set it up, what we measured, and where the line between "guessable" and "knowable" falls.













