will AI products need a unified user data API to avoid cold start?

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Summary

Discusses the cold start problem in AI personalization, where new products lack user data, and proposes a unified user data API as a potential solution that is consented and user-owned.

every AI product seems to hit the same cold start problem: it wants to personalize, but it knows nothing useful on day 1. tried onboarding questions. people skip them. tried behavior-based personalization. slow. tried generic personas, and they felt fake immediately. a unified user data API for agents sounds like one possible path, especially if the data is consented, scoped, and owned by the user instead of trapped in every app. do you think AI personalization becomes shared infrastructure, or will every product keep rebuilding user context from scratch?
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