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Personalization use cases

10 recipes where the outcome is personalization, each written out in the same seven boxes. The patterns they compose most often: fallback content strategy, visitor state personalization and inferred attribute generation.

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Geo-localized content swap

Low readiness

Swap homepage content by visitor location for store availability, regional pricing, and local campaigns, with a clean default when location is unknown

Weeks·Personalization·B2C retail·Multiple·Packaged stack·3 patterns

Cross-session state surfacing

Medium-low readiness

Show returning visitors what they had going, last-viewed products, cart contents, loyalty progress, without making them sign in or start over

Weeks·Personalization·B2C ecommerce·EU GDPR·Composable stack·4 patterns

Returning visitor recognition without login

Medium-low readiness

Recognize the visitor who came back without making them sign in, and degrade cleanly to a generic experience when you cannot

Weeks·Personalization·B2C ecommerce·EU GDPR·Composable stack·4 patterns

Search query to category landing personalization

Medium-low readiness

Land visitors arriving on a specific search query on a category page shaped to that query's intent, not a generic category index

Weeks·Personalization·B2C ecommerce·Multiple·Composable stack·3 patterns

Account-based personalization on site

Medium-high readiness

Show account-relevant content to known and reverse-IP-identified B2B visitors, with explicit handling of the wrong-match case

Months·Personalization·B2B SaaS·EU GDPR·Composable stack·4 patterns

LLM intent extraction from unstructured surfaces

Medium-high readiness

Turn search queries, chat, support tickets, and reviews into structured intent signals, without mistaking sentiment for intent

Months·Personalization·Cross vertical·GDPR-strict·Composable stack·4 patterns

Personalized product recommendations

Medium-high readiness

Surface the items the customer is most likely to want next, with explicit handling of the cold-start visitor, the privacy-restricted slice, and the rule that prevents the recommendations from collapsing to whatever everyone clicks

Months·Personalization·B2C ecommerce·EU GDPR·Composable stack·4 patterns

Personalized product sort order

Medium-high readiness

Reorder category results to the visitor's inferred preferences, with a default sort for unknowns and an honest signal of when sorting is personalized

Months·Personalization·B2C ecommerce·EU GDPR·Composable stack·4 patterns

The customer context layer for AI orchestration

Medium-high readiness

Give the AI a memory of each customer that is curated and decaying, not a raw event firehose it cannot use and should not keep

Quarters·Personalization·Cross vertical·GDPR-strict·Composable stack·4 patterns

LLM-assisted next-best-action with deterministic fallback

High readiness

Let a model propose the next action when it can, and serve a known-good rule when it cannot, so the experience never depends on the model being up

Quarters·Personalization·Cross vertical·EU GDPR·Composable stack·4 patterns
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