Most AI conversations describe personalization as if it were new. In this bonus clip, Alex Maier explains why the real shift is not personalization itself, but how agentic systems read context and respond to a person's actual state the moment they ask a question.

Alex describes how onWater uses prompts, sentiment, language patterns, and user actions to understand experience level and intent. He compares it to the way great salespeople have always read a person's posture, tone, and energy to meet them where they are. The technology is new. The underlying posture toward users is not.

🎧 Want the bigger picture?

This clip expands on one of the central ideas of the full episode: what it takes to design AI native systems that guide people safely, respectfully, and intelligently through complex real-world decisions. In the main conversation, Alex walks through how onWater stitches together conditions, regulations, maps, and community insight, and how his team builds guardrails for activities where bad information carries real risk.

Listen to the full episode here: https://rss.com/podcasts/manaryhaus/2328700/

🔗 Resources & Links

• 🤝 Connect with Alex on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexmaier2
• 🌊 Explore onWater Fish and Paddle: https://www.onwaterapp.com
• 📩 Subscribe to the Artificial Insights newsletter for key takeaways: https://manary.haus/podcast/#haus
• 👉 Have a guest in mind? Reach out to Daniel at [email protected]

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