“Before LLMs and like being able to just like stuff context into a machine... you have to take that general purpose technology and multiply it against every previously existing niche.”

AI Enables Hyper-Personalized Onboarding That Answers All Those Questions Surveys Used To Waste

Portola applies a key insight to onboarding: every question you ask a user in a survey can now be fed directly into an LLM context window and actually used. The combinatorial explosion that made personalized onboarding impossible to ship procedurally is now trivially handled. This makes the investment in a long personality-quiz-style onboarding actually worth it — the model will use every answer.