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The Customer Foundation Model

A brand-private model that predicts what every customer will be worth, and the intelligence platform built on top of it.

The platform

The model is a platform, not a feature.

Every signal a brand owns flows into one private model, and everything it activates flows back out. The same model powers four intelligence products, so each one is built on the data you already have rather than a separate integration.

Observed outcomes retrain the model
Brand data in
Identify
Web and mobile analytics streams
Commerce platforms
CDPs
Data warehouses and lakes
 
 
Predict
Customer Foundation Model
Private to each brand
First-party dataThird-party dataIdentity resolution
Conversion timingExpected valueContribution marginRepurchase likelihoodChurn risk
Enriched signal out
Activate
Paid social and search
Programmatic
Retail media networks
Chat and agentic shopping ads
CRM and CDPs
Onsite personalization API
Platform AIsDelivered via Conversion and Personalization APIs
Signal flow: real-time, event-level
Intelligence flow: on-demand, decision-level
Signal intelligence

How healthy is my signal for campaign optimization?

Live
Customer intelligence

Which customer micro-segments represent growth opportunities?

Beta
Campaign intelligence

Multi-touch attribution. Which campaigns drive incremental outcomes?

Beta
Channel intelligence

Media mix modeling. Where should the next incremental dollar go?

Roadmap
Transfer learning

Your model starts smarter than the last one did.

You inherit a head start for free. Your customer data never leaves your private model environment, but shared aggregated, anonymous weights help the starting point get smarter with each run.

01

Private graph

First-party behavior, transactions and campaign results joined to third-party device, household and interest attributes through a confidence-graded waterfall match. Match confidence carries forward as edge weight, so weaker links contribute less.

02

Learned representation

Event sequences and graph relationships are encoded into customer embeddings by the network itself, against the prediction objectives, rather than assembled as hand-built features.

03

Training

One shared encoder, four heads: conversion likelihood, lifetime value, category and offer affinity, incrementality. Warm started from indexed weights rather than random initialization.

04

Versioned and served

The trained instance goes into a model registry, is evaluated champion against challenger, then promoted to live inference.

05

Outcomes return

Live predictions drive campaigns, and observed results come back as new labels for the next refresh.

BRAND PRIVATE INSTANCE All five steps run here. Customer data never leaves this boundary.
1Private graph
2Learned representation
3TrainingWarm start
4Versioned and served
5Outcomes return
↻ Observed results come back as labels for the next refresh.
contributes learned weights
WEIGHTS ONLY
warm start for the next instance

Shared weight index

Indexed by brand product segment and customer segment.
Learned weights only. No records, no identifiers, no customer level embeddings.
Nearest matching checkpoint initializes the next private instance.
CHECKPOINT INDEX
CUSTOMER CLUSTERS
123456
Fashion
Home & garden
Beauty
Health & wellness
Media & entertainment
Financial services
Travel
Lifestyle
...
..................
Indexed Not yet indexed Nearest match
Clusters are derived from demographic, interest, and shopping RFM signals, so the column set is dynamic.

Weights, never records. No customer data, no identifiers, no customer-level embeddings leave the brand-private boundary.

The shared index is keyed by product segment against customer cluster, and the nearest matching checkpoint warm starts the next private instance. That is the compounding part: the cold start for brand N+1 is shorter than it was for brand N.

Questions

The questions we get asked most.

What is a Customer Foundation Model?

A machine learning model trained on one brand's own customer data, and only that brand's. It learns from event sequences and graph relationships rather than hand-built features, and it predicts what each customer will do and what they will be worth. One shared encoder serves four prediction heads: conversion likelihood, lifetime value, category and offer affinity, and incrementality.

How is this different from a CDP?

A CDP stores and segments customer records: it is a database with an audience builder on top. Angler is a model. It predicts outcomes that have not happened yet and sends those predictions into the ad auction as signal. A CDP can tell you who bought last month. The Customer Foundation Model tells you who is worth acquiring next month, and feeds that to platform AI automatically. Most brands run Angler alongside a CDP rather than instead of one.

Does my customer data ever leave my environment?

No. Each brand's model is a private, isolated instance, and customer data never crosses its boundary. The only thing that ever crosses is learned weights: no records, no identifiers, no customer-level embeddings. Angler is SOC 2 certified.

What does transfer learning mean for a new brand?

Your model does not start from random initialization. It warm starts from weights learned by other trained instances, selected from a shared index keyed by product segment against customer cluster. You inherit a head start without anyone's data being shared, which is why a new instance reaches useful accuracy faster than the one before it.

How long before we see a result?

Four weeks to a first measurable result. We demonstrate lift within an A/B test or incrementality study, so the lift is attributable rather than inferred, and you see it before committing to anything.

Unlock growth with Angler.

See the Customer Foundation Model on your own data, and prove the lift in a risk-free pilot.

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