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Meet the Synths: How Synthetic Audiences, Powered by AI, Help Us Navigate Change

In a world that’s obsessed with chasing the new, we often overlook those who are quietly, powerfully, becoming someone new.

Christopher Smith
Jun 15, 2025
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We’ve spent decades building customer personas based on age, gender, income, and surface-level behavior. But those proxies, efficient as they may be, rarely capture what actually drives change. The real shifts occur during transitions, such as when someone retires early or returns to work. Or ends a 15-year marriage and begins a new pursuit, or moves to…

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