Why is data integration often more challenging than the AI algorithm itself in hyper-personalization projects?
Approximately 70% of the effort and risk is in data integration, real-time infrastructure, and defining success metrics that align with business KPIs—not just model accuracy. Teams often overlook the foundational work of connecting AI to live retail systems, cleansing dirty product data, and building low-latency pipelines that can serve fresh customer profiles in under a few hundred milliseconds.