I'm in San Francisco this week and got the chance to drop by @ForerunnerVC Humans in the Loop showcase for Consumer AI founders! my takeaways: 1️⃣ AI is becoming a collaborator that works with you in real-time. Apps are evolving beyond chat into interactive workspaces where users collaborate with AI agents and watch outputs take shape in real time – from travel itineraries to polished brand assets. User Interfaces are becoming more dynamic, proactive, and ambient as agents adapt to your intent and help you achieve your goals. 2️⃣ Every app is vying to be the source-of-truth context layer for AI. Apps are all racing to turn unstructured user content/behavior into context that powers smarter, more personalized experiences. For @buildyourcorner, that means transforming restaurant reviews and photos into rich interest graphs for better recommendations than Yelp. For Alta , it means digitizing your messy wardrobe so it can help you plan outfits and discover new looks. For Indexed Labs, this means ingesting your overflowing email inbox and busy calendar to organize your life. 3️⃣ Text Messages are becoming the new go-to distribution channel for consumer apps. The hardest problem in consumer is getting users to download a new app. Every extra step adds friction, and friction kills adoption. That's why more startups are embedding themselves into existing apps & workflows instead of trying to invent new behaviors. For example, companies like @interaction use iMessage as their primary distribution channel because it's already where users spend their time chatting. At the end, OpenAI's Nick Turley advised all founders to ask themselves: "How does my product get better as models get better?" It's a GOATED question. But I still believe the top priority is solving real, important customer problems that meaningfully improve peoples' lives. If you can do that -- going really deep and doing it exceptionally well -- then your product's value will only compound as AI model capabilities continue improving!!!