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Data Partnerships and AI | GWI

Written by Roger Horberry | May 1, 2025 11:52:00 AM

We’ve reached a tipping point in the global conversation around artificial intelligence. The technology is more powerful than ever, but so is the doubt surrounding it. A new question is starting to dominate the conversation in boardrooms: can we actually trust what AI is telling us?

This isn’t a philosophical debate. It’s a commercial and cultural reckoning. Because when AI gets it wrong, the impact isn’t theoretical, it’s immediate, measurable, and often damaging. Misguided recommendations, flawed personalization, and inaccurate analysis don’t just undermine user experience, they undermine confidence in the entire category.

Suddenly, a shiny new product becomes a potential reputational liability. Prospective customers, armed with a growing awareness of AI’s data challenges, bias issues, and hallucinated outputs, are starting to ask, “Do I believe this system? And if I can’t fully trust it, why am I putting my business, my strategy, or my name on the line?”

The uncomfortable truth is this: trust in AI, like trust in anything, is binary. You either have it or you don’t. That’s how brittle this space has become.

So - what’s powering your AI? Where’s your data coming from? If those questions make you uncomfortable, we’ve got the solution.

A GWI data partnership makes the difference

GWI’s unique data enables system developers to build trust in their AI’s output by swapping “garbage in, garbage out” for “certainty in, certainty out”, catching cultural shifts, consumer intentions, and changing real-world behaviors in the process.

Survey data from real humans

Every year we survey a million real consumers around the world, before painstakingly analyzing and aggregating the results to accurately represent the views, behaviors and interests of 3 billion individuals. 

Real-world understanding

When AIs are powered by GWI data, the transformation is immediate. Straight away your system gains a credible, detailed, real-world understanding of consumer behavior, preferences, and priorities. It’s literally like turning on a setting called “trustworthy” within your product.

Greater accuracy and engagement

According to McKinsey, AI-driven campaigns using outdated data produce 40% lower engagement, while those built on real human insights deliver up to 50% better personalization.

Detailed understanding of consumer behavior

Our data goes far beyond basic demographics, capturing rich detail around consumer interests, values, and behaviors to uncover what people truly think, feel, and prefer.

Seamless integration 

When it comes to integration, the GWI API offers seamless, real-time, and highly scalable access to our consumer data. Whether you're feeding an app, model, or prompt engine, getting our reliable audience insights into your workflow is effortless.

GDPR-compliant

Lastly, all our data is fully GDPR-compliant, with anything that could identify an individual carefully removed. We refresh our data every three months on average so it gives a 4K picture of changing consumer attitudes.

Where GWI data helps

Let’s look at three use cases where a data partnership with GWI delivers an instant improvement. Spoiler alert: the big umbrella benefit for all three is personalization. With GWI, off-the-peg is out and expertly tailored is in - for everyone.

Use case one: Content marketing

Effective content marketing begins with a deeper understanding of your audience. With real-world psychographic and behavioral data from GWI, your AI gains the insights it needs to craft compelling personalized messaging, visuals, and campaigns that truly connect.

The same applies to AI input prompts, especially when it comes to image generation. Instead of using vague descriptors, GWI data brings instant precision to your prompts, delivering highly personalized and targeted results.

Our data empowers content marketers to build deeply nuanced audience personas right within their content workflows. From tone of voice to interests, values, and motivations, every output feels personal, relevant, and effortlessly engaging.

Use case two: Social media

Whether you're fueling a content calendar, smart scheduler, or social assistant, partnering with GWI ensures every post becomes a scroll-stopper, delivering the bespoke content your audience wants.

With GWI data, your AI tools can create endless variations of social posts that reflect real audience traits and priorities. Just plug our data into your AI scheduler or content recommender to fine-tune timing, tone, and creative strategy.

No more guessing when your audience is most active or whether they favor Reels, Stories, carousels, or static posts; GWI data empowers your AI to deliver the right message, to the right audience, in the right format - every time.

Use case three: LLM development

A data partnership with GWI gives your LLM the rock-solid input it needs to generate reliable, context-aware responses.

Enhance your tool’s prompts and outputs with psychographic insights, interests, and values. Whether it’s responding to a product question or drafting an email, your LLM can tailor its output to reflect your users’ real-world experiences.

Too often, LLMs default to vague, generic answers that ultimately lack credibility. With GWI’s rich consumer data, your digital assistants and agents can mirror the exact language and tone of specific audiences on specific topics - for example how Gen Z talks about sustainability - so your AI-driven support, sales, and niche agents sound authentic and on point.

In summary

Put all this together, and the benefits of a data partnership with GWI data comes down to four S’s:

  • Sure. We use real data from real people, collected by trusted panel providers to deliver ultra-reliable consumer insights that provide certainty and drive success.

  • Safe. Our data is always 100% PII-free, GDPR and CCPA-compliant. Many AI models unknowingly scrape personal data, leading to potential regulatory risk and loss of consumer trust.

  • Smart. 50+ global datasets deliver structured human insights on every topic under the sun. GWI data delivers better model outputs, customer segmentation, and personalisation.

  • Switched-on. GWI’s regularly updated data mean AIs stay relevant and perfectly in sync with changing consumer behavior, improving overall engagement.

Bottom line? In a world characterised by hype, trust is the new differentiator. It’s what your customers want. It’s what your product needs. And it’s exactly what a GWI data partnership delivers.

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