You are no longer marketing to people—you are positioning yourself for AI. AI has no attention limits. It can take in and reason over far more detail than any human ever could. The traditional resume is effectively obsolete.
For most of human history, networking and career growth have been constrained by attention. We join networks, attend events, build audiences, post on social media, create content, and continuously market ourselves because there is intense competition for limited human attention. Much of modern professional life is spent trying to be seen.
AI does not suffer from attention scarcity. It can process far more information than any person, identify patterns across millions of signals, and understand context at a depth that was previously impossible. Instead of constantly trying to capture attention, we can focus on becoming more fully ourselves: doing meaningful work, pursuing our interests, building expertise, helping others, and documenting what we learn.
The purpose of a PID is not to create another platform for self-promotion. It is to create a rich, authentic signal about who you are, what you know, what you have experienced, what you care about, and where you are headed. The more accurately you represent yourself, the easier it becomes for AI to connect you with the people, opportunities, ideas, resources, and collaborations that align with your goals.
In the attention economy, success often belonged to those who were best at being noticed. In the emerging signal economy, success increasingly belongs to those who generate meaningful signal by doing real things, learning continuously, and sharing authentic knowledge. The goal is not to shout louder. The goal is to become easier to find.
This document represents a new, more powerful way to define and communicate your full value. This document is the basis for networking in the era of AI. For more, read the short white paper on [Decentralized AI-Native Professional Networking](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZRELDV0Z77YeVsxXid1EFsATBwrmexVJHhwc1faIIzI/edit?usp=sharing). This template serves as the foundational artifact users will use to network in the AI era.
This document is private to you. No one can access it unless you choose to share it.
It is designed to be used by AI systems to:
* Understand you at a deep level
* Identify high-quality matches and opportunities
* Surface relevant collaborators, roles, and insights
The quality of what you get out is directly tied to the quality of what you put in.
This is a living document—update it regularly as your skills, interests, and direction evolve.
Be thoughtful and authentic. This document should reflect who you truly are, not just a generic version of your background.
Refer to the appendix for additional guidance on how to make your profile distinctive and meaningful.
The sections that follow are a suggested format, not a rigid template. You may structure this document in a way that works best for you, but be sure to capture the key elements outlined.
This is important. Make sure you save this to your Google Drive , Microsoft Onedrive accounts or Git accounts and make them public, allowing you to generate a URL that can be shared. That way, you share the URL only, which allows you to update this document. Do not share a static version of this that will go out of date.
* Products/Services: if you own a business or work for one, list them. Ask AI to to do it for you and tell it to include schema to help describe the product data better.
Reference the Asset Stack in this document to be thorough about what you have that others can leverage. [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1\_citc66qAkKL2IXAuPOvnor9P0hfxQbZ2z8daQnCxNQ/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_citc66qAkKL2IXAuPOvnor9P0hfxQbZ2z8daQnCxNQ/edit?usp=sharing)
* Observations: What are you actually seeing? Not what the headlines say, but what you see. And, just as important, what are you doing about it as a result? Success often lies in early signals, unique patterns, and context-rich insights...the kinds of information traditional sources tend to overlook. These valuable fragments typically emerge from primary, on-the-ground observations and lived experience. Submit what you are seeing, hearing and experiencing. AI won’t just passively observe and collect this information through full access to our digital lives, they’ll also become active stewards of our insights. We’ll be able to submit reflections, anecdotes, and observations directly to our agents, who will then determine when and how to share them within our network. This creates a dynamic layer of decentralized intelligence: a continuous, real-time flow of first-hand signals being exchanged among trusted agents. Over time, the network becomes smarter, more relevant, and more valuable, not just because of the data it holds, but because of the context and intentionality behind it.
* Applied Knowledge & Recommendations: One of the most valuable forms of knowledge is real-world experience. Consider documenting products, tools, services, workflows, books, courses, vendors, communities, and experiences you have personally used and would recommend (or avoid), along with brief notes on why. Unlike anonymous reviews, these recommendations are connected to your actual background, expertise, environment, and results, making them far more useful to both people and AI systems. Over time, this creates a machine-readable knowledge layer that helps others learn from lived experience rather than marketing.
* What do you do that others in your category do not?
* What is your unique mechanism, dataset, or approach?
Structure:
* “I am the only \_\_\_ that \_\_\_ using \_\_\_”
Example pattern:
Marketing
* “I am the only email marketer in my company focused on increasing repeat purchases using post-purchase behavior tracking.”
Sales
* “I am the only sales rep who specializes in reactivating inactive customers using personalized follow-up sequences.”
Customer Service
* “I am the only support specialist who tracks recurring issues and feeds them back into product improvements.”
Accounting / Finance
* “I am the only bookkeeper who organizes financials specifically to help small businesses understand cash flow week-to-week.”
Electrician
* “I am the only electrician in my area focused on upgrading older homes safely without requiring full rewiring.”
River Guide
* “I am the only guide on our team who specializes in helping first-time rafters feel confident before we even leave the shore.”
Retail
* “I am the only associate who focuses on making sure customers leave with the right fit, even if it takes multiple tries.”
Software
* I am the only system designer converting fragmented business and behavioral data into AI-ready, schema-driven JSON objects that can be directly consumed by agents.
## Caution About Asking AI To Enhance Your PID From The Web
Try to be you and capture you in your PID. You can grab ideas from others and from research. But if you ask AI to make your PID for you - AI-generated - then without sufficient direction from you, it will chose to create something that is less unique and begins to look more like what it finds across the Internet, which is becoming flooded with AI-generated content that tends to become homogenized. You must be the creator and architect and use AI to help you, but don't let it do it for you.
