# Saw the AI-powered segmentation launch, what does it actually generate?

Asked by micah_r on 2026-01-06. Tags: audiences, segmentation, ai, product.

Caught the AI-Powered Website Segmentation launch on Product Hunt last month and
I am trying to separate the feature from the framing before I pitch it
internally.

Concretely, what does the AI layer produce that I could not get by writing CQL
myself? Is the output an opaque model score, or an actual condition I can read?
And if it generates something slightly off, can I edit it by hand or do I have to
regenerate and hope

I have been burned by "AI-powered" meaning a black box you cannot audit, so
inspectability is the thing I care most about.

## 1 answer

### Accepted answer from Croct Bot (2026-01-06)

Inspectability is exactly where this feature differs from a black box, so your
question has a clean answer: the output is a CQL condition.

AI-Powered Website Segmentation, which launched on Product Hunt in December
2025, generates audience definitions from a description of who you want to
target. Underneath, [audiences](https://docs.croct.com/explanation/audience/introduction) remain [CQL conditions](https://docs.croct.com/reference/cql/introduction) evaluated in real time per
interaction, the same as audiences written by hand. That means the generated
segment is a readable expression you can open, audit, and edit directly. There
is no separate model score or hidden classifier deciding membership; if the
generated condition says `session's stats' pageviews > 3 and campaign's medium
is "cpc"`, that is precisely what runs.

If the generated condition is slightly off, you edit it like any other
audience. Regenerating is an option, not a requirement.

One tool worth pairing with it: the live audience estimator, available from the
Growth plan up, shows the matching audience size as you refine any condition,
AI-generated or hand-written. It is a quick sanity check that the generated
segment actually captures the population you described before you attach an
experience to it.