By Rakesh Naidu, Founder of Fate
I’ve spent the last few years leading over $10 million in AI sales, helping enterprise clients optimise how they make decisions. From voice AI to intelligent routing, I’ve seen how agentic systems can learn, adapt, and improve faster than any rule-based software. But for all the power of this technology, one space remains oddly untouched by it: dating.
We still scroll. Still swipe. Still cycle through a hundred profiles to maybe find one real moment. That’s not just inefficient – it’s emotionally exhausting.
Dating apps haven’t evolved because they were never built to. If everyone met their perfect match immediately, these dating giants massively reduce their LTV/CAC ratio, and will go bankrupt. Their success depends on attention, not outcomes. I wanted to build something else.
Fate isn’t a dating app. It’s a connection engine – a system designed to understand users deeply and use that understanding to recommend real, meaningful matches. We’ve spent over two years developing it with MTECHHub, and what’s launching on June 27 in London is only the beginning.
Fate starts with voice. During onboarding, you’re speaking to Fate, our agentic AI and are asked a series of real questions: how long you’ve been single, what you’re looking for, what you’ve learned. Your responses – not just the words, but how you say them – are transcribed, analysed, and used for Fate to match you with the right people.
Spotify curates your music. Netflix knows your next show. Amazon suggests your next purchase before you’ve even thought about it. Why is connection still left to guesswork?
Fate Roulette is our boldest feature. It’s blind. No profile photo. Just a voice, a real conversation, and a choice: keep speaking to this new person, or stay with your existing matches. The twist? Choosing to match the new voice means losing the rest. It’s a return to risk – and that’s where chemistry lives.
We’ve built in voice and video calling for that reason. Real connection rarely starts with texting. Fate is designed to move people off screen and into something real, faster and more meaningfully.
Behind the scenes, Fate is always learning. Every message, call, pause, and response contributes to a model built specifically to get better with time. It doesn’t just observe – it adapts. That’s what makes it agentic. And it’s what makes it the first of its kind.
We don’t even want to use the term “dating app” anymore. What is dating without connection? That’s what we’re solving for. And with thousands already pre-registered, we’re only just getting started.
London is first. But the vision is global.