By Rakesh Naidu, Founder of Fate<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve 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\u2019ve 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.<\/p>\n
We still scroll. Still swipe. Still cycle through a hundred profiles to maybe find one real moment. That\u2019s not just inefficient \u2013 it\u2019s emotionally exhausting.<\/p>\n
Dating apps haven\u2019t 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. <\/strong>Their success depends on attention, not outcomes. I wanted to build something else.<\/p>\n Fate isn\u2019t a dating app. It\u2019s a connection engine \u2013 a system designed to understand users deeply and use that understanding to recommend real, meaningful matches. We\u2019ve spent over two years developing it with MTECHHub, and what\u2019s launching on June 27 in London is only the beginning.<\/p>\n Fate starts with voice. During onboarding, you\u2019re speaking to Fate, our agentic AI and are asked a series of real questions: how long you\u2019ve been single, what you\u2019re looking for, what you\u2019ve learned. Your responses \u2013 not just the words, but how you say them \u2013 are transcribed, analysed, and used for Fate to match you with the right people.<\/p>\n Spotify curates your music. Netflix knows your next show. Amazon suggests your next purchase before you\u2019ve even thought about it. Why is connection still left to guesswork?<\/strong><\/p>\n Fate Roulette is our boldest feature. It\u2019s 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\u2019s a return to risk \u2013 and that\u2019s where chemistry lives.<\/p>\n We\u2019ve 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.<\/p>\n 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\u2019t just observe \u2013 it adapts. That\u2019s what makes it agentic. And it\u2019s what makes it the first of its kind.<\/p>\n We don\u2019t even want to use the term \u201cdating app\u201d anymore. What is dating without connection?<\/strong> That\u2019s what we\u2019re solving for. And with thousands already pre-registered, we\u2019re only just getting started.<\/p>\n London is first. But the vision is global.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Rakesh Naidu, Founder of Fate I\u2019ve 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\u2019ve seen how agentic systems can learn, adapt, and improve faster than any rule-based software. But for all the power of this… Continue Reading