Fate App Launch: AI Ends Endless Swiping in Manchester
'After two years in the making, we launched our beta in London last month. Since then, not apenny has gone into paid advertising. Every single user has come to Fate through pure word
of mouth or Fate itself. The past month has been relentless. Our team grew from 13 to over Every day, we sharpened the app, clarified our messaging, and tuned every detail live inthe market, from matching to user flow. We built on real conversations and real feedback.
Now, we move from beta to full production.
The technology behind Fate is designed with the same intelligence that powers the world'sbest consumer products. Netflix doesn't ask what you want to watch. It studies what youactually choose, what you binge, what you pause or abandon. Spotify listens to your habitsand evolves with every play. Amazon anticipates your next need before you even type it in.Fate brings this level of intuition to human connection. Our agentic AI understands thesubtleties of your voice, your pace, your style. Every interaction makes the next match more
precise, more relevant, more interesting.
You only ever see six curated matches at a time. Each is handpicked, reflecting hundreds oflive signals from the way you engage. There's no endless scroll, no time wasted flicking
through faces. This system rewards your attention and your intent.
Other apps haven't built this kind of system, not because the technology doesn't exist, butbecause it threatens their business model. If you help users find what they actually wantfaster, your LTV drops. Most dating apps need users to stay single and addicted to theprocess. We are not interested in that. We will take the risk. If Fate is good enough, we aremore than happy to sacrifice LTV in exchange for the kind of word of mouth that only comesfrom delivering real connections. Which is why we are a connections app, not a dating app,dating without connecting is meaningless. My confidence comes from selling more than £10million in AI solutions to multiple multi-billion-pound revenue firms. We want Fate to be the
product that finally replaces chance with real connection that feels like Fate.
Fate Calls is at the centre of the experience. Every day, you enter a ten-minute, faceless,profile-free voice conversation with a stranger who sits outside your current six. If thechemistry is there, you can reveal each others' profiles but only by swapping one of yourexisting 6 matches out first. If you picked someone and sacrificed and existing match in the
process but were not selected in return – you lose both matches.
Our Insights engine shows you exactly how others experience you. No empty praise, noguesswork. You see where you spark interest, where you lose people, and what keeps
conversations alive. If you want to grow, you have all the information to get better
The Joker Card is your single daily opportunity to place yourself directly into any curated
pool. No resets or repeats. You get one move, and it counts.
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Fate is ready, active, and learning every day. If you want to see what dating looks like when
it is rebuilt with true intelligence, this is your first chance.
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