Madewithintent
Founded 2023 · 34 employees on LinkedIn · 4 known investors
Made With Intent offers AI agents that automatically determine the optimal moment and personalized experience (such as popups, overlays, or email capture) to deliver to each website visitor based on their intent and context. The platform is aimed at eCommerce brands looking to optimize on-site conversions and growth.
Also known as Made With Intent · Made with Intent Limited · MWI
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Company profile
researched Aug 2026Made With Intent (Made with Intent Limited) is a UK-based software company building a real-time intent and experience decision engine for eCommerce sites. Its product is deployed via a single 7kb JavaScript script that can be added to a store or a tag manager such as Google Tag Manager. The script continuously models hundreds of behavioural signals per visitor — described as 250+ signals at the time of its 2024 seed round, 400 signals in a third-party tool listing, and 800+ signals in 2026 coverage — to predict where a shopper is in their purchase journey and how likely they are to buy, abandon or return. Visitors are automatically placed into intent segments based on journey, momentum and predicted behaviour.
On top of this intent layer the platform delivers adaptive on-site experiences: overlay and in-page templates covering discounting, social proof, email capture, messaging, product discovery, in-session prompts and content prioritisation, triggered in real time without a page load. "Agentic Campaigns" let merchants pick a strategy, goal and set of experiences, after which an optimisation agent decides which visitor receives which experience and when, targeting moments such as basket abandonment, browse abandonment, product visits and return visits. Experiences can be A/B tested and measured against a holdback baseline. Intent data can also be pushed into a customer's existing marketing, analytics and CRM stack, with the company citing integrations with 40+ marketing tools.
The company positions the product as privacy-conscious: it states that it collects no PII and requires no additional cookies, and a directory listing describes it as ISO 27001 and GDPR compliant. The registered address is C/O Langtons, The Plaza, 100 Old Hall Street, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
Founding story
Founder David Mannheim started the company after roughly 15 years working in eCommerce conversion rate optimisation, concluding that the industry's focus on conversion rate and similar aggregated, retrospective metrics was itself constraining online retail by prioritising the ready-to-buy minority over future buyers. He set out to build a platform that would give retailers a segmented, human view of site performance plus a predictive targeting mechanism, and promoted the thesis through his book The Person in Personalisation, 153 expert interviews, and the Statements of Intent podcast.
Business model
B2B SaaS sold to eCommerce retailers and brands. Pricing is not published; a third-party tool directory lists it as "contact for pricing". The company also runs an industry event, Intent in a Tent, and a merchandise site (merch.madewithintent.ai).
Subscription-style software sold directly to online retailers, with a script-based deployment and in-platform experience delivery; pricing is quote-based rather than publicly listed.
Traction
The company states that more than 100 eCommerce brands use the platform and reports average outcomes of +9.4% revenue, +11.2% margin and +31% experience impact, plus a 24% average increase in intent to purchase. Published customer case studies cite figures including £2.4m revenue uplift (4.8x business case ROI), £2m+ incremental revenue from real-time intent intelligence, £1.9m+ incremental revenue and LTV from intent-based email segmentation in three months, a 26% conversion rate increase from intent-based discounting, and 83% fewer returns on targeted products. A B2B data provider estimated approximately 33 employees and annual revenue in the $1M–$10M range as of July 2026.
Latest developments
In February 2026 the company announced a £2.4 million seed round led by NPIF II – PXN Equity Finance with Mercuri and Haatch participating, to be used for product development, hiring across engineering, data, sales and marketing, and expansion into Europe and the U.S. Its website markets Agentic Campaigns, an optimisation agent that selects experiences per visitor against a chosen target metric, cites 100+ brands and figures last updated June 2026, and promotes its Intent in a Tent event at the O2 on 25 February 2027. A privacy policy version 1.2 was published on 31 March 2026.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history, risks & controversies
Market position
Operates in eCommerce personalisation, conversion rate optimisation and real-time visitor intent. It differentiates from rule-based personalisation and popup tooling by predicting per-visitor intent and deciding what to show and when. Third-party listings place comparable vendors such as Now Interact, CustomFit.ai and Segmentify in the same category. It was included in the 2025 UK Startups 100 index at number 43.
Rather than applying preset rules that show the same discounts, messaging and social proof to every visitor, the platform predicts each visitor's intent from continuous behavioural modelling and decides who receives which experience at which moment, measured against a holdback. Additional stated differentiators are lightweight deployment (one 7kb script, no extra cookies, no PII), a model trained on tens of billions of eCommerce events, and interoperability with existing marketing, analytics and CRM tools.
Technology
A single 7kb browser script collects behavioural data with no impact stated on Core Web Vitals and setup described as taking around 10 minutes. A deep learning model trained on large volumes of event data (the site cites more than 50 billion modelled eCommerce events) produces predictive intent metrics in real time; a large language model is used to weight micro-interactions. The system tracks 800+ signals per visitor, reads site code elements so it supports non-English stores, and does not use historical data for its intent metrics. The company states it collects no PII and adds no extra cookies. Reported infrastructure and tooling includes Amazon Web Services, Amazon Route 53, Cloudflare, cdnjs, Sentry, Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics.
Go-to-market
Direct sales via demo requests from the website, supported by customer case studies quantifying revenue, margin and email-capture uplift, and by founder-led thought leadership (a book, expert interviews and the Statements of Intent podcast). The product is designed to complement existing martech through integrations with 40+ marketing tools, and the company hosts its own Intent in a Tent event.
eCommerce brands and online retailers, particularly mid-market to enterprise merchants with existing analytics stacks. Named customers include MandM, Hotel Chocolat, On the Beach, Bensons for Beds, Jacamo, Ernest Jones and Rapha. Buyer roles cited include marketing, eCommerce, digital experience, CRM and trading teams.
Geography
Headquartered in the UK, with a registered address in Liverpool and association with Manchester in directory and press listings; the team has been described as fully remote. At the time of the 2024 seed round the user base spanned the UK, Denmark, Germany and the USA, and the 2026 round was raised to support expansion into Europe and the U.S. A data provider lists employees across Europe and North America.
History
Sources place the founding in 2023 (with one startup index citing 2022). A beta launched in September, with early users including Ernest Jones, Bensons for Beds and Rapha. In May 2024 the company announced a £1.5 million seed round led by Mercuri, supporting a fully remote team of 15. In January 2025 it was ranked 43rd in the UK Startups 100 index. In February 2026 it announced a £2.4 million seed round led by NPIF II – PXN Equity Finance with Mercuri and Haatch following, to fund product development, team expansion and entry into Europe and the U.S.
Risks & controversies
Performance figures such as the +9.4% average revenue uplift and case-study results are company-reported and not independently verified in the sources. Sources are inconsistent on founding year (2022 versus 2023) and on the number of signals modelled (250+, 400 and 800+ across different dates), and third-party aggregators list funding totals and round dates that differ from the primary announcements. As a processor of visitor behavioural data for retail customers, the company operates under UK GDPR and relies on subprocessors that may process data outside the EEA.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 5
launches, deals, and filingsThe company promotes a customer/industry event, Intent in a Tent, to be held at the O2 on 25 February 2027.
The company raised £2.4 million in a seed round led by NPIF II – PXN Equity Finance (managed by PXN Ventures), with participation from existing investors Mercuri and Haatch. Funds are intended to accelerate product development, expand engineering, data, sales and marketing teams, and support expansion into Europe and the U.S.
Made With Intent placed 43rd in the UK Startups 100 list of promising new businesses for 2025.
Made With Intent announced a £1.5 million seed round led by Mercuri, with Portfolio Ventures and existing investor Haatch participating. Proceeds were earmarked for product, marketing and partnership efforts supporting a fully remote team of 15.
A beta version launched in September and was used by customers including Ernest Jones, Bensons for Beds and Rapha.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
▸Research sources · 8
primary sources listed
- Madewithintentmadewithintent.ai · web
8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Madewithintent do?
- UK software company whose platform predicts eCommerce visitor intent in real time and adapts on-site experiences accordingly.
- Who are Madewithintent's investors?
- Madewithintent's investors include GMG Ventures, Mercuri.vc.

