The Intent Growth Blueprint is your roadmap to mastering customer personalisation using real-time intent. It’s a framework developed by Made With Intent which helps you understand how your use of intent evolves as your business scales and your goals expand. It’s designed to deliver instant value from day one, whilst showing you how your use of intent can evolve, dependent on capacity and appetite, toward an intelligent, intent-first ecommerce experience.
Each stage builds on the last, by unlocking greater impact and insight.
Stage 1: Activate
Stage 1: Activate
Every Made With Intent journey starts here. This stage is about seeing value fast; proving that responding to customer intent in real time can drive measurable commercial impact, without the need for additional effort or resources.
At this stage, you’ll activate Agentic Campaigns targeting key shopper moments, such as basket abandonment, or for more general experience optimisation. These campaigns are designed to require minimal set-up, showing measurable uplift within days using our Optimisation Agent, which handles testing and delivery automatically. Our Optimisation Agent is specifically built to find both the optimal segment (or segments) and timing for your experience. Unlike traditional multi-arm bandits, our optimisation agent works customer-first, not website first.
Why is this stage important?
Ecommerce personalisation has long been slow, manual and resource-heavy - in part because it has been focused on the website rather than the customer. Agentic Campaigns remove that friction. They prove the value of both Made With Intent as a product, and intent as a personalisation trigger. Showing that this growth lever can be instant, automated, and effective without the need for developer time or complex configuration.
You’ll:
Launch experiences that start driving incremental revenue within days
Show tangible ROI in weeks
Demonstrate how intent is the unlocked growth lever in ecommerce
Lay the groundwork for always-on optimisation, handled entirely by the Optimisation Agent, not your team
Primary benefit: Driving more revenue and conversions, whilst proving that intent experiences are more effective than non-intent experiences through our Agentic Campaigns
What will you be doing at this stage?
Your role here is light-touch, we’ve designed it that way to reduce time to value and necessary effort from you and your team. You aren’t required to understand the intricacies of intent data at this stage. Instead our team will work with you to up-skill you on what you need to know to get your first campaigns live and driving value. As you continue using intent, they’ll introduce you to additional concepts to enhance your knowledge.
You’ll:
Select your Agentic Campaigns (typically 3–5), and define the response you want to have with guidance from your Customer team
Collaborate on setup; our team works with you to configure your campaigns with no heavy code or design work required
Go live quickly; the Optimisation Agent immediately begins testing and learning in the background
Review results; see uplift in engagement, conversion, and revenue through clear, automated reporting
That’s it. Once your experiences are live, the agent takes over.
At this stage we’ll also set up your lightweight session summary, which sends a simple intent score into your CDP or CRM. This gives you early visibility of behavioural strength without requiring any extra configuration, and lays the groundwork for deeper integrations later on.
What are Agentic Campaigns?
Agentic Campaigns are designed to get you live and seeing value fast. They contain a set of pre-configured strategies powered by real-time intent and delivered automatically by the Optimisation Agent. Each strategy is focused on a core part of the customer journey, with multiple response types to choose from depending on your business goals.
Strategies | Description | Example Response Types |
Welcome Visits | Support visitors at the beginning of their journey on site | Email Capture, Brand USP messaging, Discovery Functionality |
Returning Visits | Support returning visitors in their journey | Recently Viewed with Intent Interests, Re-engagement Banner |
Browse Abandonment | Reduce browse abandonment through contextual, real-time prompts | Email Capture, Discounting, Brand or Product Messaging |
Basket Abandonment | Reduce basket abandonment through contextual, real-time prompts | Email Capture, Discounting, Brand or Product Messaging |
Product Visits | Boosts consideration by surfacing value, reassurance, or urgency on PDPs | Social Proof, USP banners, Over-product messaging, Tooltips, Discovery & Consideration Functionality |
Experience Optimisation | Designed to unlock impact across the entire user journey. Surface what matters most in the moment | Email Capture, Prompts, Recommendations, Live Chat |
Each moment is powered by intent signals and optimised automatically. You’ll choose the moments and responses that align with your goals, and our team will help configure them to go live quickly, with the Optimisation Agent managing testing and delivery in the background.
How will you know you’re ready to move to Stage 2?
Some customers remain at this Activate stage for their entire partnership, relying on the Optimisation Agent to continuously maximise impact with zero additional effort from you and your team.
However, Stage 2 may be the next step for you if:
You have business specific objectives you want to use intent to solve, and have the internal capacity to support this
You want to better understand intent, and start integrating intent insights into your broader experimentation and tech stack. You may also wish to explore optimising CRM campaigns with intent signals (for which your integration has already been set-up)
You want to explore dynamic, multi-layered campaigns that evolve based on a visitor’s intent
You want to begin focusing on in-page, dynamic content based on the stage and signals a visitor is showing
You’d like greater control and customisation via Campaign Manager, whilst keeping automation at the core
Stage 2: Orchestrate
Stage 2: Orchestrate
Once you’ve proven value, this stage is where you scale and personalise experiences with greater sophistication while still keeping automation at its core to support you in driving value.
This stage is perfect if you have an established personalisation or optimisation team and you want to begin bringing intent into your ways of working outside of the initial campaigns. If there’s appetite, you can also start exploring post-visit experiences with your visitors, enhancing campaigns such as Abandon Browse or Abandon Cart.
Why is this stage important?
You’ve seen what intent can do, and the value it can bring. Now, you’re ready to scale that impact.
In this sense, Orchestrate means expanding your control over the use cases of intent, allowing you to solve specific business challenges with the framework you’ve seen drive greater impact using Agentic Campaigns.
You’ll go through a period of learning with your Customer Success team to support you in further understanding intent data. This will enable you to begin using intent to solve business specific challenges using our performance dashboard and segment builder. Perhaps you want to focus on a certain traffic source, or category. Interrogating intent data will allow you to highlight segments of opportunity, who can be delivered a targeted campaign using our advanced campaign manager. You’ll also be supported by our Alerts and Notifications, highlighting to you when an opportunity for action arises.
The advanced campaign manager includes dynamic campaigns; allowing you to alter both over-page and in-page content dependant on a visitor’s intent, and sequenced campaigns; where you can build multi-experience campaigns that fire as a visitor moves through different segments. For both of these, executions vary from over-page experiences to in-page dynamic content; such as in-grid content slots on PLP, or homepage carousel banners.
For some of our most advanced customers, you may also wish to use intent within your wider tech stack, such as personalisation platforms. As part of the advanced campaign manager, you’ll gain access to Third Party Triggers - enabling you to embed intent segmentation into existing experience processes.
Finally, at this stage you may begin experimenting with intent outside of your in-session experiences. By integrating Intent with your CDP and CRMs, you can optimise your Abandon Browse and Abandon Cart campaigns based on the summary of a visitor’s session. Or, develop targeted campaigns for visitors based on their Intent Stages & Interests.
Resource needed from your team can vary, based on the complexity of the campaigns you wish to launch. This stage allows you drive even more value from intent campaigns by driving hyper personalisation at scale, whilst you continue to benefit from the Optimisation Agent’s self-learning delivery.
Primary benefit: Drive greater revenue with advanced experiences, powering unique personalisation journeys and solving your business challenges with intent
What will you be doing at this stage?
At this stage, you’re evolving from activating Agentic Campaigns to designing advanced, intent-driven experiences that solve specific business challenges, both on and off-site. You’ll start using the data behind intent to identify opportunities, build targeted campaigns, and manage more complex personalisation journeys - all supported by automation. Naturally, this requires more dedicated time from your side compared to the initial Activate stage.
You’ll:
Identify opportunities using intent data through our performance dashboard and segment builder, working with your Customer Success team to uncover segments to target.
Set up alerts and notifications contextual to your business goals in order to be alerted of opportunities for campaigns
Design and launch dynamic campaigns that adapt in real time - changing both over-page and in-page content (e.g. homepage banners, PLP grids, or PDP blocks) based on a visitor’s intent.
Build sequenced experiences that evolve as a shopper moves through different stages of intent.
Use the Campaign Manager to visualise, schedule, and control advanced experiences across your site.
Review and optimise through a mix of manual insight and automation; segment performance and uplift are captured in real time, with the Optimisation Agent supporting where appropriate.
Integrate with your CRM and CDP platforms, to optimise campaigns such as Abandon Browse and Abandon Cart with Intent signals
This stage is about expanding what’s possible with intent; combining creativity with automation to deliver hyper-personalised experiences at scale.
How will you know you’re ready to move to Stage 3?
As with Stage 1, many customers stay at the Orchestrate stage, utilising our high level insights to drive hypotheses and creating targeted in-page and over-page campaigns. However, moving to the Stage 3 may be applicable if you want to make intent the basis of all your on-site experiences. Pushing the boundaries of in-session, in-page real-time experiences with full visibility and exploration of your data.
Stage 3 could be right for you if:
You’re ready to go beyond the high-level intent insights available in Stage 2 and access your full dataset; with the ability to query, analyse, and visualise intent data in depth
You want to push the boundaries of real-time in-page experiences, surfacing dynamic components to visitors based on where they are in their journey
You want to uncover why campaigns perform the way they do and explore trends across audiences, categories, and experiences through raw data analysis, and iterate on campaigns with these insights
You’d benefit from self-serve analytics that allow you to dig into intent signals and campaign outcomes without relying on pre-defined performance dashboard.
You’re ready to use the Insight Agent to power both day-to-day decision-making and campaign strategy.
You want to integrate your intent data into your broader analytics ecosystem (e.g. GCP, Azure, Snowflake).
Your team is ready to use this visibility to inform experimentation and strategic planning, identifying new opportunities that lead to you building end-to-end intent-first experiences
Stage 3: Systemise
Stage 3: Systemise
At this stage, you move beyond using intent to solve isolated business problems. You’re starting to design your entire customer experience around real-time intent signals. You’re no longer thinking about individual experiences, but how full journeys evolve based on actual behaviour, patterns, and performance data.
This is where data and decision-making converge. You gain access to the full intent dataset. You start to ask more sophisticated questions of your dataset, for both insights and hypotheses but also campaign performance. Diving deeper into not just what worked, but why, to help you inform what to do next.
Intent shifts from being a trigger for individual campaigns to a strategic intelligence layer within your business. It guides how you shape experiences across the site, and powers personalisation across your stack. You’re using the most advanced campaign capabilities, such as dynamic component slots that change with a customer’s intent - giving them the right functionality at the right time. You’re beginning to orchestrate journeys rather than launch isolated experiences, using intent as the engine that shapes how a visitor moves through your site in real time.
Why is this stage important?
In the Orchestrate stage (stage 2), you start to work with high-level insights in our performance dashboard, as well as understanding your audience through our segment builder. This is great to identify opportunities for targeted campaigns specific to your business objectives. However we know some customers will want to take this a step further; going beyond these insights to query, analyse, and visualise intent data in depth with full flexibility.
The Systemise stage is about enabling this. You’ll start working directly with the raw, event-level dataset that sits behind the high-level insights. This means you’re no longer confined to aggregated metrics. Instead, you can interrogate the data in full detail: every interaction, signal, and journey. You’ll be able to ask and answer precise questions about performance at an event-level, uncovering not only what happened but why. For example, you might explore how visitors in a specific intent stage behaved on PDPs, how different signals affected engagement for a particular category, or which journeys most strongly influenced conversion.
Beyond understanding your audience, this level of visibility allows you to perform deeper campaign analysis. Rather than simply tracking overall uplift, you can understand the detail, how performance evolved over time, and where opportunities or inefficiencies exist.
This deeper level of analysis allows you to go beyond one-off optimisations and start designing end-to-end experiences rooted in real behaviour, not assumptions. With full access to your dataset, advanced campaign tools, and the Insight Agent, you’re using intent as the foundation for how you design, deliver, and improve your customer journeys. This is also the moment where you begin orchestrating journeys in a more connected, adaptive way. Ensuring every interaction is shaped by real-time signals rather than static templates or pre-set rules, and pushing the boundaries of what real-time adaptive experiences look like.
Finally, Stage 3 is where your intent data begins to extend beyond the platform. You can integrate directly with cloud and analytics environments, such as GCP, Azure, Snowflake, or CDPs, to join intent signals with your broader data stack (e.g. transactional, CRM, or product-level data). This enables teams to build unified views, automate insight workflows, and run advanced modelling within your own systems.
At the beginning of this stage, we’ll work with you and your team to further enrich your knowledge of intent, and our Intent Framework in order to be able to look at our data, and your website, in a new way
Primary benefit: You’ll drive even greater impact from intent by uncovering what your visitors actually need, when they need it. Your digital experience will begin to be driven by intent, as you reframe how your organisation sees it’s visitors.
What will you be doing at this level?
At this stage, you’ll go beyond the high-level intent insights available in Stage 2 and gain full access to your dataset; giving you the ability to query, analyse, and visualise intent data in depth. You’ll use these insights to design more adaptive, end-to-end experiences, grounded in real customer behaviour. This is the most time intensive stage of the Growth Blueprint, allowing you to truly embed intent in your organisation.
You’ll:
Explore the Intent Framework in full, learning how signals, stages, and journeys connect to performance outcomes across your site
Use the Insight Explorer to interrogate raw intent data by business objective, category, page type, or traffic source - identifying key trends, friction points, and opportunities.
Run self-serve analytics, creating and customising dashboards so you can dig into intent signals and campaign outcomes without relying on pre-defined reports.
Design connected experiences, using the Campaign Manager’s advanced functionality to act on insights and launch targeted experiences that address what you’ve uncovered. Building journeys that adapt in real time and pushing the limits on intent first experiences.
Analyse campaign performance in greater depth through the raw data
Export data into your cloud environment (e.g. GCP, Azure, Snowflake) or connect to your CDP to join with other datasets and feed broader customer strategies
Feed insight directly into activation, using what you learn to continuously evolve your campaign strategy and influence wider personalisation efforts across your stack
Many teams at this level find intent becomes embedded in their day-to-day decision-making - shaping how they brief, design, and evaluate digital experiences across the organisation.