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title: '**intent funnel**'
description: >-
  An **intent funnel** is the design idea that an AI-first product — in this
  channel's material, the Dia browser — should capture what a user is trying to
  accomplish and guide that intention step by step toward completion, rather
  than presenting an open-ended interface the user must navigate themselves.
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# \*\*intent funnel\*\*

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Parent: [Channel index](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/llms.txt)

## Definition

An **intent funnel** is the design idea that an AI-first product — in this channel's material, the Dia browser — should capture what a user is trying to accomplish and guide that intention step by step toward completion, rather than presenting an open-ended interface the user must navigate themselves.

In the captured material, **intent funnel** appears in the context of The Browser Company's interview about building **Dia**, an AI-first browser [^242d36d6@0]. The founders describe moving from Arc — a browser with millions of users — to a product designed around what a person is actually trying to get done, rather than around pages and tabs. The term names that orientation: the product's job is to take a user's expressed goal and carry it forward toward a result.