Manifesto
We got tired of conversion rate optimization reports that never shipped.
HI Engine started inside a Shopify agency, after years spent inside the everyday reality of e-commerce teams.
We saw ambitious brands with strong ideas, good data, and endless opportunities to improve — but never enough time or people to move everything forward.
That’s the problem we set out to solve.
We believe the commerce team of tomorrow will work differently. Humans will shape the brand, set the ambition, and make the decisions. HI will understand the business, spot what matters, and carry the work from idea to execution.
We’re starting with conversion rate optimization (CRO) because the gap is impossible to ignore. HI reads the store, finds what is holding it back, estimates the impact, and builds the change for review. Every result becomes part of its understanding of the business.
But CRO is only the beginning.
We’re building the intelligence and execution layer for commerce — a system that remembers, learns, and keeps the business moving without turning every good idea into another item on the backlog.
Humans set the direction. HI keeps commerce moving.
Built for people, powered by high-end AI
HI Engine sits above the Shopify stack as an intelligence layer that unifies signals, adds context, and turns insights into action. It simplifies rather than complicates, so you can focus on your product and your customers.
- Year founded
- 2026
- Before pre-seed funding
- $150K

Who’s building HI Engine.

Arttu Hietala
Co-Founder

Valtteri Tuominen
Founding CTO

Samuli Ala-Kasari
Co-Founder
“With HI Engine, one person now gets the same CRO results that used to take a team of five.”
Jelmer Hendriks — Dore & Rose