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Huel.
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Product idea. Huel is not a Mariox client. This page shows how we would approach their next build, based on public information.

Four million customers in over 100 countries, and most of them buy on subscription. Personalisation and support automation help keep those subscriptions running.

huel.com
Huel
FY25 revenue
£254M
Meals sold
500M+
UK retail
17,000+
£254MFY25 revenue
500M+Meals sold
17,000+UK retail
DanoneOwnership
£254MFY25 revenue
500M+Meals sold
17,000+UK retail
DanoneOwnership
£254MFY25 revenue
500M+Meals sold
17,000+UK retail
DanoneOwnership
£254MFY25 revenue
500M+Meals sold
17,000+UK retail
DanoneOwnership
01 — What we learned about Huel

Huel makes nutritionally complete food and has sold more than 500 million meals since launch. Revenue rose 19% to £254 million in its tenth financial year. Danone agreed to acquire the business in 2026, and the UK Competition and Markets Authority approved the deal in August.

FY25 revenue£254MUp 19%, with pre-tax profit up 40%Meals sold500M+Since launchUK retail17,000+Stores, with over 100,000 stocking pointsOwnershipDanoneAcquisition approved by the CMA, Aug 2026
02 — The opportunity

Where software helps next.

Huel's range now goes well beyond powders, with Daily Greens, Complete Protein and a wider bar range, and it sells through both its own site and retail. More products mean more possible combinations for each customer, and more reasons for a subscription to drift away from what they need. A scoped AI pilot in personalisation and support can show results within a quarter, and can work alongside whatever Danone integration is planned.

01

Range complexity

Choosing between products, flavours and quantities is harder than it was with one powder.

02

Subscription churn

Customers often cancel because they are tired of a flavour or have too much stock, both of which can be fixed.

03

Support volume

Delivery, billing and swap requests are repetitive and well suited to safe automation.

03 — Concept film

The idea in 20 seconds.

Interface sketches are illustrative. Final design is agreed with your team in discovery.

Mariox × Huel
What we found
500 million meals
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04 — What we’d build

Three modules, one platform.

Module 01

Nutrition and plan assistant

A guided assistant for building and adjusting a plan.

  • →Recommendations by goal, diet and budget
  • →Grounded in Huel's nutritional data and claims policy
  • →Available on site and in the account area
HuelNutrition and plan assistant
Module 02

Smart save flows

Retention offers based on the reason a customer gives for cancelling.

  • →Flavour swap, skip, or frequency change
  • →Experiments measured against a control group
  • →Works with the existing subscription platform
HuelSmart save flows
Module 03

CX automation

AI-drafted and auto-resolved tickets with human review.

  • →Order, delivery and billing intents
  • →Confidence thresholds and escalation
  • →Quality dashboard for the CX team
HuelCX automation
05 — The plan

12 weeks to live.

Senior engineers write the production code. Repositories, cloud accounts and documentation stay with you from day one.

Weeks 1-2

Discovery

Churn reasons, ticket taxonomy and catalogue data reviewed with the CX team.

Weeks 3-7

Assistant and save flows

Built and evaluated in one market first.

Weeks 8-10

CX automation

Top five ticket intents automated with human review.

Weeks 11-12

Measure and hand over

Retention and deflection results reported, code handed to Huel.

06 — Relevant Mariox work

We’ve built this before.

Oda ↗Grocery e-commerce

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Snitch ↗E-commerce

Fashion commerce that survives a drop. Storefront, ordering and operations tuned for peak traffic.

OnBuy ↗E-commerce marketplace

A marketplace build across web and admin, covering multi-seller listings, checkout, payouts and dispute handling.

07 — Who you’d work with

The people behind it.

Founders stay on every engagement. The engineers on the first call are the engineers who write the code.

Rahul Garg
Founder
Tripta Mittal
Co-founder
Saswat Sahu
Co-founder
Akash Bhardwaj
Business Head
08 — Next step

Shall we build it for Huel?

A 30-minute call with the engineers who would build it. We’ll go through this idea, change what doesn’t fit, and leave you with a fixed scope.

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