Girls Who Prompt

Marko Rillo opens every MBA strategy course the same way: he asks four AI models to write a full company strategy, live, in 10 minutes. Then he tells his students the course is over. It never is. In this episode of Girls Who Prompt , Karin and Ave sit down with Marko Rillo — strategist, Head of the MBA Programme at Estonian Business School, LEGO Serious Play facilitator, and co-founder of EdTech a...

What if the smartest AI strategy right now is simply to wait? In this episode of Girls Who Prompt , Karin and Ave sit down with Kalev Kaarna - scientist, entrepreneur, sales detective, and one of Estonia's most curious minds on the frontier of quantum computing - to talk about why he's deliberately slow on AI, what qubits actually are, and why trust might be the most valuable thing the dig...

The market is up. AI is everywhere. And everyone's either panicking or trying to sell you something. What if the smarter move is just... to step back? No guest this week — just Ave and Karin, back in the online studio, sitting down to compare notes on AI fatigue, investment strategy, the casino economy, China's robot taxis, and why your LinkedIn feed is probably 70% AI-generated noise. Thi...

AI is the most powerful learning tool we've ever had. It's also the fastest way to quietly stop thinking. The question is — are we choosing? In this episode of  Girls Who Prompt , Karin and Ave sit down with  Melanie Nethercott , Director of Education Programs EMEA at  STACK Infrastructure , where she leads  STACK Academy  — an 18-month workforce development programme closing the skills ga...

In this episode of Girls Who Prompt , Karin and Ave sit down with Saniya Vardak , Head of Growth at Beyond Presence — a Munich startup building real-time AI avatars that can see you, hear you, and respond in under 100 milliseconds. With nearly a decade scaling Wise, Wolt, and Deel, Saniya is now the sole marketer inside a company where the product didn't exist 18 months ago, growth is 45% month-on...

What happens when AI quietly takes your clients, breaks your business model, and forces you to rebuild everything from the inside out? You stop fighting it. You learn Claude Code. And you build a better company. In this episode of Girls Who Prompt , Karin and Ave sit down with Stefanie Janssen , Co-Founder and CEO of MarchiteQ — an AI/Tech-first marketing agency for paid ads, GEO, data and automat...

Ave and Karin are back for a two-of-us catch-up. No guest today, just yapping about everything that's shifted in the past few months. Ave shares why she moved her daily work from ChatGPT to Claude, how Cowork connectors and Skills are reshaping her work and some extra projects with competitor research and AI visibility audits, and why Whisper Flow turned her home into "a podcast all the t...

In this episode of Girls Who Prompt , Karin and Ave sit down with Jovana Paroški , Customer Success professional at Otterly.ai - one of the first platforms built to track how brands appear in AI-generated answers across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini and Microsoft Copilot. Jovana's path here was anything but straight: English literature graduate, teacher by training, pandemic...

In this episode of Girls Who Prompt , Karin and Ave sit down with Denise Reffelmann , Product Owner of Ava - Commerzbank's AI-powered video avatar and virtual banking assistant. Ava isn't your usual chatbot. There's a real actress behind her, end-to-end banking services under her belt, and already more than 30,000 real conversations with real customers.  PS: yes, there was an actual ca...

In this episode of Girls Who Prompt , it's Karin and Ave,  catching up after a while apart, comparing notes on what's changed, and going wide: from the figure skating rinks of Cortina to the boardrooms of Europe that still haven't woken up. This episode is less about which AI tool wins the race and more about two women figuring out  in real time  what it means to actually live with AI. The anxiety...

Is the future of AI really about bigger models… or smarter ones? In this episode of Girls Who Prompt , Karin and Ave sit down with Red Boumghar ,  AI and space technology expert,  to explore how artificial intelligence is evolving beyond the hype. Red shares his journey from physics into AI and space technology, including early machine learning experiments long before AI became a global buzzword....

In this 💃🏼Women’s Day special💃🏼 episode of Girls Who Prompt , Karin and Ave sit down with Maja Završnik , co-founder and CMO of SheAI , a growing community helping women explore and learn artificial intelligence. Maja shares how she entered the world of AI herself, the moment she realised women risk being left behind in the AI revolution, and why she decided to build a movement focused on acce...

AI is moving at lightning speed. But should leadership move just as fast? In this episode of Girls Who Prompt, Karin and Ave sit down with leadership and organizational change coach Elar Killumets to unpack what AI really means for managers, teams, and company culture. This episode is more about what happens to leadership when decisions get automated, speed becomes default, and thinking gets outso...

Is (and how) AI really transforming banking or are we just adding smarter tools to the same conservative system? In this episode of Girls Who Prompt, Karin and Ave sit down with Mart Roosimägi , banking strategist and AI leader, to talk about what AI actually means inside large financial institutions. Mart shares his journey into AI, how banks are navigating innovation under heavy regulation, and...

How is AI quietly reshaping how we lead, manage, and build companies? In this episode of Girls Who Prompt , Karin and Ave catch up after a while and share their learnings and “aha” moments.  Ave is deep in the vibe-coding zone, rediscovering how creative it feels to build (almost) anything with AI. Lovable really is just lovable!  Karin has added a few fresh certificates to her name — and continue...

In this episode of Girls Who Prompt , Ave and Karin sit down with Urmo Keskel, cybersecurity expert and founder of Phishbite, to talk about what happens when AI meets trust and starts to break it. We explore how AI is changing both sides of cybersecurity: from faster, more convincing phishing attacks to AI-powered defenses designed to stop them. Urmo shares real-world stories from the front lines,...

In this episode of Girls Who Prompt , Ave and Karin sit down with Mart Laus , a platform engineering leader working at DocPlanner , to talk about software development, AI, and healthcare. Mart shares his path into tech, how AI has actually changed day-to-day software development, and why today’s AI tools are less about replacing teams and more about empowering them. We talk about what it really me...

In this episode of Girls Who Prompt , Karin and Ave sit down with Linda Võeras , Investment Manager at Karma Ventures , to talk about what actually matters when building and backing deep-tech startups in the AI era. Linda shares her path from creative editorial work into venture capital, and how that experience influences the way she looks at founders, teams, and technical ambition today. We discu...

In this episode of Girls Who Prompt, we sit down with Karl-Gustav Kallasmaa , AI entrepreneur and CEO of Attensira, to talk about what actually happens when AI meets marketing, startups, and decision-making. Karl shares his journey building AI-driven products, why he uses AI to validate his own thinking, and why blind trust in AI can be more dangerous than not using it at all. We dig into the pres...

Happy 2026 for all the listeners of "Girls who prompt!" 🥳 In this conversation, we sit down with  Tom Maryniarczyk , a seasoned AI and data platform leader with deep roots in global retail and e-commerce. From leading data and digital transformation initiatives at Walmart Canada and The Home Depot to his current work at Pet Valu, Tom has been building and scaling data-driven systems lon...

In this year-end wrapping (and yapping) episode, Karin Nemec and Ave Annuk look back at the journey of Girls Who Prompt that started from September 2025: what surprised them, what worked, what didn’t and how AI quietly became part of their everyday work and creativity. They talk honestly about audience feedback, guest highlights, the AI tools they actually use, and why good input still matters mor...

In this episode, we sit down with Slovak filmmaker Maroš Pulščák to explore the question everyone in Hollywood, indie cinema, and film school group chats is arguing about: Can AI ever feel like real cinema? Maroš walks us through his journey from a kid obsessed with movies to becoming a director working across documentary and fiction. We talk about how AI is creeping into filmmaking, from writing...

10th episode of Girls who Prompt 🥳! In this episode of Girls Who Prompt, we sit down with  Kaia Gil — mother, communicator, and PR advisor who has spent her career choosing words carefully (and teaching others to do the same). Together, we look at how communication has really changed over the past decade. We talk about how the role of PR is shifting towards trust-building, what trust even  means...

In this episode, Karin asks Ave a question that more and more founders, creators, and professionals are quietly struggling with: How do AI change marketing and how you stay visible when AI changes how people search, learn, and pay attention? We talk about what’s actually shifting in human behaviour, from how people discover things to why personal brands suddenly matter more than job titles. Ave br...

Karin just got back from  AI Week Frankfurt 2025 We unpack what mattered beyond the hype and headlines—who predicted doomsday, who stayed optimistic, and what actually ships on Monday. Karin’s highlights: VR safety training that builds real muscle memory Finance & health: new changes you’ll feel at work Marketing with AI (and a human heart) Ray-Ban Meta glasses that speak different languages M...