Attention Insight was designed to be a versatile product that could serve different segments of the market: from small business owners without analytic skills or user research teams, to big agencies who want to supercharge their offering with AI. Kamilė even leveraged market resistance to AI by reframing it as an asset for clients, and calls Attention Insight “banner carriers for AI in design and marketing.” She explains, “We are forming a new niche in the market which perceives AI as our colleague–as a way to do our work better, not as a threat that will take over our jobs.”

Kamilė approached the Google for Startups Immersion: Women Founders program with the challenge of disrupting marketing at both a brand and agency level, and says that her startup benefited from the program even before it began: “The biggest takeaway was the tremendous help we received from the mentors. During the selection process, we met with 23 Googlers, all from different departments–everything from products 100% related to what we do, for example, Google Cloud or Google Optimize, all the way to YouTube and other departments. It was amazing to see how in just 20 minutes, we were able to get different perspectives about our products and our vision.”

Kamilė was paired with mentor Sebastian Vieregg, the Industry Leader, Agencies & Partners in Google Germany. “Sebastian knows the industry inside and out and he was able to quickly scan and get rid of the paths that were not right for us and leave us with a path that could work better,” reflects Kamilė. While addressing the core challenge of positioning Attention Insight, the program also took Kamilė through an intense process of fine-tuning the company’s messaging, pitch training, and Objective Key Results (OKR) methodology. After Immersion, Attention Insight’s key mentor continues to support the company as an advisor, and he is still working closely with Kamilė and her team on shaping Attention Insight.

Their team also uses seven Google Cloud products to build and run their platform. The Google Kubernetes Engine gives them the ability to quickly deploy (and revert, if necessary) new versions, which saves them time on other tasks. They’ve also saved time using the Google Chrome extension, which enables Attention Insight’s users to get analysis results in a matter of seconds. What will they do with all this free time? Perhaps the usually-arduous task of labeling their training data–which is a cinch using Google Cloud’s AI Platform Data Labeling Service–an essential step in training their machine learning model.

If Kamilė had to distill her growth mindset into one piece of advice for founders, what would it be? “Form a group of cofounders and surround yourselves with mentors and people who are better than you in their own fields, because that will help you grow. You cannot be a jack of all trades, but you can form a network of experts–and this helps tremendously with shaping the product itself.”