Building Live: FutureHabits.Tech at the Female Founders Bootcamp
The Female Founders Bootcamp Summer Cohort 2026 brought together 19 founders building across different industries, led by a range of expert speakers, including FutureHabits.Tech founder Kasia Sadowska, who ran a hands-on session on building with AI.
What the Session Was Built Around
The cohort included founders working across HealthTech, ClimateTech, FinTech, HR and Talent, and deep tech. The bootcamp was organized by Taraneh Jacobs and Vilyana Lazarova-Guerra, who built a programme that put founders in front of practitioners rather than just theory. Each session was led by someone actively working in the space they were teaching.
Kasia's session sat inside that format. The premise she opened with was direct: most non-technical founders assume their first move has to be finding a technical co-founder. That search takes months, costs equity, and happens before anything has been validated. The session was built around showing that the first working version of a product does not have to wait for that.
How the Session Ran
The session ran in two parts. The first part focused on prompt construction. Participants worked through how to describe a product idea clearly enough using Claude that the build phase could follow directly from it. The quality of what gets built is shaped by how precisely the problem is described before a single line of prompt is written, and that is where the session started.
The second part moved into Lovable, where participants built. Kasia built PitchPilot live as the working demonstration for the room. PitchPilot is an AI pitch trainer for founders. A user selects their audience and format, pastes their pitch, and receives a structured scored report that breaks the pitch down block by block. Buzzwords are flagged. A cleaner rewrite is generated. A coaching tip drawn from YC and Founder Institute feedback patterns is surfaced based on the weakest block in the pitch. If the differentiation score falls below a set threshold, the product flags it and connects directly to Perplexity for competitor research. The full report is unlocked through a one-time Stripe payment of nine euros. The entire product was built live, in the room, during the session itself, with no database, no stored data, and no API keys required.
While Kasia was building PitchPilot, participants were working on their own products alongside her. The session ran both online and in person across the same week.
The Impact
What participants walked away with was not a plan for a product. It was a product. Working prototypes connected to real AI models, with payment flows integrated, published at actual URLs.
The founders who attended came from different industries and different stages, but what the session produced was consistent across all of them. Paulina Jelen, a MedTech founder in the cohort, posted about the session afterwards, noting that learning something new that involved coding was an experience that stayed with her. Magdalena Kim Novak, who is building NUVISIA, an AI-powered platform focused on future identity and personal development, also named Kasia among the speakers who moved her forward during the programme.
Both responses pointed to the same thing: the session did not just explain what was possible. It put participants inside the process of making it happen. For founders who had been carrying an idea without a clear path to a first build, that is a different kind of learning.
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