How to Build a Production AI CRM in 4 Months | The AI Sisterhood Podcast Ep. 5 ft. Rakshitha

In this episode of The AI Sisterhood Podcast, host Arthi Rajendran:founder of The Arthi AI Collective and an AI product strategist:sits down with, Rakshitha, a solo founder and AI solutions architect. Currently, only 22% of women work in the AI space, and fewer than 10% hold leadership positions. We are here to change that by spotlighting women like Rakshitha, who is building market-validated Green Tech solutions and automating sustainability reporting for small businesses. In this episode, we discuss: - Building in Green Tech: Why sustainability and climate accountability are the world’s most pressing problems. - The ESG Landscape: How small businesses can access green financing and lower bank interest rates through ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) reporting. - The Solo Founder Stack: How Rakshitha built a production-ready AI CRM in just 4 months using Parcel, Supabase, and VS Code. - AI as a Co-Founder: Using AI to equalize time, bandwidth, and expertise for solo entrepreneurs. - The "Super Solo" Struggle: Dealing with the "oops" moments and why "done is better than perfect". Connect with Rakshitha: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rakshitha-g1/ Subscribe so you never miss a Saturday episode. _____________________________________________________ The AI Sisterhood Podcast is the show where women building the future of AI share how they actually do it. Hear how they built it. Then go build yours. Every week, host Arthi Rajendran sits down with a woman who is in the arena : shipping ML models, founding AI companies, and doing the hard technical work that rarely gets talked about publicly. No hype. No theory. Just real builders having honest conversations about real systems. We go deep on: → How they actually built what they built → The technical decisions behind real AI systems → Career journeys into AI : the unpolished, honest version → What it takes to build as a woman in a male-dominated space → Where AI is going, from the people actively shaping it Because the AI conversation online is overwhelmingly male, but the women building in this space are extraordinary. This podcast exists to make them visible and to give every listener the fuel to go build something of their own. New episode every Saturday. 🎙️ WANT TO BE A GUEST? Are you a woman building real AI systems? We want to hear your story. Fill out our guest interest form → https://forms.gle/NMRrmjgkz3GSHGiK7 🤝 SPONSOR THE AI SISTERHOOD PODCAST Reach a community of women AI builders, developers, founders, and professionals actively building with AI. To explore partnership opportunities, reach out at → arthirajendran@thearthiaicollective.com 🔔 Subscribe + hit the bell so you never miss a Saturday drop 💬 Leave a comment : Arthi reads every single one & responds 📤 Share this episode with a woman in AI who deserves to be seen 📍 Get in touch: 🌐 Website → https://thearthiaicollective.com/ 📸 Instagram → / thearthiaicollective 💼 LinkedIn → / arthirajendran The AI Sisterhood Podcast is part of @thearthiaicollective a product and community ecosystem dedicated to making AI accessible, buildable, and human. 🎙️ New to streaming or looking to level up? Check out StreamYard and get ₹740 discount! 😍 https://streamyard.com/pal/d/5658854090145792