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Meet Carla – your AI Mentor and Business Concierge. She’s smart, supportive and savvy, and she’s always within reach. Carla offers tailored advice, curated resources, and always-on support — whether you’re pitching, pivoting, or just getting started. You can chat to her like a trusted mentor, or simply select what you’re looking for help with and she will point you in the right direction to the resources you need.
Not in the mood to chat or not even sure where to start? Try searching for resources using the Carla Concierge service. Simply select where you’re at in your journey, the type of guidance you’re looking for and she’ll point you in the right direction, towards curated resources, matched to your needs. She’ll even help refine your search further, based on your location and the specific topic you’re after.
Let Carla narrow your search and guide you to resources you can rely on,
tailored to your stage of the founder journey and where you’re headed next.
You can ask Carla anything related to setting up and running a business, such as ‘How do I create a business plan?’ to ‘Where can I find funding for women-led startups?’. Carla delivers tailored answers, advice, and links to relevant resources to support your business journey.
Carla is for all women founders — whether you’re starting out, scaling up, or somewhere in between. She adapts to your goals and supports your journey.
Carla is intended to complement human mentors, not replace them. She fills the gap when support isn’t available, especially for regional founders or those without access to strong networks. And unlike a real mentor, she’s happy to answer your burning questions, no matter the time of day or night!
Yes. Carla can link you to relevant funding programs, grants, startup networks, templates, and support services, from across Australia and beyond.
Carla is purpose-built for entrepreneurship. Unlike general-purpose tools, she’s trained using real-world insights from women founders and expert mentors. She understands the journey and helps with pitch writing, planning, funding, and business skills, providing resources specific to where you’re at.
Carla lives in a safe, compliant hosting environment that meets strict data handling standards, where users can confidently discuss sensitive information.
Carla is hosted securely in Australia, using trusted local AI services and data centres. We don’t store any personally identifiable information beyond what you actively share during your conversation.
While we do have access to conversation history, it’s never used to profile you or for marketing. Instead, it helps us make Carla better by identifying what’s useful, what’s missing, and how we can better support women entrepreneurs. This is an early release, and your feedback and interactions are helping us shape the future of this tool.
Your data stays safe, and your voice helps make Carla stronger.
Carla is just getting started. What we’ve launched is a first iteration of an AI mentor and business concierge designed with women, for women — but it’s only the beginning.
We’re developing features like voice-enabled conversations for future releases to transform Carla into an even more powerful and embedded support system that is accessible to a broader audience including those with disabilities.
Carla has been specifically designed to reverse the gender bias we often see in AI. In a world where many technologies overlook or under-serve women, Carla was built intentionally with and for women entrepreneurs, using real community data and lived expertise. She’s a trusted, inclusive resource designed to challenge bias, not replicate it.
