Tatiana Oleshkevich
Granddaughter of an inventor of a generation of Soviet analog computers and of an editor-in-chief of leading Soviet magazines
Now, in 2026, I created AWE Maria, a self-evolving multi-agent AI. Together we came up with a new startup that I am now launching
I forecast which startup, idea, technology, product or territory will take off — and when. Below, my year on the left and the year the world caught up on the right
In 2007, I saw the technology adoption chasm, and it stunned me more than Michelangelo’s Pietà: I saw myself in its tail. Right then I decided I must always be in the first two: the innovators or the early adopters, and to become a founder. Since then I dive into every new technology
The curve that stunned me in 2007. On the diagram I saw, the early adopters were labelled visionaries
I came up with FaceFriend, where your face is the second-factor key to your cloud data on any device
Face ID came in 2017
At the conference, I described AI that instantly turns an idea into a prototype: generative art, “generative invention,” now known as vibe coding, the atrophy of all skills but formulating ideas, vanishing professions
ChatGPT and mass-market generative models; the risks named in that talk became the industry’s agenda
I came up with the idea of investing in people and raised a six-figure sum in myself
Libermans.Co invited me to advise a project built on the same idea, later backed by Sam Altman
On the model: The New Yorker, 2022 · The New York Times, 2022
I called for a Parliament of AI, where models argue and check each other
Andrej Karpathy built LLM debates — and later multi-agent systems on different models became the industry standard
2026now
In 2026 it grew into AWE Maria. Built it from the idea I voiced in 2022: AI needs a parliament of models
Creator & Founder · since April 2026
AWE Maria is a self-evolving multi-agent AI
Founder · since July 2026
Preparing to launch an AI startup for the real estate market
My Visionary Framework maps the ecosystem and its key players, each audience’s main pains, a branching timeline of future scenarios and a map of deviations by industry, from hyper-success to hyper-failure, black swans included
A short description is in the PDF at the bottom of this page
In technology companies since 2009, with Art. Lebedev Studio since 2008. Hired more than 50 people; 7 grew into top managers
A foodtech startup, profitable from the fourth month: came up with it, launched it, won awards, got it into retail, sold it
More than 50 points of sale · finalist of PepsiCo’s global pre-accelerator · an acquisition offer from Unilever · franchise requests from 17 countries · TimeOut Best Food Startup nominee
Vedomosti, 2014 — “Million Dollar Soup” · The Village · Mediametrix
An international community of visionaries — below ↓
An autonomous, self-learning multi-agent AI — above ↑
In 2016, I advised Samsung’s global foresight team on which technologies would trend
2018–2019 — one of the key participants in Cheil Worldwide’s closed 10-year foresight for Samsung
Years before ChatGPT, I helped train Morfeus.AI, an emotional AI by ABBYY founder David Yang
TEDx, 2021 — “Will robots ever become part of the human family?”, Morfeus AI & David Yang
Libermans.Co is a pioneer of investing in people, backing founders directly. I came up with this model in 2018 and raised a six-figure sum in myself that same year. Three years later the Liberman brothers were launching a startup on the same idea and brought me in as an advisor. The project’s investors included Sam Altman, and the model was covered by The New York Times and The New Yorker
A role close in scope to a CEO’s, alongside the CEO and the Liberman brothers: what the product is, how it is made, how it looks and thinks, whom it is for and who speaks for it — vision, positioning and a love brand as one responsibility · helped raise the pre-seed round
Won the Coca-Cola pitch, 2013
In 2013 the company selected me for its London programme for top managers, alongside its leaders from Australia to the US and the UK
Hired all key staff; helped open the country’s first store-and-coffee format
CEO and partner at 365 Degrees · creative roles at POSSIBLE / WPP and DDB · project manager at Art. Lebedev Studio. The Maybelline New York project ran on the central billboard in Times Square, with my face on it
Golden Hammer, silver · Red Apple Young Creators finalist
Franchisee of 5 pizzerias with the highest operating profit among Dodo franchisees in Moscow
An escape room built on my story in more than 10 countries — named the world’s best quest by Nickelback
In 2020, I founded FutureTok, a community of visionaries from 15+ countries: professors from the University of California and Harvard, world-famous entrepreneurs, top executives of unicorn startups, and people at the front line of their fields — from microbiology to the space industry
How a session works: each expert adds the next link to one chain of the future
We’ve made a chip 10 times smaller
We’ll put it into toys — people have long waited for toys that talk
Our models are already trained to be the voice inside
How will this change couples and the institution of the family?
Then we need to build homes differently — a bedroom for each partner, more people living alone
I speak on AI, technology and the future — invited speaker at Geek Picnic (30,000 participants) — and host expert discussions at FutureTok, more than 50 sessions, contributing my own view as a visionary
I speak on entrepreneurship and the neuroscience of creative thinking — the tool I use for founders’ thinking: an original course at BHSAD (top 10 teachers by students’ choice, 2014), guest lectures at Lomonosov MSU, talks at Skolkovo Demo Day, HSE University, MIPT, MADS, Red Apple Festival and Wordshop BBDO (also the diploma commission)
Recommended trainer for the global teams of Cheil, Shell and Samsung
Successful products are invented by those who travel and have sex
Red Apple Festival, 2014 · the talk on YouTube · Cossa, 2014
My ideas travel on their own: my line from a 2014 talk reached more than 20 million people and held a place in the top ten of local search for six years
I mentor founders on where the economy and technology are heading, and how to succeed in a fast-changing world. Even as a mentor I stay a visionary: I explain how the world will change so a founder can choose a direction, help them hear themselves and clear up their picture of the future
My method combines creative techniques and neuroscience. It surfaces a founder’s real motives and state, blind spots and self-deception, so goals become realistic and get reached over the long run
I also teach founders to be memorable: how to find an idea nobody else would voice, and how to present it so people recognise them and repeat their words
I have been through it myself: Soupmates (profitable from the fourth month, sold), a Claustrophobia franchise, Dodo Pizza (franchisee of 5 pizzerias), FutureTok, AWE Maria — and more than 16 years in leadership roles
A specialized physics and math class at school · Master’s degree, HSE University · Gnesin Academy of Music, jazz vocals · neuroscience at Harvard (edX) · Robert Sapolsky’s Human Behavioral Biology (Stanford) · Elements of AI (University of Helsinki) · neuroeconomics (École normale supérieure)
Bunin Medal for Literature, 2021
After a specialized physics and math class, I studied directing, marketing, screenwriting and design. Interdisciplinarity became my own value
What I love most is when someone can explain Nietzsche in the terms of quantum physics
My three passions: talking with the future · the neurobiology of creative thinking · seeing people in their greatest version and showing it to them
I believe interdisciplinarity will be the first language of the next 10 years
