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title: "Blog: Customer Evidence & AI Personas | AskTheCustomer | Olha Solonenko (2)"
description: Olha Solonenko is the founder of AskTheCustomer, an evidence-based AI customer persona platform for B2B teams. Based in Ireland, she works on helping product, marketing and sales teams use real customer evidence in everyday decisions. (2)
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# Olha Solonenko

Olha Solonenko is the founder of AskTheCustomer, an evidence-based AI customer persona platform for B2B teams. Based in Ireland, she works on helping product, marketing and sales teams use real customer evidence in everyday decisions.

[LinkedIn profile →](https://www.linkedin.com/in/olha-solonenko-3630684/)

## [![Social share image: How to validate a product idea before building it.](https://www.askthecustomer.ai/hs-fs/hubfs/blog-images/p1-og.png?width=1200&height=630&name=p1-og.png) How to validate a product idea before building it Test your riskiest assumption first. A step-by-step guide to validating product ideas with existing evidence, customer interviews and low-cost experiments. Olha Solonenko · 4 Oct 2026 · 11 min read](https://www.askthecustomer.ai/blog/how-to-validate-a-product-idea-before-building-it)

## [![Evidence-based vs prompt-generated personas: an untraceable AI quote compared with a customer insight traced to sales calls.](https://www.askthecustomer.ai/hs-fs/hubfs/blog/blog-evidence-vs-prompt-personas.png?width=1200&height=630&name=blog-evidence-vs-prompt-personas.png) Customer research Evidence-based vs prompt-generated personas: what's the difference, and when does it matter? Prompt-generated personas are fast but describe a plausible customer, not yours. See where each breaks, when to use which, and a 5-question persona test. Olha Solonenko · 3 Oct 2026 · 11 min read](https://www.askthecustomer.ai/blog/evidence-based-vs-prompt-generated-personas)

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